Anish Kapoor..
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/14562/anish-kapoor-monumenta-2011-leviathan.html
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Hero Worship
Anish Kapoor..
http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/14562/anish-kapoor-monumenta-2011-leviathan.html
interactive vs reactive a thought about systems
Particles from Ciriaco Castro on Vimeo.
The word “interactive” is found everywhere these days. It may be worthconsidering what “interactive” means and whether things presented to us as”interactive” actually are so, before moving on to consider why we might want our designed objects and spaces to be “interactive”. Interaction concerns transactions of information between two systems (for example between two people, between two machines, or between a person and a machine). The key however is that these transactions should be in some sense circular otherwise it is merely “reaction”
Usman Haque 2006 www.haque.co.uk
Anna Dumitriu from The Centre for Research & Development Faculty of Arts, University of Brighton
Phone Flora
Chair Flora
Wall FloraResearch Degree Title
A Practice Based Investigation into the Relationship of Normal Flora Microbiology to Philosophical Notions of the Sublime.
Aims
This project will interrogate the possibilities of scientific imagery as art – its allegorical, expressive, and social character. It will consist of a new body of laboratory-based scientific investigation (a study of the normal flora encountered in my everyday life), the creation of a multimedia installation which will fuse sculptural and craft-based techniques with digital media, and a critical, contextualising essay on the issues addressed by the studio-based work. The installation will engage artists, scientists and the public, raising awareness through an experiential artwork.
Abstract/ Research Questions
Scientific research in the field of Normal Flora bacteriology is negligible, as these microbes are rarely of commercial or medical interest. Ontologically and epistemologically, however, they have great relevance in understanding the world in which we live, and our perception of ourselves. Anna Dumitriu has now begun to investigate, through practice-based artistic research, the cultural and aesthetic implications of these microbes. Although individually these bacteria are tiny, they are vast in number: a single teaspoon of topsoil contains about a billion bacterial cells, about 120,000 fungal cells and some 25,000 algal cells. Incredibly beautiful, and the source of (mostly irrational) fears, they have been the objects of representational challenge for scientists since the beginnings of microscopy (Hook Micrographia (1662); Haeckel Art Forms in Nature (1904)). Now conjoined with the revelatory technologies and discoveries of other disciplines they have contributed to a contemporary fascination with the relation between art and science.
Key Question:How does the microscopic world relate to the idea of the sublime?
Edmund Burke whose “Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful” was published in 1757 stated "The passion caused by the great and sublime in nature . . . is Astonishment; and astonishment is that state of the soul, in which all its motions are suspended, with some degree of horror. In this case the mind is so entirely filled with its object, that it cannot entertain any other."
http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/research/student/dumitriu/abstract-research-questions
http://artsresearch.brighton.ac.uk/
ok so what do I learn from this?
Research Degree Title
A Practice Based Investigation into the Relationship of Normal Flora Microbiology to Philosophical Notions of the SublimeAims
This project will interrogate the possibilities of scientific imagery as art – its allegorical, expressive, and social character. It will consist of a new body of laboratory-based scientific investigation (a study of the normal flora encountered in my everyday life), the creation of a multimedia installation which will fuse sculptural and craft-based techniques with digital media, and a critical, contextualising essay on the issues addressed by the studio-based work. The installation will engage artists, scientists and the public, raising awareness through an experiential artwork.Abstract/Research Questions
- Key Question:
- Questions arising as a result of the research:
What critical relevance does the idea that many bacteria evolve and become extinct without us even noticing their existence?
What similarities and differences between science and art does this project, which is being proposed from an artistic point of view, specifically demonstrate?
What makes someone a Scientist? What criteria does one need to fulfil to be labelled as such? Why are there so many amateur artists and so few amateur scientists? This is a new development, which has occurred over the past two hundred years, why?
What relevance does this project have within the context of feminine art?
What similarities and differences between science and art does this project, which is being proposed from an artistic point of view, specifically demonstrate?
What makes someone a Scientist? What criteria does one need to fulfil to be labelled as such? Why are there so many amateur artists and so few amateur scientists? This is a new development, which has occurred over the past two hundred years, why?
What relevance does this project have within the context of feminine art?
So... Can I separate my early stage research like this?
what is/are my
Research Title..not the catchy one but the one that says what I'm investigating?
Aims
This project will (interrogate....)
Research Question
How does the....
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Monday, May 16, 2011
electric moons
electric moOns /// interactive balloon ballet
A hundred white balloons in a totally dark room are floating in space like the atoms of a molecule. They are moving up and down slowly and gracefully. The balloons appear as floating spheres, forming three-dimensional pixels arranged in a 10x10 grid. The pixels combine together to make a larger form. The weightless objects are representing three-dimensional digital data sets in a dynamic display sculpture composed of physical particles.
http://www.electricmoons.com
Performance for a matrix of 64 gas balloons, lights, and sound
A room is filled with deep, evolving noises from a four-channel sound system. An eight-by-eight array of white, self-illuminated spheres floats in space like the atoms of a complex molecule.
Through variable positioning and illumination of each atom, a dynamic display sculpture comes into being, composed of physical objects, patterns of light, and synchronous rhythmic and textural sonic events. Change, sound, and movement converge into a larger form.
The height of the helium balloons is adjusted with a computer-controlled cable, whilst the internal illumination is accomplished using dimmable super-bright LEDs, creating a pixel in a warped 8x8 spatial matrix.
The sonic events, the patterns of light, and the movement of the balloons are manipulated in real time as a 45-60 minute-long performance.
Balloon motion control: Christopher Bauder
Music, sound design & LED patterns: Robert Henke
Balloons software and hardware engineered by C.Bauder, Till Beckmann and Holger Pecht / whiteVoid
http://www.whitevoid.com
http://www.monolake.de
Sunday, May 15, 2011
Massimo Silenzio – Installation
Massimo Silenzio - Installation from House42 on Vimeo.
Artist: Giancarlo Neri
Location: Circo Massimo - Rome
Period: 7 - 11 September 2007
Location: Circo Massimo - Rome
Period: 7 - 11 September 2007
Arduino EMF detector
Use an Arduino microcontroller to sense invisible electromagnetic fields using wire, a resistor, and an LED.
Aaron ALAI's EMF detector project is awesomely simple to make and fun to use. An upgraded version can be built using an LED bargraph for more 'meter-like' functionality.
original project can be found here -
http://www.aaronalai.com/emf-detector
additional info, and Arduino sketch -
http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/05/making_the_arduino_emf_detector.html
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