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Wirescapes : John Vega

Wirescapes


Wirescapes

Wirescapes is an exploration of the machine as conduit to the art idea. The user interacts with a Virtual Sculpture Interface (VSI) to create digital “action paintings.” Dynamic scripts generate infinite forms and fleeting moments of beauty and chaos. Wirescapes presents opportunities for the viewer to see the creative process differently and capture what is in the moment.

Wirescapes 1.0 is an interactive virtual sculpture and action painting tool. The viewer relates with various shapes—polka dot, ball, box, paint squiggle, fragment of geometry—to control the substance of the creative expression, including object and background color, orientation, spacing, velocity, direction, form, canvas size, and transparency. A click on the canvas captures a still image.

Posted by stunned at 12:18 AM
TruValue.com : Nanette Wylde

Tru ValU


TruValU.com

Tru ValU is an investigation of beauty and the 216 web safe color palette. The site responds to visitor selection by displaying color relationships based on mathematical determinates, and counts the number of 'hits' to each selection.

I am thinking about containment and control... the systems and codification of beauty, and how these are sanctioned and internalized in larger social constructs. I am thinking about centralities, the randomness of designations, and the reduction of our global palette to 216 'safe' elements. I am thinking about the need/desire/propensity and willingness to count, and the values we place on numbers however arbitrary their assignments/connections to things meaningful in our lives. I am thinking about the expansion of simple mathematical concepts into metaphors both hidden and inherent in information technologies and the implications thereof. I am thinking about individuality, plurality and the singularity of the moment. I am thinking about what is important, what is not, and how we determine what is meaningful, valuable and relevant in our lives.
Nanette Wylde

Posted by stunned at 05:01 PM
138 Seconds of Peace : Agricola de Cologne

138 Seconds of Peace


138 Seconds of Peace

What is peace? An illusion or just a pipe-dream?
Is it only the state of non-war, the state of non-conflict...?
Agricola de Cologne's net based work
points to these and other questions not only in times of war.
138 seconds of peace? was launched on 19 March 2003,
the begin of the Iraq War.

Posted by stunned at 01:22 PM
Tree Structures : Nick Barker

Travelling


Tree Structures

A tree may play a vital part in the life of a primitive,
apparently possessing for him it?s own soul and voice,
and the man concerned will feel that he shares its fate?
CG Jung, Man and his Symbols

The original photographs are of trees from my walking routes in Cheshire UK. Toned B/W prints and hand manipulated transparencies were further manipulated and animated on the computer.

Posted by stunned at 04:43 PM
Travelling : Joëlle Bitton

Travelling

Travelling
In French, a "travelling" describes a cinema technique that is translated in English as a "trackshot". In English, "travelling" refers to the act of travel that is translated in French as "voyageant/en voyage". Mixing the two meanings, this interactive piece offers as a cinema travelling, a voyage between the urban architectures of Berlin and Tel-Aviv.

The two cities have an architectural heritage that is permanently re-actualized. Tel-Aviv who is the very modern and vibrant economic capital of Israel holds more than 1,000 houses that were built in the twenties after the Bauhaus principles in an utopic movement. Berlin is the new ground for architects to express themselves with a strong experimental pattern.

In this piece, the users starts travelling from left to right, moving the mouse cursor across the screen and can go back and forth, in strips within a panoramic format. If the user lets the cursor still on a strip for few seconds, a sudden opening gives a greater view of a picture, but it remains ephemeral.

In a similar approach of coupling the cities, the user will hear two songs, representing two moments of the journey, contemplating the urban visuals.

This web piece is the "light" version of a performance piece that was commissioned by the ICHIM festival and first presented in Berlin in August 2004.

The piece is based on an original code by Alexis Nema.
The songs featured are Neulich from Laub and Porque te vas from Jeanette.
The shockwave plug-in is needed to see artwork.

Posted by stunned at 01:25 PM
Web of Lies : Tamara Lai

Web of Lies

Web of Lies

We all have our own versions of the truth, just as we will all have our own interpretations of Tamara Lai's 'Web of Lies'. By slicing up her poetic texts and emails to virtual correspondents, and adding visual and audio material, the artist has built a series of 'interactive shocked movies' examining the distortion of reality and virtuality, hopes and fears. Some patience is required to explore fully the subtly-changing layers that at first glance appear obscure and random. When a search for the ideal lover abruptly gives way to images of atomic explosions, one has to consider the distance of reality from fantasy - and wonder how 'real' is either form? Whether clicks yield truths is tangled in Lai's Web: get crawling.
Helen Varley Jamieson / Rhizome.org

Posted by stunned at 02:09 AM
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