Interactive installation by Thijs Biersteker and produced by
front404 presents a participants silhouette in a pool with floating plastic waste:
The plastic soup is growing. Plastic in our ocean degrades in nano
plastics. These microplastics intrude all parts of the food chain. And
(as recent studies reveal) they can pass through cell walls into fat and
muscle tissue, turning us slowly into plastic.
The interactive installation ”Plastic Reflectic“ shows you that everyone can influence the plastic soup with their behaviour.
It turns you in the plastic version of yourself and lets you control the hundreds of pieces of ocean plastic.
When you step in front of it plastic parts of plastic soup plastic
rises from the black water reflecting you. It takes the plastic soup
that normally is floating miles out of the sea and puts it in front of
our feet. Reflecting our behaviour and provoking food for thought.
Showing that your actions in plastic use have direct impact on the
growing plastic soup.
Stop Motion animation experiment by @treatstudios combines light painting with a tablet with a sliced looping seabed to create a holographic effect:
This short experimental piece of animation was was created using
several processes, all of which began off life inside the computer. With
the help of simple laser cutting, an iPad, a homemade motion rig and
DSLR Danny and Alex created a unique stop-frame animation using long
exposure photography to bring all these processes together in perfect
synergy.
The film began life as simple animation of a whale swimming. Each
frame of the animation was then saved as an individual CGI file, this
file was then turned into a movie, where-by the form and position of the
whale was record, “CAT scan style” from head to tail. These movies were
then played on an iPad which was attached to the motion rig. As the
movies played out, the iPad would steadily move along the track,
re-drawing the shape of the 3D whale in real space. This process was
captured using the DSLR camera via long exposures, the camera would
record the light from each movie, as the iPad moved from A to B on the
motion rig, turning the movie on the iPad into a single photograph on
the camera
The secondary process was creating the environment for the whale to
exist in - our “looping seabed’’. This was designed in the computer as a
tiling CGI model, which was then divided into 2mm thick slices and
laser cut from MDF wood. The slices stack back together in real life
creating an infinitely looping seabed for our whale to swim over.
Kickstarter campaign from
Jeff Lieberman
is a kinetic art frame that can present objects as if they were in slow motion:
“Slow dance” is a picture frame that makes real objects appear to move
in slow motion. By taking advantage of the limits of human visual
perception, this optical illusion sculpture appears to be doing the
impossible — right before your eyes. Slow Dance combines technology,
science, and art, in order to remind us of the natural mystery, beauty,
and wonder that surround us every day.
This is super cool but it doesn’t include the text instructions! Here’s the original imgur gallery with some comments on each image, and here is a detailed tutorial that the creator made (he also made the code free to use on his github) in case you want to make one yourself!
Barcelona, Spain based artist David Moreno has found a unique approach to translating his drawings
into the third dimension. His series titled “Drawing in Space” features
sculptures made of steel wires that emulate the fast and energetic
style of drawing in a rather wild and sometimes uncontrolled way. Though
they are built using a stiff material, Moreno’s sculptures of surreal
floating cabins, chairs, and figures exhibit a certain delicacy and
tenderness. Using a similar technique to cross-hatching, he is able to
create tonal or shading effects of carefully placed lines that are
viewed from a specific vantage point.
Interactive tech artwork from 2004 by Seiko Mikami and Sota Ichikawa presents data of participants effect on the piece (and still appears contemporary today):
Artist Seiko Mikami, who has been showing numerous interactive
installations re-examining human body sensation, and Sota Ichikawa, head
of the architectural group “doubleNegatives Architecture (dNA)”,
collaborated on an installation project with a focus on the “sense of
gravity” as an addition to the five senses, the results of which were
introduced in this exhibition.
The force of gravity works between all kinds of substances in the
universe. Through their dynamic work expressing this correlativity by
means of video, light and sound, the artists reminded the audience of
the presence of gravity that we normally aren’t aware of in daily life,
and highlighted at once the basic function of the sense of gravity as an
interface through which the human body defines its subjective
perception of space.
Coding experiment from Kyle McDonald arranging samples for music production in a unique way using machine learning:
I’ve been thinking about new ways of making music and
working with sound. I’m especially excited about machine learning
augmenting our selection of sounds, analyzing and decomposing existing
recordings, and making automatic suggestions for compositions.
This shows around 30k “drum samples” from a few different sample
packs, organized in 2d (position) and 3d (color). All sounds are less
than 4 seconds long, but I only analyze and play the first second while
scrolling through. I used librosa to extract the constant-q transform of
each sound with 84 bins and 11 time steps. I used t-SNE with perplexity
100 to layout the sounds from those 924 dimensional vectors.
