Very proud to have work exhibited at the Design Museum. We went over to the opening last night, well worth a visit – there’s some awesome stuff in there. Here’s the Creative Review guide.

Design Museum here.

Massive shout out to Kevin, Keith and Alfred.

Gallery street view.

Here.

DJ Cheeba performs an exclusive live mix using Beck’s Vier beer taps to trigger audio samples and lighting effects across a grid of 600 LED-lit Beck’s bottles. Apparently intended as an audiovisual performance to celebrate the 2010 Beck’s Vier Music Inspires Art Programme.

A few things here, including the gratuitous shots of the beer pouring, might be considered by some as taking things a little to far..?

Maybe.

Freeman’s Auction House in Philadelphia is auctioning off 100 Darth Vader helmets customized by an underground artist who started with a full-size prop replica.

Catalogue here.

Boner based jokes ahoy!

Link.

Last years here.

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“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.

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):

More here and here.

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.

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

Pinsane’s 360-degree tour of Jackson’s personal ‘arcade‘ collection.

Mental and pretty freaky – and I don’t mean the collection.

Here.

Djeff.

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.

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Impressive.

More here (with much higher rez visual).

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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.

“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.”

Link.

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.

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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.

For more on Lukasz and Maddi.

From Knotty @ Holler

“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.

@BBHLabs

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.

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.

Exsistence of Light is a feature by Unbar that follows the art of Japanese painter and graphic artist Que Houxo. It covers Questa’s varying work including (live) paintings, installations and murals.

The feature is here, and there’s more photo’s here and here.

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This installation consists of two ‘futurist-inspired’ cones positioned one over the other to create a deaf short circuit that can reproduce and reveal the shape of a magnetic field generated when the iron (lower cone and magnet (upper cone) interact. The forces unleashed when the magnetic field and the dark liquid interact creates a soft sculpture or ‘dance’ formed of the charged fluid matter.

The music and 3D animation is by Felice Limosani, whose multimedia works have already been chosen by galleries such as the Tate Modern.

‘We thought the use of such liquid and the ever-changing shapes that he produces while interacting with the magnetic field would be the best metaphor to represent the target of our brand: express individuality, authenticity and originality. the liquid is versatile, it solidifies, evaporates,flows without losing its essence and its key features. similarly our world has seen products changing while our objective has always been and always will be the same: expressing originality and enabling people, whatever their personalities might be, to find a product, a vision, a story to express themselves.’ Alegra o’Hare – head of style at adidas Italy.

Aaron Koblin is an Artist/Designer/Researcher focused on creating and visualizing human systems. Currently working out of San Francisco, California (for Googles crative lab), Aaron creates software and architectures to transform social and infrastructural data into artwork. His  consistently stunning work (which includes the renowned Radiohead House Of Cards video) has been shown internationally and is part of the permanent collections at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York.

The Sheep Market (above) is a series of 10,000 simple images of sheep drawn by online workers. Stylistically the sheep range from the indecipherable to the extremely detailed and cute. You can view the sheep on a web site, buy them on stickers, or have them fill your field of vision as part of a gallery installation. They apparently serve as a metaphor for the sharecropping masses of Web 2.0 projects. And their production speaks of the future of art and creative production.

Visualizing Amsterdam SMS Messages is built with Processing and visualizes SMS data captured in the city of Amsterdam on New Years Eve 2008.

Bicycle Built For 2,000 which is comprised of 2,088 voice recordings collected via Amazon’s Mechanical Turk web service. Workers were prompted to listen to a short sound clip, then record themselves imitating what they heard.

Yahoo! Search “bursting queries”

Interpol | Rest My Chemistry

aaronkoblin.com

Vimeo collection.

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The Monster” (above) by Christian Ward and “Life Blood of the Fight” (below) by Rodney Fuentebella from the upcoming “Jab Strong Fierce” Street Fighter tribute exhibit at Gallery Nucleus in Alhambra, California.

Haduken!

This summer 2,400 people from all over the UK will create an incredible living monument – the brainchild of the artist Antony Gormley. Every hour, 24 hours a day for 100 days, a different person will step up to the Fourth Plinth and help make a living portrait of the UK now.

Read more.

Apply.

In the summer of 2007, artist and medical student Satre Stuelke started the Radiology Art project. Dedicated to the deeper visualization of various objects that hold unique cultural importance in modern society, this project intends to plant a seed of scientific creativity in the minds of all those inclined to participate.

Link.

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Robotic DJ and pole dancer, created by sculptor/designer Giles Walker. Made for Mutate Britain.

This wasn’t (made for Mutate Britain) and isn’t as good as maybe it could be, but still, I’ve been away.