“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.
Black Wardrobe by Anna Barriball, it’s just tape on a wardrobe but it looks great.
found at designboom weblog
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.
found at rhizome
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.
found at acidolatte
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
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
“I Don’t Want I Want” by Marte Kiessling.
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.
