Rodney Graham
Allegory of Folly
NAM JUNE PAIK
백남준
白南準
Нам Джун Пайк
نام جون بايك
נאם ג’ון פייק
Electronic Super Highway
Alisa Andrasek
This research used stigmergy behaviour, another example of agency-based systems, which could be programmed to be highly adaptive to local data. What is most intriguing and attractive in this case, is contrasting organic aesthetics emerging from algorithms like stigmergy, with its plant like formations, and the hyper-rationalisation and genericity of voxelised geometry. Different resolutions were introduced in the facade panels, by using an octree algorithm. The result is a building skin that from afar looks like a plant, but in close up has almost Minecraft-like aesthetics coming from a multi-resolution voxel field. Organic stigmergy (stígma + ergon) partly plays a role in the distribution of data through the facade field, rather than generating geometry. It leaves its imprint in the density of geometry
Robert Rauschenberg
Mud Muse
One of the show’s highlights is Mud Muse (1968-71), which is 1,000 gallons of bubbling Bentonite clay in a 12ft by 9ft (365cm x 274cm) tank.The work is also something of a technical feat in that it is listening to itself. The mud’s bubbles and spurts are measured by microphones, which in turn trigger a complex series of pumps to release more air and create more bubbling.
Damien Jalet and Kohei Nawa
Vessel
les corps se rassemblent alors pour former les vaisseaux de naissance. Avec un mélange de jambes et de bras, la forme des danseurs crée des roches comme des entités vaginales, d’où émergent de nouvelles créatures. C’est une scène de prison. Il est intelligent et vient clairement d’esprits exceptionnellement créatifs.
CO-DE-IT + MIRCO BIANCHINI + ALESSANDRO ZOMPARELLI
Fovea’s Secret Garden
SALVADOR DALI
سلفادور دالي
萨尔瓦多·达利
סלבדור דאלי
サルバドール·ダリ
살바도르 달리
Сальвадор Дали
Vis a vis de Gala
Ilkka Halso
Museum of Nature
ronan + erwan bouroullec
ロナン＆エルワン·ブルレック
РОНАН И ЭРВАН БУРУЛЛЕК
БУРУЛЛЕК БРАТЬЯ
17 screens
French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have been working together for over 20 years now. Their interpretive approach to design channels the discussion away from notions of aesthetics or technology towards a more conceptual setting. Drawing primarily on organic phenomena, they produce furniture and design elements that converge in intricate formations, like a sophisticated second nature that undermines the commonplace hierarchies of objects and space through units that are essentially moveable.
MIGUEL CHEVALIER
Pixel Nero Chiaro
“L’Origine du Monde” è un’installazione interattiva proiettata a terra (12 mx 7,50 m) ispirata alla biologia, ai microrganismi e agli automi cellulari. L’artista fonde le cellule, gli elementi base della vita con i pixel, gli elementi base dell’artificiale “vita”. Questi universi fluidi reagiscono visivamente in base ai movimenti dei visitatori. Le interruzioni nella traiettoria di queste cellule vengono create sotto i loro piedi. Le forme fluttuanti creano impressionanti illusioni ottiche.”
JULIAN KING ARCHITECT
a room for london
EUNJOO SHIN
Vocal Trio
FILE FESTIVAL
“Vocal Trio,” which consists of three musical instruments, transforms the voice of a singer or a speaker received through a mike into a sound of each musical instrument while maintaining the same rhythm and musical scale. A pipe horn, which looks like a long trumpet or pipe, makes a deep and low-tone horn sound. A water bell, which looks like a water drop, makes a clear bell-sound, and a leaf flute, which looks like a leaf, makes a reed pipe sound. The spectator’s voice is transformed into the sound of a musical instrument by means of a microcontroller chip. The microcontroller chip of each musical instrument makes a sampling of his or her voice’s frequency. A sampling of the voice made through frequency data is sent to midi chips, which transform it into the sound of a particular musical instrument and the sound is released through the speakers.
Studio Roosegaarde
SPARK
Organic fireworks SPARK illuminates the city as a new sustainable celebration. Artist Daan Roosegaarde became inspired by the magical light of fireflies, and the desire to update the ritual of fireworks. The result is SPARK, a poetic performance of thousands of biodegradable light sparks which organically float through the air. SPARK inspires visitors to wonder and reflect.
ALOIS KRONSCHLAEGER
habitat
GUNTHER VON HAGENS
veins
princemio and onformative
Pathfinder
Created by Princemio in collaboration with onformative and presented at Choreographic Coding laboratory in Frankfurt 2013, the Pathfinder project was created with aim to contribute to the creative processes of choreographic development. To achieve this algorithms have been developed to stimulate the dancers and to create visual inspirations. By doing this, the software becomes its own creative building block, questioning the classical master slave paradigm.
Teamlab
Moss Garden of Resonating Microcosms
チームラボは色の概念を更新することを試みている。Ovoidは「固形化された光の色」と名付けられた新しい概念の色、61色で変化していく。コケ植物は、陸上にはまだ生物のいない、岩と砂ばかりの世界に現れた、はじめての陸上生物だと言われている。コケ植物やシダ植物が現れて森ができたことにより、陸上にさまざまな動物も住めるようになっていった。生物は、細胞内部における水が欠かせないため、体の水分が足りなくなると死んでしまう。これに対し、コケ植物は、周囲の湿度の変化により細胞内の含水率が変動する変水性という特殊な性質から脱水耐性を持ち、乾燥状態で長期間死なず、水が与えられれば生命活動を再開する。コケは、変水性であるため、空気が乾燥している時と、雨や靄があるなど濡れている時で、色も姿形も大きく変化する。苔の間に生活しているクマムシも、周囲が乾燥すると、無代謝の休眠状態である乾眠状態になり、活動を停止するが、水が与えられると復活し活動を開始する。生命活動はないが死んだわけでもないクマムシのこの状態は，「生」でも「死」でもない第三の生命状態としてクリプトビオシス（cryptobiosis「隠された生命活動」の意）と呼ばれる。生命とは一体何なのかと考えさせられる。
ALESSANDRO MENDINI
Redesign Thonet Studio Alchimia
