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Add comment January 30th, 2008
Archive For January, 2008
Live At Elektromotor
Live At Elektromotor from decollage.tv on Vimeo.
Add comment January 29th, 2008
PNS Loop
PNS loop also at Hobnox Evolution. Feel free to drop your vote.
Add comment January 29th, 2008
Cloud by Troika
Image by Alex Delfanne/Artwise Curators
When I saw a picture of this so-called digital, kinetic sculpture by the London based multi-disciplinary art and design collective Troika, I immediately had to think of the information boards at airports in old movies (or still in some countries ;).
And that exactly was the starting point for this wonderful piece of art, which now floats in the British Airways luxury lounge in Heathrow Terminal 5 and is built out of 4638 flip-dots – each one individually addressed by a computer.
They perfectly incorporated the visual aesthetics and functionality of the flip dots and their switching sound, which also was a permanent component of an airports soundscape. The abstracted form of a cloud completes the idea and supports the way the whole thing hovers in the room.
See the artists page for more images, videos and information about the development process.
Links:
Troika
Project Cloud
Via Pixelsumo
Add comment January 23rd, 2008
Anthony Lister In Progress
In this short work in progress video you can see the skill of the Australian artist Anthony Lister, which I admire most. The ability to create not one but two more or less symmetrical pieces of art.
I always go mad, when I have to draw the same thing twice ;).
IMHO his art is really modern and outstanding.
Especially the analysis of the phenomenon of super heroes. Movies and comics always tried to show the heroic beside the weak side of these characters, but only Lister manages to do this in a very ironic way. His figures are more human than Clark Kent ever was, even when dressed up in super clothes. They are humorous and fragile.
Image by www.listerart.com.au
Image by www.listerart.com.au
Links:
Anthony Lister
Add comment January 23rd, 2008
Ugly Spam!?
Malwarez is a project by the Romanian visual artist and research assistant at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sociable Media Group Alex Dragulescu. This piece of his so-called “threat art” visualizes a series of worms, viruses, trojans and spyware code.
“For each piece of disassembled code, API calls, memory addresses and subroutines are tracked and analyzed. Their frequency, density and grouping are mapped to the inputs of an algorithm that grows a virtual 3D entity. Therefore the patterns and rhythms found in the data drive the configuration of the artificial organism.”
Visualizations like this might look beautiful to some of us, because they are a colorful abstraction of virtual processes or a separation of the cause from the consequences (like an image of an HI-Virus).
Others may find this scary because of the upcoming associations to tentacles of slimy little creatures out of the darkness of the deep sea. Complexity can often trigger inner fears, because we cannot catch the whole thing with our mind immediately like the complex movement of the eight legs of a spider.
Image by Alex Dragulescu (from top left to bottom right):
PWSLineage, Spam, MyDoom, Stormy
Another visualization project of Alex Dragulescu focuses on one special wide spread internet phenomenon. The Spam Plants grow out of the ACSII values found in the text of spam messages.
Image by Alex Dragulescu: Mr. Spam & Family
This is why we are so fascinated by things like Processing or Nodebox. Abstract code or code-like structures become visually subsumable and beautiful.
With the VJ tool Brecht the artist also shows the possibility of bringing his ideas to life (or live). It “…uses SQL (Structured Query Language) queries and Java instructions to trigger and mutate live visuals — text and images stored in a MySQL database.”
Links:
Alex Dragulescu
Project Malwarez
Project Spam Plants
VJ Tool Brecht
Sociable Media Group at the MIT
Add comment January 23rd, 2008
Artificial Beauty On Ancient Walls
This is another beautiful example what countless possibilities graphic programming environments like in this case Processing give to the visual minded people.
The italian studio TODO created this piece of work for a small festival in Torino (Italy) called C.Stem.
“An event devoted to the exploration of the applications of electronic systems in cultural and artistic fields.”
This festival features several artists from the field of generative visuals, graphics and art, who work with programs like Processing or Nodebox, and is built around topics like “Artificial Creativity in Graphic Design” or “Crafting Computational Calligraphies”.
Some work seems to be a little outdated, but beauty is always worth spreading and such festivals bring the art to people, who usually do not care and know about those things.
Valerio Spoletini did the festivals opening performance with his already well known project V-Scratch.
Some particles never stop moving and Torino is the world design capital this year, so we are looking forward for C.Stem 2008 which will take place from the 15th to the 30th of September under the topic “Design and Computation: Generative Design and new technologies for Digital Fabrication”.
Links:
TODO
C.Stem
Processing
Nodebox
V-Scratch
Via VJ-U
Add comment January 20th, 2008
Collateral Damage Or Accidential Creativity..
Short before christmas back in the old year something happened that almost made me cry (and all the users and lovers of fruit computer hardware know what I mean!).
During transport I slipped on sheet ice on the pavement and fell on my backpack with my beloved notebook inside. The display has been totally damadged.
Image by decollage.tv
After calming down and for psycho-therapeutical reasons we decided to make the best out of it.
It happened, that we had been asked to create flyers for two events of the sound:frame festival in Vienna and so we scrambled the shots of the crashed screen through our graphic design mind onto paper.
Here is number one – don’t scratch your eyes ;)
Image by decollage.tv
Image by decollage.tv
Add comment January 19th, 2008
Upcoming events: Sound:Frame Festival 2008
It’s such a new new year, but there’s already a festival knocking at the door.
An international festival for the visualization of electronic music based in Vienna.
There will be loads of artists from the VJ and video scene showing off their work and of course great DJs and musicians supporting them ;).
The festival runs from today until the 9th of February 2008 and the exhibitions, parties, symposions and workshops spread all over the city.
So come and see the light!
Add comment January 18th, 2008
