Project Description
Title: FLOW
Date: 2018
Media: Steel, electronic screen, text
Location: The James Dyson Building, Cambridge University Engineering Department, Cambridge
Website: simontegala-flow.org
Facebook: Simon Tegala
Simon Tegala has been commissioned by the University of Cambridge to create the public art for two new buildings. These are The James Dyson Building and the Electrical Engineering Building (EEDBA).
Tegala is creating two new works, Flow for the The James Dyson Building and The Dream Room for the EEDBA.
Over the course of three years Tegala has engaged with researchers and students at Cambridge University Engineering Department. As well as engaging with engineers, industrialists and humanitarians, exploring engineering in the wider world. He has visited the pyramids of Teotihuacan in Mexico to the Porsche and Mercedes factories in Stuttgart. He has attended technology events in Hannover, New York and San Francisco. He has visited nuclear fusion reactors, skyscapers, synchrotrons and earthquake resistant bridges.
Tegala’s interest has been the exploration how engineering has fundamentally shaped our world and humanity.
Further information can be found on the project website: simontegala-flow.org
Flow is a sculpture located outside of The James Dyson Building. The sculpture contains an electronic screen which will present a text in a number of parts. The text will unfold over a long period of time. The steel sculpture is inspired by the beat pattern of a bees’ wing. It contains elements of a turbine blade, it might also be reminiscent of a knapped flint tool. The text is a reflection of Tegala’s journey through the world of engineering, since working on the commission.