Carla Gannis
Garden of Emoji Delights
FILE SAO PAULO 2015
The Garden of Earthly Delights Triptych is one of the most famous works by the Dutch painter Hyeronimus Bosch. It dates back to the end of the fifteenth century and is kept in the Prado Museum in Madrid. The Triptych of the Garden of Emoji Delights is the version created by the contemporary artist Carla Gannis, in which space is invaded by small icons that today – thanks to the WhatsApp effect – are becoming an increasingly significant component of our language. It is not the first time that artists have played with emojis, perhaps inserting them in the real world or using them as neo-hieroglyphic fragments for cinematic riddles.
ECAL
Automač
Fantastic Smartphones
Built around a simple mechanism, Tinder reduces the act of dating to a single swipe. This slide of the finger to the right or the left is enough to show our interest or disinterest in a profile that comes up. Although high-stakes, even when performed repeatedly, this movement can become purely mechanical and lose its meaning. As its name indicates, Automač is a device that enables us to automatically match with a maximum number of potential partners on Tinder. The automaton consists of a smartphone holder, a camera that observes the screen and a rotating mechanism to swipe on the smartphone screen. Via a screen interface, the user has the possibility to choose selection criteria. By automating this process and delegating it to a machine, Automač positions itself as an optimal machine to have a maximum amount of matches in a minimum amount of time.
FEEDTANK
Full Body Games
file festival
Full Body Games is an interactive installation that allows users to engage in an unencumbered, full body gaming experience. The Full Body Games system projects the user’s silhouette in front of them in relation to simple graphic game objects with which they can interact. The user can select from four different games: Color Shooter, Two Touch, Duck and Jump, and Sorter. All games were designed to be quick, simple, intuitive and encourage dramatic movement.
ENESS
Modern Guru
Modern Guru is a translucent ovoid with four huge digital eyes, floating above a ceremonial ring of LEDs. From his mouth flows a ream of absurdist messages, and in a statement about the true nature of lived experience, a new message is delivered when visitors take a photo of Modern Guru – a missive produced only for those who seek to photograph life rather than live the moment. This immersive new media art installation uses the intersection of art and technology to explore modern paths to happiness through unique interactions with characters along a mystical journey of discovery. Visitors are asked to commit to the path – a tight and winding trail with subtle points of connection along the way – a glowing landscape of oversized, whimsical mountains that chant incantations and blink innocently from digital eyes.
Having communed with the Guru, visitors then weave their way back through this warped and strange world full of illusions and delusions, perceptions and deceptions, all the while bathing in luminescent light; embracing big, gentle forms; and following their own path up the pink tongue staircase to meet the one who oversees the whole fantastic dominion, the Sun God.
KUNIHIKO MORINAGA
Anrealage
Kunihiko Morinaga, la directora creativa de la marca japonesa de culto Anrealage, siente algo por las sensaciones y las ilusiones ópticas. Su show debut en París la temporada pasada fue sobre luces y sombras. Hoy, su salida de segundo año se centró en la luz y la oscuridad. O, mejor, en las impresiones que obtiene al parpadear o proyectar luz en tono negro. Las siluetas escultóricas de Anrealage se cortaron en una tela negra especial que revelaba una textura impresa solo bajo luces ultravioleta, o tenían círculos blancos perforados con agujas, como la proyección de un foco, salpicados en el frente. Para enfatizar la profundidad de tal oscuridad, todo era negro, incluidos los rostros de las modelos, un trazo fuerte que hacía las cosas un poco demasiado dramáticas.
Local Androids
Like living organisms
“Like living organisms” is an interactive skin-dress that expresses excitement like between two people when they first meet. Our work breathes; it shows a pulse through its veins on the hips and inflates/deflates the shoulder balloons. When approached it responds by increasing its pulse rate through the veins as if it’s excited. It’s now up to the visitor to respond to this excitement. Upon contact the suit will show it’s vulnerable side by deflating the shoulder balloons.
annemie fontana
Fountain Sirius
Batsheva Dance Company
Tabula Rasa
Ohad Naharin
Arvo Pärt: Tabula Rasa
photo Gadi Dagon
Hailed as one of the world’s preeminent contemporary choreographers, Ohad Naharin assumed the role of Artistic Director in 1990, and propelled the company into a new era with his adventurous curatorial vision and distinctive choreographic voice. Naharin is also the originator of the innovative movement language, Gaga, which has enriched his extraordinary movement invention, revolutionized the company’s training, and emerged as a growing international force in the larger field of movement practices for both dancers and non-dancers.
DOUG AITKEN
ダグエイケン
道格·艾特肯
Return to the Real
‘Return to the Real’ is Aitken’s device to make us think about our devices, the experiential subletting to Instagram, the squeal and squawk of social media. ‘It’s a counterpoint to that world of de-materiality and speed,’ he says, ‘and about seeking something which is unique or being in a place which is physical and tactile or a moment which is unrepeatable.’
AMBER ISABEL
Dutch photographer Amber Isabel has such a creative imagination that all you could do is stare with awe at her portfolio. Her mixed media photography showcases her true talents and hypnotizes you as you strain your eyebrows, attempting to understand her pictures. Be it either the dark shadow figures or the white dotted veils that cover the faces of these melancholic characters, each picture tells a story filled with emotion. If Amber Isabel is able to convey strong messages through these pictures, one could only wonder what the rest of her portfolio holds.
DEMELZA HILL
Faberge Egg
KARINA SMIGLA-BOBINSKI
KALEIDOSCOPE
Karina Smigla-Bobinski kreiert interaktive Apparate, die erstaunliche visuelle Effekte erzeugen. Bei der Verwendung dieser Objekte gelangt man immer an den Punkt, an dem Wahrnehmungsprozesse, die normalerweise völlig im Unterbewusstsein ablaufen, an die Oberfläche treten und greifbar werden und so faszinierende Erlebnisse ermöglichen. KALEIDOSKOP fungiert als sehr großer und komplett begehbarer Leuchtkasten. Auf seiner Oberfläche schweben Tinten in Cyan, Magenta und Gelb zwischen mehreren Lagen PVC-Folie. Diese Farben Cyan, Magenta und Yellow (CMY) werden vollständig von unserem Gehirn erzeugt. Der Start erfolgt also „virtuell“.
NADA PRLJA
Peace Wall
GEOFFREY COTTENCEAU & ROMAIN ROUSSET
Benichon
ANNA GILLESPIE
Анна Гиллеспи
آنا غيليسبي
アンナ・ガレスピー
