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Recent work from Denver-based artist Evan Hecox’s solo show “Terrain” at Andenken Gallery in Amsterdam.

AUDFIT

Dance and sound tech put together by Polish collective Strangeloop is a wearable device which produces abstract sounds based on the performer’s gestures through sensors. As the device has three seperate sound channels, the audience (listening with headphones) can hear different generated audio depending on the channel they choose to listen to - video embedded below:

excerpts from premiere of AUDFIT at Centrum Kultury ZAMEK, Poznań, 20.02.2014 in FRIV MOVE ZAMEK programme.

AUDFIT: Marta Romaszkan - dance/movement Krystian Klimowski - physical computing, sensor programming Patryk Lichota - conception and sound programming

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Creative Applications have covered a project by lafkon which created geometric stopframe animations using granular material and a pen-plotter:

Created by Lafkon duo consisting of Benjamin Stephan and Christoph Haag, etcpp is an animation created using Processing and a Pen Plotter where animation frames are drawn into various granular matter.

The project started during a pitch for collaborative animation project and unfortunately disapproved at the very early point, which duo decided to complete regardless. It’s built upon experimental work with pen plotters, described as precise machines and not too over-engineered and easily hackable. The process began by generating different animations using Processing which were then converted to vector graphics using an autotrace batch conversion and finally hpgl coordinates. All frames are then combined into one source file with a trigger command between each frame. Whenever the trigger command happens, i.e. when the plotter pen moves into it’s zero position, it activates a hardware switch – the camera takes a photo.

Here is the animation that was produced:

You can find out more about the project (and see the process of putting together the frames in action) at Creative Applications here

Creative Applications also have an informal Tumblr blog [thisthatandwhatnot] here

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The electric works of Los Angeles based artist John Espinosa

Conway's Game of Life, an interesting way to think about complex systems and emergent design

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Letters at Large

For her Master of Fine Arts thesis, Audra Hubbell projected these huge letters from various typefaces around Chicago. Visualising the characters free of the restraints of page or screen, Audra’s aim was to observe the effects of space and the environment on the letters and the letters on the space. The interesting distortions lead her to explore the harmony between each letter and specific location.

In 2007 Tobias Battenberg created similar images projecting the typeface Akzidenz Grotesk around the city of Cologne, which is worth seeing here.

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Giphoscope n° 22 | The Public Domain Review Collection

Owner: Artist Jose Tola, Lima, Peru.

The Giphoscope n° 22 was created in collaboration with The Public Domain Review and sold through the PDR Store. It displays an Animated GIF of a pig trotting, created from Plate 674 (Pig) in: Muybridge, Eadweard (1887). Animal Locomotion: an Electro-photographic Investigation of Consecutive Phases of Animal Movements, 1872-1885.

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The Giphoscope is the world first handmade analog GIF player. Each Giphoscope is built to order and is a one-of-a-kind piece of art. To know more about the Giphoscope, making of, collections and orders, please visit: www.giphoscope.com or write to [email protected].

The Giphoscope: Perpetual (E)motion. By Alessandro Scali & Marco Calabrese from Officina K | OKKULT Motion Pictures, Turin, Italy.

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Tokyo Cityscapes Seen Through Colorful Bokeh

by Takashi Kitajima

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Facerig

Facial tracking software uses your webcam feed and presents you as a high-quality 3D character, mimicking your facial expressions and position. Also claims to alter your voice amongst other features.

The project was featured on Indiegogo and has already reached it’s target with a month to go - video embedded below demonstrates many interesting features:

FaceRig is a program enabling anyone with a webcam to instantly embody any character they want. The output can be streamed to Skype, Twitch or any service that uses a webcam. It can also be instantly recorded as a movie. For now we’re focusing on the portrait and the audio, but we aim to do more in the future.

It is currently in development, but we’re already having lots of fun with it. We, the developers, would love to have the chance to finalize it and keep it indie to make it available at a low price for everyone to enjoy; that’s why we’re on Indiegogo. We hope you’ll join in and help us create something fresh and fun.

You can find out more at Indiegogo here, or at the official website here

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Classical meets digital in the collage work of David Marinos

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BitTorrent Trilogy

Collection of videos comprising of glitches from corrupted BitTorrent feeds of popular television shows, put together by artist Conor McGarrigle. You may already be aware of the Mad Men video, but the collection also features Game of Thrones and Breaking Bad - videos embedded below:

The BitTorrent Trilogy consists of a series of three videos made from episode of popular TV shows incompletely downloaded from the internet via bittorrent. The resulting videos show the glitches and digital errors characteristic of this process …

… The videos simultaneously act as a visualisation of bittorrent traffic and the practice of filesharing as well as being an aesthetically beautiful and unique by-product of the bittorrent process, the file codec and the size of the bittorrent swarm as the pieces of the original file are rearranged and reconfigured into a new transitory in-between state.

More info can be found at Conor’s site here

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‘Toy Stories’ is the result of an 18 month round the world trip where Galimberti visited a variety of countries and cultures and took photographs of children and their toys. Galimberti would often take part in a child’s games prior to arranging the toys for the photograph. He says:

“The richest children were more possessive. At the beginning, they wouldn’t want me to touch their toys, and I would need more time before they would let me play with them […] In poor countries, it was much easier. Even if they only had two or three toys, they didn’t really care. In Africa, the kids would mostly play with their friends outside.”

Despite some differences, Galimberti found similarities between children living worlds apart. Even in different countries, some children’s toys played the same function: protecting them from dangers and things they feared in the night.

The Italian photographer also found that many children were attached to toys that reflected the world that surrounded them in their particular area. A boy from an affluent Beijing family loves Monopoly because he enjoys the idea of building houses and hotels, while another young boy living in rural Mexico loves trucks because they travel through his village on the way to the sugar plantation everyday.

A lovely point Galimberti made about his experience was that toys haven’t changed all that much since he was a kid.

“I’d often find the kind of toys I used to have,” he says. “It was nice to go back to my childhood somehow.”