"The Irreversible" video installation by Norimichi Hirakawa
Showing posts with label electronic art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label electronic art. Show all posts
Monday, June 18, 2012
Thursday, June 7, 2012
Design: Machine Lights
"Each light sculptur is one of a kind and hand crafted at my Studio in Berlin. The Machine Light series comprises 12 different models produced in low volume production. Each object is manually produced from up to 200 individual parts. Each light is therefore unique. Steel and brass parts produced from raw steel and brass, and burnished by hand, creating a black surface structure with a brownish hue. The brass parts are given a fine finish and the steel parts are treated with the silky matt finish. Special models can be designed and produced on request."
Wednesday, June 6, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
Installation: Cosmic Quilt
"Cosmic Quilt" by the design firm The Principals and the Art Institute of New York
This electronic "quilt" measures 8-feet by 16-feet by 12-feet and is comprised of 3,000 separate parts. It is equipped with motors and micro-controllers that react to visitors walking beneath the piece. When it's going full-tilt, it looks like an indoor version of the aurora borealis.
Thursday, May 31, 2012
Sculpture: Artificial Moon
That's no moon! This sculptural piece by Beijing-based artist Wang Yuyang was constructed an imposing recreation of Earth’s moon from hundreds of compact fluorescent lightbulbs. It stands over 13 feet wide (400cm). The piece is particularly poignant as it was originally put on exhibit in Shanghai, a city where it is often difficult to watch the actual moon moving through the night sky due to light pollution.
Monday, May 28, 2012
Tech: SolarSonic
SolarSonic by Ray King
SolarSonic is a 100 meter long series of 14 discs suspended inside Taoyuan Airport's International Departure terminal’s exterior glass awning. It was inspired by the ancient Chinese Bi, the neolithic jade discs with a central opening that was used to meditate on transcending earth to the heavens.
SolarSonic, was created by sculptor Ray King in homage to Chinese cultural history, aeronautics, space travel and a symbol for Taiwan’s high-tech future. The lenses are connected together with 20 horizontal cables and come together most elegantly. In designing Solarsonic, King was reminded of science fiction author, Sir Arthur Clark’s short story "Wind from the Sun," about a spacecraft that was propelled by the power of sunlight. This method of deep space travel is becoming a reality. Solarsonic is one in a series of chromatic sculptures by King designed to interact with the sun. The sculpture’s concave holographic lenses are positioned to face the southern meridian of the sun and will be illuminated at night.
Friday, May 11, 2012
Installation: Future Self
"Future Self" performance installation by London-based Random International
This interactive work is a study in human movement mirroring interaction in dance, light and sound, while exploring the self - present and future. It attempts to reveal what it can about one’s identity and the relationship which we have with our own self image reflecting and rendering one’s movements in light resulting in a three-dimensional ‘living’ sculpture, derived from the composite gestures of those who surround it; represented in an illuminated presence - another version of themselves.
Tuesday, May 8, 2012
Installation: The Immortal
This art installation is comprised of various life-support machines connected to each other, circulating liquids and air in an imitation of a biological structure. The piece is intended to explore human dependence on modern electronics in medicine.
Installation: And That’s the Way It Is
"And That’s the Way It Is" by Ben Rubin
This massive installation projects transcripts of the new casts of reporter Walter Cronkite in a Matrix-style read out on the front the College of Communication at Walter Cronkite Plaza, on the campus of Cronkite's alma mater, The University of Texas at Austin.
Monday, May 7, 2012
Tech: Touchy
Is technology to blame for your failed relationships? Hong Kong media artist Eric Siu explores our relationship with technology in this off-the-wall social experiment. The Touchy camera-helmet you see in the video above blinds the user until someone else's touch opens the automated shutters. While another person is maintaining physical contact, the camera shoots a photo every 10 seconds. Loss of contact with another person results in blindness. Siu's project is a metaphor for the powerful nature of human relationships, and their significance in forming lasting memories.
Thursday, May 3, 2012
Installation: Patterned by Nature
"Patterned by Nature" created by Plebian Design and Sosolimited
Patterned by Nature was commissioned by the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences for the newly built Nature Research Center in Raleigh, North Carolina. The exhibit celebrates our abstraction of nature’s infinite complexity into patterns through the scientific process, and through our perceptions. It brings to light the similarity of patterns in our universe, across all scales of space and time.
10 feet wide and 90 feet in length, this sculptural ribbon winds through the five story atrium of the museum and is made of 3600 tiles of LCD glass. It runs on roughly 75 watts, less power than a laptop computer. Animations are created by independently varying the transparency of each piece of glass.
Monday, April 30, 2012
Installation: Street Invaders
Street Invaders by Filthy Luker
Using road barriers and traffic cones, street artist Filthy Luker brought his the alien invasion down to the streets with this interactive installation. This kind of large scale practice is essential for when the real invasion inevitably begins, so don't worry people of Earth, gamers got your back.
Installation: Manta Rhei
"Manta Rhei" OLED-based fixture from Selux and ART+COM
The luminaire consists of ten 1.2-meter long, flexible metal lamellas each of which carries ten paper thin OLED-modules. Thin steel wires attach the blades to small motors hidden in the ceiling. Being individually controllable these motors move the lamellas ends up and down like wings, and permit the 2.4-meter wide fixtures body to perform different movement patterns, e.g. it can float like a manta ray.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
Installation: Koto-no-ha
"Koto-no-ha" ("Language") by Noriko Shiozawa
This beautiful work is composed of more than 2,500 letters and characters from different languages from around the world. The colorful writing is illuminated from behind, and walking into this room is a bit like walking into an abstracted conversation in which you’re hearing bits and pieces of the entire planetary population talking at once. This piece, by Noriko Shiozawa (塩澤徳子), is called “Koto-no-ha” (こと‐の‐は), which is an older Japanese word for “language.” Shiozawa-san was kind enough to give her permission to allow the photograph above to be used as the cover for the UNESCO Jakarta Annual Report 2008.
Wednesday, April 25, 2012
Installation: Hope and Dream
"Hope and Dream" a light sculpture by Makoto Tojiki
Makoto Tojiki developed "Hope and Dream," an illuminated kinetic sculptural installation for luxury beauty brand Clé de Peau Beauté as part of their "L'art de La Radiance" exhibition to mark the brand's 30th anniversary celebration at Artistree in Hong Kong. The piece begins with a young girl releasing a bird from her outstretched hands. As the moving light continues, each
of the additional components captures the bird in a moment of
flight.
Monday, April 23, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Installation: End Piece
"End Piece" by David Hall
To coincide with the end of analogue TV in the UK on April 18, this exhibition by video art pioneer David Hall features the new commission ‘1001 TV Sets (End Piece)’, 1972-2012. The work features 1001 cathode ray tube TV sets, of various ages, all tuned to random analogue stations which, as the signals are turned off between April 4-14, will gradually change the sound in the space from a cacophony of overlapping audio to a hiss of white noise. It is currently on exhibit at London’s Ambika P3.
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Installation: Mauritian Sunset
"Mauritian Sunset" by Sandy Smith, January 2006
"Mauritian Sunset" was made for the 'Great Artspectations' exhibition at The Embassy Gallery in Edinburgh. A relatively small gallery, and another 2 artists to share the space with, meant that the work had to be as self contained as possible. As the gallery also had large windows, letting in light which could ruin the soft lighting effects of the work, the wall had to be as 'perfect' and light-proof as possible.
The resulting wall stretched accross the centre of the main room of the gallery, wall to wall and floor to ceiling, the rear of the computers facing the windows onto the street. A small doorway was built into the wall, only five and a half foot tall, and two foot wide. The monitors facing forwards showed flat colour, working over the wall to create a rough gradient representation of a classic sunset.
Installation: Dune
Dune by Dutch designer Daan Roosegaarde
"Dune" is an interactive landscape that interacts with human behavior. This hybrid of nature and technology exists out of large amounts of fibers which brighten according to the sounds and motion of passing visitors. DUNE 4.2 is a permanent interactive landscape residing alongside the Maas River in Rotterdam, NL. This public artwork of 60 meters utilizes less than 60 Watts while intuitively interacting with its visitors; rendering the installation sustainable as well as cutting edge in construction. It will exhibited in the 18th Art Biennale of Sydney, Australia on June 27, 2012.
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