EVOL ‘Urban Stencil City’
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German street artist EVOL creates hyper realistic miniature buildings and cities in all sorts of places, by stenciling flat surfaces.
The one shown here is made in a field near Hamburg as part of the upcoming MS Dockville music and art festival, and is presumably the best one so far. The installation took 8 days to construct. Photos of the process are shown here.
Here‘s another cool installation done in Dresden.
(Source: thitime)
Tunnel
is a kinetic sculpture created by the Brazilian duo Cantoni-Crescenti, Rejane Cantoni and Leonardo Crescenti. Tunnel is an immersive and interactive sculpture, composed of 92 porticos that become disordered in function of the position and body mass of the interactor.
Read more at Triangulation Blog.
Spatial Sound Sculpture
@HBC 28.11.2009
by Daniel Franke & Christopher Warnow
daniel-franke.com & brian-steen.com/blog/
Music by Machinefabriek (Rutger Zuydervelt)
machinefabriek.nu/
The piece is inspired by VR-sculptures, though technically and
conceptionally transcending the helmet-like “90ies data-glasses”.
The basic thought is to re-organise the relationship between
“the viewer and the viewed” whose traditional functions are
expanded technologically; the starting point however remains
set in “real space”.
A portable screen is used to visualise the soundsculpture; a
camera attached to the screen collects information of the space
surrounding it from markers distributed on adjacent surfaces.
The screen becomes a transmitter superimposing a digital layer
-the sculpture onto “real space” (the unmanipulated space that
greets the naked eye). The process allows the viewer to abandon
the passive position of the “merely on-looking” consumer; he is
enabled to visually and acoustically intervene with the sculpture,
to model and module it. His changing positions and movements
affect the visualisations on the screen, rendering an “extended
reality” accessible. The sculpture generated is individually linked
to each observer and thus singular.
The traditionally static and inactive viewer position is replaced by
a mobile, navigating and active observer position. The one-way
reactive relationship between sender and receiver is abandoned
through a feedback channel to the moving image. The sound
sculpture interprets a composition by Rutger Zuydervelt, that,
parallel to the visual sculpture spreads spatially around the
viewer through four loudspeakers. Employing FFT data the
generated sculpture changes depending on the position of the
user which is calculated by spatially distributed AR-markers. As
it is Algorithm-based the sculpture is non-haptic – it is a
generated but manipulable projection. Nonetheless the starting
point remains set in “real space”: the technology does not
attempt to conquer reality through VR, but rather seeks
intersection points with the real-space context of the observer.
The Laszló Moholy Nagy quote “Colour becomes light, mechanic
turns into sculpture” resonates in this work, only here one might
rephrase “Colour becomes thought, mechanic turns into narration”.
It’s the simple things in life that give you the most pleasure, they say. Who can forget the delight of getting a new pack of crayons for Christmas and quickly knocking up a couple of pictures of a tractor before lunch? Well here’s something a little more involved … www.herbwilliamsart.com (via Herb Williams crayon sculptures)
The Particle: Responsive, Kinetic Sculpture from Hangar.org
How much sonic and eye-popping goodness can you wrap into a big, light-up sphere? So much goodness.
“The Particle” is a kinetic sculpture produced at Barcelona’s
visual arts workshop Hangar by software and interactive audiovisual artist Alex Posada. Packed with custom electronics and using XBee for wireless communications, the creation responds to the space around it, transforming movement into color and sound. It’s perhaps the perfect response to advances in particle physics; just as unseen particles are, the orb is entangled with what happens around it. Rings of colored LED lights rotate in rings by a motor, and surround sound makes the audio response spatialized, as well. Skip halfway into the video and see this thing in motion – epileptic visitors may want to avoid this creation. Rapid gyrations make the life of the object mysterious, turning the fixed structure of the sculpture into a hypnotic, indeterminate phenomenon. Switched off, the sculpture is rigid and mechanical-looking, but switched on, it becomes something magically ephemeral. I’d give up my television in my house to look at this every evening; I’m strange like that…”
