Barbican Art Gallery 2010-02-21T12:27:57+00:00 I love the digital displays at the Ron Arad exhibition, which has just opened at the Barbican Art Gallery. The ethereal images which float across the screens are a beautiful counterpoint the the translucent physicality of the displays themselves, and of course to the rugged elegance of Ron Arad's furniture. They are each made up of a floor to ceiling array of LED panels, and are true 'screens' in that they enclose the spaces in a classic, ecclesiastical manner, yet allow visual information to pass through them. I found they are perhaps best enjoyed from across the other side of the gallery. I'm sorry but these snaps don't do justice to the installations at all. Go and see for yourselves. 229 0 1 1 1 0 2010-03-10T04:00:06+00:00 21 65 http://www.barbican.org.uk/ronarad Design Museum Ross Phillips / SHOWstudio 2009-06-05T09:23:59+00:00 dynamo london regular contributor, Ross Phillips, has a great new installation in the Super Contemporary exhibition that has just opened at the Design Museum. For this interactive installation, four pods around London take short videos of the heads, bodies or legs of the people standing in front. It's like those flip books you had as a kid where you could mix and match different body parts from policemen, bakers, firemen etc, only this is with video and it's real people. The website records the people captured to date. Very Ross Phillips. Very cool. I really like interactive stuff that doesn't need, keyboards, touch screens, or elaborate arrays of expensive displays. This is all good fun. 213 0 Ross Phillips 0 0 0 0 2010-03-08T12:40:14+00:00 21 472 http://www.designmuseum.org/headtotoe/ BMW Art+Com 2008-07-08T10:40:06+00:00 I was talking with Matt Wade of Kin Design a couple of weeks ago about digital work with 'soul' and how its quite a rare thing. When this popped up in a couple of blogs this week it imediately jumped out as something with a bit of soul. Perhaps its just the elegance of the movement, perhaps its the marriage of old and new technology to create something that is almost magical... What ever it is this installation for the BMW museum by Art+Com is just enthralling. You need to be patient but its really becomes very engaging after about a minute. here's a youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HVhVClFMg6Y below is a link to a higher res version the page is in german and the links are at the bottom 170 0 2 1 0 0 2010-03-09T02:54:17+00:00 13 608 http://www.artcom.de/index.php?option=com_acnews&task=view&id=331&Itemid=136&page=0&lang=de morelonson, Southwark Council, Downtown Brooklyn Partnership, Tiscali Paul St George, Two Four Digital 2008-05-28T10:43:27+00:00 Its a little know fact but apparently there is a subertanean tunnel running directly between New York City and London. Until very recently the tunnel has remained dormant and incomplete, this was until artist Paul St George unearthed the plans for the tunnel and set about uncovering it. Although in accessible to the public, an intricate set of mirrors and prisms that we built into the tunnel have been reactivated for a short time. So head down to the southbank and have a look at New Yorkers looking back at you. Or vice versa if you are in New York. The full story is on the website: 165 0 Two Four Digital 1 0 0 0 2010-03-08T19:04:33+00:00 13 766 http://www.tiscali.co.uk/telectroscope/home.php Nokia Wieden & Kennedy London, United Visual Artists 2007-11-30T07:19:10+00:00 I'm sure with the way the world is going there wont be enough electricity to power christmas lights in a few years time. So make the most of these while they last. Upwardly mobile W&K team up with über cool United Visual Artists to do an interactive take on the christmas light show. Or perhaps this is better described as 'reactive'. The appearance of the lights is controlled by pedestrain flow, weather and other external influences. How very 'now'. In fact the only thing which is more 'now' than this, is the Spitalfields christmas light. One single low energy saving bulb, which was switched on yesterday. 120 0 W&K London, United Visual Artists, P2 Group, Piggott’s, The Crown Estate, Regent Street Association 3 2 0 0 2010-03-10T01:47:28+00:00 13 853 http://www.wklondon.com/ sponsored by Evian SHOWstudio 2007-09-20T07:07:08+00:00 Faced with the challenge of building an instant, dynamic image from a matrix of 25 one second movie clips of parts of yourself, what could you do? Check these images created at Beyond The Valley Gallery on Newburgh Street which is hosting "a fun, interactive video installation that allows visitors to the exhibit to become part of one big replenishing body". Then go and create your own. But hurry it finishes on Saturday 22 Sept! 104 0 Concept and Interactive Design: Ross Phillips Editorial and Art Direction: Penny Martin and Paul Hetherington Editorial Assistance: Andrew Gow Production: Ada Yan Tsuen Project Design: Paul Bruty Technical Development: Dorian Moore Design Assistance: Joe Baglow, Sinem Erkas 3 2 1 0 2010-03-09T15:42:32+00:00 21 947 http://www.showstudio.com/project/thereplenishingbody/ Russian Pavilion, Venice Biennale AES+F 2007-09-18T00:38:37+00:00 This is a 24 minute, three-screen digital presentation. It is non-linear, juxtaposing high-resolution, classically stylised images of teenage revolution against apocalyptic images of globalisation, oil-conflict, new technologies, military industrial disaster capitalism, - framed in a low-resolution computer-generated mythoscape. The accompanying music is Wagner's Gotterdamerung. The impact of this piece is emotionally charged, and intellectually fascinating. It has an Eisenstein-like epic grandeur. In my opinion by far the best piece at the Biennale. 101 0 Tatyana Arzamosova, Lev Evsovich, Evgeny Svyatsky, plus Vladimir Fridkes - a team who met at the Moscow Architectural Institute in the mid 1980s. Fridkes is a fashion photographer, working for Vogue, Harpers etc. 1 0 0 0 2010-03-09T03:39:36+00:00 233 882 http://www.aes-group.org/last_riot.asp Rich Mix Igloo and Coco Edwards 2007-03-05T02:19:14+00:00 "Our culture is changing fast. From reality TV to the internet, people are becoming participants and not just audiences. Rich Mix commissioned KidZone as an experiment to create a piece of art in which children could participate." At the Rich Mix Cinema in Shoreditch, and as part of the "<a href="http://www.visitlondon.com/whats_on/east/">East</a>" festival celebrating the East of London. Which runs from the 1st - 6th March. 51 0 Bruno Martelli, Ruth Gibson, Alex Woolner, Amanda Drago and Kit Haigh 2 2 0 0 2010-03-08T07:42:26+00:00 13 712 http://www.richmix.org.uk/exhibitions_kidzone.html Janet Cardiff 2007-02-19T03:54:10+00:00 I saw this piece a few years ago when it was installed at the Millenium galleries in Sheffield. A choir sings 'Spem in Alium nunquam habui' by sixteenth century composer Thomas Tallis represented by forty speakers placed around the gallery in eight banks of five with each representing a single voice. As a member of the audience you interact with the piece by sitting in the middle, listening to the voices sweep around you or you can choose to wander around the speakers to pick out the individual voices. I found it to be a very moving piece, partly due to the power of the music but also down to the unique way you can control how you listen to it. With each person creating their own personal mix of it each time. One of my favourite pieces of sound installation. 46 0 Sung by Salisbury Cathedral Choir Recording and post-production: SoundMoves Sound editing: George Bures Miller and Steve Williams Producer: Theresa Bergne Forty-Part Motet: Version One (British Edition) by Janet Cardiff was produced by Field Art Projects with the Arts Council of England, Canada House, the Salisbury Festival and Salisbury Cathedral Choir, BALTIC Gateshead, The New Art Gallery Walsall and the NOW Festival Nottingham with the assistance of Tascam UK and B&W Loudspeakers 1 1 1 0 28 2010-03-10T08:59:59+00:00 28 790 http://www.tate.org.uk/liverpool/exhibitions/janetcardiff/ Jeep 2007-01-19T10:01:27+00:00 I have to admit I don't know a lot about this project, other than the fact that its not like anything i've seen before. Putting aside the moral question of working for a company like jeep this is a very impressive piece of exhibiton/installation work. Have a look at the video on YouTube and see for yourself, the stills don't really do it justice. Digital water eh? Whatever next? 25 0 4 2 3 0 2010-03-05T11:42:30+00:00 13 661 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2LUz2WVcek