Software Development as Artistic Practice: How Open Source Has Changed the Way Art is Made Artists are notoriously secretive about their processes. Rothko never revealed the complex formulas behind his diaphanous color fields. Picasso gave his famous dictum, “Bad artists copy. Good artists steal,” which may have been why Brancusi was so loathe to let the Cubist into his studio. Rather than locking their studio doors, media artists are in a constant, open dialogue over how, and how best, to make use of the technologies that drive their work. Though these open-source creative tools were developed by artists, they don’t need to be considered works of art in and of themselves. The difference between a media artist creating a tool like OpenFrameworks and a painter developing a new admixture of oil paint, for example, is that the coding tools are designed to be functional and public, a provocative quality in the traditionally covetous art-world context. Creative programming environments are functional by necessity, especially with utilities like Processing and OpenFrameworks.
Immaterials – the form of meta data Immaterials – the form of meta dataCover and article for Weave Magazine 05.11 Client: Weave Magazine / Page publisher Collaboration with: Christopher Warnow Immaterials – Data between visibility and invisibility Designers are increasingly faced with the problem of understanding and visualizing data-filled space and making it inhabitable. Now that location-based metadata waft through the space, thereby redefining contexts and places, a new field opens up to designers: How will information be usefully integrated into the physical space? Immateriality as material is currently being discovered, opening up a new poetic field in which to narrate with space and information. weave cover and article For the issue 05.11 of Weave Magazine we wrote a seven page article about the form of meta data: »Immaterials – Data between visibility and invisibility«, as well as designed the issue’s cover image in collaboration with Christopher Warnow who has already explored the subject in the past. images
Dance Technology: Proximity, with VDMX, Quartz Composer, OpenFrameworks, Syphon With new hybrid performance comes new hybrid tools, as artists can work with an arsenal of evolving, often open, creative visual software. In a new performance for Australian Dance Theater, multiple tools merge to produce an array of visual features to accompany the choreography. Some of the glue is Syphon, the open source framework for sharing textures on the Mac, so it’s fitting this news comes our way from Syphon co-creator Tom Butterworth. Tom writes: I’ve just been doing some coding work for something I thought might make a good CDM story. Agreed! As reviewed in The Australian:Dance on the spider’s web of technology You can also hear audience reactions via Australian Dance Theatre’s Twitter Behind-the-scenes interview at bottom; images here via the Australian Dance Theater Facebook page.
Fragments of RGB fragments of RGBinteractive installation An ordinary situation in a technoid world: strolling through the streets and passing enormous LED screens consisting of tiny points of light that generate an impression of reality. This reality is such a familiar and an integral part of our daily life that the viewer hardly reflects on it. What would happen if the image were to change as the viewer approached it? This project experiments with illusion and perception on various levels. What would happen if the image were to change as the viewer approached it? We became interested in the observer’s personal view and in »re-projecting« this. Video Images An Open Source Video Mixer, Inspired by DIY Space Exploration As many ponder the fate of hardware mixing, mixing in software continues to advance. And in a reminder of just how many different applications video mixing can have, here’s a fascinating article about a new open-source Linux-based video mixing tool called Snowmix: Copenhagen Suborbitals Release Snowmix, an Open Source Video Mixer [The Power Base] What’s fascinating about it is that this didn’t come from VJs or broadcasters, but people who are experimenting in DIY, non-profit human sub-orbital flight (the Copenhagen Suborbitals). In fact, this isn’t even the only example of synergy between spaceflight and video tools. NASA’s Communication Navigation and Networking Reconfigurable Testbed (CoNNeCT) experiment uses the memory controller that was originally developed for the Milkymist system-on-chip[1] and published under the GNU GPL. Pretty awesome to have tech you developed wind up in space. As for this (software) mixer, the feature list is impressive:
Actelion Imagery Wizard Actelion Imagery Wizardcorporate imagery tool Client: Actelion Pharmaceuticals Ltd Collaboration with:Interbrand Zürich Actelion is a biopharmaceutical company that researches, develops and markets medicines for diseases that still lack adequate treatments. »Create a new identity for our brand Actelion. Don’t touch the logo, but create something the world of pharma has not seen before.« In keeping with this premise of Actelion, the brand consultancy Interbrand in Zurich conducted an initial review and discovered a generic image world with scientific motifs that lacked differentiation to the competition. The new imagery is based on the smallest possible unit: digital molecules. »The best relaunch of a corporate design and award,« was the opinion of the jury when the Corporate Design Prize 2011 was awarded. video the tool The Processing-based software was developed especially for Actelion. printing export animation export images
flow no. 1 | kinect projector dance | princeMio flow #1 This choreography is about the duett of dance and interactive media. My ispiration is to investigate different possibilities to melt organic hiphop dance with projected light – searching for new shapes, transisition, identities and meanings. It is a portray of urban artists giving a computer the acces to their very private natural flow. Dancers follow their own flow. Beautiful enough. The flow series contains a number of choreographic and interactive media productions, searching for different digital illustrations of dancing bodies. The Installation This low weight setup consists of a kinect camera capturing the dancers movements, a notebook to evaluate the captured information and a projector to display the interactive graphics. Inspiration Projection and dance has melted to stunning experiences. Within the upcoming flow series i am interested to investigate the benefits and limitations of projected graphics and how they can be applied to the flow of urban dances like hiphop.
Idiots: an animated film with robots on planned obsolescence and dependence on mobile - Geeks and Com ' Sur le site on n’arrête pas de parler de l’actualité des nouvelles technologies avec le dernier produit ou le dernier service. Et c’est vrai qu’aujourd’hui, le cycle de renouvellement des produits s’est accéléré parfois en raison des nouveaux besoins que l’on se crée mais aussi parfois en raison de la durée de vie des produits plus courte qu’auparavant. Le film d’animation iDiots joue sur cette double thématique de la dépendance au téléphone et de l’obsolescence programmée en mettant en scène des robots qui achètent massivement un nouveau téléphone. À noter que les robots présents dans la vidéo sont de vrais modèles japonais vendus en kit. Au fond nous sommes tous un peu des iDiots à certains moments de notre vie et sur certains sujets avec des choses que nous ne contrôlons pas toujours même si on le pense!