source: warpnet

Construit sur les fondations de la bande originale de l’exposition, l’objet consistera en un pressage vinyle 180g designé par Matt Pyke (d’Universal Everything), sérigraphié sur un côté et incluant un des quatre posters avec des images de l’exposition. Écoutez un extrait ci-dessous. ‘Universal Everything & You’ est disponible exclusivement sur Bleep et le magasin de Media Space.

L’exposition ‘Universal Everything & You – Drawing In Motion’ comprend deux parties : 1000 Hands et Presence.

1000 Hands est créée autour de contributions du public via une application smartphone. Dans l’espace physique, cela prend la forme d’une projection circulaire sur des écrans montrant les visuels générés par les utilisateurs.

Presence est une installation vidéo circulaire à quatre écrans montrant des formes abstraites qui se déplacent en révélant une présence humaine. Ces formes abstraites grandeur nature ont été créées par des captures de mouvements de performances des danseurs du LA Dance Project de Benjamin Millepied. Les projections montrent des danseurs dans un nombre croissant de ‘costumes’ digitaux, par exemple des plumes rayonnantes.

La bande-son évolutive de Simon Pyke s’amplifie et s’estompe en lien avec les travaux se déplaçant de concert sur l’écran, découvrez-en un avant-goût ci-dessous. Pour plus d’info sur l’exposition, en place jusqu’en février 2014, rendez-vous sur le site du Science Museum.
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source: sciencemuseumorguk

Universal Everything & You is a new digital installation of two artworks by art and design collective Universal Everything specially commissioned for the Virgin Media Studio.

The first work, 1000 Hands is created by contributions from the public through a smart phone app. In the gallery space it takes the form of a circular projection onto multiple screens, with each one showing an individual artwork generated by app users.

Presence, the second work, is a collaboration with the LA Dance Project and has been created by using motion captured performances of dancers which will be played back with evolving digital ‘costumes’.

Universal Everything, founded in 2004 by Matt Pyke (b.1975) are a UK based digital art and design collective who work with a global network of designers, artists, musicians, producers and programmers. For Universal Everything & You Matt Pyke has collaborated with composer Simon Pyke, Benjamin Millepied’s LA Dance Project and architect Irene Shamma.

The studio’s focus is to create digital artworks which explore anthropomorphism, making use of new technologies such as 3D printing, touch screens, motion capture and large format video.

Past artworks by Universal Everything have been exhibited at MOMA, New York, V&A London, Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing, Garage Centre for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, and La Gaite Lyrique, Paris.

Matt Pyke says, ‘Our approach stems from our background and ongoing study of drawing, painting and sculpture. The exploration of a living presence is central to the studio’s practice, and through working with anthropomorphism, we strive to create deeper empathetic connections with the viewer. In this exhibition, we invite the visitor to create magical contributions, bringing warmth, emotion and humanity to generative forms.’
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source: universaleverything

Universal Everything is a UK-based digital art practice and design studio
founded by Matt Pyke in 2004. Their distinctive visual approach and pop-sensibility
has made them a studio much sought after both by leading institutions in the
art world and by sophisticated brands in the commercial world.

Their work explores the tension between abstract and figurative form and
the synthesis of sound and image, leading to expressive, vibrant digital
work imbued with emergent life and anthropomorphism. Central to the studio’s
practice is the exploration of human and emotional presence.

Universal Everything’s origins are in design and film direction.
This enables them to infuse their expressive animation and moving image work with
a graphic style, radical colour palettes and a fundamental fascination with form.

Their creative process is led by an experimental approach to materials,
allowing them to paint and sculpt with new technologies and formats that
include 3D printing, touch screens, motion capture and large format video
displays. Sound is intrinsic to their work, stimulating visual reactions
and amplifying emotions. Each work is accompanied by an original music composition.

Working with a range of collaborators that include programmers, architects,
musicians and choreographers, Universal Everything’s work spans a variety
of disciplines and moves fluidly from film direction and identity design
to mobile software art and site-specific video installations.