UPDATE 2024:
Così scrivevo 14 anni fa e anche il video ha la stessa età
Con tecnologia digitale verrà un momento in cui nessuna foto e nessun film saranno più ammissibili come prova in un processo. Date un’occhiata qui.
The digital technology will ban photos and films from the trials, some day.
Sun Boxes is a sound installation created by Craig Colorusso.
It’s comprised of twenty speakers operating independently each powered by solar panels. There is a different guitar sample in each box all playing together making the composition. The guitar samples are all of different lengths so the whole piece keeps evolving.
Participants are encouraged to walk amongst the speakers. It sounds different inside of the array. There is a different sense of space inside. Certain speakers will be closer and louder therefore the piece will sound different to different people in different positions throughout the array. Creating a unique experience for everyone.
There are no batteries involved. The Sun Boxes are reliant on the sun. When the sun sets the music stops. The piece changes as the length of the day changes making the participants aware of the cycle of the day.
It’s a very interesting idea. I would like to know how powerful each speaker is. 5 Watt? 10?
Sonar from Renaud Hallée on Vimeo.
Rhythmic cycle w/ abstract animation. 2009
Basic keyframe animation using flash, without scripting.
Official selection :
Annecy International Animation Film Festival – Out of competition
Sommets du cinéma d’animation de Montréal : Quebec-Canada
Festival des Films de la Relève
The New York Times has published some good images of the new Trade World Center in 360 degree format. Click the image to go.
Good for Easter day, the virtual tour of Sistine Chapel, a flash panorama where you can move in clicking two buttons on the lower left or moving the mouse and the wheel (click image to enlarge).
Written and directed by Jonathan Bensimon and produced by Jonas Bell Pasht, Tokyo/Glow follows the nighttime journey of an illuminated man from a crosswalk sign as he embarks on an adventure through the streets of Tokyo. Shot on location throughout Tokyo using thousands of individual digital stills, the short film features original music by indie rock band Kidstreet, who recently signed with Nettwerk Records and will be releasing their debut album worldwide in 2010.
To achieve the striking effect of the illuminated man, an original light suit was constructed using hundreds of feet of high-voltage LED rope lights and a translucent nylon outer shell. Michael Lambermont, executive producer at Alter Ego in Toronto, oversaw the effects-heavy post-production process, which included weeks of extensive rotoscoping and compositing in the facility’s two Flame suites, plus a final colour grade, once the effects were complete. Geoff Ashenhurst, editor at Stealing Time, was charged with bringing the thousands of digital stills to life with director Bensimon.
The Drawing Center (35 Wooster Street, New York) opens a large show (nearly 100 works) of drawings by Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001), including mathematical renderings, architectural plans and sketches for compositions.
I know that it’s a little away from here, but see this page for drawing examples with video and audio.
The wide landscapes of Australia are the new spaces of contemporary sculpture
Neil Dawson’s Horizons, made of welded steel, is an imposing 15m high and 36m long.
Anish Kapoor’s Untitled is 25m long, 8m high and made of mild steel tube and tensioned fabric.
Andy Goldsworthy’s Arches was created in 2005. It is partly submerged at high tide. It consists of 11 5m-high sandstone arches.
George Rickey’s Column of Four Squares Gyratory III is 15m high.
Richard Serra’s 257m-long, 6m-high Te Tuhirangi looks delicate from above, but up close become as imposing as the wall of a full dam.
From The Australian
Playing the Building is a sonic project by ex-Talking Head David Byrne that came to London in 2009. You could sit down at an “antique organ” and hit whatever keys or chords your heart desired—but you wouldn’t be producing notes.
You would instead trigger a “series of devices,” as Byrne describes them: hammers and dampers distributed throughout the building in which you sat. Distant windowpanes and metal cross-beams, hooked up to wires, would begin to vibrate, tap, and gong. Imagine someone like this sitting in the darkness beneath Manhattan, causing haunted musics and unexplained knocks inside rooms and abandoned buildings around the city. Now, even urban infrastructure will be musicalized.
The Ocean of Light project explores the creative and immersive possibilities of light-based visualisation in physical space. It uses bespoke hardware to create dynamic, interactive and three-dimensional sculptures from light.
Surface is the first artwork to be exhibited using the Ocean of Light hardware. It uses minimal visuals and sound to evoke the essence of character and movement. Autonomous entities engage in a playful dance, negotiating the material properties of a fluid surface.
The Ocean of Light project is a collaborative research venture, led by Squidsoup and supported by the Technology Strategy Board (UK). Partners include Excled Ltd and De Montfort University. Additional support and resources have been provided by Oslo School of Architecture and Design (Norway), Massey University, Wellington (New Zealand) and Centre for Electronic Media Art, Monash University (Aus).
Squidsoup is a digital arts group specialising in immersive interactive installations within physical 3D space. Their work combines sound, light, physical space and virtual worlds to produce immersive and emotive headspaces. They explore the modes and effects of interactivity, looking to make digital experiences where meaningful and creative interaction can occur.