"Indoor/Outdoor"
Interactive Installation by Lucho Soldevilla
(also on DVD0039 and mylinks)
Quay Brothers
"Street of Crocodiles"
16th Japan Media Arts Festival (selected) http://j-mediaarts.jp
Years
Media installation by Bartholomäus TRAUBECK (germany)
(also on DVD0039)
A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently.
[Thanks to Land Salzburg, Schmiede, Pro-ject Audio, Rohol Furniere, Karla Spiluttini, Ivo Francx, vvvv.]
[Thanks to Land Salzburg, Schmiede, Pro-ject Audio, Rohol Furniere, Karla Spiluttini, Ivo Francx, vvvv.]
Pendulum Choir
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vsXs3GUrw64
Summary: Pendulum Choir is an original choral piece for 9 a cappella voices and 18 hydraulic jacks. The choir stands on tilting platforms, constituting a living, sonorous body. That body expresses itself through various physical states. Its plasticity varies at the mercy of its sonority. It varies between abstract sounds, repetitive sounds, and lyrical or narrative sounds. The bodies of the singers and their voices play with and against gravity. They brush and avoid each other creating subtle vocal polyphonies. Or, supported by electronic sounds, they break their cohesion and burst into lyrical flight or fold up into an obsessional and dark ritual. The organ travels from life to death in a robotic allegory where the technological complexity and the lyricism of the moving bodies combine into a work with Promethean accents.
The Army of Luck, or: The Global Pursuit of Happiness
Interactive art by Boris PETROVSKY (germany)
Strata #4 - Teaser 1
Strata #4 is a multi-channel immersive video-installation commissioned by Palais de Beaux Arts in Lille, Italy.
Interactive art by PARK JeongHo (south korea)
Outback and Beyond
Media performance by Grayson COOKE / Mike COOPER（New Zealand／UK）
http://vimeo.com/40834702
Reason for Award: Described by its creators as an improvised opera that resembles an Australian-style Western, this work does not break any new technological ground. But I could relate to their straightforward application of existing technology to blend archival footage with live performance in the service of referencing their country’s history and geography while contemplating its culture here and now. With its unpretentious reexamination of culture through individual expression and the use of technology currently available to anyone, this work is, I feel, worthy of the New Face Award.
Desire of Codes
Interactive art by MIKAMI Seiko (japan)
(also in statementQuery folder)
Reason for Award: This spectacular installation,
consisting of three components, enables the viewer to directly
experience today’s information age, in which we are both watching and
being watched. The work is composed of a structure that wriggles like an
insect’s feelers, a search arm with an inbuilt video camera, and a
machine that resembles a pseudo-organism with a screen like a compound
eye. By combining and projecting images of the viewer and images from
surveillance cameras installed in public spaces, the work presents to us
a world in which the line is blurred between “living flesh” and the
“digitized body” captured by a mechanical eye. Expressing the degree to
which human perceptions and desires are subject to a host of
technology-mediated changes, the artist’s painstaking exploration
confronts this frightening truth with coolness and strength.
Schinkel Time
Video work by Thomas MOHR (nederland)
http://vimeo.com/49748459
Immersive Room
Video installation by SAWAMURA Chihiro (japan)
transformation cell [web site exhibition]
Graphic art, Web-based work by Bongo YAMAGUCHI (japan)
http://soichiyamaguchi.see.me/atts2012
http://transformation-cell.blog.so-net.ne.jp
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Nosaj Thing "Eclipse/Blue"
from TheCreatorsProject
