JAMES TAYLOR
Kalbitor
Cosentino and Benjamin Hubert
Raytrace
“È il sogno di un designer. Il processo è altamente tecnologico ma anche abbastanza artigianale; è una divisione intrigante. E parte di questo processo consiste nel rimuovere ogni traccia di acqua dal materiale usando un calore e una pressione incredibili. L’idea dell’installazione era di reintrodurre l’acqua, o almeno i giochi di luce che si ottengono dall’acqua, l’effetto della luce che gioca su un ponte su un fiume. È qualcosa che cattura sempre l’immaginazione.’ Raggiungere questo effetto ha richiesto tempo, fatica e trucchi algoritmici. “Volevamo ottenere il massimo effetto dalla cosa più piccola”, afferma Hubert. “Inizialmente abbiamo provato a usare un sottile strato di acqua in movimento sul vetro, ma ci è sembrato troppo letterale. Poi abbiamo pensato al modo in cui una sfera di vetro può diffondere la luce.’
Vangelis
COSMOS
Cosmos is a collection of Vangelis’ early-’70s space music. It is pure and graceful with no frills. Vangelis has an aggressive style on the synth, and these compositions are pure Berlin-school electronica, with cosmic and dynamic atmospheres. This will appeal to fans of Ron Boots, Klaus Schulze, Edgar Froese, and Ian Boddy.
MARGA WEIMANS
Not Just a Label
YURI ANCARANI
DA VINCI
“Da Vinci”: a name evocative of masterpieces in the history of art, but also a remotely manipulated medical robot allowing surgeons to perform operations. Yuri Ancarani, filmmaker and artist, with this film gives us access to the interior of a human body, in shades of blue evoking the “grotta azzura”, a mythical maritime cave in Capri. Here is observed the dance of the machines, a sign not of a dehumanized environment, but on the contrary of a human intelligence at work.
JORIS LAARMAN
Йорис Лаарман
LIZZIE BUCKMASTER
Dove pool
JOSCHI HERCZEG AND DANIELE KAEHR
Explosion
In these photographs by Joschi Herczeg and Daniele Kaehr, the artistic team captures a single, exciting moment in a mundane, domestic surrounding. For this series Explosion, the team synchronized a camera with a custom-built detonator to snap a photo at the exact moment of explosion. The results are these mysterious blobs of light within domestic settings—a cloud hovering over an everyday lamp, a ghostly shape emerging from underneath a doorframe.
RYOJI IKEDA
池田亮司
이케다 료지
Редзи Икеда
Transfinite
test pattern [n˚2] presents flickering black and white imagery that floats and convulses in darkness on two screens, one on the floor and another floor to ceiling, in time with a stark and powerful, highly synchronised soundtrack. Through a real–time computer programme, Ikeda’s audio signal patterns are converted into tightly synchronised barcode patterns on the screens. Viewers are literally immersed in the work, and the velocity of the moving images is ultra–fast, some hundreds of frames per second, providing a totally immersive and powerful experience. The work provides a performance test for the audio and visual devices, as well as a response test for the audience’s perceptions.
THOMAS ZIPP
POLYMORPHOUS ORATORY
Jean-François Brun, Dominique Pasqualini and Philippe Thomas
INFORMATION FICTION PUBLICITÉ (IFP)
De temps à autre
Le MAC/VAL donne à son tour un éclairage inédit sur IFP, en parfaite association avec les artistes, Jean-François Brun et Dominique Pasqualini et en misant sur une très forte documentation. Si l’exposition ne présente pas de nouvelles pièces – et pour cause, les activités de l’agence cessent en 1994 –, elle associe volontairement les deux protagonistes à son élaboration même, avec la volonté de réactiver, réactualiser, voire même «amplifier» certaines œuvres emblématiques comme les images de ciels nuageux, les bâches, les caissons lumineux ou autres plots, en plaçant le visiteur au centre du processus.
Sam Twidale & Marija Avramovic
Sunshowers
(AI) infinite simulations
FILE FESTIVAL SP 2019
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‘Sunshowers’ is the third in our series of real-time animation artworks. It is inspired by the opening chapter of Akira Kurosawa’s film Dreams which follows a young boy as he explores a forest and stumbles across a fox wedding (Kitsune no Yomeiri). Our piece explores ideas of animism and techno-animism by assigning life in the form of artificial intelligence to all of the objects, both natural and man-made, within the virtual world. The piece unfolds in real time with the characters themselves deciding which paths they will follow.
Katharina Fritsch
Zwei Männer / Two Men
Katharina Fritsch ist eine zeitgenössische deutsche Bildhauerin. Ihre Arbeit mischt Realität mit Vorstellungskraft, um surreale Bilder zu schaffen, die durch ihre großformatigen monochromatischen Skulpturen von Tieren, Menschen und Objekten Realität und Fantasie zusammenziehen. Von ihrer hellen Palette hat sie bemerkt, dass Farbe „es ausgleicht, es abstrakt macht – wie ein visuelles Zeichen, eine Ikone. Das ist wichtig: Meine Arbeit befindet sich immer an der Grenze zwischen einer detaillierten Skulptur und einem Schild. “ Fritschs Werk wird oft als unheimlich beschrieben. Es enthält leichte Repräsentationsverschiebungen, die die Wahrnehmung der Realität durch den Betrachter verändern und die gefälschte Nachahmung des Lebens durch das Werk hervorheben.
HACKENBROICH ARCHITEKTEN
Sitscape
Jennifer Townley
Inverta
A circular axle is able to rotate by the use of 36 universal joints hanging from perspex rods and transmitting their rotary motion onto the next. In between the joints, 36 stainless steel objects are attached that rotate at the same speed as the axle. One of the objects has a slightly thinner body, making room for two integrated timing pulleys and thin cogged belts that connect it with the drive mechanism situated on the upper circular frame. The objects are made from thin sheet material and are carefully balanced by placing several counterweights inside their hollow bodies and by perforating their tails, reducing the amount of material furthest away from the axle. During the entire revolution their centre of gravity perfectly aligns with the position of the axle so that a stable rotation is ensured.
alain resnais
آلان رينيه
阿兰·雷奈
אלן רנה
アラン·レネ
알랭 레네
АЛЕН РЕНЕ
Smoking/No Smoking
Smoking/No Smoking
“As “Smoking / No Smoking” opens its range of options, the viewer is faced with the question of choice. Each segment is interrupted by a card with the inscription: “Or else …”.
Thereafter, the film starts to show what would have happened if one character had chosen this path, and not another.
The second surprise comes from, suddenly, the viewer realizing (whoever embarks on the trip, of course) that he spent almost five hours with his eyes glued to the screen, seeing and living a theater of possible destinations that invariably end five years later, in the cemetery behind the local church”.INÁCIO ARAUJO
Oleg Soroko
Procedural cloth V//002
“I’m continuing experiments with procedurally generated structures. This time I’m implementing algorithm assembled in Houdini over female body. All meshes generated in Houdini. Then uploaded to sketchfab. All images made from sketchfab model. You can check it in 3d in any browser by the link in my profile.” Oleg Soroko
De Ceulaer Maarten
Mutation Series – Sofa
« I try to base my designs on a strong, simple and pure concept. I want to surprise, to make people smile in a very subtle way. I try to question what I see around me, and translate that in an object. I think poetry, humour and communication of ideas are very important aspects of my designs, but at the same time I want to make useful and functional objects with that way of thinking. Conceptual as they may start, my designs have to be more then just ideas. A good concept in a good product is what I try to achieve. » De Ceulaer Maarten
