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PICK OF THE WEEK #31 Thixotropes by Troika (London, UK) ‘Thixotropes’ is a kinetic sculpture that is comprised of a series of eight illuminated mechanised structures, each of them shaped as a composition of intersecting angular and geometric forms that are made of thin tensed steel banding lined with rows of LED’s. The constructions continuously revolve […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #30 Harmophon by Arístides García (Berlin, Germany) This video only shows a short part of a longer incoming installation, which explores the relationship between 2 harmonic waves in different graphical/musical ways. 98 pair of points trigger notes depending on the collision position in the Y axis. Panning depends on the X position. For […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #28 Wood as Bones, Light as Flesh by FAIL (Europe), the collective of  electric kettle, SILANT, Lucy Benson and fRED In essence the structure is a narrative organism. This being is telling its story without words or any human form. Its body is its language. This body has its own temporal vitality, […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #27 Simple Harmonic Motion for Ron Arads Curtain Call by Memo Akten (London, UK) Another study in simple harmonic motion and the nature of complex patterns created from the interaction of multilayered rhythms. Visuals made with openFrameworks, which also sends midi to Ableton Live to create the sounds.This version was designed […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #26 Lit Tree by Kimchi and chips (Seoul, Korea + London, UK) A small potted tree has a perpetual conversation with people. Through the use of video projection, a tree is augmented in a non-invasive way, enabling the presentation of volumetric light patterns using itʼs own leaves as voxels (3D pixels). […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #25 Instrucciones para dar cuerda al reloj Instructions to wind-up the clock Visual by Alba G. Corral (Barcelona, Spain) Music by Escort Service  (Barcelona, Spain)   “Instrucciones para dar cuerda al reloj” was born from a live event taking place in July 2011 in Barcelona (Caixa Forum), part of the Visual […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #24 Shyscapes by Misha Shyukin (London, UK) This is Misha Shyukin’s graduation film. He suggested to watch it with your eyes half closed and not in full screen. Editor’s Note: This is an amazing piece from Misha Shyukin, an emerging artist from Germany. His uni graduation film shows pure imagination and an […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #23 Echo by Bart Hess (Eindhoven, Netherland) Animation for the national Glassmuseum. Simple but complex, minimalist expression of body and structural form created to encompass the human landscape with fluid movement of object and humanoid shell. Beyond any barriers, leaving space for a more organic, visionary mode of A world of […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #22 Solace (Music Video) Artists Music by Max Cooper (Traum, UK) Visuals by Nick Cobby, UK Nick Cobby, a London based animator and designer, creates synesthetic image sequences in this video for Max Cooper’s Solace, released on Traum Records. The concept of this animation is that it visualises every sound within the track. […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #21 Tele-present water David Bowen This installation draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy Station 46246 (49°59’7″ N 145°5’20″ W) on the Pacific Ocean. The wave intensity and frequency […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #19 RESONANCE // Destructive Oscillation Project : Resonance by SR Partners (London, UK) Visual : JP Frenay (Belgium) Sound : Michael Fakesch (Germany) Resonance is the vision of SR Partners; a collaborative project between over 30 independent visual and audio designers/studios. The aim was to explore the relationship between geometry and […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #18 Solar Sinter Markus Kayser (London, UK) In a world increasingly concerned with questions of energy production and raw material shortages, this project explores the potential of desert manufacturing, where energy and material occur in abundance. In this experiment sunlight and sand are used as raw energy and material to produce […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #17 moving objects | nº 502 – 519 Pe Lang (Zurich and Berlin) Pe Lang’s poetic and elegant hand built sculptures combine mechanized systems with new materials to direct and manifest a different approach to kinetic movement. Lang realizes performances and creates installations by ingeniously assembling magnetic, electrical and mechanical devices […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #16 The Transfinite Ryoji Ikeda Ikeda creates a visual and sonic environment where visitors are submerged in an extreme illustration of projected and synchronized data. His work uses scale, light, shade, volume, shadow, electronic sounds, and rhythm to flood the senses. In choreographing vast amounts of digital information, Ikeda conjures up […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #15 The Wilderness Downtown Written and Directed by Chris Milk Google Tech Team: Aaron Koblin, George Brower, Michael Chang. Enter your childhood street address at the beginning of this riveting interactive video for Arcade Fire’s song “We Used to Wait” and watch the elegiac single become your own coming-of-age story—complete with […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #14 PARTITURA 001 Abstract Birds and Quayola (London, UK) Partitura is a custom software built in VVVV to generate real-time graphics aimed at visualizing sound. The term “Partitura” (score) implies a connection with music and this metaphor is the main focus of the project. Partitura aims to create a new system […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #13 HARMONIUM – BREATHING LIGHT Jason Krugman (NYC, US) Harmonium is a part of the Jason Krugman’s Organic Electric series. The LED mesh structure visualizes organic forms and behaviors that were reproduced by anthropomorphic nature of responsive architectural experiments. The breathing lights seem to be breathing on a metaphorical but also […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #12 KONSTRUCT Concept & Development: James Alliban (London, UK) Design & Illustration: Juliet Lall (London, UK) We have watched many different trials for iphone generative art pieces. James Alliban’s Konstruct showed a great growth for the area and a nice composition of a mobile device using AR and sound reactive interaction. […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #11 Dark Cloud and the Long Goodbye Projection Mapping, AR, Anamorphic Architecture, Maya by David Hall (aka Opiumblue : Seoul, Korea) The artist firstly composed 3D low polygon data in Maya, and later the 3D form was flattened into a 2D planar figure image that was fitted to each surface of […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #10 * * * * * SPOILER ALERT Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery AVERT YOUR EYES TO AVOID FOREKNOWLEDGE. You have been warned… S:S&S EP (Superbrothers: Sword & Sworcery EP) is a 21st century interpretation of the archetypical old school videogame adventure, designed exclusively for Apple’s touchtronic machinery. It is an unusual […]

PICK OF THE WEEK #9 REFLEX by rAndom International, UK From April 2011, rAndom International’s Reflex Installation at the Wellcome Trust transforms the Darwin & Mendel windows in Euston Road into the habitat of an organism that represents itself in the form of light. By reacting to passers-by it invites a physical response to the […]