» Swoon, Interview by Acclaim Magazine

Acclaim Magazine just posted this interview with Swoon.

Swoon is a New York artist renowned for her paste ups and large scale installation work.

She recently made a trip to Melbourne for her exhibition at the Metro Gallery in Armadale. In this interview by Acclaim, she spoke about space, context and participation and how these inspire and impact her work.

» Visiophone, Kinect dancing with swarming particles

Visiophone is Rodrigo Carvalho, a portuguese graphic designer and new media artist born in Porto. He studied design at University of Aveiro and he is now based in Barcelona where he studies a masters degree in digital arts at Pompeu Fabra University. 

This video is a demo of "Dancing With Swarming Particles", an interactive installation and performance that intends to explore the relationship between a physical user and an “avatar” which has the physical characteristics of morphing flocking particles.

It was made in Unity3d, using Kinect and Osceleton.

» NOVA documentary, 75min online premiere

A documentary film on new art and the young artists behind it. Directed by Isaac Niemand, and produced by Rojo, an independent creative organization, founded in 2001 by David Quiles Guilló, in collaboration with BossaNovaFilms, it was all filmed at Nova Contemporary Culture which happened in July and August 2010, in MIS-Museum of Image and Sound, and SESC Pompeia, in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

Starring: Yoshi Sodeoka, Rebecca Ward, Tofer Chin, KRINK, Base V, Yochai Matos, Max Hattler, Lucy McRae, Kit Webster, Jimmy Joe Roche, Flavio Samelo, Matt W Moore, Zeitguised, Mulheres Barbadas, Gustavo Gagliardo aka Defi, Filippo Minelli, Quayola, Javier Longobardo, Renaud Hallée, Mark Jenkins, Ljudbilden & Piloten, Sosaku Miyazaki, Anna Taratiel aka Ovni, Robert Seidel, B. Fleischmann, Koen Delaere, Taras Hrabowsky, Cristopher Cichocki, Yusk Imai, to name a few.

Music by: Bradien, Roll The Dice, Fuck Buttons, to name some.

» Solaris, Low-Rez Stories by Manuel Schamlstieg

This work is part of the project Low-Rez Stories by Manuel Schmalstieg, it´s a semi-narrative video installation based on the use of remote webcam feeds which are tracked by spider-bots, captured and combined into a self-generating cinematic video landscape. Solaris is an exercise of dynamic camera motion in google street view, inspired by a sequence of the motion picture Solaris (Tarkovsky 1972), you can watch the sequence here. Manuel Schmalstieg studied in Geneva and Krakow. In 2001 he was nominated as artistic co-director of N3krozoft Ltd, an international art and technology research group.

Check out the video installation here.

» Shape Shift

ShapeShift is an experiment in future possibilities of architectural materialization. This project explores the potential application of electro-active polymer (EAP) at an architectural scale. It is an ultra-lightweight, flexible material with the ability to change shape without the need for mechanical actuators. ShapeShift bridges gaps between advanced techniques in architectural design/fabrication and material science as well as pushing academic research towards real world applications. The project is being developed by Computer Aided Architectural Design (ETHZ) and the Swiss Federal Laboratories for Materials Science and Technology (EMPA). I´ve seen different projects with the same principle and purpose but this one is ahead of every one of them. See the team behind this project here.