Outside Itself is a self-replicating, site-specific sculptural installation shaped by viewer-inspired data created by Federico Diaz for the 54th Venice Biennale. It is an interactive, mathematically-programmed, robotically-produced and light-responsive installation that grows and morphs as a life force onto itself. Viewers of all ages and nationalities will influence the sculpture¿s ultimate form in this work of ¿Light¿ and ¿Nations¿.
The traditional landscape genre was radically transformed in the 1960s when many artists stopped merely representing the land and made their mark directly in the environment. Drawn by the vast uncultivated spaces of the desert and mountain as well as post-industrial wastelands, artists such as Michael Heizer, Nancy Holt or Robert Smithson moved earth to create colossal primal symbols. Others punctuated the horizon with man-made signposts, such as Christo's Running Fence or Walter de Maria's Lightning Field. Journeys became works of art for Richard Long whilst Dennis Oppenheim and Ana Mendieta immersed their bodies in the contours of the land.