Diana Thater
“Science,Fiction”
Through a combination of the temporal qualities of video and the architectural dimension of its physical installation, Thater’s work explores the artifice of its own production and its capacity to construct perception and shape the way we think about the world through its image. Natural diversity, wildlife, and conservation have been persistent themes in the artist’s work, and she has dedicated herself to an examination of the varied kinds of relationships humans have constructed with animals. While her in-depth studies of ecosystems and animal behavior propose observation as a kind of understanding in itself, her ethical position is implicit in the work, which, while subtly political, provides views of the sublime in all its incarnations—stunning, beautiful, and simultaneously terrifying.
P-06 ATELIER & JOÃO LUÍS CARRILHO DA GRAÇA
pavilion of knowledge
Eirik Brandal
Waldian
Waldian is a standalone, wall hanging sound and light fixture capable of playing a near infinite amount of melodic permutations over a predetermined musical scale, complemented by emerging light patterns from twelve separate LEDs spread across the sculpture. In technical terms, Waldian contains two oscillators, an envelope generator and a voltage controlled amplifier, all controlled by impulses from a network of logic gates akin to those of early computers. These impulses are essentially the nerves in the electronic ecosystem, deciding over pitch and amplitude changes as well as creating bursts of light to highlight the entrances of each note. Finally, there is a tube overdrive stage that creates harmonic and subharmonics based on how far away the two oscillators are from each other in frequency. Most parameters are customizable, such as the aforementioned pitch, amplitude and overdrive, but the responsiveness and envelope of the light bursts can also be adjusted, directly affecting the appearance of the light patterns.
Jacopo Godani
HIGH BREED
Dans High Breed, Jacopo Godani présente une création élémentaire dont la chorégraphie – abstraite et esthétique pure – sert de principal moyen d’expression artistique. Avec une intensité physique riche en action et en exactitude, virtuellement mathématique dans sa précision, Godani introduit la quintessence de l’identité de l’entreprise.
yin xiuzhen
Инь Сючжэн
尹秀珍
ASIF KHAN
MegaFacces
Valentin Spiess di iart, spiega come funziona il sistema. «Dietro il telone ci sono più di 10mila cilindri telescopici estensibili, sormontati da una sfera con il LED colorato. Quando la persona da ritrarre entra nel gabbiotto per il selfie, vengono scattate 5 immagini che un computer assembla in un rendering 3D. Una volta terminato il disegno, le informazioni vengono inviate al sistema che regola il posizionamento dei cilindri telescopici che si mettono nella posizione giusta per far apparire il viso prescelto». Il sistema è stato costruito in modo da poter essere riutilizzato. Come una specie di Mount Rushmore mobile e per tutti.
CLAUDIO PARMIGGIANI
Клаудио Пармиджани
LEYRE VALIENTE
Лэйр Вальенте
Chimaera
Интересную фэшн-коллекцию, под интригующем названием CHIMAERA (Химера), представила к весенне-летнему сезону 2013 года дизайнер и модельер из Испании Лэйр Вальенте (Leyre Valiente). Серия ее платьев символизирует метафору жизненного пути, который начинается с состояния плода, простого и чистого в своей основе. Живой организм постепенно наращивает внешние оболочки, чтобы защитить себя от внешних воздействий и травм, и фигура модели обрастает сложными защитными элементами, напоминающую декоративную броню. В результате мы видим выразительные силуэты и формы, в которых анатомия человека органично переплелась с эстетикой эпохи модерна и эволюционными парадоксами животного мира.
JF Malouin
Les trois Grâces
file festival
“Les Trois Grâces” is a presence and corporeality simulation in virtual reality. Exposing the underlying power struggle implied within touch, this piece explores the trespassing of bodily frontiers and territoriality. As a sculpture, its object is not matter, but our relationship to the other.
It offers a troubling experience of intimate proportions.
Nonotak
Versus
Elaborated by the French/Japanese duo Nonotak, ‘VERSUS’ is an immersive A/V experience that questions the relationship between 360° image and sound. The viewer finds himself submerged, at the centre of a perfectly geometric environment that constantly redefines space by breaking distances between projection, audience and screen. The work gives the illusion of a new type of architecture, a world created from distortions that shatter boundaries, and that brings the idea of infinity.
Rebelo de Andrade
House 3000
this bright red house has been designed to stand out amid the vast, uniform landscape of southern portugal. completed by lisbon-based firm rebelo de andrade, ‘house 3000’ is located on a 500 hectare plot populated with scores of cork trees — a constant terrain that, as architect luís rebelo de andrade found when first visiting the site, is particularly difficult to navigate.
architecture
Filip Custic
(ego hiperrealista) + (juguete del viento) =
Custic combines models, costumes and various other objects that inspire him, using them to give form to abstract concepts surrounding humanity and its evolution. Spirituality, religion, relationships and sexuality are all explored through a lens preoccupied with fragmentation, pataphysics, optical balance effects and technological art.
annemie fontana
Fountain Sirius
PETER KOGLER
彼得·科格勒
Liquid
Peter Kogler`s works belong to the developing “post medial paintings” (Peter Weibl) in the 80`s. Moulded by the new media, these took on the complex form of installations. One of the main questions was the mental relationship between virtual and real space, as well as the perceptive possibilities of connection. The work, which reminds you of chaotic structures and Baroque dimensions, is based on the circularly moment of repetition, that consciously corresponds to the position of kunst Meran (pedestrian zone).
MAIKO TAKEDA
De creaties van Maiko Takeda lijken surrealistische wezens uit een fantastische droomwereld. De hoofddeksels van haar nieuwste creatie, ‘Atmospheric Reentry’, zijn opwindend anders, delicaat en futuristisch. De in Tokio geboren afgestudeerde van Central Saint Martins en het Royal College of Art, probeert ‘surreële, subtiele drama’s te creëren rond de persoon die een stuk draagt en de mensen in zijn buurt’.
DOUG FOSTER
the psychotron installation
Now one of Doug’s stunning installations is available in edition format. The Psychotron Framed – a video piece based on the 12-petal lotus flower symbolising eastern spirituality’s heart chakra – has been harnessed into a purpose-built viewer that can hang on a wall or stand freely on a flat surface. The piece is currently only available by collection from The Outsiders London gallery. Order now and Doug will assemble the materials in two weeks.“For centuries, circular figures containing symmetrical patterns have been used as a tool for meditation,” says Doug of his original Psychotron on display at Bedlam. “The mandala, the yantra and visualisations of the various chakras, all conform to radial design principles that have been refined throughout the ages. Now those principles have been ruthlessly plundered for the creation of The Psychotron.
