Scan Processor Studies

November 24th, 2009

“Scan Processor Studies” is the result of a collaboration between Woody Vasulka & Brian O’Reilly. They made the footage for this film with a Rutt-Etra Scan Processor in the 1970’s and manipulated it some more afterwards. It’s actually quite hard to describe it, but it’s full with beautiful shapes and patterns.

Scan Processor Studies by Woody Vasulka & Brian O'Reilly

Scan Processor Studies by Woody Vasulka & Brian O'Reilly

Scan Processor Studies by Woody Vasulka & Brian O'Reilly

Black Wardrobe

November 24th, 2009

Black Wardrobe by Anna Barriball, it’s just tape on a wardrobe but it looks great.

Black Wardrobe by Anna Barriball

found at designboom weblog

New Stripes

November 23rd, 2009

New Stripes is a new PANORAMIC DIORAMA by Mitch Trale. It’s actually just an interactive 3D cube with a colorful texture. And some weird music.

New Stripes by Mitch Trale

found at rhizome

Ricky Swallow

November 23rd, 2009

Ricky Swallow is an Australian artist who also makes sculptures. These 2 pieces are made of Jelutong, a tropical hardwood. His style reminds me of Fabio Viale, who uses marble for his sculptures.

Fig. 1 by Rickey Swallow

Private Dancer by Rickey Swallow

found at acidolatte

Steak Filter

November 19th, 2009

Steak Filter: a video signal of a steak is sent through the steak as it cooks. A project by Aka Media System.

found at kottke

Escape Vehicle No.6 versus The Space Chair Project

November 18th, 2009

In 2004, Simon Faithfull was commissioned to do a live event by The Arts Catalyst for its Artists Airshow. He decided to launch a weather balloon with a chair attached to it. The audience could follow the live video feed on a large screen. A typical art project.
In 2009, the advertising agency Grey London did The Space Chair Project for their client Toshiba. They also launched a chair with a weather balloon, except that they used HD cameras to create the highest HD TV ad in the world. But somehow they don’t mention Simon Faithfull anywhere …

Update: According to this article, Simon was part of the team who did the ad.

Escape Vehicle No 6 by Simon Faithfull (2004)

The Space Chair Project

The Making of Space Chair

found via @golan

Barry Underwood

November 17th, 2009

Here’re some amazing photos by Barry Underwood.

Barry Underwood

Barry Underwood

Barry Underwood

Barry Underwood

found at BLDGBLOG

Alle Meine Filzstifte

November 17th, 2009

Alle Meine Filzstifte (All my markers) by Andrea Übelacker.

Alle Meine Filzstifte #1 by Andrea Übelacker

Alle Meine Filzstifte #2 by Andrea Übelacker

Alle Meine Filzstifte #3 by Andrea Übelacker

Alle Meine Filzstifte #4 by Andrea Übelacker

I Don’t Want I Want

November 17th, 2009

“I Don’t Want I Want” by Marte Kiessling.

I Don't Want I Want

Study For A Mirror

November 13th, 2009

Tonight I saw a very nice presentation on the work of rAndom international, a London-based art and design collective, hosted by designtransfer of the UDK Berlin. One of the project that Hannes Koch presented was “Study For A Mirror” which is actually the next generation of their other piece called “A Study Of Three Mirrors“.

‘Study For A Mirror’ is a ‘temporary light painting’. Face recognition technology detects when the viewer is standing in front of the work and then directly paints the onlookers image in light. The Image then gradually fades. Evectively a mirror this work offers the ultimate immediate, yet ephemeral, contemporary portrait.

Chris O’Shea wrote the software with openFrameworks & openCV.

Study For A Mirror by rAndom international

Study For A Mirror by rAndom international

Study For A Mirror by rAndom international


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