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HEATHERWICK STUDIO

Zeitz MOCCA
V&A Waterfront and Jochen Zeitz have announced a unique partnership to create a major new cultural institution that will focus on collecting, preserving, researching, and exhibiting contemporary art from Africa. An addition to Cape Town’s already prestigious V&AWaterfront, the museum is scheduled to be completed in 2016, at which point it will assume its place as the largest museum of modern art on the continent. In the meantime, the Zeitz MOCCA Pavilian presents changing exhibitions and educational programs that are available throughout the year.

LAS FALLAS

=法雅
VALENCIA

LAS FALLAS

“la cremà“

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Con la llegada del mes de Marzo las celebraciones se empiezan a suceder por lo largo y ancho del mundo entero, algunas empiezan antes, pero a partir de Marzo empiezan las celebraciones más emblemáticas… especialmente en España. El mismo mes de Marzo tiene lugar el equinocio de privamera, cuando decimos adiós al crudo invierno para recibir a las flores, el sol y el buen clima y temperatura y para celebrarlo en Valencia se celebran las fiestas mayores.Valencia es una de las principales ciudades españolas y cuenta con una importante cultura y tradición entre sus habitantes, pero no sólo la ciudad de Valencia si no toda la província entera que celebra con júbilo las Fallas. Las fallas son una celebración pagana en la que mediante la quema de los ninots se celebra y purifica el cambio de estación. Las Fallas son una fiesta de interés turístico internacional en el que las comisiones o grupos falleros contruyen sus monumentos de cartón-piedra de medidas y acabados espectaculares para proceder, la noche del 19 de Marzo, a la quema masiva de los mismos en el acto denominado “la cremà“. Cada monumento puede costar varios cientos de miles de euros y, el más caro contruído y quemado, de la história llegó a alcanzar los 600.000 euros (100 millones de las antiguas pesetas), por lo que los turistas que visitan Valencia no llegan a alcanzar el sentido de quemar tanto dinero, incluso en tiempos de crisis.

HENK STALLINGA

Kettenreaktion
Diese monumentale lichtskulptur von Henk Stallinga ist eine zusammensetzung von 144 kreisleuchten. die intensität der einzelnen lichter variiert allmählich von einem subtilen leuchten zu einem intensiven hellen licht. während eines natürlichen tages „bewegt“ sich dieser lichtkreis die kette auf und bietet dem besucher einen zeitsinn.

Max Cooper

Morphosis
Morphosis uses artificial neural networks to create morphing images of scale. The system explores how natural structures from the most tiny to the most huge, share aesthetic properties, as recognized by the trained network, and recreated in continuous flowing sequence via these connections. It’s a study of the seemingly infinite nature of space and natural physical structure, which can loop back on itself to give endless visual exploration and variation.

YUNG CHENG LIN

ЮНГ ЧЕНГ ЛИН
يونغ تشنغ لين

The photographic experiments of the Taiwanese artist Yung Cheng Lin, aka 3cm, who confronts the human anatomy to external elements such as red thread or simple fruits, imagining surreal and geometric compositions. Some intense and disturbing conceptual photographs, which question our relation to the body and organic matter.

NATHAN SAWAYA

Натан Савайя
나단 사와 야
ネイサン澤谷
ناثان صوايا
Hands

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – #FFFF00

Impression: São Paulo

#FFFF00

FILE SÃO PAULO 2025: SYNTHETIKA – Art and Technology – Video Art
Electronic Language International Festival

 

Impression: São Paulo – Taiwan

This is a silent video of colors sourced from São Paulo, which #FFFF00 have never been to, photos found on the Internet. While Impressionists painted outdoors in order to capture “the realistic scenes outside the studio,” today’s artists no longer do this — for the world now comes to us in the form of image. The work highlights this mediated reality, evoking the impression of the place with a hypnotic atmosphere.

BIO

#FFFF00 is imagining another art. Her mi̍h-kiānn swings between joke and protest against institutions. With appropriation, multiplicity and low-budget as main tools, strives to pave the way for outsiders. Graduated from National Taiwan University of Arts, has participated in group exhibitions in Asia, Europe, and America.

Ed Fornieles

Test Studies
In the 20th century, the film industry largely monopolized the representation of human feelings, whereas in the 21st century, the video game industry engages our emotions through participation. At least that is what Ed Fornieles is trying to demonstrate with his video installation Test Studies in which three-dimensional simulations of a role-playing game are juxtaposed with the emotional comments of those who experience it.
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NERI OXMAN AND MIT DEVELOP PROGRAMMA

Агуаходжа
Разнообразие форм и поведения этих предметов отражает то, как они выражены в природе, где такой материал, как хитин, может составлять как экзоскелет ракообразных, так и клеточные стенки грибов. В отличие от стали и бетона, композитные материалы, образованные из этих материалов, находятся в постоянном диалоге с окружающей средой. Некоторые артефакты демонстрируют резкие изменения формы в ответ на влагу и тепло, в то время как другие темнеют или светлеют в зависимости от времени года. Некоторые из них хрупкие и прозрачные со стекловидной текстурой, а другие остаются гибкими и жесткими, как кожа. Несмотря на появляющееся разнообразие, эти артефакты обладают одним общим качеством: в жизни их свойства опосредуются влажностью; при смерти они диссоциируют в воде и возвращаются в экосистему.

Baron Lanteigne

Tangible Data
Tangible Data esplora e si infiltra in una comunità online che sviluppa un mercato dell’arte “virtuale” per un pubblico affamato di criptovalute. Una serie di loop animati, creati e monetizzati dall’artista per soddisfare le richieste e il consumo di questa comunità, forniscono la base per il progetto più ampio, che si estende su diverse piattaforme web. In questo nuovo mercato della criptoarte, tutto sembra pronto per l’universo virtuale che mostra paradossalmente caratteristiche inerenti al mondo materiale. Mentre Internet favorisce la condivisione accelerata e i contenuti ad accesso aperto, questa comunità soggetta alla tecnologia blockchain rarefa l’immateriale per consentire ai collezionisti di rivendicare i diritti sulle opere d’arte. Questo ha l’effetto insidioso di affermare il valore monetario delle opere d’arte immateriali basate sul web. Eppure, questo lascia spazio anche a una trasparenza senza precedenti riguardo alle transazioni effettuate in questo mercato.

carsten nicolai

卡斯滕·尼古拉
קרסטן ניקולאי
カールステン·ニコライ
α (alpha) pulse

Vanessa Beecroft

瓦妮莎比克罗夫特
נסה יקרופט
ヴァネッサ·ビークロフト
바네사 비크로프트
ВАНЕССА БИКРОФТ
La Membre Fantôme

For the installation ‘le membre fantôme’, vanessa beecroft takes the visitor back to the classical language of sculpture through a conceptual perspective, leading us towards an intimate gallery room inhabited by timeless statuary. shown at the 2015 venice biennale, beecroft presents a scene that is visible only at a distance, where the viewer must look through a crevice carved out of two marble walls. Through the panels, we see fragments of a stone garden, rich in archaeological allures and echoes of early twentieth century avant-garde. the archive of memory is here a tribute in bronze – placed at the centre of the installation – to marcel duchamp’s ‘étant donnés’, a reference model for her research that combines personal memories, historical and artistic impressions and a conceptual tension.

Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Sphere Packing
“Sphere Packing” is a series of 3D-printed pieces designed to concentrate the entire musical production of a composer in a single dense multi-channel device. The size of each sphere is directly proportional to how prolific the composer was, for example the sphere for Johann Sebastian Bach has 48 cm diameter and holds 1100 loudspeakers playing simultaneously Bach’s 1100 different compositions, while the sphere for Hildegaard Von Bingen only has 11 cm diameter and 69 loudspeakers. The project presents at a glance the comparative production volume of many composers. As people are a couple metres away from a sphere they hear a quiet murmur of sounds, but as they approach and put their ear up close to individual speakers they can hone in on specific compositions. The series is inspired by American composer Charles Ives’ practice of simultaneity as a compositional tool.

Julius Popp

Bit.fall
BIT.FALL uses a unique algorithm connected to the Internet in real time to look for popular buzzwords through different newsfeed channels, which are then displayed as words through hundreds of water droplets in a curtain of water.

LORENZO NANNI

Лоренцо Нанни
ロレンツォナンニロレンツォナンニ
SYLVATICA TORTUOSA

R JUSTIN STEWART

fully empty 2
Brooklyn-based artist R Justin Stewart creates both temporary and permanent installations using colorful fleece, rope, paint and pvc caps. The structureless fleece forms are stretched and, as tension is added to the ropes, the fleece contorts, acquiring its shape as it becomes rigid. Stewart’s installations are often forms of information maps, based on data that he has collected.

Ricardo Barreto and Raquel Fukuda

Chess Auto-Creative (Self-Replicating )
‘Chess Auto-Creative (CHEAC)’, takes the form of a cube where each face corresponds to an 8 x 8 chessboard. The six chessboards can also be arranged in a line to make them easier to see. There are 16 white pieces and 16 black pieces on each of the chessboards, made up of elements such as: kings, queens, bishops, knights, castles and pawns, each of which moves according to the rules of the game. However, instead of the pieces being arranged as normal, they are first set out in patterns where each element is repeated […]Each time a piece is moved to a new position, symmetrically or asymmetrically, a new variation of proto-chess is produced – in other words, a new game emerges. All games generated in this way are, in principle, variations of proto-chess – including the official chess game itself. This means that ‘Chess Auto-Creative’ is not a variant of the official chess game, but its origin.

FILE SAO PAULO 2019

CHRISTOPHE GILBERT

كريستوف جيلبرت
크리스토프 길버트
כריסטוף גילברט
クリストフ・ギルバート

SOOMI PARK

LED Eyelash
The LED Eyelash project is brought into the world from a simple question: Why do women want larger and bigger eyes? Asian women tend to have stronger needs for bigger eyes as a standard of beauty, but relatively few of them are born with naturally big eyes. Those without big eyes can only look for alternative ways to make their eyes look prettier, i.e., larger, by using a repertoire of skills such as putting on makeup and wearing jewelry. Sometimes, the desires for bigger eyes can become almost obsessive, and many women opt for plastic surgery in order to make their dream come true. Soomi calls this, the fetish of Big Eyes. LED Eyelash is a clever product that speaks to many women’s desire for bigger eyes. It features a sensor to turn on and/or off. The sensor can perceive the movements of the pupil in the eyes and eyelids. If you wear it and move your head, LED Eyelash will flicker following your movements. It is as simple to use as wearing false eyelashes and as easy to remove as taking off a piece of jewelry.

MACOTO MURAYAMA

村山诚泰
inorganic flora
La hermosa serie Flora Inorgánica es creada por el artista japonés Macoto Murayama, el sendero no ha sido explorado a fondo en fotografías e ilustraciones botánicas. Eso ofrece una nueva forma en la presentación de las plantas, no más a partir de la variedad cómica de cerdos y visiones en ilustraciones botánicas.

PETER MOVRIN

Wearable Sculpture
He designs with meticulous attention to detail and longing for newness. Leather and wool are still his favourite materials. To get the effect of surprise he juxtaposes these two traditional materials with others, perhaps not typically associated with the textile industry. An important part of his design process is treating natural and synthetic fabrics with various methods, using heat, chemicals or other techniques, thus combining innovation and tradition.