Ideation and Reflection, 2003
6 DMX-modules, 3 Plexiglass boxes, waxed birchwood, aluminium plate, white glass, diffusion foil, cables, RGB-lighting system, DMX-controller, transparent vertical plane to catch the reflection (position variable)
153 x 153 x 51 cm
Courtesy Galerie Micheline Szwajcer

Bulloch is interested in relegating artistic decision to the logic of the machine. This work consists of six 'pixel boxes' which project, in sequence, readymade colour taken from the 256-colour palette of Apple's Macintosh Operating System 9. Each box contains one red, one blue, and one green florescent tube, which together can produce millions of colours at a time. The colour sequence follows the rainbow colours: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet. Bulloch first selects these seven individual colours and then, using 'an evenly calculated numerical program', makes their numerical values shift from one to the next colour.