Bubble Device by Nicholas Hanna

Nicholas Hanna is lately experiment with textures, patterns and forms produced by the use of water. After create the great 水书法器 Water Calligraphy Device, he has built a new automated device to do huge soap bubbles. As he told us, Nicholas is interested in investigating the aesthetics of bubbles and the continuous, automated production of temporal objects. An influence for this project is Elaine Scarry, and her book On Beauty, in which she presents a theory of beauty as that which begets copies of itself. See more;

Irrational Computing by Ralf Baecker

Irrational Computing by Ralf Baecker, 2011, is an artistic test of material, esthetics and potentials of digital processes. The installation is based on semiconductor crystals – the basic commodity of information technology. The installation consists of five interlinked modules that use the varied electrical and mechanical particularities and characteristics of crystals and minerals and, through their networking, form a kind of primitive macroscopic signal processor. “Irrational Computing” is not supposed to “function” – its aim is to search for the poetic elements on the border between “accuracy” and “chaos” amplifying the mystic and magic side of these materials. See more;

®NOVA · David Quiles Guilló · SPECIAL POST

David Quiles Guilló. photo by Giselle Galvão

®NOVA Festival is a multidimensional art festival, which brings to the forefront of the contemporary audiovisual  arts. The festival is a live construction site, which combines visual art, experimental, contemporary techniques, technological resources. The idea came from ROJO®, founded 11 years ago in Barcelona by David Quiles Guilló, director and curator of the exhibition, whose previous editions have been through São Paulo, Los Angeles and Rio de Janeiro. This year it is going to open in few days, just the next 6th April in Sao Paulo at MIS "Museu da Imagem e do Som"  supported by SESC Pompéia. It will feature the work of over 100 guest artists!

Triangulation Blog is supporting the ®NOVA Festival as online media partner and I really want to dedicate a post to this great event created because of the enthusiasm of David Quiles Guilló. Many of the artists participating on this festival have already been featured here,  I feel there is a really good connection with ®NOVA. For this Special Post we have an excellent interview made by Juliana D Chohfi to David, they both speak everything about and around the festival. Don't miss it! See more;

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Propulsion Painting by Evan Roth

Today 14th March opens a new solo exhibition by Evan Roth called "Welcome to Detroit" at Eastern Michigan University.Is Detroit where Evan has been living and working for this exhibition along six weeks, preparing new works like the Propulsion Painting series, (see the videos into the post). In this exhibition Evan is going to show some of his latest projects made over the last and current year such as Skymall Liberation, Personal Internet Cache Archive, One GIF composition among other experimental and also funny works. See more;

Search by image - Sebastian Schmieg

One of the latest works of Sebastian Schmieg is called "Search by image" the same name as the Google's feature which was launched last year and lets users search by image, and he used for this  project. Sebastian made different huge researches of images by using a recursive process, he started with one image, then search again with result from the previous search, and the same with the next result, etc. He wrote some scripts to make the process easier. Finally Sebastian presented the different searches through videos, displaying the images following the same order he did searching the images. 

In the first video below, into the  post, he started from a transparent png,  and then searching recursively for almost 3000 times. You can see more tests on his site. See more;

Pendulum Video Mode

Pendulum Video Mode is a work in progress by Jonathan Brainin, who is experimenting using feedback video plus the movement generated through a pendulum which creates mesmerizing endless zig-zag visual effects. The following videos documents some of the kinetic video installation tests made by Jonathan. The feedback is generated by the displaying of a camera feed on a monitor whose image is captured by a camera placed a few feet in front of the screen. See more;

Years by Bartholomäus Traubeck

Years is a project made by Bartholomäus Traubeck in 2011, consisting in a record player that plays slices of wood. Year ring data is translated into music. Made using modified turntable, computer, vvvv, camera, acrylic glass, veneer.

"A tree’s year rings are analysed for their strength, thickness and rate of growth. This data serves as basis for a generative process that outputs piano music. It is mapped to a scale which is again defined by the overall appearance of the wood (ranging from dark to light and from strong texture to light texture). The foundation for the music is certainly found in the defined ruleset of programming and hardware setup, but the data acquired from every tree interprets this ruleset very differently." - Bartholomäus Traubeck. See more;

Rollin Leonard at Fa-g.org

Screenshot from "Pig Pile", video.

Last wednesday the online gallery Fach and Asendorf founded by Kim Asendorf and Ole Fach, featured a new show called "Rearrangements" by Rollin Leonard. I really like the different basic tools and ways Rollin used to create all the pieces at the exhibition. See more; 

Jeffrey Plaide

Jeffrey Plaide_
"I am very interested in creating synthetic and electronic compositions, treatments and arrangements and using electronic music and visual synthesis techniques to realise complex and abstract concepts. My prime inspiration comes from the work carried out by the BBC Radiophonic Workshop and its creative pioneers using electronic sounds and tape collage mixes. I am also interested in pure audio and video synthesis techniques, including modular analogue music synthesis systems and modular video synthesis tools and practices." - Jeffrey Plaide. See more;

Free Falling by Ezri Tarazi

What an amazing performing process shows this project called Free Falling, made by designer Ezri Tarazi. It is done by transforming a trapezoidal box made from a perforated metal sheets into a chair by the fall of a mannequin filled with concrete.The mannequin is pressed into the prism’s surface to create a subtly different shape each time. See more;

4Monkeys by Ali Hossaini

4Monkeys was created in 2008 by philosopher Ali Hossaini, in collaboration with Yuri Stefanishin who made the software design part and composer Patrick Oropeza.

"The installation realizes Jorge Luis Borges' utopian concept of the universal library, as it will eventually express every piece of knowledge, every work of literature and every mundane conversation - past, present and future - that can be imagined.

4Monkeys explores the intersection of art and philosophy, and it encourages direct participation. Visitors can enter strings of characters into the artwork, which generates new animations based on their input. The characters can be from any language that has a computer font. Letters swirl into complex patterns under the guidance of a mysterious logic." See more;

Resonate - Belgrade New Media Festival

March 16-17, 2012

Resonate is setting new standards in the arts industry by creating a new platform for networking, information, knowledge sharing and education. It will bring together distinguished, world class artists, with an opportunity of participating in a forward-looking debate on the position of technology in art and culture.

“Resonate” is more than just a festival, expert seminar or exhibition of visual arts. It is broad enough to encompass areas ranging from software engineering to visual arts theory, but also to create a bridge between culturally separated segments of the artistic and intellectual scene through a comprehensive, multidisciplinary approach. See more;

VERSUS by David Letellier

Versus is a sound installation created by David Letellier. Consisting of two kinetic sculptures placed face to face. Each sculpture is made out of 12 triangular panels, hinged and powered by six linear actuators, controlled by a specific program. At the center of each corolla, a loudspeaker and a microphone allow to play and record sounds.

At regular intervals, each sculpture produces a sound, simultaneously recorded and analyzed by the opposite sculpture, which then moves according to the frequencies of this sound. Like a feedback loop, it then plays back the recorded sound, with the errors and disturbances caused by the reverberating space and the visitors. See more;

Photoshop Skillz by Anthony Antonellis

Photoshop Skillz is a great program-exploration by Anthony Antonellis.  In this case he used and experimented using basic tools and filters from Photoshop to get different visual animated manifestations. 

"Anthony Antonellis is an artist based on the internet. His process is cumulative: copy-pasting between analog and digital states. His recent work experiments with painting as a conduit, short animation, filtering, and doing-it-wrong approaches. He studied at Bauhaus-University Weimar, MFA in new artistic strategies, and Savannah College of Art and Design, BFA in painting." See more;

HAPTIC INTELLIGENTSIA by Studio Homunculus

HAPTIC INTELLIGENTSIA is a new project developed by Studio Homunculus. Consisting in a human 3D printing machine that allows the user to tactually perceive the virtual object and to directly transform it into the physical. The user can freely move the extruding gun, which is attached to a haptic interface. When the tip of the gun is moved into a surface region of the virtual object, the interface generates forces under computer control, allowing the user to feel and touch the surface of the object. See more;

Mea Culpa by Bruce Conner

"Bruce didn’t have a camera but he wanted to make films. And he didn’t have any money. So he bought some films at the photography store, sort of home movies, and (filmmaker) Larry Jordan showed him how to splice film. He borrowed a splicer from Larry and he just made a film, which he called "A Movie."" – Jean Conner about Conner’s first film. See more;

Static/Continuization Loop by Wim Janssen

"Static/Continuization Loop are two works by Wim Janssen about the phenomenon of television static. The same recognizable and commonly known image of television static is being generated through two completely different techniques. Not the image itself, but the way it is reconstructed and materialised, is the most important part of the Statics-series.

Television static is not just an abstract image, but also a figurative one. It is in fact an artifact of technology, a physical phenomenon and unwanted by-product. It is recognizable as what it is, static, but also has a certain iconic meaning. Wim Janssen tries to imitate and materialize static by means of an apparently slow and inefficient process." See more;

PRISMA 1666

PRISMA 1666 is a collaboration project between Wonwei and Shanghai-based design studio Super Nature Design. It was first exhibited at the 2011 International Science and Art Exhibition in Shanghai where it received the Best Creative Design Award.

"In 1666, Sir Isaac Newton conducted a famous experiment that has been widely considered as a landmark discovery in the study of optics and color theory. Inspired by this discovery, PRISMA1666 is an interactive light installation consisting of 15 triangular crystal blocks distributed randomly on a clean white surface. The projection of colorful graphics is refracted and dispersed by these crystal blocks, creating a fascinating visual experience and ambiance. The installation enables interaction with the projected colors, angles, and shapes through a touch interface, creating an opportunity to experiment with these elements like Isaac Newton did so many years before us" See more;

Formation (difference and repetition)

Formation (difference and repetition) series 2011, by Baden Pailthorpe_

"Made using an Afghanistan-based video game, Baden Pailthorpe’s 'Formation' series, explores the aesthetics and dynamics of opposition. In the work, two opposing forces of US soldiers and Taliban combatants follow invisible waypoints side-by-side. Oblivious to each other’s presence thanks to a hacked game setting, the usual violence of this relationship is transformed into a poetic, uncanny rhythm that repeats and amplifies the avatars’ movement." See more;

Sinusoidal Waves: F(x) A(y) by Rollin Leonard

Sinusoidal Waves: Frequency(x) & Amplitude(y) by Rollin Leonard_

"SW:FxAy was designed as a large grid of photographs — 36 separate C-prints totalling 102 by 152 cm when arranged in the complete 4 by 9 grid. The subject is me moving like a sine wave, wiggling. Two properties of this wave are adjusted and distributed over the grid — one, the frequency of the wave is arranged from small to large on the x axis and two, the amplitude of the wave is arranged from small to large on the y axis. The photographs were taken by setting the camera to a long exposure and scanning bars of red, blue, and green light over the subject. Different blends of red, blue, and green describe the shape and movement of my body. Given the high amount of trial and error this project required, I have hundreds of biproduct images. Some of those byproduct images are what I use in the video I arranged for Triangulation Blog shown here." See more;