Morgan Currie was that kind to transcribe the opening talk from Bruce Sterling at the confernce “You Me and Everyone We Know is a Curator” in Amsterdam last december.
read it here: http://mastersofmedia.hum.uva.nl/2009/12/21/bruce-sterling-gothic-chic-in-the-future-favela/
He’ll be also talking at the opening of the transmediale this february in Berlin. So don’t miss it!
theres also a video of the [...]
Meet Uniview, the most feature-rich astronomical visualization and universal data exploration platform on the market, yet simple enough to get you started with doing live presentations in museums, science centers, large scale theaters and fulldome planetariums in no time.
So, lets have a look at the know universe:
very nice animation movie by Jérémy Clapin:
Skhizein (Jérémy Clapin,2008) from Stephen Dedalus on Vimeo.
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a project from aram bartholl. loving it!
hey and you can build your own one (? pair … however) here
Cadavre exquis
interaktive Comicausstellung von PLUSPLUS und der FH Meppen
Vernissage am 18.07.2009 ab 20.00 Uhr
Cadavre Exquis bezeichnet eine im Surrealismus entwickelte, spielerische Methode, dem Zufall bei der Entstehung von Bildern Raum zu geben. Analog und digital. Zwei Welten treffen aufeinander, Individuen gehen auf und unter in der Masse. Jeder ist Zuschauer und Schauspieler zugleich. [...]
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via designboom:
“in his ongoing project ‘dispatchwork‘ artist jan vormann uses LEGO bricks to repair damaged walls.
he started by patching-up surfaces in bocchignano, italy and has since employed
the technique on walls in tel aviv and berlin. vormann currently has a solo exhibition running
at jarmuschek + partner in berlin-mitte, which ends june 13th.”
on kotztueten-museum.de you’ll find a nice collection of “disposal bags”. It’s quite hard to navigate through this website (even if the designs are sorted by continents), but it’s definitely worth to dig a little deeper… aehm…
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a project from the University of Louisiana with some inspiration from theo jansen’s strandbeesten (if you don’t know his amazing work, see the video below and try this link)
how it basicly works:
and the strand beests:
www.strandbeest.com/
see also:
http://www.splittingtimes.com/2008/04/boston-dynamics-big-dog/
This is an experimental film made up of over 35,000 photographs. It combines an innovative mix of stop motion and live projection mapping techniques and is teh awesome:
SCINTILLATION from Xavier Chassaing on Vimeo.
