#arts12

Title: Liquid Space

Artist: Daan Roosengaarde

Post by: Kristen Wakamoto

Liquid Space is an interactive artpiece that reacts to people's behaviors. The artpiece itself can get smaller and bigger and flash different colors according to sounds and movements.  As like his other works, he emphasizes the interaction between his work and the viewer and allows them to create their own experiences with his artwork. He allows for experimentation as they can see first hand what happens with different sounds and movements they might possibly make. This artwork was first showcased in Japan in 2008 and most recently was shown in London, February of this year. This piece was made out of "tubes, sensors, LEDs, mechanism, embedded electronics and software." The atmosphere with interactive arts creates a different "futuristic" feel for people as people interact with the technology and create their own experience. Roosengaarde states that he wanted to "refine the technology so that it is invisible and interaction with the work is experienced as something natural" (V2).

References:

Tron Dance - Wrecking Crew Orchestra (2012)

Wrecking Crew Orchestra, a Japanese street performance group, constructed and choreographed this routine to make the best use out of the ILuminate wireless system worn on stage.  The dancers were strapped with wirelessly controlled EL (electroluminescent) wire and LEDs (light emitting diodes), which consist of the first and only customizable wireless lighting system.  The light suits contribute to the effect of their Tron: Legacy inspired moves, merging effectually both choreography and lighting design.  The real-time control aspect of the suits make this performance new media art, since mediums such as DMX consoles, ProTools, and the triggering of pre-programmed sequences allow for a truly interactive environment.

Reference: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/tron-dance-routine-wrecking-crew-orchestra-japan-video_n_1348142.html

Reference: http://iluminate.com/features/

Title: Point Cloud

Author: James Leng

Post by: Nathaniel Valerio

OFF THE PLANET - Red Bull

Artist(s): ENESS - Multimedia moguls since 1997 (Melbourne-based Installation Artists)

Snowboarders include riders such as Russell Henshaw, Sean Pettit and Simon Dumont.

To achieve the effects demonstrated in this video, Melbourne based installation artists ENESS created a floating 21’ inflatable sphere, placed right between the two ramps.  Their exclusive software allowed them to map 3-dimensional visuals onto the snow and the sphere, thus fusing interactive art with skiers and snowboarders flying through the air.  To make these visuals truly interactive, snowboarders were tracked using an infrared camera.  Projectors, action lighting, and long throw reflectors are a few examples of the specific resources necessary to create such an experience.

Reference: http://www.redbullillume.com/insight/featured-stories/red-bull-off-the-planet-the-making-of.html

Reference: http://www.eness.com/?r=Project&p=2&c=3

Artwork: Horse with No Shadow Artist: Makoto Tojiki Year created: 2010

   This artwork “Horse with No Shadow” is created by a Japanese digital artist, Makoto Tojiki, who is deeply interested in photons, light, and their effects on one’s vision. His fascination is reflected on his series of creations where he primarily focuses on the technology combining light and visibility. For example, this art piece combine with his other two collections “The Man with No Shadow” (2009) and “The Blue Bird” (2009) to form the series of “No Shadow”artworks. While the visibility of an object depends on the light it absorbs and reflects, the artist tried to prove this statement by demonstrating the opposite phenomenon—extracting the light from the object. From the photo, it shows that the horse has started to disappear because its light was extracted gradually and our eyes could no longer capture the light reflected. At last, we would see that there is nothing left even though the horse is actually still there. This artwork is not only aesthetic but is also an interesting and inspiring experiment about the effect of light.

http://www.makototojiki.com/profile.html

http://www.makototojiki.com/horse.html

Title: Sanryu - Printing directly on food NF-4450-E3 Printer

(June 2009)

Posted by: Jinqiuzi (Jenny) Yun

Video Soruce: http://www.diginfo.tv/v/09-0190-n-en.php

Reference: DigInfo - http://www.diginfo.tv

Title: Eternal - Sand-blasting Utilized to Engrave on Glass

May 2012

Posted by: Jinqiuzi (Jenny) Yun

Source: http://www.diginfo.tv/v/12-0079-n-en.php

Reference: DigInfo TV - http://diginfo.tv

Picture Reference: http://www.houseofjapan.com/electronics/eternal-sand-blasting-utilized-to-engrave-on-glass

Fragments of RGB (2010)

Artist: Onformative Studio (Julia Laub and Cedric Kiefer)

Berlin, Germany

Fragments of RGB is an interactive installation made from an LED screen which a displays face of a woman.  Upon approaching the screen, the viewer breaks the image, and the face of the woman becomes distorted and fragments into pixels. The original conception of the work was influenced by the LED screens most people pass by on the street.This project experiments with the alteration of the idea of illusion and perception. 

References:

http://www.onformative.com/work/fragments-of-rgb/

http://www.random-magazine.net/2011/03/fragments-of-rgb/

http://vimeo.com/21235126