today and tomorrow

Here’re some amazing photos by Barry Underwood.

found at BLDGBLOG

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

“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.

The Google Portrait Series by Aram Bartholl are a series of matrix-code drawings. These codes are Google URL search strings of the portrayed person. In this image, Aram searched for his name in German, English, Chinese and Korean.

The Senster was a robotic sculpture developed by Edward Ihnatowicz in the late 60’s. It was commisioned by Philips and part of their permanent showplace, the Evoluon, in Eindhoven between 1970 and 1974. It was the first robotic sculpture to be controlled by a computer and could react to the behaviour of the visitors with its sound and movement sensors. The computer used to control The Senster was a Philips P9201 and had only 8K of core memory. Now, almost 40 years later, every interaction student could make something like this and fit the logic in a small box. But this is still an amazing project.

This was the control panel of the Senster.

rediscovered this during the rAndom international talk at the designtransfer event of the UDK Berlin

These are 3 screen grabs of 3 different machine animations pieces by Eddo Stern. You have to see these videos, they’re awesome! You can find them here.

Best…flame war ..Ever (2007) Leegattenby King of Bards v. Squire Rex

Level sounds like Devil (2007) Baby in Christ vs. His Father

Emoticon (2007)

“Sunshine on Tranquility” is a video installation by Wang Ya-Hui. The integration in the exhibition space is quite impressive.

found at vvork

Printershake/Earthquake by Joe Winter, he aggressively shook his printer during the process of printing.

found at Rhizome

Here are 2 versions of Timekeeper by Pierre Huyghe. The first one is from 1999, Pierre sanded down a few layers of paint at Secession in Vienna (Austria), revealing the wall painting from previous exhibitions. The second one is from 2009 at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis.