Listen to your computer: lstn prerelease demo
Listen to your computer: lstn prerelease demo from Michael Takezo Chinen on Vimeo.
Found a really interesting work done by Michael Takezo Chinen that sonifies other programs by attaching to them fetching memory, current cpu opcodes and call stacks.It can also ‘playback’ blocks of memory and control the speed of the program being attached to.
Movies as Code
Movies as Code is a website translating movies into seemingly useless lines of codes.
Geeky? Funny? or poetics? Tell me what you think. Below is based on the movie Inception.
<?php
class Dream
{
const DREAM_LEVEL = 1;
public function goToSleep() {
try {
$this->goDeeper( self::DREAM_LEVEL );
} catch (MyException $e) {
throw new Exception(“You’re actually in the middle of the workshop right now, sleeping”);
}
}
protected function goDeeper($dreamLevel) {
try{
$dreamLevel+=1;
$this->goDeeper($dreamLevel);
} catch (MyException $e) {
throw new Exception(‘Your world is not real!’);
}
}
}
$alfredo = new Dream;
try{
$alfredo->goToSleep();
} catch (Inception $kick) {
echo ’Think about it ‘.$kick->getName().’, how did you get here?’;
}
?>
‘Intimacy 2.0′ Interactive fashion by Studio Roosegaarde
‘Intimacy 2.0′ by Studio Roosegaarde are interactive, wearable dresses composed of leather and smart e-foils which are daringly perfect to wear on the red carpet. In response to the heartbeat of each person, ‘Intimacy 2.0′ becomes more or less transparent.
More info at studioroosegaarde.net
One Man Nation | Sound Piece
Sound Piece is a short film produced by Vincent Moon and Marc Chia that takes place in Singapore. What I found fascinating about this movie is that the ambient noises that would have normally been subservient is of an equal status with the visual, perhaps it would be more fitting to call this an audiovisual film.
Catch One Man Nation’s live performance at the Chapel of Singapore Art Museum on the 5th of April.
The opening of this exhibition is at 1900hrs on Thursday the 05th of April at the chapel of the Singapore Art Museum, this is followed by a presentation by The Unifiedfield at 1920hrs and a performance by One Man Nation at 2000hrs.
A Short Bio of Marc:
Marc Chia aka One Man Nation is a musician originally from Singapore with a background in media and sound art who graduated from the Piet Zwart Institute (Rotterdam, NL). At present, he splits his time between Asia and Spain where he is co-directing the artists-run organization The Unifiedfield in Granada with Marta Moreno Muñoz.
petitesplanetes.cc/volume/one-man-nation
www.onemannation.com/
Drawing Tool – Shahar Zaks
Drawing Tool is a conceptual art piece intended to provoke discussion on the subject of authorship and originality through the means of an interactive experience, by taking the familiar experience of photography and translating it to the quintessentially creative domain of drawing. The goal is to create a cognitive dissonance that would encourage reflection on the experience.
At the same time, Drawing Tool has a practical use as a tool for assisted drawing. In a similar way to how one would use a camera to take a photo of an existing scene, Drawing Tool may be used for creative tracing of a predetermined pattern. While the machine controls the larger scale composition, the user is free to exercise their full creative freedom over the details of the drawing.
www.shaharzaks.com/projects/drawing-tool/
NES 8-bit Google Maps
I remember that as a teenager, I played this really great game by the name of “Uncharted Waters”
which allows you to explore the world as an explorer or make your fame as a pirate.
That was really attractive for me because it was based on a world map (8bit!). Now Google just revived
that memory and excitement for me with the Google 8bit World Map. Apparently, this is an elaborate (the best online so far) april’s fool joke. No such cartridge exists but this does not discount the awesomeness of the map itself.
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Oribotics
The first oribot by the artist Matthew Gardiner was made during an artists residency in 2003, at the Latrobe Regional Art Gallery. The project was prototyped using a Lego Mindstorms kit, some rubber bands and a sheet of cardboard. Since then the technology use to create the works has evolved significantly. The artist is currently using 3D printing, moulding, laser cutting, and hand-craft fabrication techniques to produce oribotic kinetic sculptures.
The core idea of the work carries on in each generation, that of pure oribotics, as self folding material.
oribotics.net/art/Oribotics
The River 2012
The River, a light sculpture, 2012. The River is an array of laser cut acrylic sheets illuminated by 72 LEDs animated based on analysis of sound samples recorded along the Singapore River.
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Tape Recorders 2011 – Rafael Lozano
“Tape Recorders,” 2011 by Rafael Lozano
Subsculpture
14 motorised measuring tapes, kinect tracking systems, computers, cameras, thermal printer, custom-made hardware and software dimensions variable.
Rows of motorised measuring tapes record the amount of time that visitors stay in the installation. As a computerised tracking system detects the presence of a person, the closest measuring tape starts to project upwards. When the tape reaches around 3m high it crashes and recoils back.
Each hour, the system prints the total number of minutes spent by the sum of all visitors. Commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney.
www.bitforms.com/rafael-lozano-hemmer-gallery.html
Forms (process)
Forms is an ongoing collaboration between visuals artists Memo Akten and Quayola, a series of studies on human motion, and its reverberations through space and time. It is inspired by the works of Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton, Étienne-Jules Marey as well as similarly inspired modernist cubist works such as Marcel Duchamp’s “Nude Descending a Staircase No.2?. Rather than focusing on observable trajectories, it explores techniques of extrapolation to sculpt abstract forms, visualizing unseen relationships – power, balance, grace and conflict – between the body and its surroundings.
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