Stunning music visualization video!
Music Is Math from Glenn Marshall on Vimeo.
Most of it seems to be created without intervention of the artist but I’m suspecting that there was a little more human interaction than asserted.
Great showreel by Andreas Gysin e Sidi Vanetti showing mostly artsy installations. Everything is very reduced and minimal but with a strong impact on the visual nerves. But what I like best is their interpretation of a “Swatch” watch.
David Byrne converted the Great Hall of the former lower Manhattan ferry terminal into a gigantic musical instrument.
Playing the Building is Byrne’s latest sonic innovation, and morphs the century-old Battery Maritime Building into a clanging, vibrating sound sculpture. A retrofitted, antique organ that acts as the control station for the musical instrument. In this installation, the former Talking Heads co-founder blurs the boundaries between the creators and consumers of culture. He explains:
“Devices [have been] attached to the building’s structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.”
Playing the Building continues through August 10, 2008 at 10 South Street, New York, NY; open every Friday through Sunday, noon - 6pm. Admission is free of charge.
When I first saw the ‘augmented sculpture’ at the ARS Electronica in 2007, I did the same thing as nearly everyone else did, who went in to this small room there. I immediately went out again and photographed the name of the artist from the board outside (Pablo Valbuena) with my mobile phone. Then I went in again and stayed there for a long long time.
Actually projections onto a 3D object in real space are nothing new at all, but we all know that holding a crayon doesn‘t make one necessary an artist. And Pablo is one of these people who are able to create an impressive piece of art just out of few minimalistic elements. The way he puts the virtual geometry on his physical sculpture is just amazing. The hypnotising sound environment and the perfectly choreographed virtual object transformation gave me the impression of being in a kind of a ‘Tron’ World.
I am happy that Pablo continued his work and hope to see some new versions of the ‘augmented sculpture’ in real ’space-time’ soon again!
Definitely the most creative combination of art and technology I have seen in a long time!
The artist placed a GPS device in a briefcase and mailed it around the world. He provided precise travel instructions which DHL carried out over the course of a 55 day period. After receiving the package, the artist had only to read out the GPS data which formed a virtual self-portrait that spread over 62 countries on all 6 continents, covering 110,664 km.
Click on the images for more information about this beautiful project which could be a publicity stunt for DHL (they really seem to know how to drive mail around in circles)
Unfortunally, as Pedro pointed out and Engadget posted today, this is a big hoax. Even if this didn’tactually happen, it’s still a great idea. Now let’s do this for real!!!
Worldprocessor is an ongoing project by Ingo Günther, an artist who obviously fell in love with globes. Since 1988 he has produced more than 300 globes showing different types of information. He gatheres geosocial and scientific data from newspapers and NGOs and maps them onto standard 12-inch globes. The result is “part infographic, part networking diagram, part humanistic commentary”.
