A Thousand Shades Of Gray | Jimmy Hansen
“A Thousand Shades of Gray” is the unmasking of the scars produced by a digital scalpel and brush. The cost of the corrections of the original photo that attempts to fulfill societies ideals and demands. When this material is taken from its original context it can become frightening, raw, fascinating and even enchanting in its naked absurdity.
A portrait of contemporary beauty by my good friend Mr Jimmy Hansen.
Decode | Karsten Smitt
The Victoria & Albert Museum commissioned Karsten Schmidt (Toxi) to design a digital identity for the Decode exhibition. The identity is open source so anyone can submit and add to its loveliness.
The actual piece/app is stunning, which you’d expect of Mr Smitt.
App here – Decode.
Awesome.
Readers that liked that will like this (from the onedotzero project, again by Smitt, earlier this year):
MoMA Connect
MoMA’s site now creates a list of the most interesting upcoming exhibitions for you based on your Facebook profile (accessed by Connect). It’s an interesting concept and it managed to get that I lived in Amsterdam, but I’m not entirely convinced that my Facebook contains data that is particularly conducive to art recommendations..?
However, it’s a step in the right directions and the design is pretty sweet.
Here.
Virtual Gravity | The Physical Weight Of Data
With the aid of analog carriers, virtual terms can be taken up and transported from a loading screen to an analog scale. The importance and popularity of these terms, outputted as a virtual weight, can be weighed physically and be compared. Therefore impalpable, digital data gets an actual physical and sensually tangible existence.
Diploma project by Silke Hilsing: silkehilsing.de
More information: virtualgravity.de
Jackson’s Arcade Collection Madness
Pinsane’s 360-degree tour of Jackson’s personal ‘arcade‘ collection.
Mental and pretty freaky – and I don’t mean the collection.
Here.
Breeze Reflection | Djeff
Real-Time 3D Air Traffic Simulation Installation
A 14 meter long and 180 degrees wide projection, located in the flight control tower of the Lufthansa Brand Academy Frankfurt-Seeheim, that enables visitors to dive into the fully navigable, real-time 3D visualization of about 16,000 daily Lufthansa and Star Alliance flights. The navigation interface provides 6 degrees of freedom, while time and content filters can be activated with buttons and sliders. The user can swiftly move from a macro view of a local hub to a global overview of the worldwide air traffic routes. All flight patterns are linked to spatial sounds that follow the visual representations through virtual space.
Here.
ViaWhiteVoid
Civilization | Marco Brambilla
Civilization is a video mural created for the new Standard hotel in New York City, it depicts a journey from hell to heaven interpreted through modern film language using computer-enhanced footage. The video mural contains over 300 individual channels of looped video blended into a multi-layered satirical take on the concept of Heaven and Hell.
Impressive.
More here (with much higher rez visual).
Via@DylanJames
LED Bottle Wall
LED controllable lights behind bottles controlled by an on board computer.
Apparently (although not in video) the cavities for the bottles are empty at the beginning and people start filling them with empty containers to reveal the visuals.
Made for Barcadi.
Nice.
The Future Beneath Us
“When we urbanize a place and it thrives and the streetscape becomes overcrowded, the future to some extent must go beneath us. During New York City’s greatest growth, from the early 1800s to the mid-1900s, new infrastructure was plentiful. Much of it was above ground—elevated trains, highways, bridges—but increasingly more of it went underground: water and sewer systems, rail lines and tunnels, complex webs of gas, electric, steam, and communication cables, pipes and conduit.
The city’s population peaked at eight million in 1950; since then it dropped and only recently has inched over the mid-20th century high. Six decades of minimal population growth also meant limited new public works. If the city adds another million people by 2025, as projected, new infrastructure is needed to modernize the systems that serve us.
The eight projects in this exhibit comprise New York’s greatest infrastructure advancements in generations. The water projects will protect the city’s famous water supply. The transportation projects will profoundly transform how people move to, from, and around the city, alleviating crowds, modernizing facilities, spurring new development.”
Lights On | Ars Electronica
Lights On is an audio visual performance created for the Ars Electronica museum in Linz, Austria, which has a facade that contains 1085 LED controllable windows. The windows’ colors are changed in realtime as music is broadcast on speakers surrounding the building.
ViaCartel
Time Bomb | Interactive Grafitti
TimeBomb is the brainchild of digital artist Lukasz Karluk (Holler) and Sydney sculptor/painter Maddi Boyd (KissKiss/StupidKrap). Merging interactive programming and traditional wild-style graffiti painting (“bombing”), Time Bomb allows the audience to unlock the secret history behind a graffiti wall. Over four days nine urban artists contributed to the TimeBomb piece: DMOTE, Ben Frost, Kid Zoom, Numskull, Roach, Creon, John Doe, Bennett and KissKiss. Painting layers upon layers of different styles, their work was documented through time-lapse photography, creating an animated film of the whole process. Shots from the work can be seen here.
The final installation will feature two giant graffiti walls suspended in the museum. One wall will be the real painting, the other a projected film double. The visitors’ physical movements in the museum can then control this film, going backwards in time, revealing the now-covered layers of graffiti.
Register for free tickets to the opening at Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney on May 27 here.
aa-nn-dd
“AND is neither one thing nor the other, it’s always in between, between two things; it’s the borderline, there’s always a border, a line of flight or flow, only we don’t see it, because it’s the least perceptible of things. And yet it’s along this line of flight that things come to pass, becomings evolve, revolutions take shape” (Deleuze: 1995, 45). — Deleuze, G., (1995). Negotiations, 1972-1990. New York: Columbia University Press.”
“Foraa-nn-dd is a creative space populated by an expanding number of collaborators who believe in the conjunctive. We are technologists and typographers and illustrators and poets and musicians aa-nn-dd.”
The Google ad art and other stuff here.
Fluid Sculpture
Sculpture from Charlie Bucket with intricate weaving of colored fluids and bubbles/air pockets. Apparently, a prototype of a bigger piece to be shown at 2009 Maker Faire in San Mateo.
Famicase Chronicle
Remember that awesome Famicase Art Exhibition I wrote about, well Manmaru and Meteor have made this flash based papervision style chronicle/showcase item. It’s a bit unwieldy, but the content is brilliant so you have to forgive it.
Here.