First, we've taken the act of living in a cell and transformed it into images of ourselves living in a cell. These video clips are edited dynamically at runtime so that every viewer sees a slightly different cut. The clips are organized according to the clock: if you access the piece in the morning, you see us doing morning things; if you access late at night, you see us sleeping.
Second, we've transferred the onus of a 1 year commitment to the work from the artist to the viewer. The piece will be realized fully only when a viewer runs it for one year. As M.River put it:
"In the work, we mimic endurance without doing the labor. We also know the audience can just close the browser and walk away. No one needs to suffer on this one. The failure is built-in at the front end."
Will a viewer ever complete the work? It's doubtful.
This is what i call good time fun!
i've been a fan of Radiohead for a long time and i can't cease to sympathize with these fellows... everything in them makes sense... radiohead tv: part two, enjoy. (more on youtube)
I've been fascinated with the Powers Of 10 movie from the Eames since i was 10 years old. Of course i didn't knew who they were at the time and only later i developed a great admiration for their work.
A few days ago it came to my mind again and thank god for youtube!! As i was watching it i had, which i believe to be, a great idea for my new project Kabinett website... :) hopefully it will come up live soon. Meanwhile, here's the Eames film.
NORWEGIAN COLLECTION OF POTENTIAL ARCHITECTURE is an online collection of the half-baked, the promising, the raw and the invisible architecture; Projects that miscarried, went over the top, were turned down by clients or for other reasons never became realised.
The idea was to create a database of this collective knowledge, designed as a user-generated web platform with continuously added projects. A statistical representation and survey of the collection will provide insight into this undisclosed realm.
Card, aluminium, digital camera, timing circuit, wiring & 6 min DVD loop - Tim Knowles
A digital camera inside a parcel looks out through a small hole and captures images of its journey through the postal system. The Spy Box was sent from my studio to the gallery taking an image every 10 seconds recording a total of 6994 images these were then edited together to create an animated slideshow.
LICHTWERK is a public art project, transforming the recently redesigned IBM building in the heart of Vienna during the evening hours into a computer controlled light sculpture.
I grab this movie yesterday from the video shop because the title was echoing in my head for awhile and i wasn't sure if i had seen it or not. As i start the dvd i'm surprised by a great opening sequence! Motion graphics replicating vintage cigarette packaging with the movie credits. Worth to check it!
Similar Diversity is an information graphic which opens up a new perspective at the topics religion and faith by visualizing the Holy Books of five world religions. Communalities and differences of Christianity, Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism and Judaism are shown up in this datavisualization.
The visual's basis is an objective text analysis of the Holy Scriptures, and works without any interpretations from the creators' side. Despite - or even because of this abstraction, the artworks are not only working on an informal but also on an emotional level. The viewers should be inspired to think about own prejudices and current religious conflicts.
Realised with Processing and VVVV.
Similar Diversity was exhibited at the Hangar-7, Salzburg: Is it possible to touch someone's heart with design? by Multimediaart and Stefan Sagmeister.
I was reading one of my favorite blogs and i saw a post about the Ellen Luptons, Free Font Manifesto which i couldn't resist to post here as well. Unfortunately Reactor-Reactor Blog is mostly written in portuguese and understandably hard to follow for non portuguese speakers...
Here's the 5 reasons,"Why would a typeface designer want to give a font away?
1. To make a selfless gift to humanity.
2. To raise global awareness of typographic excellence.
3. To create a visual resource that will be used by students, citizens, amateurs, and professionals all over the world.
4. To contribute to a global design vocabulary.
5. To seed the world with a visual idea that could be built on and enriched by other designers serving smaller linguistic communities."
The annual Graphic Design seminar and competition by Grafill, a norwegian Association of Graphic Design and Illustration member of Icograda, just happen last week with a great program including talks from Adrian Shaughnessy, Rinzen Steve & Rilla Alexander, Sami Kortemäki (Underware), Rick Webb (Barbarian Group), Geneviève Gauckler, Mateus de Pula Santos (Lobo), among others.
At the Awards ceremony i was given a Special Mention for the Design and Art direction (at Bleed Design Studio) of the Diesel New Art 2006 Catalogue. As the night went on, surprises yet to come when i was called to the stage again, this time with my friend and colleague Svein Haakon Lia, to receive the Gold Award (and a bottle of champagne :) for the PSP Candy website in the open class category also made at Bleed.
For all you norwegian readers *here's* the list of the awarded works in all categories...
At last but not the least, this year profile for Visuelt.07 was design by Skin and you can check more great work at their website ;)
Cette publication ambitionne d’être un espace d’échange, de partage, de confrontation et offrir ainsi une approche plurielle du design graphique, à la fois visuelle et théorique.
Elle veut parler du design graphique comme d’un champ de création et de recherche. Elle veut faire parler les acteurs du design graphique – professionnel, étudiants, théoriciens, journalistes, etc. – de leurs pratiques et de leurs réflexions ; créer.
NODE is a Berlin and Oslo based graphic design studio, founded in 2003 by Anders Hofgaard (NO) and Serge Rompza (DE). Vladimir Llovet Casademont (DE/ES) joined the collaboration 2006. All three studied at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. The studio works for international clients and on self initiated projects across various media: books, magazines, posters, typefaces, identities, exhibition design, signage and websites.
Brilliant work by Rosemarie Fiore. Here's one image from the firework drawing series (above). "These large works on paper are made by exploding and containing live fireworks, resulting in bursts of saturated color that are overlaped and collaged into abstract compositions."
