SHAI LANGEN
Shai se define como um artista visual e busca transmitir através de seus projetos a inquietação e o vazio do prazer humano em obras conceituais que contrastam a leveza de um cenário inexistente e a agonia e fragilidade do indivíduo perante os materiais aplicados. Na maioria de suas fotografias – em grande parte feita para a indústria fashion e com o auxílio de outros fotógrafos – o artista é o seu próprio modelo e assume comportamentos hedônicos para concretizar seus trabalhos
David Cronenberg
ديفيد كروننبرغ
大卫·柯南伯格
데이비드 크로넨버그
דיוויד קרוננברג
デビッド·クローネンバーグ
ДЭВИД КРОНЕНБЕРГ
eXistenZ
cinema
David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ is a creepily downbeat near-future techie thriller, starring Jennifer Jason Leigh as Allegra Geller, the super-cool games designer, who has just unveiled “eXistenZ”, a game you plug directly into your neuro-system and play in the infinite cyberspace of your mind.
OLAFUR ELIASSON
Cascade Versailles
Une cascade haute et étroite se jette dans le bassin du Grand Canal, le long de l’axe visuel principal des Jardins de Versailles. La cascade est soutenue par une tour en treillis construite à partir de poutres en acier jaune ; des pompes transportent l’eau à travers d’épais tuyaux noirs jusqu’à une plate-forme au sommet de la tour, d’où elle s’écrase dans le canal bien en dessous. L’infrastructure visible de la cascade attire l’attention sur la nature construite à la fois de l’œuvre elle-même et des jardins environnants, tandis que le tumulte de l’eau met en évidence la présence de forces naturelles plus importantes qui jouent sur cet environnement artificiel : la force et la direction du vent, les conditions de la lumière à un moment donné.
LEON THEREMIN
ליאון טרמין
레온 테레민
Лев Термен
théremin
he invented an electronic device known as the theremin, which was a unique musical instrument that could be played without physical contact. Rather than plucking strings or pressing keys, the musician need only move their hands around antennas located on the device.The device became a popular curiosity and he proceeded to tour Europe in order to demonstrate it. In 1928, he moved to New York City in the United States, where he played a theremin in the New York Philharmonic Orchestra in 1928. In 1929, he was granted a patent for the device by the United States. He decided to give RCA the rights to manufacture and sell the theremin for a lump sum payment and a percentage of the sales.In the early 1930s, Theremin purchased a laboratory in New York that he used for experimenting with electronic musical instruments. One of the products of his lab was the Rhythmicon, which was purchased by Henry Cowell, a composer. In 1930, a group of ten “thereminists” performed at Carnegie Hall.Theremin also began researching a method to cause lights and sound to respond to the movement of dancers. His system became popular with ballet and dance clubs throughout the country.
Candeğer Furtun
Untitled
Candeğer Furtun employs traditional ceramic techniques in order to examine and portray the human body. She often works with reproductions of individual body parts, which are then combined so that an individual fragment can represent the whole, or suggest a larger scene, history, idea or space. Having studied arts and crafts both at home and abroad in the 1950s and 1960s, her eye towards her own culture is of an insider as well as an outsider.
DOUGLAS YOUNG
plastic water pistol sculpture
ALEXEY PEDAN
Алексей Педан
joseph walsh studio
Enignum Shelf XIII
“In the Enignum series of work, I have stripped wood into thin layers, manipulating and reconstructing them into free form compositions. I then shape through these layers to reveal not only the honesty of the structure but the sculpted form which is a unique collaboration of man and material. The title derives from the Latin words Enigma (‘mystery’) and Lignum (‘wood’), for me they sum up the series: the mystery of the composition lies in the material.”
DISNEY RESEARCH
Olhar robótico realista e interativo
“Sistema para olhar realista em interações entre humanos e robôs usando um busto humanóide Audio-Animatronics®. Trabalhos anteriores examinando o olhar mútuo entre robôs e humanos enfocaram a implementação técnica. Apresentamos uma arquitetura geral que busca não apenas criar interações de olhar do ponto de vista tecnológico, mas também através das lentes da animação de personagens onde a fidelidade e a credibilidade do movimento são fundamentais; ou seja, procuramos criar uma interação que demonstre a ilusão de vida. É descrito um sistema completo que percebe pessoas no ambiente, identifica pessoas de interesse com base em ações, seleciona um comportamento de olhar apropriado e executa movimentos de alta fidelidade para responder aos estímulos. Usamos mecanismos que imitam comportamentos motores e de atenção análogos aos observados em sistemas biológicos, incluindo habituação de atenção.” Disney Research
Christoph De Boeck
Staalhemel
The intimate topography of the brain is laid out across a grid of 80 steel ceiling tiles as a spatialized form of tapping. The visitor can experience the dynamics of his cognitive self by fitting a wireless EEG interface on his head, that allows him to walk under the acoustic representation of his own brain waves.The accumulating resonances of impacted steel sheets generates penetrating overtones. The spatial distribution of impact and the overlapping of reverberations create a very physical soundspace to house an intangible stream of consciousness.‘Staalhemel’ (‘steel sky’, 2009) articulates the contradictory relationship we entertain with our own nervous system. Neurological feedback makes that the cognitive focus is repeatedly interrupted by the representation of this focus. Concentrated thinking attempts to portray itself in a space that is reshaped by thinking itself nearly every split second.
IRAN DO ESPIRITO SANTO
playground
David LaChapelle
ДЭВИД ЛАШАПЕЛЬ
ديفيد لاشابيل
大卫·拉切贝尔
デビッドラシャペル
Once in the Garden
LaChapelle and the organizers of the Life Ball revealed a new poster inspired by the theme of this year’s Life Ball, “The Garden of Earthly Delights.” The photographer captures Carrera fully naked, standing in a surrealist eden reminiscent of Hieronymus Bosch’s fantastic Renaissance paintings. Two versions of the poster show Carrera alternatively with female and male genitalia. “Gender lines are blurred and every person is unique in how they see themselves,” David LaChapelle explains. “For me the body is more than something to be looked at as an object of sexual gratification. The body is a beautiful housing for the soul that we are celebrating in this picture.”The tagline accompanying the photos, “I’m Adam, I’m Eve, I’m Me” also struck a chord with the model. “Your gender should not matter in your heart or in the way you express your personality,” Carmen Carrera says. “We shouldn’t be afraid to stick to a model, because there are so many types of diverse people on this planet. My message is: beauty has no gender. At the end of the day beauty is beauty.”
MICHAEL HANSMEYER AND BENJAMIN DILLENBURGER
Digitale Grotesk
Digital Grotesque is de eerste volledig meeslepende, solide, gesloten structuur op menselijke schaal die volledig 3D-geprint is uit zand. Deze structuur van 16 vierkante meter is gematerialiseerd met details op de drempel van de menselijke waarneming. Elk aspect van deze architectuur is samengesteld door op maat ontworpen algoritmen.
SAÂDANE AFIF
Tête de mort
Tête de mort pourrait être une scène de concert, qui attend son performeur, la scénographie d’un spectacle, d’une comédie musicale, le scénario symbolique d’un rêve. Les grosses bulles métalliques, connotant l’éphémère (de la vie, de la fête) et l’étrangeté (du rêve ou de la fiction), attirent l’œil comme un appât, un miroir aux alouettes.
Le pavement géométrique du plafond contient l’anamorphose à l’envers, dont le motif « tête de mort » ne se révèle au regardeur que dans le reflet des boules miroir, selon un certain point de vue.
