Sunday, April 11, 2004
Log on and design light sculptures in sky of Dublin
From April 22 to May 3, 2004 the interactive installation titled “Vectorial Elevation” by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer will be installed in Dublin to celebrate the expansion of the European Union. Anyone can log on to the website beginning on April 22 and make a light design using 22 robotic searchlights placed around O’Connell Street. Visit the site for full details.
http://www.dublinelevation.net
Friday, April 09, 2004
Hollywood, gaming forge closer ties
A good story on the continued merging of these two creative fields.
SiliconValley.com
MCAD students set about ‘picturing’ music
Students from the Minneapolis College of Art and Design (MCAD) will be manipulating both still and animated imagery from backstage to accompany the choral group VocalEssence in a performance at Orchestra Hall next weekend. They have a related interactive Web site at http://nobel.mcad.edu.
Minneapolis Star Tribune
Automakers Roll Out the Future
Wired has a peek of what you’ll see in concept cars at the 2004 New York International Automobile Show.
Wired
Thursday, April 08, 2004
Fashion meets science in high-tech fabrics
Did you ever wonder what high-tech fabrics are being used for in everyday clothing?
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/style/fashion/s_184047.html
Yael Kanarek
Yael Kanarek is a new media artist. She has been developing her integrated media project World of Awe (http://www.worldofawe.net) since 1995. At the core of World of Awe is The Journal—an original narrative that uses the ancient genre of the traveler’s tale to explore the connections between storytelling, travel, memory and technology.
Selected for the Whitney biennial 2002, Ms. Kanarek is a recipient of the Jerome Foundation Media Arts grant, the New York Foundation for the Arts 2001 fellowship award and the Alternative Museum Digital Commission 2000. She has been an artist-in-residence at Harvestworks collaborating on Music for World of Awe with composer Yoav Gal. In 2002 she completed Chapter 2 of the Traveler’s Journal commissioned by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Recently, Ms. Kanarek launched an interactive net.dance in collaboration with dance filmmaker Evann Siebens, commissioned by Turbulence.org and was R&D resident at Eyebeam, collaborating with bnode architecture studio on the mRB project. Ms. Kanarek is represented by Bitforms gallery in New York City.
World of Awe has been written about in the New York Times, Le Monde Interactif, Tema Celeste, Art News, Time Out, Flash Art Italy, Firma, Paper Magazine, The Industry Standard, Wired, The Journal News and ArtByte, and participated in festivals and exhibitions in Brazil, Italy, France, England, Germany, Switzerland, Netherlands, Israel, Korea and the USA.
In October 2002 World of Awe was awarded the CNRS/UNESCO Lewis Carroll Argos prize in France and in June 2003 Ms. Kanarek won the 1st prize in the Netizens International Net Art competition in Rome, Italy.
Ms. Kanarek produces The Upgrade! A monthly gathering of new media artists and curators in New York City hosted by Eyebeam (http://www.treasurecrumbs.com/theupgrade) and lectures about net art around the world.
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art now open!
Congratulations L.A.! I’ll look forward to checking it out when I visit this summer. Their first exhibit is titled W A V E F O R M S : Summer(time).
In a collaboration between producer Myke Aaron and digital artist Rex Bruce in cooperation with celebrated diva Donna Summer waveforms generated from the most pop of popular music are digitaly manipulated and printed onto large canvases to create flashy abstractions. Graphic depictions of Donna’s famous vocal hooks are processed to emphasize various aspects of timebased audio data. The result is a fascinating and beautiful array of color, texture, and form.
LACDA
Los Angeles Center For Digital Art, 5723 Melrose Avenue Suite 202, Los Angeles, CA 90038, 323.646.9427
Fashion Trend: Eyeball Jewelry
This is just a mild taste of the future of body modification. Imagine if the implant was digital?
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) - Body piercing and tattoos make way. The latest fashion trend to hit the Netherlands is eyeball jewelry. Dutch eye surgeons have implanted tiny pieces of jewelry called “JewelEye” in the mucous membrane of the eyes of six women and one man in cosmetic surgery pioneered by an ophthalmic surgery research and development institute in Rotterdam.
CNN
Wednesday, April 07, 2004
Craft in the Digital Age: Exploring Technology’s Role in Fine Craft
A conference that addresses the bridging of handmade methods with technology-driven craft techniques is being presented by the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen on April 24, 2004, in collaboration with the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), the New Hampshire Institute of Art, and the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts.
Conference
The related exhibition entitled High Tech - Hand Made will be on display at the New Hampshire Institute of Art from April 21 - May 16, 2004.
Exhibition
WIRED’s NextFest
Experience the future of transportation, design, communication, health, entertainment, security and exploration in San Francisco, May 14-16, 2004 in the Festival Pavilion at Fort Mason Center.
Wired NextFest
Tuesday, April 06, 2004
Start-ups turn flat panel TVs into works of art
Imagewear from Nokia
Check out Nokia’s upcoming Imagewear line which allows you to display digital images on or near your body.
Nokia
Monday, April 05, 2004
David A. Hardy
David A. Hardy is the longest-established living astronomical artist, having illustrated his first book for Patrick Moore in 1954. He has since illustrated dozens of books, as well as producing hundreds of science fiction covers, and in 1974 started writing his own factual books, of which there are now seven. He has also worked on TV and films, including THE NEVERENDING STORY. In 2001 a book about his life and work, HARDYWARE, was published by Paper Tiger, and in 2003 an asteroid was named after him. His first novel, AURORA: A CHILD OF TWO WORLDS, was published by Cosmos Books/Wildside Press in September 2003. He is European Vice President of the International Association of Astronomical Artists (IAAA).
http://www.hardyart.demon.co.uk/html/biograph.html
Michael Brynntrup
Born in Munster, Germany, 1959. Studied in Freiburg, Rome and Berlin. Master degree Fine Arts at the Braunschweig School of Art in 1991. Experimental poems, texts, paintings, photography, fotocopies, performances, installations and exhibitions since 1977. Over 60 experimental short films and videos since 1981, three feature films. Digital art in interactive media since 1995 (CD-ROM, DVD and internet). Film exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art New York (1987, 1992 and 1999). Numerous international exhibitions and film awards. Organisation of avantgarde and gay film events for museums, institutions and international film festivals. Publications on Super8 and Off-Off-Cinemas. Several guest lectures since 1990, workshops, project advising and apprenticeship counselling in the area of media production and film. - The artist lives and works.
http://www.brynntrup.de
http://www.brynntrup.de/tabu
http://www.brynntrup.de/nofilm
http://www.brynntrup.de/achtung
http://www.brynntrup.de/netcetera
http://www.brynntrup.de/stummfilm
http://www.brynntrup.de/filmgalerie
Sunday, April 04, 2004
Furniture 2004: The 8th Annual Furniture Society Conference
Embracing Technology + Honoring Tradition
Savannah College of Art and Design
Savannah, Georgia, June 24-26, 2004
For more information, please visit
The Furniture Society