Video: LV21: Projection Mapping

LV21: Projection Mapping by Thomas Beg

Tom set about creating a projection installation aboard LV21 - a decommissioned lightship currently moored at Gillingham Pier in the county of Kent in the United Kingdom.

In order to develop effective content, he worked in conjunction with an event called International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend - a worldwide amateur radio festival dedicated to the education and continued practice of radio and Morse code communication. The animations feature messages written in Morse code as visualised by dots and dashes.

"Projection Mapping project produced as the final piece for my MA degree at UCA Rochester. Inspired by James Turrell, Dan Flavin, Keith Sonnier, Olafur Eliasson and a number of other artists and practitioners . I set about creating a projection installation aboard LV21 - a decommissioned lightship currently moored at Gillingham Pier in the county of Kent in the United Kingdom. In order to develop effective content, I worked in conjunction with an event called International Lighthouse and Lightship Weekend - a worldwide amateur radio festival dedicated to the education and continued practice of radio and Morse code communication. The animations feature messages written in Morse code as visualised by dots and dashes."

Installation: Datamatics

"Datamatics" by Ryoji Ikeda

"Ikeda’s new large-scale audiovisual installation data.tecture presents a total immersive and sensory experience to the visitors. A single large video image is projected by 5 projectors directly onto the floor of LABoral’s large gallery space, which will immerse visitors’ body, sight and hearing."

Installation: Multiverse: Warp Speed

"Multiverse: Warp Speed" by Leo Villareal, 2008.
National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC.

“Multiverse, the largest and most complex light sculpture created by Villareal, may be experienced by visitors as they pass through the Concourse walkway between the East and West Buildings of the National Gallery of Art. The work features approximately 41,000 computer-programmed LED (light-emitting diode) nodes that run through channels along the 200-foot-long space.”

Link Round-Up: August 30, 2012

Light Paintings by Dennis Calvert

 Does this look like a scene from Sin City to anyone else?

Brace yourself, The Semester is Coming. [Via]

Los Angeles-based designer and sculptor Amanda Visell has created a series of hand-crafted wooden Star Wars action figures, including: Boba Fett,  Darth Vader, IG-88,  Obi-Wan. Each character comes with a uniquely designed package.

The secret lair of Hans Zimmer, from where he inspires the world.

Why it's so hard to find photos of Neil Armstrong on the Moon

Photography: Hands Series

"right hand"

Hands Series by Brian Matthew Hart, 2012.

Light Painting Mosaics Made from Hundreds of Individual Exposures of Light Graffiti

This image consists of 324 individual photographic exposures.
each section is 4" x 6", for a final dimension of 72" x 108"

Photography: Light Graffiti

Light Graffiti by Ian Hobson

The light from the sun took eight minutes to warm your skin, but Ian Hobson’s light paintings are frozen forever in space for your enjoyment. His art involves complex compositions of light and texture captured in mid-motion.

Installation: Water Light Graffiti

"Water Light Graffiti" by Antonin Fourneau

The "Water Light Graffiti" is a surface made of thousands of LED lights that illuminate when they come into the contact with water. That means you can effectively turn a water pistol in to a spray can, or even just wet your fingertips and draw with your hands. Water Light Graffiti is a wall for ephemeral messages in the urban space without deterioration. A wall to communicate and share magically in the city.

Installation: Deep Screen

"Deep Screen" interactive LED installation by Muti Randolph

"My work is always trying to get people inside my head you know, inside the things I create…When you are in front of 2-D monitor, that usual experience of watching TV or going to the movies, you end up, you know, imagining you are inside the movie…But with this stuff here, now you are literally inside the action."

Tech: LivingSculpture 3D Module System

"LivingSculpture 3D Module System" by WHITEvoid

“LivingSculpture 3D modular system” is the latest addition to the Phillips LivingSculpture product family. This piece is a modular plug & play OLED system that can be installed in on walls and ceilings and control entirely by through an iPad application. These custom-built systems cost €7,000 per square meter, or about €43 per OLED.

Installation: Peel

"Peel" by Naoki Ono and Yuuki Yamamoto, 2012.

Installation: Asobi

Japanese art student at Musashino Art University, Yasutoki Kariya, created the installation Asobi, a wonderful lightbulb version of Newton’s Cradle, the physics toy also known as the “Executive Ball Clicker.” Eleven computer programmed lights are used in this visualization of kinetic energy and it has been coined ‘Edison’s Cradle’. Notice that the glass bulbs do not actually touch, preventing them from breaking. Asobi is currently a nominee for the Mitsubishi Chemical Junior Designer Award 2012.

…the relay was programmed to do to create a “light bulb” collision light bulb was replaced with an iron ball collision of ball used in the experiment of the law of inertia, of light bulbs 11. Not originally supposed to look, to visualize the movement of energy, we attempted to produce impressive. That reproduces the sound of ‘Kachin’ should also occur in the event of a collision.

Installation: The Seven Seals

The Seven Seals: A Series of Seven Video Installations by Tsang Kin-Wah

Chinese contemporary artist Tsang Kin-Wah is working on an ongoing project called 'the seven seals'. the series of seven digital video installations uses texts and computer technology to project Tsang's thoughts on various issues of the day.  The installations are currently on exhibit at the Mori Art Museum.

Link Round-Up: July 31, 2012

Installation at the National Portrait Gallery by Tom Bluett

How A Student Designed The Recycling Logo, And Got A Measly $2,500

New York City based artist and designer Jason Freeny shows the metamorphosis of a normal run-of-the-mill bathroom plunger changing into a fierce ankle biting monster with his awesome hand sculpted life-size piece titled Industrial Evolution. The full collection of design process photos can be seen on Jason’s Facebook page.

The Octo-Labra by The Source Collection is a high-end octopus candelabra for a tabletop. Four of its eight pewter tentacles can hold tapered candles

The Pojman Pocket Protector Collection - 1,200 strong and growing.

Installation: Fireflies on the Water

"Fireflies on the Water" by Yayoi Kusama, 2002

An installation exploring the idea of the infinite. This installation is composed of 150 lights and a pool of water, which creates a space that individual viewers are invited to transcend their sense of self. Exhibited at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Installation: Threaded Interface

"Threaded Interface" by Cristobal Mendoza and Annica Cuppetelli

On exhibit at Grizzly Grizzly as a part of FiberPhiladelphia 2012.

Threaded Interface is a site-specific installation composed of physical elastic ropes illuminated by glowing virtual strings. The virtual strings are connected to two video cameras that generate an image of sorts fed by the movement of the viewer. The small space is lit up by these virtual ropes alone, giving the otherwise unlit room a soft, softly pulsing, glow.

Installation: Speed of Light

"Speed of Light" by United Visual Artists
On exhibit at the Bargehouse, Oxo Tower Wharf,  London, from April 9 to 19.

UVA was commissioned by Virgin Media to create "an immersive light installation celebrating 10 years of broadband in the UK." It comprises a series of laser-based experimental light works which flow through the labyrinthine spaces of the Bargehouse, the four-storey ex-warehouse on London's South Bank.

Installation: Sound Waves in Light

"Repetition At My Distance" by Gabey Tjon A Tham

Photographed by Ed Jansen

Using lighted wires, Tham simulates sound waves which undulate and vibrate in accordance with the ambient noise emanating around them.  The dancing streams of light come alive in front of a viewer’s eyes as they respond to the increasing and decreasing vibrations of air that blow across the speakers. According to the project description, the additional remnants of light that stay on the retina after looking away also become a key part of the experience.

Video: "Goldberg" Digital Graffiti

"Goldberg" Digital Graffiti 2012 from Josh Van Praag

Josh Van Praag was commissioned by Alys Beach to tailor fit an animation to a local house for their annual Digital Graffiti event.

The ball goes up the conveyor belt, then rolls down a spiral ramp. As it rolls down that ramp, it triggers 3 sprockets.The first sprocket flips a series of panels to reveal grass, the second sprocket turns on sprinklers to water the grass, and the third sprocket unfolds a tube with these windmill devices over the middle roof of the house.

The water from the sprinklers fills the grass space and eventually overflows into the tube at the top. The water then turns these windmills that blow away the lower-left portion of the house, to reveal the Alys Beach logo. A single long shingle then blows away on the left roof above the logo. Little beach balls then spill out of this crack and rain down over the logo area like confetti for a big ta-dah moment. (I'm mostly a commercial artist, the logo reveal at the end comes naturally to me)

Photography: Nebulae

"Nebulae" by Fabian Oefner

"What might look like a giant nebula or a distant galaxy at first glance, is in reality the glowing ends of a fibre glass lamp.

The images were created by taking long-time exposures of several fibre glass lamps (exactly, those ugly-looking lamps, that were extremely popular in the 90`s) moving around in a darkened room. Afterwards, several images were multiplied in Photoshop to achieve the density of such a structure.

What I personally like about this project is how you can create an illusionist space with such simple means, that are familiar to everybody."

Video: Quadrotor Light Show

A troupe of 16 quadrotors (flying robots) dance to and manipulate sound and light at the Saacthi & Saatchi New Directors' Showcase 2012. Saatchi & Saatchi is famous for its opening theatrics, and this year, they hired KMel Robotics to work its magic with a swarm of quadrotors, with creative direction from Marshmallow Laser Feast.

KMel Robotics was founded last year by Alex Kushleyev and Daniel Mellinger, graduates of UPenn's GRASP Lab, to "push the limits of experimental robotics." This is the company's first major project.