My portfolio will soon be getting an update, with more projects for rAndom International, including You Fade to Light, and Vestige for Jason Bruges Studio

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“We absolutely loved this street intervention project in which the artists the altered public lighting in Tel Aviv’s open underground tunnels. Artists Bar&Shay said their street art muse was Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz as they altered the tunnel…”

Really nice. I hope its real.

Reminds me of this image by Chuck Anderson…

Sandscape (2003)

The Sandscape project by the Tangible Media Group at MIT follows on from their 2002 project Illuminating Clay.

“The users can alter the form of the landscape model by manipulating sand while seeing the resultant effects of computational analysis generated and projected on the surface of sand in real-time”.

“The users can choose from a variety of different simulations that highlight either the height, slope, contours, shadows, drainage or aspect of the landscape model”.

Watch video

Glowing Pathfinder Bugs (2008)

Glowing Pathfinder Bugs by squidsoup:

“The bugs analyse the shape (topography) of the sand around them, preferring to move gently downhill. This means they can be shepherded, enclosed within walls of sand, encouraged to meet each other (at which point strange metamorphoses happen; they merge into larger caterpillars then, if you’re lucky, into butterflies. If they get frightened, they pop and disappear”.

Watch video

Oasis (2008)

Oasis by Yunsil Heo and Hyunwoo Bang:

“A surface covered with black sand turns into a pool full of life when people grab and remove a handful of sand away. In this micro-world, virtual creatures are born, live and perish.They recognize their spatial boundaries and obstacles of living and respond to peoples’ touch in various ways”.

Other mentions
self.detach by Jens Wunderling using particles as an output device.

Sensual Interfaces by Chris Woebken is a conceptual project about organic electronics and nanotechnology.

Nemo Observatorium
Lawrence Malstaf (BE) -> watch video

when laughter trips at the threshold of the divine
Osman Khan, Kim Beck (US)

Jens Wunderling
default to public

Red Psi Donkey
Jens Brand (DE)
Video

Audience
rAndom International (Stuart Wood (UK), Florian Ortkrass , Hannes Koch (DE)) & Chris O‘Shea (UK)

Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus
Benjamin Maus, Julius von Bismarck (DE)

Jammer Horn
Willy Sengewald

CONNECT – feedback-driven sculpture
Andreas Muxel (AT)

Call Cutta in a box
Helgard Haug, Daniel Wetzel, Stefan Kaegi (DE)

Opera Calling
!Mediengruppe Bitnik (CH) and Sven König (DE)

Double-Taker (Snout)
Golan Levin with Lawrence Hayhurst, Steven Benders and Fannie White (US)

Future Kiss
Lenka Klimesova (CZ)

The Physical Value of Sound
Yuri Suzuki (JP)

In the Line of Sight
Daniel Sauter, Fabian Winkler (DE/US)

Watch Me!
Yasushi Noguchi, Hideyuki Ando (JP)

A really sweet little project by ITP student Kacie Kinzer called Tweenbots.

“Tweenbots are human-dependent robots that navigate the city with the help of pedestrians they encounter. Rolling at a constant speed, in a straight line, Tweenbots have a destination displayed on a flag, and rely on people they meet to read this flag and to aim them in the right direction to reach their goal”.

Watch video

The cardboard design, small size and smiley face aid in the perception of a fragile object that needs help. More bots on the way soon.

Going to Milan this week? Unfortunately I can’t make it, but I recommend you go and see an installation by rAndom International for Philips, with software by me, at Superstudio : www.lumiblade.com

Also check out Tokyo Fibre, which among many things, features the amazing Robot Tile from Hiroo Iwata, watch video.

The Canon neoreal installations should be worth a look. Toshiba also sounds interesting. Keep an eye out for new produts from Moritz Waldemeyer too.

Better milan coverage…
dezeen.com/category/events/milan-09/
iconeye.com/designtrail/
designboom.com

Laura Culpan from Artwise Curators talked about the commissions recently completed for British Airways’ lounges at Terminal 5 offering the opportunity to introduce multidisciplinary artists and designers into the BA Collection.
Watch online

Matt Pyke and Karsten Schmidt of Universal Everything talked about Forever, an ever-changing audio-visual sculpture commissioned by the V&A.
Watch online

Adam Cubitt of Glassworks talked about the ambitious Heartworks project to create a real-time system to assist in the teaching of transoesophageal echocardiography.
Watch online

Ben and Russell of the Really Interesting Group talked about Things Our Friends Have Written On The Internet, a limited edition newspaper made up of blog posts & tweets.
Watch online

Michael Cross discussed The Bridge (see previous post), a machine that lets you walk on water.
Watch online

Following on from “The Superfluid Skirt” (2008), Casual Profanity is creating Fluid Sculpture, to be shown at the Maker Faire in May. By arranging interesting patterns with clear rubber tubes and pumping different colour liquids through them creates a soothing a beautiful sight.

Watch video

Reminds me of the work bit.flow from Julius Popp (shown below) that uses a ai system to create patterns & images that exist for only a moment in time. Watch video. Julius has no site right now, but more info here.

The work of Joshua Allen Harris has been all over the blog-sphere and youtube for a while, but I had to repost this as they are truly playful and fantastic pieces of work.

He makes these inflatable sculptures of animals and mystical creatures from trash bags. They are then tied to an air vent above a New York subway. As a train passes underneath pushing air upwards, the sculpture comes to life, slowly standing up and catching pedestrians by surprise. Then as the air disappears, the creatures slowly die down.

I highly recommend you watch this video interview with New York Magazine. Whats pleasing is that the artist wasn’t really interested in making them anymore, but because of an explosion of coverage through blogs, it renewed his passion and energy to create again.

Wooster Collective have been following him most of all. Some great videos here.

Really loving the inflatable street art from Filthy Luker. In particular the octopus and ‘eyez’ series.

If you are anywhere near Bristol England by 2nd May, check out the Crimes of Passion street art show.