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Finnbogi Pétursson

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:47:58 PST

The following projects by Finnbogi Pétursson, are awesome ways to see how beautiful are the patterns, textures and forms created using the water. They have been projected because of the reflection of light on different surfaces, and caused by severals frequencies of sound. See more;

Reset 2011

"In Reset 2011 I´m using tree sinus waves to create circular patterns on the surface of a large pool build in the gallery. Spotlights shows the water reflection from different angle in one image on a opposite wall. The ripples travel across the water surface, they disappear for a short time when they reach a soft line in the middle of the piece , then appear bit later mixed with the ripples coming from the opposite direction. To gather they form a 3hz dreamless drawing.

There are four categories of brainwaves, ranging from the most activity to the least activity. Delta brainwaves are the lowest brainwave frequency, they range from 1,5Hz - 4,0 Hz, but are the highest in amplitude. Delta waves are considered the Deepest possible level of mind / body relaxation and are commonly associated with the deepest sleep state and a state of unconscious awareness. 3hz lies just on the border between delta and theta waves, just after you stop dreaming." - Finnbogi Pétursson.

Earth

Earth 2010, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria

The Watertanks, Water-Earth

"This phenomenon is one of the naturally occurring magnetic fields that have always surrounded us. It appears that the space between the earth’s surface and the ionosphere forms a gigantic resonant cavity with physical dimensions that give it a frequency somewhere between 7hz and 8hz, 7,83 to be exact. Producing sinus tones from 30hz - 42,8hz and run them parallel two and two. I create an interference wave of 7,8hz, known as the Schumann resonance." - Finnbogi Pétursson.

Circle 1991

"In 1991 at the Living Art Museum, Pétursson installed a large loudspeaker suspended over a darkened pit filled with water. The work was titled Circle, since the loudspeaker formed a sound wave whose frequency was boosted to 0-200 khz and rippled the surface of the water so that the wave motion formed regular circles at certain moments of the process. As the pitch of the wave rose the pattern on the surface of the water changed, and was projected on to the wall. Aided by the water and the projector, the artist managed to make the amplification of sound visible. H.B.R.

The loudspeaker forms a sound wave whose frequency is boosted to 0-40hz and ripple the surface of the water so that the wave motion forms regular circlesat certain moments of the process. As the pitch of the wave rose the pattern on the surface of the water changed, and is projected on to the wall." - Finnbogi Pétursson.

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Soundcube by Bernhard Leitner

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:39:31 PST

I really liked this sketches from one of the first sound projects called Soundcube, made in 1969 by Bernhard Leitner. See more;

"Bernhard Leitner is considered a pioneer of the art form generally referred to as “sound installation.” He introduced sound to the installation space, allowing the installation space to emerge through the sound. Leitner, who actually studied architecture, has been a visionary ever since the very start of his artistic career. His sculptures—which he refers to as “sound-space objects”—and installations are the result of long, complex processes of development. In precise sketches and workbooks, he first approaches the sculptural, architectural qualities of sound in theory.

He undertakes, as it were, foundational scientific research by studying frequencies, volumes, movements and combinations of sounds and their impact on the body, sketching possible spatial figures, such as cubes, corridors, fields, pipes, and exploring the impact of bodily posture on acoustic perception. In 1968 Leitner moved to New York, where he concretely began working on sound-space studies in his studio. He developed multi-channel compositions using sound recordings that were not musically conceived, from which he extracted specific sound material and combined it in work-specific series of sounds. He then notated these series using visual codes that he himself developed consisting of letter combinations on rolls of paper, and transferred them to perforated tape." - Oscar Lopez at archdaily.

I recommend a great article about him at archdaily, see here. And his own website is also full of projects and sound installations which have been archived by date. It's a great source of dynamic and data diagrams, see here.

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D-O-B-R by Susann Stefanizen

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 08:58:28 PST

Awesome graphic monochromatic experiments by Susann Stefanizen. All the following pictures are from the series called D-O-B-R. See more;

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Magdalena Jetelova

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 09:05:19 PST

"Magdalena Jetelova used illuminated lines to expose communication structure of the landscape; Crossing King's Cross - she uses lights to map out the future path of a train route as well as natural changes (in the Island Project / Islandský projekt – she enlists lasers to draw attention to the undersea intercontinental divide (mountainscape). In her geographical project, Songline 75° 36‘52‘‘ (1998) contemporary localization techniques are used to join two spots on the earth. This is possible thanks mainly to use of the imagination stemming from local traditions." - Lenka Dolanová. See more;

Iceland, 1992_

"The Central Atlantic Shelf is an approximately 15,000 kilometer-long mountain range, mostly hidden at the bottom of the ocean. From the geological point of view it forms the dividing line between Europe and America. This is a seam along the place where millions years ago two continents were torn apart. Today we know that the Central Atlantic Shelf is part of a bigger system which circles the entire globe for nearly 70,000 kilometers. It goes from Iceland to the north between Spitzbergen and Greenland, continuing through the Arctic Ocean to the mouth of the Lena River in Siberia. In the southern direction, it goes from Iceland eastward along the southern end of Africa, continuing to the north through the Indian Ocean. Iceland is the only place where the Central Atlantic Shelf goes above the sea.

The geological border between Europe and America can be seen with the naked eye for about 350 kilometers in the form of a range which cuts through Iceland in a north-eastern direction. Both land masses are still moving, shifting and bumping into one another. Therefore the whole area is seismically active with a number hot springs and active volcanoes. The light line of the laser beam draws the border between the two continents. The form of the exact direct line is all the time freshly defined by its touch with the terrain—it goes through the raw landscape along the lava fields, through cracks disappearing in the mist of hot steam from geysers. The computer-determined precise line of a geological event in ancient time that has formed our world of today." - Magdalena Jetelova.

Crossing King’s Cross, 1996_

"The King’s Cross section of central London has been significantly marked by its industrial past dating from the 18th century. This part of London, comprised of a network of industrial plants and warehouses and traversed by railway tracks and canals, is set to become a modern urban crossroad. It will host the terminal of high-speed trains between London and Paris, connecting Britain with the Continent. The 54 hectares of railway land behind King’s Cross and St Pancras stations is today a sparsely populated, unarticulated territory within a dense and fast-paced urban environment.

The former modernity of the railway station of 1850 and visible traces of the then dynamic development of the area are perceived today as time which has stopped. The past of King’s Cross is represented by abandoned industrial buildings and old railway operations; its future consists of modern transport and communication technology. The present is a transitory period, a kind of “no man’s time”. A laser beam indicating the future line of the TGV railway in the existing landscape links the physically present past without real action and the so far virtual future, a direct path of the speed of the light replaces half-time life. Photography changes into a new form afforded by the speed of the train." - Magdalena Jetelova.

bubblebyte.org PRIMO ANNIVERSARIO

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 03:15:21 PST

I guess many of you already know bubblebytte, the online gallery which has exhibited during the last year the work of greattt new media artists we also love here at Triangulation. Well, in few days this project created by Rhys Coren and Attila Fattori Franchini is going to celebrate its "PRIMO ANNIVERSARIO", just next Friday 27th of January.

To mark it’s first anniversary, bubblebyte.org has teamed up with The Sunday Painter in Peckham (here in London) to host a group exhibition of works by diverse international practitioners who have had solo shows at bubblebyte.org in the past year. The various spaces of The Sunday Painter will be explored and inhabited by multi-form practices, installations, digital synesthesia and, on the night of the opening reception, LuckyPDF will also curate an exciting visual after-show at the neighboring Bussey Building. See more;

PRIMO ANNIVERSARIO includes installation work by Rob Chavasse, prints by Oliver Sutherland and Laurel Schwulst, digital atmospheres by Oregon Painting Society, Nicolas Sassoon and Duncan Malashock and video installations by Pascual Sisto, Sara Ludy and Sabrina Ratté.
As part of the show, The Sunday Painters website will play host to a special web base creation by Nicolas Sassoon, see here.
On the same date, bubblebyte.org will also launch Extrabyte a new section on its platform specifically dedicated to encouraging reflection and creating regular content in and around the shows, including essays, interviews, music podcasts and video by artists, curators and practitioners in an attempt to enlarge the critical discourse about the artistic work they present.

PRIMO ANNIVERSARIO

bubblebyte.org's participating artists: Oliver Sutherland, Rob Chavasse, Laurel Schwulst, Pascual Sisto, Sara Ludy, Duncan Malashock, Oregon Painting Society, Nicolas Sassoon, Sabrina Ratté

The Sunday Painter, 1st Floor, 12-16 Blenheim Grove, London, SE15 4QL

28 January – 12 February 2012. Thursday-Sunday, 12.00-18.00

Private view: 27 January, 6.00 – 9.30 pm

After-party 27 January curated by LuckyPDF : Bussey Building 10 pm - 4 am (video below created by Lucky PDF)

Happy birthday bubblebyte!!!

Marine Hugonnier

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 09:58:32 PST

Marine Hugonnier is working since 2004 on "Art for Modern Architecture" a still ongoing collage series which investigates the role of the image by obstructing the press images on the front page of a week’s worth of newspapers such as The New York Times, The Times, Die Tageszeitung, Le Monde, The Herald Tribune, The Neue Zürcher Zeitung and Al Ayaam, all of them have been created making lots of cutouts from the book titled "Line Form Color" by Ellsworth Kelly. See more;

I like this monochromatic pieces, but check out also this colored series at Mix Wigram Gallery.

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Colorful Colorado by Phil Morton

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 05:29:40 PST

Colorful Colorado by Phil Morton, 1976_
Phil Morton (1945 - 2003) was an influential video artist and activist who founded the Video Area in 1970 at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago where he taught from 1969 - 1981/1982. See more;

I added all information I found about Phil Morton at Wikipedia, I find it really interesting about his trajectory as video artist and about his life;

"The Video Area that Morton founded was the first department in the United States to offer erectile degrees in Video art. The Video Area eventually became the Video Department, which later became part of the Film, Video & New Media Department. Phil Morton also founded The Video Data Bank, one of the world's leading collections of Video art. The Video Data Bank was originally conceived of as a collection of shared resources for and projects by the students of the Video Area as well as an archive for documentation of the visiting artists and activities in the Video Area. Frequent visitors and collaborators in the Video Area during the 1970s included Steina and Woody Vasulka, Gene Youngblood, Dan Sandin, Timothy Leary, Barbara Buckner and many other active and founding members of the early Video art community. Morton introduced analog and digital computers into the curriculum of the Video Area and the School in the 1970s through the use of the Sandin Image Processor, a patch-programmable analog computer optimized for video processing and synthesis developed from 1971 - 1973, and The Bally Astrocade Arcade Video Game System, a programmable home video game console developed in 1974.

Morton's playful, critical, self-reflexive and conversational Video art works, projects and performances often involved ongoing collaborations. In particular, Morton collaborated extensively with artists Jane Veeder, Dan Sandin, Tom DeFanti and Jamie Fenton. In 1973, Morton asked Dan Sandin if he could build the first copy of Sandin's original Sandin Image Processor. Sandin and Morton then began to work together to create the schematic plans for the Sandin Image Processor, a document they called the Distribution Religion. Through The Distribution Religion, Sandin open sourced his Sandin Image Processor, giving the plans away for only the cost of making Xerox copies and mailing them while incorporating any additions or modifications made by those who built their own Sandin Image Processor into any further releases of the Distribution Religion. Morton developed an approach he called COPY-IT-RIGHT, an anti-copyright approach to making and freely sharing Media art. The Distribution Religion and Morton's individual and collaborative Media art works were released under his COPY-IT-RIGHT license. COPY-IT-RIGHT encouraged people to make faithful copies, caring for and distributing the work as widely as possible.

During his life, Morton's Video art works were exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art (New York), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, the Iverson Museum of Art (New York) and the 1975 São Paulo Art Biennial (Brazil). His Video art works were also shown on television stations such as WNET (New York), WGBH (Boston) and WTTW (Chicago) and reviewed in magazines such as Artforum and New Art Examiner. In 2007 the "Distribution Religion" exhibition at The Art Gallery of Knoxville was inspired by and featured the work of Phil Morton.
The Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive (located in the Film, Video & New Media Department at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago) seeks to coordinate and freely distribute Phil Morton's Media art work and associated research under Morton's COPY-IT-RIGHT license. jonCates initiated the Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive in 2007 after receiving a generous donation of Phil Morton's personal video archive/database from Morton's surviving partner Barb Abramo. The Film, Video & New Media Department presented "COPY-IT-RIGHT! Selections from The Phil Morton Memorial Research Archive" at The Gene Siskel Film Center on Thursday, February 15 2007. The program included excerpts from Morton's "General Motors" (like the video below called "Colorful Colorado") and the complete works of "Program # 9 (Amateur TV)" by Morton and Veeder and "SAIC Memo". - Wikipedia

See also copyitright.wordpress.com and more videos on google.

XYZT, Les paysages abstraits

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 16:54:46 PST

X (horizontal), Y (vertical), Z (depth), T (time). Four letters to describe the motion of a point in the space, and think about an imaginary environment. Mathematical paradoxes, mesmerizing typographies and moving landscapes, all this at this exhibition called "XYZT, Les paysages abstraits" (XYZT The abstract landscapes). Surveying of the digital space, finger algorithms, fields of light... a lot of imaginary territories to explore. A coincidence between geometric and organic, between real and virtual. This is an awesome installation and interactive project created by Adrien M / Claire B and Martin Gautron. See more;

Credits:
Adrien Mondot, Claire Bardainne / concept
Martin Gautron / design and construction
Charles Boinot / scenography
Loïs Drouglazet / software, code
Christophe Sartori /sound concept
Réveillard / production administration
Antoine Costes / models assistant; ay-rOop, Géraldine Werner assistée de Hélène

Coïncidence#01 (detail) >

Vector Field (detail) >

Photogrphy by Laurence Fragnol et Adrien M / Claire B. Making of photos here.

Karl Kliem

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 15:11:14 PST

Karl Kliem aka Dienststelle is well known for his music installations, where sound and light are connected to create very minimalist environments. I really liked his monochromatic works where he used neons and leds to visualize the sound. He has collaboreted with many different artists such as Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto as well as Jan Jelinek, Jan St. Werner of Mouse on Mars, Thomas Brinkmann, Thomas Köner and Sleeparchive. See more;

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Ax Mr. L

Visualisation for the Insen Tour of Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto in 2005 and 2006. This one i did within an hour when i had access to the complete LED screen for the first time. The tour had already started. When you would display just one colour on the whole screen you could see the edges of each LED module. So i just used these edges for the display of the lines. Each stroke of a key on Sakamotos Yamaha Disklavier would send out a MIDI signal that would call a random preset of predefined patterns on the screen.

Burial - Prayer

Realtime visualization of Prayer by Burial with one of my Rasterdecks - a grid ceiling element with four fluorescent tubes.

Minus 60°

Surround sound installation with synchronized florescent tubes. Six speakers on tripods. One fluorescent tube attached to each tripod. The video shows a short excerpt of the first setup at Hafen2 in Offenbach near Frankfurt as part of the Luminale 2010 and part of the exhibition series "Words & Sounds" curated by Hortense Pisano.

Alva Noto & Ryuichi Sakamoto - Trioon I

The main elements of the music, piano and sine waves, are represented by two elements. Abstract keys fade away like the piano sounds fade out of your mind. Horizontal stripes display the sine waves frequencies with their vertical position.

White Elephant (Privately Soft) by Jimenez Lai

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 05:09:22 PST

White Elephant (Privately Soft) by Jimenez Lai, 2011.

The White Elephant is roughly 10'x10'x10'. It has three basic premises: (1) A building inside a building, somewhere between a super-furniture and a small house. (2) An object that tumbles to attain multiple orientations to blur the qualification plans and sections. (3) An object that is hard on the outside, soft on the inside.

Its exterior is clad with translucent polycarbonate, and the interior is stuffed cowhide. It tumbles and changes orientation and can flip to eight different stances. See more;

"What is a building that can tumble freely without gravity or fixed orientations, hard on the outside but soft on the inside, and obstructs the continuity of interior spaces like an elephant in a room? This installation is a freestanding micro building / macro furniture that questions projection, inside/outside, rigidity/fluidity and size/scale." - Jimenez Lai

Design Leader: Jimenez Lai

Project Manager: Thomas Kelley

Fabrication: PR&vD, Andrew Akins

Team: Jimenez Lai, Thomas Kelley, Cyrus Penarroyo, Andrew Akins

Construction Assisted by: Mike Mead, John Stoughton, Anton Bakerjian

Photography: Magnus Lindqvist, Kyle D. Eberle and Kamil Krol
Exhibition Space: LoT Louisville, KY

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(re):media by Krista Wortendyke

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 03:51:17 PST

(re):media by Krista Wortendyke, 2009.

"Although most of us have never experienced war, we are surrounded by its imagery. (Re): media is an exploration of the way imagery and information from movies, videogames, newspapers, and the Internet come together to form our perception of war. Having never experienced war first-hand I am forced to put my faith in mediated expressions of the thing itself. By combining the imagery I pillage from all these sources, there is a possibility that what I am creating is more real than the individual images themselves. Explosions are war's most universal and most spectacular signifiers. We are never falling short of this imagery. I have made use of these magnetizing images to show not only how the lines between fiction and non-fiction blur, but also to show how a mediated experience can become indecipherable from a real experience." - Krista Wortendyke. See more;

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▲ TRIANGULATION BLOG'S 2º ANNIVERSARY ▲

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 07:55:12 PST

Yeah! Today I'm so happy to see this blog is 2 years old and is alive :). Is alive because of you readers, followers, submissions and because everyone who interact with Triangulation Blog in someway. Btw the 10,000 followers at TB's facebook page was a really awesome present for this 2º anniversary, thank you.

I'm also very thankful to Absolut Network who is supporting economically the blog from March 2010, (thanks Jordi and Andres)!

The hard work behind of the blog became a part of my daily work, so yes, money make it easier. Don't need to say how many things you could support, just check out the blog. People/brands are most welcome to support economically Triangulation Blog.

I have a lot of thoughts to do on and with the blog, just trying to find the time for :)

A BIG THANKS TRIANGULATERS!

10,000 Pixels at Art Micro Patronage

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 05:47:20 PST

鳳凰 / ほうおう / Ho-o by Alexander Peverett

"10,000 Pixels" is the title for the ongoing exhibition at Art Micro Patronage > an experimental online exhibition space featuring monthly curated shows of digital, new media, and intermedia work. I love the donorship way AMP does to support the participating artists; As visitors navigate through the exhibitions, they are encouraged to become micro-patrons of the arts, associating their appreciation of the works with small monetary values. Patrons receive a link and image as recognition for their generosity and can easily keep track of works they've donated to via the AMP platform.

"Artist, musician, and educator Jeff Thompson has curated "10,000 Pixels"; where artists were asked to create three artworks using a 10,000-pixel “allowance”. The extremel "10,000 Pixels" is an exhibition curated by y low resolution becomes an aesthetic and conceptual challenge, resulting in ultra-low-resolution photographs, carefully crafted digital abstractions, blocky representations of physical objects similar to early Atari and NES sprites, or other unexpected solutions." See more;

"The Aesthetics of Low-Res

10,000 Pixels is about the creative strategies that emerge from limitations. For this exhibition, artists were given an “allowance” of 10,000 pixels and asked to create three images using only those pixels. The results range from tiny geometric forms, hotdogs/shit, tiny animations, and reminiscences of NES graphics and the early web.

We experience digital images in a kind of bracketed time. Current technologies look clean and crisp, whereas images from a few years ago seem inadequate and embarrassing. When looking at a video I made only a few years ago, I noticed the huge differences in quality between the older piece and more recent projects made in HD. Yet as a two-dimensional surface, even a seemingly low-resolution image contains a gigantic amount of information. A crummy YouTube video might have had 320x240 pixels, but even such an unacceptably low-resolution image contains 76,800 pixels [1]. The works in this exhibition explore the limitation of resolutions that are several orders of magnitude lower, having more to do with historical influences than the promise of 4k projectors."

Participating artists: Alexander Peverett, Angelo Plessas, Ben Vickers, Laura Brothers, Matt Cella, Tom Moody and Travess Smalley.

10,000 Pixels curated by Jeff Thompson

January 2012 · Art Micro Patronage

Images courtesy Art Micro Patronage

ChromaCube by Travess Smalley

Spriteforest 11 SEM by Matt Cella

Towers and Power by Angelo Plessas

Anestis Logothetis - Wellenformen

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 04:11:02 PST

This work, specially the visual part looks familiar to me. Is like I saw it before, but not sure. I'm also guessing this is a remake video featured on Youtube, where is not a description about the piece and the music on is from Greek musician Anestis Logothetis, 1921.

Anyway this is a great monochromatic and loopable work. I'd like to know more about the creator of, don't hesitate to comment here or at TB's facebook page if you know more info about. See the video below;

Flowpi by Jonathan McCabe

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 06:15:28 PST

Days ago I attended the Flowpi exhibition by Jonathan McCabe at Fach and Asendorf Gallery, that was when I discovered the hallucinogenic and organic world that McCabe creates by writing his own software. Then I searched more about his work and specially about the Flowpi series and I found on his vimeo account these awesome landscapes moving and growing up! I couldn't resist to ask him a little bit about the process of, see below what Jonathan told us about his Flowpi series;

"The Flowpi series was made using software that I wrote myself. It is a product of two processes. One is a simple flow like a 2 dimensional compressible fluid, which mixes up the colours and blends everything together, but also makes sharp edges where there is a kind of shock front. The other process is one of differentiation based on the Turing instability, which produces coloured lines and dots, and also a force acting on the motion of the fluid, stirring it up." - Jonathan McCabe

The following images are courtesy Fach and Asendorf Gallery

Reliefs by Alexandra Roozen

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 02:13:51 PST

These "Reliefs" by Alexandra Roozen are mesmerizing! I really like their minimalist style and careful composition, despite this, they provoke in the viewer a very strong visual effect, introducing him/her into different impresive perspectives. All the series is made from the same material and size, silicone rubber and 50x40 cm, 2011. See more;

"Alexandra Roozen's works are full of surprises. They demand physical proximity, to be looked at up-close, scrutinized. They absorb your vision, invite you to discover emerging planes, distinguish lines and follow contours. The observer is challenged to view the work again and again from various perspectives. This is mainly a result of the fact that, in order to research and analyze the properties and limitations of materials, Roozen explores the expressive power of forms and textures, of sizes and proportions. It is, however, the intense manner in which she is able to render spatial illusion that determines the magic of her work." - Netty van de Kamp

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Oliver Payne - Keiichi Tanaami at Studiolo

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 13:42:55 PST

Perfect Cherry Blossom is an exhibition by Keiichi Tanaami, 1936 and Oliver Payne, 1977, at Studiolo, Zurich. "The exhibition title is not only a symbol for flourishing spring and peace but also the name of one of the most advanced and violent Japanese Bullet Hell Games. A video game made by gamers for gamers from a time before the gaming industry turned into a home entertainment device." See more;

"In Oliver Payne’s collages (images below) stickers of Japanese Bullet Hell Games are arranged on torn out pages of an ancient Greek sculpture catalogue. Payne transforms the violent imagery of these videogames into psychedelic explosions of color. Greek statues serve as a background and a reminder of the fantasy worlds produced in Japanese arcade games, which often picture rural Europe. Sounds of an arcade field recording give a notion of manic playfulness towards the exhibited works.

In the films by Keiichi Tanaami (see some of these films .mov at Contemporary Art Daily) pop culture from east and west meet. Abstracted, post-traumatic impressions from the Great Tokyo Air Raid are combined with LSD fantasies and aesthetics of consumption merge with hallucinatory erotic desires. Tanaami is one of the most influential Pop Art artists of post-war Japan. His work had a great impact on a younger generation of artists working with pop aesthetics in Japan and abroad like Oliver Payne." - Studiolo

Perfect Cherry Blossom

Keiichi Tanaami and Oliver Payne

November 17th 2011 – January 28th 2012 at Studiolo

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Feréstec

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 09:42:40 PST

Feréstec is a catalan word that means "not domesticated", "an untamed anmimal". It's the name for an on-line visual project launched in 2009 by Ferran Pla, born in Barcelona, 1980. Lives and works in Madrid. Feréstec could be seen as a minimal approach to the digital image, where the movement goes from figurative to abstract.

Ferran tells us more about his project:

"The idea is to achieve a pure image, and to give digital texture a primitive feeling.

Raw images classically composed that leave you thinking that they could aswell have been retouched. Feréstec aims to reshape the concept of tradition within the avant-garde, by focusing on the very conventions of experimental cinema. I am also very interested on finding connections between the history of abstract cinema and skateboarding." See more;

"I published 4 zines based of my own images and exploring the raw feeling of my images on paper. My zines try to be cinema on paper following that Godard's idea that you can do films with a very few things, two stills is enough.

Ferestec's Notes is a kind of lab where you can see my creative procces. By juxtaposing images from others creators that i found interesting I try to create a third image completely new. Looking for new meanings. It's a way to show my thoughts without using langauge."

Propaganda

Aaron "Jaws" Homoki vs Feréstec

Seventh Sense

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 08:19:11 PST

Seventh Sense is an awesome performance where once again dance and interactive digital environments have been merged to create this beautiful connection. Seventh Sense is a collaboration project between 安娜琪舞蹈劇場 Anarchy Dance Theatre and 叁式 UltraCombos. As they say, this piece is still under progress, the show is going to have a premiere on November 2012, Taiwan. Interactive visuals have been made using openFramwork. Choreography by Chieh-hua Hsieh. See more;

See more videos about, here: 1, 2, 3.

Jonas Lund

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 08:09:22 PST

The following websites are four of my favorite works by Jonas Lund. All of them have been created this year. I really like the powerful but simple concepts he develops using the web.
Lund was born in Sweden, currently lives and works in Amsterdam. Please click the following images or links to check out the different pieces. See more;

http://thisplaceintime.net/

This Place In Time displays all visitors locations, continuously updated to be centered on the last one. By collecting litle by litle every spot in the world.

http://overandoveragain.net/

A Website that loads itself over and over again.

http://imhereandthere.com/

See what Jonas see through total transparency, it consists in a browser extension which sends every website he is currently viewing to imhereandthere.com. It refreshes as soon as Lund visits a new website. It works a bit like a mirror to his browser and life.

http://bluecrush.me/

A 47 tones of blue pop up performance. Just follow the indications on the site to run the piece correctly.

Penique Productions

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 07:15:36 PST

Penique Productions is a Spanish art collective creating temporary inflatable installations. The Project consists on the creation of colour inflatable that fills up the space erected by others, providing them of a new identity. A simplification of the space that unifies shapes and textures becoming one generating a different atmosphere. The balloons are constructed from regular patterns, adjusting each inflatable to the characteristics of each location. The concept works on the relation between the full and the empty, generating a dialogue with the space we inhabit temporarily. See more;

This golden installation took place last September at Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy. The dimensions of; 10m x 3m x 4 m ( x 3 balloons) and one more 9m x 3m x 4m.
More installations and different colors and places on their website.

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Yoichiro Kawaguchi

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:13:13 PST

"Yoichiro Kawaguchi was born in Tanegashima Is, Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan in 1952. He was graduated in Visual Communication Design at Kyushu Institute of Design in 1976. He received his Master degree from Tokyo University of Education in 1978. After teaching at Tsukuba University of Tokyo. Kawaguchi started to create computer graphics since 1975, he is an internationally acclaimed CGI artist. He achieved a unique style using his "GROWTH Model", a model based on growth algorithm. Selforganinzing artificial life media metropolices and highly dense creations of primal wildness represent sailent characteristics of his work. Since SIGGRAPH'82, he consistently presents work in the United States." See more;

"Professor Kawaguchi is an expert on the "GROWTH model," a self-organizing method to give form to one's rich imagination or to develop one's formative algorithm of a complex life form. As the art or a time progression, a program generates a form and this form is allowed to grow systematically according to a set formula. Howwever, this "GROWTH Model" is not based on a static process that allows constructive mathematics to take its course.

Though observation of eddies and spirals, repetitions of simple form of inner mathematical principles, which are hidden behind the seemingly complex outlook of living creatures, are deduced. Placing subtle forms like that of a conch shell as a starting point, the shapes of ammonite, nautilus, tentacles, plant vines and coral become visual references for this model.

The most important concept of the "GROWTH Model" is the "recursive structure," which is a repetition of simple rules within complexity. By running a genetic program implemented with this structure, the computer continuously creates multiplying images until it maximize its memory space. Beginning with an initial shape, the computer generates how the final image appears. Therefore, the "GROTH Model" is a way to give an unforeseen form to the progress of time.

The model is not intended to create or a faithful representations of reality but to produce a new bionomic pictorial space backed by an algorithm. A self-organizing form created by the "GROWTH Model" represents a creature that sesually moans and squirms and might have existed in the evolutionary past or that may appear in the distant future. It is a "life form of probability."

The following video shows an episode about Yoichiro Kawaguchi, from the UK Channel 4 series "283 Useful Ideas From Japan" first shown in 1990.

via | DIAMOND VARIATIONS

SUPER ART MODERN MUSEUM - SPAMM

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:45:35 PST

Must to attend SPAMM!! After several days waiting for the opening of this great project created in collaboration by Systaime, Thomas Cheneseau and Silicon Maniacs, finally the Super Art Modern Museum (SPAMM) has just opened its doors. The first exhibition is featuring 50 artworks from 50 artists for only 1 Super Art Modern Museum!

SPAMM Manifesto

"Visual arts have entered a new era. It’s a place where immediacy rules, where visual arts becomes virtual, a place that links the world together. A new era for artists who have invented new concepts, using digital medias, from video to graphism, static, animated or even computer-programmed. They have created a flamboyant design for a super-society created in the Web’s image.

Therefore, if "contemporary art" isn’t "from today" anymore, but just a continuing period of the XIX° century "modern art", we can proclaim - without hesitation - the existence of the Super Modern Art. It has existed for 10 years now across the web and new technologies. Super-modern art is a virtual museum." See more;

"By creating the Super Art Modern Museum (SPAMM), Systaime, Thomas Cheneseau and the Silicon Maniacs’s team, merely made up for the the indifference of cultural authorities and the need for society to understand the MUSEUM in another way. In 2012, the Museum has to tackle new issues as to the place of art, questioning the way to SEE it and to BUY it. The SuPer Art Modern Museum is an experiment to answer all those questions.

This is the reason why SPAMM takes up theses challenges. SPAMM is not only a new form of museum, it would like to encourage new forms of digital creation.

The Art of SPAMM is the art of Museum, the art of SPAMM is the eye of the collector, the art of SPAMM is the scream of an artistic movement, the art of SPAMM is collaborative and generative, it’s an art that gets out of homes and lives in the heart of machines, a new art for a new generation of artists, collectors, gamers, geeks, buzzers, actors and amateurs alike.

In the midst of this stream of creation, Thomas Cheneseau, Systaime and Silicon Maniacs select SPAMM artists. Systaime, Thomas Cheneseau and Silicon Maniac's team travel the world of virtual creation, from the Venice Biennale to lafiac.com, and they gather all their experiences together in a single place : SPAMM, a museum and an art manifesto." - Jean Jacques GAY, December 2011.

If art "should make us see what we have not already seen" (Paul Valery), Super Modern Art show us the art of tomorrow.

SPAMM artists participating in this first exhibition:

Andrey Yazev, Angelo Plessas, Anne de Vries, Anne Laplantine, Annie Abrahams, Anthony Antonellis, Brandon Blommaert, Chris Collins, Chris Timms, Claude Closky, Constant Dullaart, Daniel R Leyva, Dylan Fisher, Lhuisset, Emilio Gomariz, Eva and Franco, Mattes, Evan Roth, Zocco, Francoise Gamma, G3, Gregory Chatonsky, Helen Adamidou, Jankenpopp, Jennifer Chan, Jeremiah Johnson, Jeremy Bailey, Jodi, Jon Satrom, Kim Asendorf, Lorna Mills, Louise Sartor, Maurice Benayoun, Mr Doob, Nicolas Sassoon, Palle Torsson, Petra Cortright, Rafaël Rozendaal, Reynald Drouhin, Robert Lorayn, Rohan Fermi, Rollin Leonard, Rosa Menkman, Sarah Samy, Sarah Weis, Sara Ludy, Sterling Crispin, Systaime, Thomas Cheneseau, Wiwi Kuan, Yann Weissgerber.

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Tauba Auerbach at Bergen Kunsthall

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Thu, 15 Dec 2011 10:02:12 PST

This colorful book series is one of my favorite pieces from the ongoing exhibition of Tauba Auerbach at Bergen Kunsthall, called Tetrachromat. It will be open untill next 22th December, at Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen.

"In Tauba Auerbach’s work traditional distinctions between image, dimensionality and content collapse. Surface, specifically the larger issues surrounding topo¬logy, has been a central concern in her recent paintings, drawings, photographs and artist books. Auerbach interweaves discordant positions such as disorder and order, readability and abstraction, permeability and solidity – phenomena that are usually viewed as incompatible – into unified surfaces and volumes." See more;

"The title of the exhibition plays on the notion of ‘tetrachromatic’ vision. People normally perceive the world around them trichromatically (in three colours). Humans have three types of receptor for the perception of colour with varying sensitivities: red, green and blue. A new theory exists that there may be a small percentage of people (only women) who have a fourth colour receptor, which makes them ‘tetrachromatic’. In order to play on such ideas of a fourth component which, if it could be proven, would radically change our view of the world, Auerbach employs two analogies in this exhibition – the spatial (the idea of a fourth dimension) and the spectral (a fourth colour spectrum).

Tauba Auerbach has long worked with different types of book production. Recently these have developed into independent sculptural works that continue Auerbach’s research on multidimensionality and the importance of colour for spatiality. She presents several new book sculptures in this exhibition, and in a way these function as manuals for thinking about the project by constantly revolving around the question “How can we imagine what is impossible to sense?”"

See the complete press release and more pictures from the exhibition at Contemporary Daily and Bergen Kunsthall.

Photos by Vegard Kleven.

via | Contemporary Daily

Tree, Line by Zander Olsen

noreply@blogger.com (Triangulation Blog) — Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:09:35 PST

Tree, Line is an ongoing series of constructed photographs rooted in the forest by Zander Olsen. As Olsen says; these works, carried out in Surrey, Hampshire and Wales, involve site specific interventions in the landscape, ‘wrapping’ trees with white material to construct a visual relationship between tree, not-tree and the line of horizon according to the camera’s viewpoint. See more;

via | Field Notes