Surface tension febrero 24, 2011

Taking inspiration from the experience on the bridge and the proximity of the Thames, the studio has created an artwork that dynamically reflects the spectacular context of the river. The surface of the artwork responds in the same way as the surface of the Thames, changing as the wind changes speed and direction. A wind sensor on the roof of the hotel detects the speed and direction of the wind in realtime. This data drives an ever-changing pattern of light on the surface of the sculpture.

Surface Tension evokes the animated, celebratory and calming qualities of water features, traditionally found in hotel forecourts.

Location // Westminster Bridge, London 2010

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SCHERZO . desde el viento febrero 19, 2011

Voy a hacer una confesión: hasta esta época yo sueño con una música para cuya transcripción no existen caracteres gráficos, pues los conocidos no alcanzan a decirla, a escribirla. Sueño con una música que es color, escultura y movimiento…

Silvestre Revueltas

Pieza .SCHERZO . desde el viento

Clasificación . interactivo

Lugar de exhibición . ARTEFACTOS // Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México

Fecha de exhibición . 15 de nov. del 2010

Autor . Christian Saucedo

Colaboración . -

Descripción

SCHERZO . desde el viento, se trata de una pieza visual de características reactivas e interactivas, en el que una serie de circunferencias (nodos) se entrelazan y deambulan en la unión de cientos de conexiones gráficas a forma de extensiones mecánicas.

Inspirada en el sonido SCHERZO . desde el viento, de Olmo Ibarra (Durango, México 1981), esta composición visual expone movimientos al azar sobre las limitaciones del espacio que la acoge. La reacción de la pieza a la percepción de los claroscuros de luz percibidos por un par de sensores fotovoltaicos LDR y su interacción a través de dos potenciómetros, estimulan la transformación de las características visuales de la obra relacionadas a su luminosidad, enfoque y amplitud gráfica.

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White noise febrero 15, 2011

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A ballett work by Amy Seiwert and her company m’ij-re (that’s how you pronounce the word imagery)
Coreography: Amy Seiwert
Interactive System Design: Frieder Weiss

Links:

Review of “White Noise” by KQED’s Quest

San Francisco International Arts Festival website

Program Notes:

im’ij-re is a contemporary ballet company in San Francisco directed by Amy Seiwert. Holding the belief that ballet has an expressive and vital voice relevant for our current time, respect is held for swans and sylphs, but they are not where the company’s interests lie. Having no desire to regurgitate art, im’ij-re’s artists share the belief that through collaboration and experimentation with artists of other discplines, vibrant and courageous ideas can be expressed. Habitual reactions are discouraged.

Performance History:

This work was commisioned by and premiered at the San Francisco International Arts Festival End of May 2010.

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Augmented Shadow febrero 14, 2011

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Augmented Shadow is a design experiment producing an artificial shadow effect through the use of tangible objects, blocks, on a displayable tabletop interface. Its goal is to offer a new type of user-experience. The project plays on the fact that shadows present distorted silhouettes depending on the light. Augmented Shadows take the distortion effect into the realm of fantasy. Shadows display below the objects according to the physics of the real world. However, the shadows themselves transform the objects into houses, occupied by shadow creatures. By moving the blocks around the table the user sets off series of reactions within this new fantasy ecosystem.

In this installation, the shadows exist both in a real and a virtual environment simultaneously. It thus brings augmented reality to the tabletop by way of a tangible interface. The shadow is an interface metaphor connecting the virtual world and users. Second, the unexpected user experience results from manipulating the users’ visual perceptions, expectations, and imagination to inspire re-perception and new understanding. Therefore, users can play with the shadows lying on the boundary between the real, virtual, and fantasy.

Augmented Shadow utilizes this unique interface metaphor for interactive storytelling. Maximizing the magical amusement of AR, it is embedding an ecosystem where imaginary objects and organic beings co-exist while each of them influences on each other’s life-cycle, even though it is not in use by users. Light and shadow play critical roles in this world’s functions causing chain reactions between virtual people, trees, birds, and houses as shown below.

Resource: http://joonmoon.net/

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peasouper febrero 4, 2011

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‘Peasouper’ instalación de caracter interactivo creada por el estudio británico de Jason Bruges es una pieza que recrea un ambiente de inmersión interactiva para recrear un entorno de experiencias espaciales en el visitante.

En el marco del festival yota space digital art exhibition en S. Petersburgo, Rusia. ’Peasouper’ expone una serie de imágenes que logradas por los visitantes, se exponen en cuatro distintas superficies transparente soportadas en un espacio lleno de niebla, la cual recubre los espacios seriados que separan a estas superficies dispuestas de manera vertical. Iluminadas todas en una variación de colores, las superficies translúcidas exponen contenidos visuales en lapsos de tiempo diversos con el propósito de que el visitante tenga la oportunidad de moverse a través del espacio y de esta forma ser testigo de la repetición visual proyectada a destiempos en cada una de los planos.

El cúmulo de niebla no sólo da la oportunidad de crear una sensación de formas etéreas (siluetas distorsionadas) sino que también genera una impresión espacial (tridimensional) de las imágenes. Con ello se crea una experiencia de que transitar en tiempo y espacio a través de la niebla…

vía: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/13060/jason-bruges-peasouper.html

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An interactive immersive environment, ‘peasouper’ was created by uk-based jason bruges studio exclusively for the yota space digital art exhibition in st. petersburg, russia.

Images of visitors are rendered in four fog-filled transparent tanks lining the center of the space. Lit in different colours, these tanks replay the footage on a time delay from one another, so that a visitor moving through the space continues with each step to see his actions repeated in front of him.

The fog not only creates an ethereal, distorted silhouette but also generates a more three-dimensional impression of the images. The effect suggests the experience of wandering through the ‘pea soup fog’ of london, encountering through the cloudy air the broken lightbeams and blurry visages of passers-by.

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