SpY
DATA
In “DATA”, SpY offers a reflection on the rapid and widespread inclusion of algorithms in numerous aspects of our lives. In this audio-visual work, digital abstraction is used to explore and interpret how predictive tools operated through algorithms and artificial intelligence are highly beneficial in terms of aspects such as communication, research and medicine, but can also lead us to lose some of our freedoms if they are not used ethically.
Through this immersive audio-visual format, SpY explores new tools such as the holographic fabrics used to give the graphics an amazing sense of weightlessness. A 15-metre high screen made from this fabric was installed in one of Madrid’s smallest streets between the walls of the buildings.
JOHN TRASHKOWSKY
Swing a little lifetime
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TERMINALBEACH
The Heart Chamber Orchestra
File Festival – Hipersonica
In the TERMINALBEACH Heart Chamber Orchestra (made up of artists Erich Berger and Peter Vatava), twelve musicians played pieces from the heartbeat, recorded by an electrocardiogram from data sent by sensors placed on their bodies. As the live score created in real time from the physical and emotional states of the musicians, their beats further influenced the resulting musical composition. In this way, the biological feedback loop becomes a self-generating, organic and evolving system, which creates a musical score and a show that adopts the form of open or network art, in which chance and interdependence, thus how emotional changes and computational reasoning create a biological and psychological dynamic at the same time.
geoffrey mann
Cross-fire cutlery detail
The focus of the Past, Present & Future Craft practice commission was to examine the intangible characteristic of the spoken word and investigate the unseen affect of sound upon its inhabited environment.The project centralizes around the context of a domestic argument. In this case the event samples an audio excerpt from the 1999 Sam Mendes Film ‘American Beauty’. The slow building dialogue between the three central characters family dinner climaxes with a sound clash of emotions. The cross-fire of the argument traverses the dinning table but where previously the inanimate everyday objects such as plates, cutlery, teapot etc were unable to express their character, the intensity of the conversation deforms their once static existence into objects of unseen familiarity.The presented sound artifacts each encapsulate a momentary emotion of the argument.
Geumhyung Jeong
Homemade RC Toy
Her new installation centers on five human-scale, remote-control sculptures that she cobbled together from metal brackets, batteries, wires, dental study props, and disassembled mannequins. Surrounding them are stepped plinths whose bright colors echo the robot sculptures’ wiring. The plinths display fetishistic agglomerations of spare parts: wheels, cables, gutted medical practice torsos, home repair parts. In their default state, the sculptures are frozen, comatose, even if all that wiring and machinery certainly suggests movement. The installation is the setting for a series of live interactions between the artist and her uncanny others.
MICHAEL SCHMIDT AND FRANCIS BITONTI
Articulated 3D-Printed Gown
Michael Schmidt and Francis Bitonti revealed their fully 3d printed gown modeled by Dita Von Teese.
The fully articulated gown based on the Fibonacci sequence was designed by Michael Schmidt and 3D modeled by architect Francis Bitonti to be 3D printed in Nylon by Shapeways. The gown was assembled from 17 pieces, dyed black, lacquered and adorned with over 13,000 Swarovski crystals to create a sensual flowing form.Thousands of unique components were 3D printed in a flowing mesh designed exactly to fit Ditta’s body. This represents the possibility to 3D print complex, customized fabric like garments designed exactly to meet a specific person or need.
Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker
アンヌ·テレサ·ドゥ·ケースマイケル
АННЫ ТЕРЕЗЫ ДЕ КЕЕРСМАКЕР
Drumming Live
In 1998, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker created “Drumming” for the dancers of her company “Rosas”. This intense and jubilant piece is set to haunting music by Steve Reich, a pioneer of minimalist music. On stage, nine dancers perform an exhausting choreography with swirling rhythms that reveal a deep and vital energy. Today, almost twenty years later, it is the turn of the Paris Opera Ballet’s dancers to adopt it. For the occasion, the choreographer talks to us about this extreme piece.
Jim Chen-Hsiang Hu
Hu atualmente aplica suas técnicas ao reino da moda, mas não necessariamente vê a tecelagem em 3D como algo restrito a esse campo. Ele diz: “Poderia ter um futuro possivelmente menos associado à moda … seria este o ponto de partida da arquitetura superleve?” Apropriadamente, o mais novo empreendimento de Hu é chamado de One More Dimension, como ele disse à 1 Granary Magazine em uma entrevista: “Eu queria introduzir mais um ângulo ou dimensão no design.” Ele explicou: “Visualmente, isso aparece como uma terceira dimensão nas roupas”. As peças de Hu refletem essa diversidade de material, textura e densidade. Certos artigos são mais parecidos com vestidos tradicionais, exceto por uma ou duas esculturas de tecido saliente, enquanto outros usam a técnica 3D para criar grandes faixas de tecido em malha, simulando golas de capuz exageradas ou delicadas, máscaras faciais e véus de renda. Essas peças de tecido vermelho são um jogo delicado e deliberado, alternando entre semissólido e vazio, tecido e rede, ao mesmo tempo que confunde os limites entre a superfície, a frente e o verso.
ADAM FRELIN
WHITE LINE
Parker Fitzgerald and Riley Messina
Overgrowth
Inspired by a pursuit of beauty, Riley combines classically thoughtful botanical designs with Parker’s carefully considered film images in an expression of the multifaceted relationship between humankind and nature. The two artists contrast anonymous portraiture with sweeping landscapes in an attempt to capture both the malleable and untamed aspects of the natural world.
STUDIO THEGREENEYL
Apfel
»Apfel« ist ein Spiel ohne Regeln. Es beginnt mit einer Wand, die überall mit einer signalroten Klebefolie bedeckt ist. Die Folie besteht aus Tausenden von kreisförmigen Aufklebern, die in einem schmalen Raster vorgeschnitten sind und darauf warten, von den Besuchern abgezogen und in eine neue Reihenfolge gebracht zu werden. Die Aufkleber und ihr weißes Negativ an der Wand bilden sich ähnlich wie binär codierte Pixel, Ornamente, Nachrichten und Bilder – an der ursprünglichen Wand und weit darüber hinaus: Sie bewegen sich in angrenzende Räume, auf Gesichter und verlassen sogar die Stadt.
SHU LEA CHEANG
Avatar do artista
“Para quem não a conhece, Shu Lea Cheang é uma figura da net art e do movimento ciberfeminista que surgiu na década de 1990. Na época, morando em Nova York, ela também era membro ativo do coletivo de vídeo ativista Paper Tiger Television (assim como a cineasta francesa Nathalie Magnan). Desde então, o trabalho de Cheang tem lidado com “questões que incluem sexo, futuro, gênero, ecologia, dinheiro, mídia e comida [para] englobar filme, instalação, trabalho online, processos sociais e intervenção direta nos sistemas sociopolítico, técnico e estético, e os imaginários que os compõem ”. Matthew Fuller
NISSAN DESIGN CREATIVE STUDIOS
blue forest
Didier Faustino
Home suit home
La pratique architecturale et artistique de Didier Faustino se définit avant tout par la pluralité des approches qui expérimentent les rapports complexes d’interaction liant le corps à l’espace.
CERITH WYN EVANS
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JeeYoung Lee
La Vie En Rose II
“There is a saying that life is a thorny path. The title of the work, La Vie En Rose, reveals the situation paradoxically. Life doesn’t always go as planned. Going forward in life can be a struggle comparable to walking through impenetrable brambles in a dark forest. Here, both big and small difficulties we face on our journey are evoked by the thorns growing out of the walls. These elements also recall the my childhood memories in the countryside, picking up berries and getting pricked by their thorns while the character in the work represents our own selves, as we must overcome these obstacles.
In this second version of La Vie en Rose, I wanted to express a change in the mind of the main character.” JeeYoung Lee
Michiko Tsuda
YOU WOULD COME BACK THERE TO SEE ME AGAIN THE FOLLOWING DAY
This installation utilizes mirrors and video cameras combined with various types of frame, a motif often discussed in the context of the history of painting and film. The title is a typical English sentence in free indirect speech (by what is normally a third-person subject). With the object of “there” and “following day” varying with the context, this title reflects the experience of viewers, whose relationship to their image and to the space raises questions about the meaning of “here” and “now.”
gilber franco
Extended Project
