Sherwin Rivera Tibayan

"Best General View" is a conceptual photographic project by Sherwin Rivera Tibayan.

"The work considers both the recorded and irretrievable histories a person steps into when making a photograph in the American West. Using an old screen, found color slides and wall-sized projections, my images are a collaboration of sorts, taken both side-by-side and within the light and landscapes of an anonymous photographer, like a pair of familiar strangers on the same guided tour." - Sherwin R. Tibayan. See more;

Jorge Mañes - Fried Chicken Street Lighting

"Fried Chicken Street Lighting" by spanish designer Jorge Mañes. It is a photograph series from different storefronts which have been projected at night onto fachades of the darker and less safe streets of the city, creating a confuse active environment. See more;

'I've always been fascinated by these kinds of restaurants, their design, their bright signs and colours, and all the different kinds of services that they provide to the city, besides the 'food' itself.' - Jorge Mañes

Research photographs of various storefronts

via | designboom

BYOB Madrid - 03 June 2011

Gif by Ricardo Juarez

I'm really excited to announce the next BYOB Madrid. It will take place at the great Matadero Madrid (map) next Friday 03th June at 21:00 pm (box 15). This edition of BYOB is curated by Barriobajero, a collective formed by Silvia Bianchi and Ricardo Juarez, based in new artistic ways and experimental projects.

BYOB Madrid will feature over 20 artists representing the national scene from different disciplines such as video art, post-Internet art, VJing or installation. Gabriel Sabando, Machines Désirantes, Miguel Agnes, d´j `w, Jonay PMatos, Ricardo Juarez, Blanche, Andrea Ferrer, Emo Diaz, Theo Firmo, Bubi Canal, XFlash, Pablo Vozza, Javier Florido, Rocio Cañero, Amalia Ulmann, Marian Garrido, Emilio Gomariz are the names for this exhibition. Also you will enjoy interventions by artists from other cities via Internet, such as the Barcelona based Bendita Gloria. Isometrico will be the responsible for the sound. See more;

If you don't know what is BYOB yet_

BYOB (Bring Your Own Beamer) is an idea by Rafaël Rozendaal. It is a series of one-night-exhibitions curated by different people around the world. The idea is simple: Find a place, invite many artists, ask them to bring their projectors. BYOB is a way of making a huge show with zero budget. It is also an exploration of the medium of projection. The first edition of BYOB was initiated by Anne de Vries & Rafael Rozendaal in Berlin. Read more about, here.

Gif by Silvia Bianchi

Gif by Bubi Canal

Gif by Emo Diaz

Gif by Marian Garrido

Gif by Roberto Llorente

Video by Emilio Gomariz

See you there!! 
21:00 pm - 03 June at Matadero Madrid (Paseo de la Chopera, 14, 28045 Madrid)

Arch of Neo - MMST

‘AON’ is an audiovisual work that is a live performance and a series of short videos. The form of the piece moves between abstract and representational imagery. Its visual thematics stem from experiments in the correlation between sound and image, explorations of dance and digital imaging, rhythmic audiovisual sequencing and off-kilter electronic music. The narrative fragments of ‘AON’ deal with the indefinitely varied forms of individuality and the surrounding societal influences. See more;

Arch of Neo is a collaborative audiovisual project. It includes audio and video works and audiovisual performance done together with the main work group; Niclas Kristiansson & Matti Pentikäinen and Petri Ruikka & Heikki Ryynänen.

The video below is the second one of the two short video works produced within the project, see the first one at the end of this post. 

Credits: Petri Ruikka (Director), Anniina Jääskeläinen (Dance/choreography), Tuukka Ylönen (Cinematographer), Petri Ruikka & Heikki Ryynänen (Projections for the shoot), Petri Ruikka (Edit&Postproduction), Niclas Kristiansson & Matti Pentikäinen (Music)

Arch of Neo "New Under the Sun"

Credits: Petri Ruikka (Director), Anniina Jääskeläinen (Dance/choreography), Tuukka Ylönen (Cinematographer), Henrik Axlund & Petri Ruikka (Edit&Postproduction), Niclas Kristiansson & Matti Pentikäinen (Music).   

Andreas Muxel & Martin Hesselmeier

Andreas Muxel lives and works in Cologne, Germany, is an artist, designer, teacher and programmer. In his works he is interested in the mixture of digital code and physical material and the man-machine interface.

Martin Hesselmeier is focused on reactive installations with the limits of human perception. The questioning of the credibility of mediated content and the blurring of boundaries between reality and virtuality. See more;

Capacitive Body

Each custom built module consists of an electroluminescent light wire linked to a piezoelectric sensor and a microcontroller. Through its modular setup it can easily be adapted to various urban spaces. The sensors are used to measure vibrations of architectural solids in a range of low frequencies. These oscillations are triggered by surrounding ambient noise, for example traffic noise. The sensor data controls the light wires, which are tensed to a spatial net structure. According to the values of the measurement light flashes are generated. With increasing vibrations the time between flashes becomes shorter and shorter. The stability of this nervous system gets to an end where it collapses and restarts again. A dynamic light space is thereby created, which creates a visual feedback of the aural activity around the installation.

Capacitive Body 2010

Revolving Realities

An abstract object projected with different images, textures and animations becomes a mirror of changing realities. As a result, a kind of real virtuality arises to confront virtual reality. A modular light installation issuing from the sculptural object reworks the space. Cords of light pass through the 600 m2 of surrounding space, intertwining the surrounding area with the centre. Ideas are seized upon and returned; the space is transformed into a sound box that enters into a reflexive dialogue with the sculpture. The object, the space and the beholder form a communicative unit. Curated by Mike Meiré, the installation is the latest instalment in the Dornbracht Edges series featuring projects in which architecture, design and art intersect.

Credits, Martin Hesselmeier, Andreas Muxel, Carsten Goertz

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.

Balint Bolygo

Bolygó Bolygo’s work explores the similarity between the artistic and scientific mind. His work explores how both minds are motivated by the same need to discover/uncover, and turn resulting ideas into totalities.

His work explores the artistic practice through a process of invention, science and engineering. His mechanical instruments become autonomous and investigate the making process independently. The relationship between the cyclic and predictable nature of the machine and the unpredictability of the human touch conjures up both notions of random chaos and universal order. With the elimination of the artist’s touch, the natural universal forces become the creators of the artwork and the emphasis shifts towards the ‘act of creation’ being the object of beauty. The machine’s process and the resulting images become inseparable dynamics of the work. See more;

Trace

Trace is a sculptural device that alludes to scientific discoveries and pseudoscientific concepts such as phrenology, physiognomy, and craniometry. A revolving plaster cast of the artist's head is slowly deconstructed into a mathematical diagram that changes as time passes. The peculiarities of the human face that as humans, we attach so much importance to, is dematerialised into a changing drawing that embodies the differential undulations of the human anatomy. Trace questions our notion of self and how through technology we have found different visual representations for the individual. DNA profiling, retina scans and the fingerprint are all things that are conjured up by the meticulous mechanical process of the work. The topographical images are turned into a new form of three-dimensional representation that draws our attention to the space within.

SHM Lissajous

This is a drawing/projecting mechanism that creates images (Lissajous curves) using twin elliptic harmonic movement. The movement of a pendulum and its deflecting pendulum result in a fine point scratching a fine layer of carbon off a sheet of glass. With the aid of an overhead projector this process is instantaneously transferred into a light drawing. The images are the results of traces of the time and movement whilst the pendulum is pulled to equilibrium by the Earth's gravitational pull. These gravity-induced drawings hint at recognizable images found in nature that have also been formed by this universal force. The soot that is on the glass relates to Carbon being an abundant component of life and also of the Universe. The earth's gravitational pull is harnessed to produce completely unique forms that often resemble images not dissimilar from ones found in astronomy. The drawings created with this piece are have been made into light boxes.

Aurora

Aurora refers to the astrophysical phenomenon of the polar lights caused by solar winds. The piece is an installation that uses a combination of rotating and fixed mirrors and strong lasers. Due to optical laws of internal reflection and refraction, the light effects create a changing light sculpture out of the whole space, where no two moments are the same. The architectural features of the Town Hall Lobby define the unique nature and structure of the piece.

Whilst occupying real space and volume, ‘Aurora’ opens up an eternal virtual space of light within our own familiar and tangible environment. It displaces the viewer into an entirely new spatial experience that raises questions about human perceptions of form, space and time.

“I wanted to create a piece that is about transforming a familiar environment in an unexpected and non-invasive way. To compose an event with the space where the element of chance and order combine, to dislocate the viewer in a unique sensory experience.”

Thanks to Sam Collier for the tip!