Rynth[n4] - Paul Prudence

Paul Prudence is an artist and real-time visual performer using generative and  computational methods to create audio responsive visual systems. An overview of his selected works can be found at Transphormetic.

His Rynth project uses parameters from real-time sound analysis to generate transformations and deformations of geometric primitives. Its dynamic surface texture is generated by incoming audio frequencies resulting in a synaesthetic surface modulation. The result morphing geometric construction pays homage to gyroscopic devices and anti-gravity mechanics. See more;

Prudence is a researcher in the field of procedural art, computational design and earth processes, he runs also the interesting weblog Dataisnature,  I recommend it!

This is a Dome performance at Planetarium Artis, Amsterdam for Sonic Acts XIII - The Poetics of Space, Amsterdam 2010. You can find more info about Rynth here, images.

Alva Noto + Derivate

Audiovisual performance unitxt / univrs (derivative version) by Carsten Nicolai aka Alva Noto at Ars Electronica 2010. Visuals developed with Markus Heckmann aka Wuestenarchitekten and produced with TouchDesigner. See more;

David Lynch’s Hair / Famous Art

Great study of David Lynch’s hair compared to famous paintings. See more;

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Nike + Paint With Your Feet

For the launch of the Nike Free Run+ 2 City Pack series, YesYesNo was invited to develop software that would allow runners to create dynamic paintings with their feet using their Nike+ GPS run data. During the two day workshop at Nike headquarters, we invited the participants to record their runs and then using our custom software we imported the metrics from their run, to create visuals based on the speed, consistency and unique style of each person's run. See more;

Using the software the participants were able to play with the mapping and adjust the composition of their run which was then outputted as a high resolution print for them to take home. We also worked with the Innovation Lab at Nike to laser etch the runner's name, the distance they ran and their run path onto a custom fabricated shoe box, which contained a pair of the 'City Pack' shoes from their city of origin.

Software was made with openFrameworks v007b and uses Moka's ofxTileSaver addon.

Produced in collaboration with DualForces. YesYesNo Team: Zach Lieberman, Emily Gobeille and Theo Watson.

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Sam Burford

224 Brushes - The Wizard of Oz - Before the colour starts, 2011 | Oil on Treated Perspex - 120x90cm

Sam Burford creates objects and films that explore the temporal and transformative nature of meaning and language. Burford's work is an investigation into how cinematic language affects the way we attribute meaning to what we experience through our prior experiences of cinema. By adapting populist media Burford seeks to alter the viewers engagement and perception of this material. See more;

Star Wars Relief, 2011 | Timelapse photograph of Star Wars IV transformed into a surface relief | Silicon - 140x36x8cm

Curling Over Self, timelapse photographic detail of the opening shot from Star Wars, 2010 - Hand printed film - 56x80cm

Tyrell Curling, timelapse photographic detail from Blade Runner, 2010 - Hand printed film, clips - 17x38cm

Inverted & overlayed, timelapse photographic detail from The Godfather I, 2010 - Hand printed film, Lightbox, Clips - 57x81x12cm

Matrix Open, timelapse photographic detail from The Matrix, 2010 - Hand printed film, Lightbox - 57x81x12cm

Simultaneous Timeframe, two timelapse photographic details from Blade Runner, 2010  - Hand printed film, Lightbox - 18x28x7cm

Timelapse photographic detail from Vertigo, 2009  Archival Print, Perspex, Aluminium - 77x46cm

Tie Fighters, timelapse photographic detail from Star Wars IV, 2009 - Archival Print, Perspex, Aluminium - 110x48cm

polE zine by Piotr Grabowski

"Ping Flood" is the title of the latest (#11) cool issue of polE zine, a polish magazine launched in 2009 by Piotr Grabowski. polE is a Warsaw, Poland based DIY magazine with wide range works of polish young artists.

Piotr Grabowski tells us about this number;

"New issue of polE zine is a little bit sentimental, a bit futuristic, a bit provincial and strongly fatalistic. For me, surprisingly up to date, as I hear about the flood and hundreds of bodies floating in the sea. I use the history and current status, to show the phenomenon of congestion, the state of fatigue, drift and helplessness in the time of disasters. This situation is terrifying but somehow accustomed at the same time. Recurs every six months but yet incomprehensible. Future can be calculated, applied to the formula, illustrated by the scheme, but we are still completely uncertain and confused. Maybe the problem is in computational power. I am exploiting a digital cliché in that story, it is handy for me to show overloading of reality, space being pervaded by digitality today." See more;

"I called this issue "Ping Flood”. It's a simple hacker's attack on network server, that drives to overloading the system. For me it is the equivalent of what happens in many other contexts – the flood of seemingly harmless events that leads to massive system's congestion and to much more radical effect of changes, revolutions, personal dramas. But, after all, ping flood is not any sophisticated attack, it is quite primitive method, with no fireworks and its effects are easily reversible by RESET button." - Piotr Grabowski

I asked him about the usually content on polE magazine, because this issue seems to have a quite abstract style, but Piotr tells that polE's style depends on the moment of the story at each time. The abstraction is frequently used but is not a required thing for others artists. "Pole" in polish means area, field, sphere, so the art which Piotr is looking for, is not specified. The zine is a space opened for a creative exploration. 

Recent numbers are created by one person, sometimes inviting others to cooperate with, and the previews issues were like group exhibition.

Piotr Grabowski, "Ping Flood”, polE#11, Warsaw, 2011
Paper recycled, 80g, white ISO 70 brightness.

24 pages , 21 x 29.7 cm

Hosting Parasites by Kathy Ludwig

Kathy Ludwig's work is dealing with steadiness and change of society and of individual, human values in relation to detectable and tangible tendencies of time and surrounding. Ludwig translates her observations into objects, which can be experienced physically. Due to the direct interaction with the objects, the human being is encouraged and inspired to the reflection of oneself and ones surrounding. Kathy Ludwig is interested in different detectable aspects around the central theme of the human being in its surrounding. The position of the being in relation to itself, other beings, volumes, spaces, etc. evolves to an undefined, peculiar term of aesthetics, beauty, values and self-consciousness.

"Hosting Parasites" are objects which can be attached to the body. They blur the borders between parasite and host and adapt the parasitic way of connecting themselves to their host. In this way they have a physical influence on the body. See more;

Many parasites suck the blood of their hosts. The single “suckers” attach themselves to the body by means of a vacuum. The skin under the glass cup gets sucked in and forms a little bump, which turns red after a while. The necklace consists of ten small cups with pumps, which are connected by a thin silk cord. They can be attached individually anywhere on the skin, and shape the necklace this way.The pumps don’t hurt the body, but they leave marks when wearing them for a longer time. These marks form a temporary, decorative legacy of the parasite.    

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