Install Technical Culture
Install Technical Culture offers micro-commentries and re-blogs on art, events, research, conferences, galleries, festivals, symposiums - mostly around art & technological culture.
The Tenth Sentiment, Ryota Kuwakubo
A model train equipped with a light source slowly navigates through various household objects lined on the floor, and projects their shadows. Dancing on the walls, floor, and ceiling of the room, the shadows of the objects keep changing like a landscape seen through the carriage windows, surrounding viewers with images as if they were passengers riding on the train. By exposing them to a repetition of conflicting experiences—immersion and bird’s eye view, déjà vu and jamais vu—this work sharpens audiences’ senses and inspires them to share impressions.
First Person Tetris
http://www.firstpersontetris.com/
A classic game remake with an interesting twist. The act of rotating a block rotates the entire screen, shifting your perspective 90 degrees and adding a new dimension of challenge to the 1984 puzzler by Russian engineer Alexey Pajitnov.
Richard Wilson, Turning the Place Over, Liverpool Biennale 2008
“The most daring piece of public art ever commissioned in the UK, Turning the Place Over is artist Richard Wilson’s most radical intervention into architecture to date, turning a building in Liverpool’s city centre literally inside out.”
Read more at the Liverpool Biennale’s official site:
http://www.biennial.com/content/LiverpoolBiennial2008/TurningthePlaceOver/Overview.aspx
Lis Rhodes, Light Music 1975 (two screens and hazer)
An installation of this piece was exhibited in the Oil Tanks at the Tate Modern as part of the Expanded Cinema: Activating the Space of Reception conference this weekend. I recorded this video on my phone, (hence the appauling quality), and it certainly gives no sense of the scale, atmosphere and presence of this piece. One of the best things I’ve seen this year.
“Lis Rhodes has conducted a thorough investigation into the relashionship between shapes and rhythms of lines and their tonality when printed as sound. Her latest work Light Music is series of movable sections. The film does not have a rigid pattern of sequences and the final length is variable. The image is restricted to lines of horizontal bars across the screen: there is variety in the spacing (frequency), their thickness (amplitude), their colour and density (tone).”
William Raban, Perspectives on British Avant-Garde at the Hayward Gallery, 1978
Network Art and the Networked Gallery
2006, Charlie Gere
http://www.tate.org.uk/intermediaart/entry15617.shtm
An excellent paper addressing Net art’s awkward relationship with museums and galleries.
Charlie Gere is a new media theorist and historian, and Director of the Institute for Cultural Research at Lancaster University.
Gere’s main research interest is in the cultural effects and meanings of technology and media, particularly in relation to art and philosophy.
littleBits
“littleBits is an opensource library of discrete electronic components pre-assembled in tiny circuit boards. Just as Legos allow you to create complex structures with very little engineering knowledge, littleBits are simple, intuitive, space-sensitive blocks that make prototyping with sophisticated electronics a matter of snapping small magnets together. With a growing number of available modules, littleBits aims to move electronics from late stages of the design process to its earliest ones, and from the hands of experts, to those of artists, makers and designers.”
YouTomb
“YouTomb is a research project by MIT Free Culture that tracks videos taken down from YouTube for alleged copyright violation.
More specifically, YouTomb continually monitors the most popular videos on YouTube for copyright-related takedowns. Any information available in the metadata is retained, including who issued the complaint and how long the video was up before takedown. The goal of the project is to identify how YouTube recognizes potential copyright violations as well as to aggregate mistakes made by the algorithm.”
Imaginary Futures
“Richard Barbrook’s Imaginary Futures, challenges new generations to take the power of the Internet into their own hands, to resist status quo politics and to use the world’s most powerful political tool to shape their own, better, destiny. His message: if we don’t want the future to be what it used to be, we must invent our own, improved and truly revolutionary future.”
http://www.imaginaryfutures.net/
Interview at http://www.archive.org/details/FutureArchive_richardb
(via oneminuteweek)
“Artist Neville Gabie will be spending the next 4 months in Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey as their artist in residence at Halley Research Station. Situated on the Brunt Ice Shelf this is the first time an artist has been allowed to spend the whole summer season at the base. During that time Neville will update this blog with a one minute film each week. This project has been initiated in collaboration with Picture This.”
A collection of unique films that see Gabie flying kites in the Antarctic and tracking a convoy of vehicles with pen.
Burble London (an implementation of Open Burble)
http://www.haque.co.uk/burblelondon.php
“Haque Design + Research specialises in the design and research of interactive architecture systems. Architecture is no longer considered something static and immutable; instead it is seen as dynamic, responsive and conversant. Our projects explore some of this territory.
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 in the evening sky, in response to movements of the long articulated interactive handle bar at the base of the structure. The ephemeral experience exists at such a large scale that it is able to compete visually in an urban context with the buildings that surround it.”
