Feréstec

Feréstec is a catalan word that means "not domesticated", "an untamed anmimal". It's the name for an on-line visual project launched in 2009 by Ferran Pla, born in Barcelona, 1980. Lives and works in Madrid. Feréstec could be seen as a minimal approach to the digital image, where the movement goes from figurative to abstract.

Ferran tells us more about his project:

"The idea is to achieve a pure image, and to give digital texture a primitive feeling.

Raw images classically composed that leave you thinking that they could aswell have been retouched. Feréstec aims to reshape the concept of tradition within the avant-garde, by focusing on the very conventions of experimental cinema. I am also very interested on finding connections between the history of abstract cinema and skateboarding." See more;

"I published 4 zines based of my own images and exploring the raw feeling of my images on paper. My zines try to be cinema on paper following that Godard's idea that you can do films with a very few things, two stills is enough.

Ferestec's Notes is a kind of lab where you can see my creative procces. By juxtaposing images from others creators that i found interesting I try to create a third image completely new. Looking for new meanings. It's a way to show my thoughts without using langauge."

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Aaron "Jaws" Homoki vs Feréstec

Seventh Sense

Seventh Sense is an awesome performance where once again dance and interactive digital environments have been merged to create this beautiful connection. Seventh Sense is a collaboration project between 安娜琪舞蹈劇場 Anarchy Dance Theatre and 叁式 UltraCombos. As they say, this piece is still under progress, the show is going to have a premiere on November 2012, Taiwan. Interactive visuals have been made using openFramwork. Choreography by Chieh-hua Hsieh.  See more;

See more videos about, here: 1, 2, 3.

Jonas Lund

The following websites are four of my favorite works by Jonas Lund. All of them have been created this year. I really like the powerful but simple concepts he develops using the web.
Lund was born in Sweden, currently lives and works in Amsterdam. Please click the following images or links to check out the different pieces. See more;

http://thisplaceintime.net/

This Place In Time displays all visitors locations, continuously updated to be centered on the last one. By collecting litle by litle every spot in the world.

http://overandoveragain.net/

A Website that loads itself over and over again. 

http://imhereandthere.com/

See what Jonas see through total transparency, it consists in a browser extension which sends every website he is currently viewing to imhereandthere.com. It refreshes as soon as Lund visits a new website. It works a bit like a mirror to his browser and life.

http://bluecrush.me/

A 47 tones of blue pop up performance. Just follow the indications on the site to run the piece correctly. 

Penique Productions

Penique Productions is a Spanish art collective creating temporary inflatable installations. The Project consists on the creation of colour inflatable that fills up the space erected by others, providing them of a new identity. A simplification of the space that unifies shapes and textures becoming one generating a different atmosphere. The balloons are constructed from regular patterns, adjusting each inflatable to the characteristics of each location. The concept works on the relation between the full and the empty, generating a dialogue with the space we inhabit temporarily. See more;

This golden installation took place last September at Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy. The dimensions of; 10m x 3m x 4 m ( x 3 balloons) and one more 9m x 3m x 4m.
More installations and different colors and places on their website.

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Yoichiro Kawaguchi

"Yoichiro Kawaguchi was born in Tanegashima Is, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan in 1952. He was graduated in Visual Communication Design at Kyushu Institute of Design in 1976. He received his Master degree from Tokyo University of Education in 1978. After teaching at Tsukuba University of Tokyo. Kawaguchi started to create computer graphics since 1975, he is an internationally acclaimed CGI artist. He achieved a unique style using his "GROWTH Model", a model based on growth algorithm. Selforganinzing artificial life media metropolices and highly dense creations of primal wildness represent sailent characteristics of his work. Since SIGGRAPH'82, he consistently presents work in the United States." See more;

"Professor Kawaguchi is an expert on the "GROWTH model," a self-organizing method to give form to one's rich imagination or to develop one's formative algorithm of a complex life form. As the art or a time progression, a program generates a form and this form is allowed to grow systematically according to a set formula. Howwever, this "GROWTH Model" is not based on a static process that allows constructive mathematics to take its course.

Though observation of eddies and spirals, repetitions of simple form of inner mathematical principles, which are hidden behind the seemingly complex outlook of living creatures, are deduced. Placing subtle forms like that of a conch shell as a starting point, the shapes of ammonite, nautilus, tentacles, plant vines and coral become visual references for this model.

The most important concept of the "GROWTH Model" is the "recursive structure," which is a repetition of simple rules within complexity. By running a genetic program implemented with this structure, the computer continuously creates multiplying images until it maximize its memory space. Beginning with an initial shape, the computer generates how the final image appears. Therefore, the "GROTH Model" is a way to give an unforeseen form to the progress of time.

The model is not intended to create or a faithful representations of reality but to produce a new bionomic pictorial space backed by an algorithm. A self-organizing form created by the "GROWTH Model" represents a creature that sesually moans and squirms and might have existed in the evolutionary past or that may appear in the distant future. It is a "life form of probability."

The following video shows an episode about Yoichiro Kawaguchi, from the UK Channel 4 series "283 Useful Ideas From Japan" first shown in 1990.

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SUPER ART MODERN MUSEUM - SPAMM

Must to attend SPAMM!! After several days waiting for the opening of this great project created in collaboration by Systaime, Thomas Cheneseau and Silicon Maniacs, finally the Super Art Modern Museum (SPAMM) has just opened its doors. The first exhibition is featuring 50 artworks from 50 artists for only 1 Super Art Modern Museum!

SPAMM Manifesto

"Visual arts have entered a new era. It’s a place where immediacy rules, where visual arts becomes virtual, a place that links the world together. A new era for artists who have invented new concepts, using digital medias, from video to graphism, static, animated or even computer-programmed. They have created a flamboyant design for a super-society created in the Web’s image.

Therefore, if "contemporary art" isn’t "from today" anymore, but just a continuing period of the XIX° century "modern art", we can proclaim - without hesitation - the existence of the Super Modern Art. It has existed for 10 years now across the web and new technologies. Super-modern art is a virtual museum." See more;

"By creating the Super Art Modern Museum (SPAMM), Systaime, Thomas Cheneseau and the Silicon Maniacs’s team, merely made up for the the indifference of cultural authorities and the need for society to understand the MUSEUM in another way. In 2012, the Museum has to tackle new issues as to the place of art, questioning the way to SEE it and to BUY it. The SuPer Art Modern Museum is an experiment to answer all those questions.

This is the reason why SPAMM takes up theses challenges. SPAMM is not only a new form of museum, it would like to encourage new forms of digital creation.

The Art of SPAMM is the art of Museum, the art of SPAMM is the eye of the collector, the art of SPAMM is the scream of an artistic movement, the art of SPAMM is collaborative and generative, it’s an art that gets out of homes and lives in the heart of machines, a new art for a new generation of artists, collectors, gamers, geeks, buzzers, actors and amateurs alike.

In the midst of this stream of creation, Thomas Cheneseau, Systaime and Silicon Maniacs select SPAMM artists. Systaime, Thomas Cheneseau and Silicon Maniac's team travel the world of virtual creation, from the Venice Biennale to lafiac.com, and they gather all their experiences together in a single place : SPAMM, a museum and an art manifesto." - Jean Jacques GAY, December 2011.

If art "should make us see what we have not already seen" (Paul Valery), Super Modern Art show us the art of tomorrow.

SPAMM artists participating in this first exhibition:

Andrey Yazev, Angelo Plessas, Anne de Vries, Anne Laplantine, Annie Abrahams, Anthony Antonellis, Brandon Blommaert, Chris Collins, Chris Timms, Claude Closky, Constant Dullaart, Daniel R Leyva, Dylan Fisher, Lhuisset, Emilio Gomariz, Eva and Franco, Mattes, Evan Roth, Zocco, Francoise Gamma, G3, Gregory Chatonsky, Helen Adamidou, Jankenpopp, Jennifer Chan, Jeremiah Johnson, Jeremy Bailey, Jodi, Jon Satrom, Kim Asendorf, Lorna Mills, Louise Sartor, Maurice Benayoun, Mr Doob, Nicolas Sassoon, Palle Torsson, Petra Cortright, Rafaël Rozendaal, Reynald Drouhin, Robert Lorayn, Rohan Fermi, Rollin Leonard, Rosa Menkman, Sarah Samy, Sarah Weis, Sara Ludy, Sterling Crispin, Systaime, Thomas Cheneseau, Wiwi Kuan, Yann Weissgerber.

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Tauba Auerbach at Bergen Kunsthall

This colorful book series is one of my favorite pieces from the ongoing exhibition of Tauba Auerbach at Bergen Kunsthall, called Tetrachromat. It will be open untill next 22th December, at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen.

"In Tauba Auerbach’s work traditional distinctions between image, dimensionality and content collapse. Surface, specifically the larger issues surrounding topo¬logy, has been a central concern in her recent paintings, drawings, photographs and artist books. Auerbach interweaves discordant positions such as disorder and order, readability and abstraction, permeability and solidity – phenomena that are usually viewed as incompatible – into unified surfaces and volumes." See more;

"The title of the exhibition plays on the notion of ‘tetrachromatic’ vision. People normally perceive the world around them trichromatically (in three colours). Humans have three types of receptor for the perception of colour with varying sensitivities: red, green and blue. A new theory exists that there may be a small percentage of people (only women) who have a fourth colour receptor, which makes them ‘tetrachromatic’. In order to play on such ideas of a fourth component which, if it could be proven, would radically change our view of the world, Auerbach employs two analogies in this exhibition – the spatial (the idea of a fourth dimension) and the spectral (a fourth colour spectrum).

Tauba Auerbach has long worked with different types of book production. Recently these have developed into independent sculptural works that continue Auerbach’s research on multidimensionality and the importance of colour for spatiality. She presents several new book sculptures in this exhibition, and in a way these function as manuals for thinking about the project by constantly revolving around the question “How can we imagine what is impossible to sense?”"

See the complete press release and more pictures from the exhibition at Contemporary Daily and Bergen Kunsthall.

Photos by Vegard Kleven.

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Tree, Line by Zander Olsen

Tree, Line is an ongoing series of constructed photographs rooted in the forest by Zander Olsen. As Olsen says; these works, carried out in Surrey, Hampshire and Wales, involve site specific interventions in the landscape, ‘wrapping’ trees with white material to construct a visual relationship between tree, not-tree and the line of horizon according to the camera’s viewpoint. See more;

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Free Falling by Ezri Tarazi

What an amazing performing process shows this project called Free Falling, made by designer Ezri Tarazi. It is done by transforming a trapezoidal box made from a perforated metal sheets into a chair by the fall of a mannequin filled with concrete.The mannequin is pressed into the prism’s surface to create a subtly different shape each time. See more;

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Mysterious Structures - China's Gobi Desert

See on Google Maps

These images show mysterious compositions and structures which seem to be a kind of paintings (not sure if it's painting), and installations over the Earth, they are exactly in the Gobi Desert, China. They were found the last month at Google Maps. See more;

"It turns out that they are almost certainly used to calibrate China's spy satellites.

So says Jonathon Hill, a research technician and mission planner at the Mars Space Flight Facility at Arizona State University, which operates many of the cameras used during NASA's Mars missions. Hill works with images of the Martian surface taken by rovers and satellites, as well as data from Earth-orbiting NASA instruments."
Read the full article by Natalie Wolchover at msnbc

Click on the following images to explore those places at Google Maps.

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