Ocean of Light septiembre 20, 2010

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Ocean of Light es un proyecto que explora las posibilidades creativas y de inmersión a través de la manipulación de la luz en un espacio físico.

El uso de hardware (LEDs) es indispensable en esta obra con el propósito de crear una escultura dinámico de carácter interactivo y tridimensional. Al utilizar elementos físicos casi imperceptibles junto a un sonido ambiental Ocean of Light evoca una esencia del carácter cinético concebido por entidades autónomas que se mezclan en una danza lúdica y cuestionan las propiedades físicas de la materia a través de una intangibilidad líquida de la supericie.

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Six-Forty by Four-Eighty septiembre 17, 2010

Six-Forty by Four-Eighty by Zigelbaum + Coelho is an interactive lighting installation designed to reveal the materiality of computation by recontextualizing the common pixel.

The pixel is a single point of light, a bit of pure information. In the computer age, pixels are used in groups to represent dynamic visual information. They are strangers that exist in our living spaces, but out of reach from our physical bodies. Six-Forty by Four-Eighty is our attempt to change that.

The installation is composed of two hundred and twenty magnetic pixel-tiles in a darkened room. Each pixel is to be touched, moved, and modified. At the start of the day the pixel-tiles are packed together as a display and by the end of the day they will have migrated across the walls in the room.

By transposing the pixel from the confines of the screen and into the physical world, focus is drawn to the materiality of computation itself and new forms for design emerge.

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Rubik’s Cube septiembre 15, 2010

With only five short days left until our all-out music and art launch extravaganza, we’re starting to get really excited about the multitude of amazing work by our creators that will be crammed in one place for the night. Our hearts and brains can hardly hold so much energy. One piece we’re all aflutter over is Muti’s Randolph’s new art installation, “Imagem.” The interactive installation, which you’ll be able to walk through, is a giant cube made up of 6144 spheres of light that react to your every move with bursts of sound and color, occasionally bombarding you with both when you least expect it. Sounds like our idea of true love. Randolph designed to it to allow participants to feel as if they were allowed to enter their computer monitor, Mike Teavee style. See you at the show.

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Curious Displays septiembre 14, 2010

Curious Displays functions simultaneously as a form of design research and as a proposal for a new product, a future display technology. The project explores our relationship with devices and technology by examining the multi-dimensionality of communication and the complexity of social behavior and interaction. In its essence, the project functions as a piece of design fiction, considering the fluctuating nature of our present engagement with media technology and providing futurist imaginings of other ways of being.

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Morild septiembre 14, 2010

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La iseñadora textil Astrid Krogh presenta a obra Morild, una serie de instalaciones de luz a base de fuentes tales como luces de neón, leds o fibra óptica. Su pieza más reciente es el “light tapestry” o ”tapiz de luz, expuesto actualmente en la Galleri NB en Viborg, Dinamarca. Esta obra titulada “Morild” se trata de una pared de madera perforada llena de manchas lumínicas producidas por cientos de terminaciones de hilos de fibra óptica que se disponen fragmentados en la totalidad del área de la superficie. Este discurso de carácter autoactivo de luz puede ser programado para cambiar su color e intensidad en en una diversidad de intervalos.

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Astrid Krogh, educated textile designer, creates the most sophisticated light installations using sources such as neon lights, LEDs or optic fibres. Her newest piece is this delicate ‘light tapestry’ which is currently exhibited within Astrid’s solo exhibition at Galleri NB in Viborg, Denmark. ‘Morild’ consists of a perforated wooden wall with illuminated spots – the endings of  fiberoptic threads which are arranged in fragments of an ornament. The light source can be programmed to switch coulor and intensity in fast or slow intervals.

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loop city septiembre 13, 2010

The ‘loop city’ proposal builds on the famous ’1947 finger plan’, which focused on connecting the suburb to the center. BIG proposes to continue to connect the area around the øresund strait in a sustainable spine of public transport, energy exchange and electric car infrastructure. The resulting development model circumscribes around the base of the ‘hand’, much like a bracelet, to combine new programs with the metro stations, providing an urban outlet throughout the suburbs.

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