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.
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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.
Exsistence of Light | Que Houxo
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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adidas | Liquid Story | Felice Limosani
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 | Data Vizualization
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
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Jab Strong Fierce
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!
One & Other | Antony Gormley
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.
Radiology Art
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.
Dead Pixel In Google Earth
Lap Droids + R2D2 Dance Party
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.
Kinetic Ball Sculpture
Kinetic ball sculpture in the new BMW museum in Munich, or in layman’s terms: 714 metallic balls held up by string. If you can stomach the pony (ultra-light) jazz elevator music playing in the background it’s worth watching till the end, as the balls kinda take the shape of a car.