The Cans Festival, London.
Posted in artists / designers, graffiti / street art, installations on Jun 17th, 2008
Quick post… had to share.
Check our man on the ground; Thaddeus Maximus’s photostream here
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Burble London: Audience controlled LED balloon installation
Posted in artists / designers, innovation, installations, interactive on Sep 10th, 2007
The Burble is a massive structure reaching up towards the sky, composed of approximately 1000 extra-large helium balloons each of which contains microcontrollers and LEDs that create spectacular patterns of light across the surface of the structure. The public, both audience and performer, come together to control this immense rippling, glowing, bustling ‘Burble’ that sways [...]
“Hello, world!”
Posted in artists / designers, installations, whatever on Feb 15th, 2007
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Originally uploaded by sns2006.
A real installation for the virtual globe of the software Google Earth.
A Semacode measuring 160 x 160 meters was mown into a wheat field near the town of Ilmenau in the Land Thuringia. The code consists of 18 x 18 bright and dark squares producing decoded the phrase “Hello, world!”.
Learn more [...]
Carsten Höller’s Slides, Tate Modern
Posted in artists / designers, installations, photography on Oct 16th, 2006
Originally uploaded by in.vino.veritas.
Brilliant. The Tate Modern’s turbine room plays host to Carsten Höller’s gigantic slides. I cant wait to visit on my next homage to the UK, rest assured I’ll be documenting this in full digital glory. See more images here.
Atomic: full of love, full of wonder by Nike Savvas
Posted in artists / designers, installations on Aug 20th, 2006
Atomic: full of love, full of wonder
Originally uploaded by benhamin.
Essential viewing, the ‘Adventures with Form in Space’ exhibition at The Gallery of NSW (Sydney).
Not all pieces get as much attention as this one… and rightly so, its fantastic. The whole audience seems to be tansfixed with smiles (and perhaps full of love and wonder, [...]
Gormley in da house
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 [...]
Dot Matrix Building
Posted in artists / designers, installations, interactive on Apr 27th, 2006
Tetris on a Tower Block
Posted in artists / designers, installations, interactive on Apr 27th, 2006
Code Flinging Warriors
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 [...]
SVEN - Surveillance Video Entertainment Network
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?
Erwin Wurm exhibits me
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.
Greyworlds Urban Sketches
Posted in artists / designers, collaborate / participate, installations on Dec 21st, 2005
“Greyworld’s Urban Sketches installation (click gallery/new media) is an interactive work that makes the space and its inhabitants both the subject of the work and its authors.
A hidden camera records the space and its inhabitants, the mirror like screen becoming the visual palette for an altered version of the captured reality. The volume of people, [...]
Transparent Billboards
Posted in artists / designers, installations, whatever on Dec 19th, 2005
So I’m checking out Neural.it, and follow a link to the Billboard Liberation Front and found this inspiring photography project by Kasia Kesicka. It mimics the flickr pool on transparent screens but is nonetheless inspired.
Make sure you explore the Billboard Liberation Front there’s some fantastic Ad jamming.
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1000 year long piece of music
Posted in installations, whatever on Dec 19th, 2005
What is Longplayer ? Longplayer is a 1000 year long piece of music which started to play on the 1st January 2000 and will continue to play, without repetition, until the 31st December 2999, when it will come back to the point at which it began - and begin again.
Interactive Mechanical Mirrors
Posted in artists / designers, installations, interactive on Dec 19th, 2005
The 4 mechanical mirrors are made of various materials but share the same behavior and interaction; any person standing in front of one of these pieces is instantly reflected on its surface. The mechanical mirrors all have video cameras, motors and computers on board and produce a soothing sound as the viewer interacts with them.
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