Bodies in urban spaces

Written by Andrea on . Posted in Art, Installation, street art

Bodies in urban spaces by the Cie Willi Dorner is a temporarily intervention in diversified urban architectonical environment. The intention of Bodies in urban spaces is to point out the urban functional structure and to uncover the restricted movement possibilities and behaviour as well as rules and limitations.
By placing the bodies in selected spots the interventions provoke a thinking process and produce irritation.

(via Ektopia)

 

Grotte Stellaire by Julien Salaud

Written by Andrea on . Posted in Art, Installation

Quoted form Pinar @ My Modern Met: “The polygonal representations of deer combined with the galactic connecting and intertwining lines also make this piece look like a section of the night sky with figurative constellations. There’s something primal about the setting appearing like a cave, and yet there is a futuristic appeal in its glowing contoured visuals.”

Julien Salaud‘s installation Grotte stellaire can be seen at  Palais de Tokyo‘s Alice Guy Hall in Paris as part of the Triennial of Contemporary Art until August 26, 2012

(via My Modern Metropolis and designboom)

Automatic Typewriter writes Stories about killed Journalists

Written by Valentina on . Posted in Art, Installation, technology

“The typewriter installation «On Journalism #2 Typewriter» writes stories about all journalist who have been killed worldwide between 1992 and today. The individual stories are connected through common fields of coverage, places, professions and many other aspects. Besides the text the typewriter creates flags which are distorted the more journalists got killed there.”

[via nerdcore]

Hye Yeon Nam

Written by Andrea on . Posted in Art, Installation, technology

Please smile is an exhibit involving five robotic skeleton arms that change their gestures depending on a viewer’s facial expressions.  It consists of a microcontroller, a camera, a computer, five external power supplies, and five plastic skeleton arms, each with four motors.  It incorporated elements from mechanical engineering, computer vision perception to serve artistic expression with a robot.

Audiences interact with “Please smile” in three different ways. When no human falls within the view of the camera, the five robotic skeleton arms choose the default position, which is bending their elbows and wrists near the wall. When a human steps within the view of the camera, the arms point at the human and follow his/her movements. Then when someone smiles in front of it, the five arms wave their hands. Through artwork such as “Please smile,” I would like to foster positive audience behaviors.

Two Heads are Better than One

Written by Valentina on . Posted in Art, Installation, Sculpture

Two Heads are Better than One” is collaborative exhibition by Theo A. Rosenblum and Chelsea Seltzer currently on view at the Hole Gallery in New York City:

“From what the artists call “a vending machine of myth, magic and mystery” comes our exhibition, ranging from the intricately finished large sculptures back to the irreverent sketches where their ideas are born. The exhibition features all manner of hybrids, puns and below-the-belt punches: large sculptures like “Sandwitch” may have started out as a collaborative doodle on a homophone, but realized in sculpture they reveal many strange nuances and details the original concept or sketch lacked. “Snow Manimal” may have come about just from the oddly relatable spheres of upper horse and lower snowman, but fit together physically so well that the visual and conceptual rupture created is all the more stark.”

[via lustik]