Posted in artists / designers, installations on Jun 18th, 2006
Gormley in da house
Originally uploaded by benhamin.
Its the 15th Biennale of Sydney, which consists of 85 artists & collaborators from 44 countries / 57 cities and held in 16 venues… Went and saw the Anthony Gormley installation at Walsh Bay, and this is one of the photos from the piece..
Highly recommend getting down there, the [...]
Posted in architecture, artists / designers on Jun 5th, 2006
I stumbled upon the Ars Electronica TIMESHIFT book (from the 2004 festival) in a store on Saturday, loved this quote… so here it is.
“I’ll throw the damned rearview mirror out the damned window because I don’t want to know where I’ve come from, but where I’m going.”
Frank Lloyd Wright, Architect
Posted in artists / designers, innovation, interactive, web / phunk on Jun 2nd, 2006
The interface of WeFeelFine.org has some subtle references to the Sony Ad with the balls, but thankfully is nothing to do with it. In fact maybe I shouldn’t of even said that… but it was a first impression.
The above image is of the opening interface, named ‘madness’, which is rather apparent as emotions sourced from [...]
Posted in artists / designers, music on May 17th, 2006
I’m listening to this track almost every morning at the moment. I’ve never seen a BOC video before, and in some ways I didn’t want to (there has always been visuals in my mind, man!)… but I like this, the surf bit is questionable - but all in all it works for me.
Enjoy the [...]
Posted in artists / designers, collaborate / participate, games / play, interactive on May 16th, 2006
Posted in artists / designers, installations, interactive on Apr 27th, 2006
Posted in artists / designers, installations, interactive on Apr 27th, 2006
Posted in artists / designers, awareness, sustainability / eco on Apr 18th, 2006
The secret’s out. Climate sceptics being funded by ExxonMobil can no longer hide behind the name of a front group. A new website - www.exxonsecrets.org - exposes the links between ExxonMobil money and the think tanks, associations and individuals denying global warming.
Don’t buy Mobil. Don’t buy Esso.
Via Greenpeace.org, attention drawn by information aesthetics, powered by [...]
Posted in artists / designers, collaborate / participate, games / play, installations on Mar 24th, 2006
1. Two web artists (net.legends) will face-off in a ring to alter a web page – the cyber-ring — live. The resulting changes will be seen by the public on a screen and by web surfers on the net.
2. The artists will face-off for three hours using their skills of design and hacking to assemble [...]
Posted in artists / designers, games / play, innovation, interactive, photography on Mar 14th, 2006
I/O Brush is a new drawing tool to explore colors, textures, and movements found in everyday materials by “picking up” and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a regular physical paintbrush but has a small video camera with lights and touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up [...]
Posted in artists / designers, games / play, interactive, web / phunk on Feb 28th, 2006
Flickeur (pronounced like Voyeur) randomly retrieves images from Flickr.com and creates an infinite film with a style that can vary between stream-of-consciousness, documentary or video clip.
I’m intrigued by this, think about it for a minute, the mashup of creative content is inspired.
Firstly individual photographers take photos and post them to flickr.com, a digital artist (Mario [...]
Posted in architecture, artists / designers, photography on Feb 27th, 2006
Chris Rose, designer, has remixed a series of photos of London’s Brunel Universities Uxbridge Campus. See all the photos here.
Via Boing Boing
Posted in artists / designers, graffiti / street art on Feb 21st, 2006
“This evening at 10:00 pm dr.d hit a billboard bang opposite the Brit awards, the British music industry’s annual self-congratulatory love-fest. For all their talk of fair trade, presumably Chris Martin and the other boys in Coldplay do not mind performing at a heavily policed event sponsored by Mastercard from which the people who actually [...]
Posted in artists / designers, installations, web / phunk on Feb 14th, 2006
The SVEN - Surveillance Video Entertainment Network (formerly AI to the People) project asks the question: If computer vision technology can be used to detect when you look like a terrorist, criminal, or other “undesirable” - why not when you look like a rock star?
Posted in artists / designers, collaborate / participate, installations on Jan 24th, 2006
Went and saw the Erwin Wurm: Glue Your Brain exhibition at the MCA Sydney on Saturday morning, with my good friend Melissa. Not only did we laugh and contemplate the humour and irony of Mr Wurm’s work, but we also took part in the exhibition. These shots were taken on my camera phone.