Flitser.org is probably one of the coolest websites I’ve seen lately. It’s basically a website with a lot of photos of people taking pictures of themselves in a mirror while using the flash of the camera. The interesting part is that the center of the flashlight follows your mouse pointer. There’re also a few automated animations and one interactive one called “Click, Drag, Throw”. It’s a project made by Conditional Design.
found at It’s Nice That
BNPJ.exe is an exhibition that you can download. It’s actually a piece of software created by Jon Rafman and Tabor Robak, for the Extra Extra Gallery. You can explore a 3d game-like environment which is textured with classic paintings. It’s not that easy to get from one “level” to another, especially the first one is quite hard. In the end I got stuck on the bottom of a well. How far did you get?
Don’t be mislead by the name of this piece, there’s a mac download available too.
found at PAINTED, ECT
Happiness by Laurel Schwulst will make you smile. Garanteed!
Dominic Wilcox his latest project is “Do Not Touch Chair”, it’s his version of a ‘buzz wire’ game. He made a sculpture of a chair by hand bending a single length of wire. The user must navigate around the wire using a metal hoop without touching the wire. If the wire is touched then they will hear his voice warning “Do not touch”.
One Hundred and Eight is an interactive installation made by Nils Völker. It’s made out of ordinary garbage bags which can be selectively inflated and deflated by two cooling fans.
Although each plastic bag is mounted stationary the sequences of inflation and deflation create the impression of lively and moving creatures which waft slowly around like a shoal. But as soon a viewer comes close it instantly reacts by drawing back and tentatively following the movements of the observer. As long as he remains in a certain area in front of the installation it dynamically reacts to the viewers motion. As soon it does no longer detect someone close it reorganizes itself after a while and gently restarts wobbling around.
found at CreativeApplications.Net
I don’t know anything about Tolia Demidov except that there are some very cool browser experiments on his website. Try them out!
Agnes Bolt made analog versions of 5 of Rafaël Rozendaal his websites: jello time .com, popcorn painting .com, much better than this .com, to the water .com and color flip .com.
This a preview of “Dead Drops“, a project by Aram Bartholl which he started off during his ongoing EYEBEAM residency in NYC. It is an anonymous, offline, peer to peer file-sharing network in public space. Aram “injected” 5 USB flash drives into walls, buildings and curbs accessable to anybody. You are invited to go to these places to drop or find files on a dead drop. Plug your laptop to a wall, house or pole to share your files and date. Each dead drop contains a readme.txt file explaining the project. I guess the most prominent location is right next to the New Museum, the other 4 locations are listed on Aram’s website.
Lipstick Enigma is a computer-driven sentence-generator made by Janet Zweig. The sculpture is made of 1200 resin lipsticks powered by 1200 stepper motors, controlled by 60 circuit boards. The software invents and writes a new line of text, using rules and a lexicon written by the artist, and displays it on the sign when triggered by a motion detector.
Last Friday I went to see Rafaël Rozendaal his small exhibition called “Thank You Very Much” at The Future Gallery in Berlin. There were only 3 pieces but one was a new one and went just live on Towards and Beyond.com. The other 2 were Into Time.com and Hybrid Moment.com
