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Double-Taker (Snout)

Posted by Fabrik | January 6, 2009 Category: installation

2008 | Golan Levin with Lawrence Hayhurst, Steven Benders and Fannie White

“”Double-Taker (Snout)” (interactive installation, 2008) deals in a whimsical manner with the themes of trans-species eye contact, gestural choreography, subjecthood, and autonomous surveillance. The project consists of an eight-foot (2.5m) long industrial robot arm, costumed to resemble an enormous inchworm or elephant’s trunk, which responds in unexpected ways to the presence and movements of people in its vicinity. Sited on a low roof above a museum entrance, and governed by a real-time machine vision algorithm, Double-Taker (Snout) orients a supersized googly-eye towards passers-by, tracking their bodies and suggesting an intelligent awareness of their activities. The goal of this kinetic system is to perform convincing “double-takes” at its visitors, in which the sculpture appears to be continually surprised by the presence of its own viewers — communicating, without words, that there is something uniquely surprising about each of us.”

Golan Levin and Collaborators

Tags: code, installation, interactive, processing, robot

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Mobile Phone Concert

Posted by Fabrik | January 6, 2009 Category: performance

Mobile Phone Concert: Dialtones @ Ars Electronica 2001

Dialtones (A Telesymphony) (2001-2002: Golan Levin, Gregory Shakar, Scott Gibbons, Yasmin Sohrawardy, Joris Gruber, Erich Semlak, Gunther Schmidl, and Joerg Lehner) is a large-scale concert performance whose sounds are wholly produced through the carefully choreographed ringing of the audience’s own mobile phones. Before the concert, participants register their mobile phone numbers at a series of web terminals; in exchange, new ringtone melodies are automatically transmitted to their phones, and their seating assignment tickets are generated. During the concert, the audience’s phones are dialed up by live performers, using custom software which permits as many as 60 phones to ring simultaneously. Because the exact location and tone of each participant’s mobile phone is known in advance, the Dialtones concert is able to present a diverse range of unprecedented sonic phenomena and musically interesting structures, such as waves of polyphony which cascade across the audience. Dialtones was presented at the Ars Electronica Festival in September 2001, and at the Swiss National Exposition in May and June of 2002.

Found at HITSPAPER

Tags: 2001, and Joerg Lehner, ars electronica, concert, Erich Semlak, Golan Levin, Gregory Shakar, Gunther Schmidl, Joris Gruber, performance, Scott Gibbons, Yasmin Sohrawardy

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David Ellis

Posted by Fabrik | January 5, 2009 Category: installation

Brooklyn-based artist David Ellis creates work that is influenced by hip-hop culture and traditional elements of graffiti. The artist moved to New York to work in the music video business.
Ellis’ work continues to interpret music and sound. His paintings are often recorded in a form of digital time-lapse animation Ellis calls motion painting. Ellis’ paintings are frequently improvised. He works directly on the walls of spaces that remain open to the public during installation and shares the making of the work with viewers. The experience is much like a band playing in front of a passing audience.
Ellis further explores sound with kinetic installations that produce analogue sequences in rhythm.

Via: Acidolatte!

Tags: graffiti, graphic design, intallation, paint, street art

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Emma Hack

Posted by Fabrik | January 5, 2009 Category: paint

Emma Hack is a body painting artist from Australia. Her career has evolved from beginnings as a children’s face painter and qualified hairdresser and make-up artist, to an artist of world acclaim. On 26th October 2008, she won the Renault New Generation Art Award for her Mixed Media images at the Weekend Australian ART Sydney Show.

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Tags: body painting, colour, paint, sculpture

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Unboxed

Posted by Fabrik | January 5, 2009 Category: video & motion

1st Avenue Machine and Passion Pictures create new commecial for audi.

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Found at Motiongrapher

Tags: 1st avenue machine, commercial, motion graphic, Passion Picture, video

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Fragilité

Posted by Fabrik | January 5, 2009 Category: avant-garde

Fragilité, Moscow Conservatory netlabel is a non-commercial netlabel, focused on promotion of contemporary classical and avant-garde music. The resource is treated as place for music of young russian composers (Moscow Conservatory students as the label started working) and for the countries of its cultural neighborhood.

Found at Netlabel & News

Tags: avant garde, classical, netaudio

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Bethany Bristow

Posted by Fabrik | January 4, 2009 Category: installation

Bethany Bristow is a New York City based installation artist, who takes a multidisciplinary approach to creating her work by utilizing elements of sculpture, performance and photography. Depending on the venue the viewer may see large scale color photographs, site-specific sculptures or even the artist in the act of creating these installations and photographs. These installations were maded in Asia and New York. Enjoy!

Found at Rojo Magazine!

Tags: drawing, installation, New York, performance, tokyo