Prisma-Archives Virtual Museum

Curated by: Gabbi White, Jessica Yean, Victoria Yu, Jinqiuzi Yun, Sen Yung, and Jesus Zerpa

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Tron Dance - Wrecking Crew Orchestra (2012)

Wrecking Crew Orchestra, a Japanese street performance group, constructed and choreographed this routine to make the best use out of the ILuminate wireless system worn on stage.  The dancers were strapped with wirelessly controlled EL (electroluminescent) wire and LEDs (light emitting diodes), which consist of the first and only customizable wireless lighting system.  The light suits contribute to the effect of their Tron: Legacy inspired moves, merging effectually both choreography and lighting design.  The real-time control aspect of the suits make this performance new media art, since mediums such as DMX consoles, ProTools, and the triggering of pre-programmed sequences allow for a truly interactive environment.

Reference: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/15/tron-dance-routine-wrecking-crew-orchestra-japan-video_n_1348142.html

Reference: http://iluminate.com/features/

Posted by: Jesus Zerpa

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OFF THE PLANET - Red Bull

Artist(s): ENESS - Multimedia moguls since 1997 (Melbourne-based Installation Artists)

Snowboarders include riders such as Russell Henshaw, Sean Pettit and Simon Dumont.

To achieve the effects demonstrated in this video, Melbourne based installation artists ENESS created a floating 21’ inflatable sphere, placed right between the two ramps.  Their exclusive software allowed them to map 3-dimensional visuals onto the snow and the sphere, thus fusing interactive art with skiers and snowboarders flying through the air.  To make these visuals truly interactive, snowboarders were tracked using an infrared camera.  Projectors, action lighting, and long throw reflectors are a few examples of the specific resources necessary to create such an experience.

Reference: http://www.redbullillume.com/insight/featured-stories/red-bull-off-the-planet-the-making-of.html

Reference: http://www.eness.com/?r=Project&p=2&c=3

Posted by: Jesus Zerpa

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Horse with No Shadow

Artwork: Horse with No Shadow Artist: Makoto Tojiki Year created: 2010

   This artwork “Horse with No Shadow” is created by a Japanese digital artist, Makoto Tojiki, who is deeply interested in photons, light, and their effects on one’s vision. His fascination is reflected on his series of creations where he primarily focuses on the technology combining light and visibility. For example, this art piece combine with his other two collections “The Man with No Shadow” (2009) and “The Blue Bird” (2009) to form the series of “No Shadow”artworks. While the visibility of an object depends on the light it absorbs and reflects, the artist tried to prove this statement by demonstrating the opposite phenomenon—extracting the light from the object. From the photo, it shows that the horse has started to disappear because its light was extracted gradually and our eyes could no longer capture the light reflected. At last, we would see that there is nothing left even though the horse is actually still there. This artwork is not only aesthetic but is also an interesting and inspiring experiment about the effect of light.

http://www.makototojiki.com/profile.html

http://www.makototojiki.com/horse.html

Posted by: (Anna) Sen Yung

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Title: Sanryu - Printing directly on food NF-4450-E3 Printer

(June 2009)

Posted by: Jinqiuzi (Jenny) Yun

Video Soruce: http://www.diginfo.tv/v/09-0190-n-en.php

Reference: DigInfo - http://www.diginfo.tv

Sanryu exhibited a revolutionary flat-bed printer that can print directly on food. It goes beyond our imagination and traditional idea of only printing things on paper. The ink is made of natural colorings and complies with food coloring tests under Japan’s food hygiene laws. Shops can use this machine to design and print various images to distinguish themselves from the entire market, providing customers an unique shopping experience.

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Title: Eternal - Sand-blasting Utilized to Engrave on Glass

May 2012

Posted by: Jinqiuzi (Jenny) Yun

Source: http://www.diginfo.tv/v/12-0079-n-en.php

Reference: DigInfo TV - http://diginfo.tv

Picture Reference: http://www.houseofjapan.com/electronics/eternal-sand-blasting-utilized-to-engrave-on-glass

A sand-blast art company, Eternal, offers a glass engraving service using sandblasting for items such as wine bottles. The producers will first make designs on PC. Then they will transfer the image to the bottle through sand-blasting. Lastly, they will add color and decorate the wine bottles. Different from traditional engraving, Eternal company wants to use this particular kind of engraving to serve their customers a way to preserve their most unforgettable memories.

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Stochastica: Crossmodulation

Artwork: Stochastica: Crossmodulation

Artist: Yoshiyuki Abe

Year created: 2000

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This installation consists of a series of art pieces (106 in total) created by Yoshiyuki Abe, a Japanese digital artist famous for recording stochastic processes and using geometric shapes with different patterns in his works, collaborating with Igor Czerniawski. The collection was recorded from the different music played by the two sets of audio system through the process of cross modulation—when a receiver receive a signal from the more powerful transmitter that the weaker signal is disrupted. In this case, the loudest sound between the two was recorded thus producing these colorful graphics. The artist’s original idea of the collection is to present this age of information in a graphical way that we as receivers are overwhelmed by too much random information which are distracting us from the important signal. Just as the cross modulation shows, the receivers did not perceive concrete, clear images but were filled with abstract, stochastic graphics.

http://pli.jp/

http://www.digitalartmuseum.org/abe/stocross.htm

Posted by : (Anna) Sen Yung

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The Immortal (2012)

Artist:  Revital Cohen

Described as a “Frankenstein-esque machine" by Cohen, The Immortal contains five life-support machines connected to each other (a heart-lung machine, a dialysis machine, an infant incubator, a mechanical ventilator, and an intraoperative cell salvage apparatus) (Dayal, Wired).  The work attempts to mimic a living organism with salted water a replacement for blood while the ECG machine measures the beat of its heart. The Immortal questions our dependency on technology and machines.  

References:

revitalcohen.com/project/the-immortal/

http://www.fastcodesign.com/1669770/artist-hacks-5-life-support-machines-so-they-all-keep-each-other-alive#3

http://www.wired.com/underwire/2012/05/the-immortal-medical-machines/

Posted by: Victoria Yu

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Fragments of RGB (2010)

Artist: Onformative Studio (Julia Laub and Cedric Kiefer)

Berlin, Germany

Fragments of RGB is an interactive installation made from an LED screen which a displays face of a woman.  Upon approaching the screen, the viewer breaks the image, and the face of the woman becomes distorted and fragments into pixels. The original conception of the work was influenced by the LED screens most people pass by on the street.This project experiments with the alteration of the idea of illusion and perception. 

References:

http://www.onformative.com/work/fragments-of-rgb/

http://www.random-magazine.net/2011/03/fragments-of-rgb/

http://vimeo.com/21235126

Posted by: Victoria Yu

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Artist: Martin Klimas

What Does Music Look Like?: Miles Davis, "Bitches Brew", 2011

This photograph is one of many in a series of photographs taken by a German artist Martin Klimas.  When creating this series, Kimas' goal was to represent what music looks like.  In order to do this, Klimas splattered paint over the diaphragm of a speaker and turned up the volume.    For each photograph in the series he used a different song.  This particular image was the result of "Bitches Brew" by Miles Davis.  The different vibrations that escape the speakers create different patterns.  The result is a variety of unique images for each song.

Posted by: Gabrielle White 

Reference: 

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/01/15/magazine/painting-with-sound.html

http://www.martin-klimas.de/

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Artist: Pep Ventosa

Carousel de la Tour Eiffel

This photograph is one of many from the series of photos titled Carousels, In the Round by a Catalan artist Pep Ventosa.  Carousel de la Tour Eiffel is comprised of multiple shots of the carousel taken from many points around it.  The photos are then reconstructed and layered onto one another in order to create this new photomontage.  This technique gives the photograph a 3-Dimensional feel.  One of Ventosa's main goals is to create a new and unique visual experience for his audience.

Posted by: Gabrielle White

Reference: 

http://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/pep-ventosa

http://www.pepventosa.com/index.html

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Serge Salat

Beyond Infinity, 2011

China

Beyond Infinity is an immersive, multisensory installation created by French artist, architect, and theorist Serge Salat.  Salat combines both Eastern style spatial techniques and Western use of optical illusions to create a dreamlike realm for visitors to journey through and interact with.  It consists of a closed space filled with mirrors, pulsing and shifting lights, music, and steel, honeycomb fractal art structures.  The purpose of the combination of these elements is to overwhelm, confuse, and manipulate the visitors’ sense of direction.  Visitors drop their sense of rationality and control, and immerse themselves in the optical illusion that the space is an infinite realm of many layers, an optical illusion achieved with fractal structures and mirror panels. 

Reference: http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/16645/serge-salat-beyond-the-infinity-immersive-installation.html

Reference: http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/29771/beyond-infinity/

Video: http://vimeo.com/29089043

Post by: Jessica Yean

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Harald Haraldsson, Super Nature Design

Prisma 1666, 2011

Shanghai

Prisma 1666 is an interactive light installation created under the collaboration of Harald Haraldsson and Shanghai-based design studio, Super Nature Design, for the 2011 International Science and Art Exhibition in Shanghai.  It is a nod to Sir Issac Newton's 1666 experiments with the light-refraction properties of crystal prisms that led to the discovery of the study of optics and color theory.  The installation consists of 15 triangular crystal prisms scattered randomly across a white surface and two light projectors controlled by touchscreen.  A participant is able to experiment with light beams through the touchscreen, adjusting their colors, angles, and shape.  This firsthand experience results in many different kinds of scenarios of light refractions as well as an understanding in how Newton went about his experiments.

Reference: http://wonwei.com/output/interactive-installation-prisma-1666/

Reference: http://haraldharaldsson.com/PRISMA-1666

Video: http://vimeo.com/31136390

Posted by: Jessica Yean

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Due: 5/30 #1 Mission Statement (Group10 Museum Project)

Our new media art museum, Prisma-Archives, seeks to preserve and promote various types of new media art which are technologically innovative and reflect upon past and current times in order to promote awareness of larger social issues.  To achieve these means, our museum is specially equipped with technologies and space to facilitate many different forms of artwork such as music, videos, performance art, installations, digital art, and more.  If we come to a situation where we do not have the specific technologies to facilitate an art piece, then we will take it upon ourselves to acquire the specific technologies in order to do so. Our museum of new media art will also attempt to provide taxonomy of artworks wherein similar pieces of art are organized in an indexed manner, providing credit not only to the original artist, but also to any artist involved via collaborative processes or remixing of any type. In addition, we push our museum to hold various cultural types of new media artworks to promote free interpretation by our visitors, each of whom come from various backgrounds.  This is done to raise awareness in our visitors of the artists all over the world who have been contributing to new media art.

It is also our mission to encourage visitors to rise from passive spectatorship and become active participants. The artworks we exhibit allow our visitors to directly engage with the artwork and connect with them on a larger level, in which they develop an understanding of their relationship with the pieces as well as with others with whom they are participating with.  One of our most important goals is to allow for the possibility of collaborative works, wherein the ownership of an artwork is shared among a group of people rather than one specific artist.  In doing so, our visitors are given the opportunity to interact with museum “artifacts” in a more intimate manner, allowing for an in-depth and more personal understanding. In the process, our viewers are to observe, question, and shape their own interpretations of their experiences.  They are to learn and explore the core ideas and key propositions of new media art and contemporary culture as well as past art and art movements that defined how they had come to be. They are to learn and understand their abilities as well as their limits along with the abilities and limits of the pieces themselves.  It is our goal that our visitors will be able to differentiate the similarities and differences of the traditional artworks with our new media art and take the values incorporated within the artworks and spread them throughout the rest of society.  In the end, we hope to achieve our goals in which our museum's encompassing of many genres of art introduces an innovative life to the rest of our society. At the same time, we also hope our visitors will leave with a newfound awareness of their relationships with each other, technologies, society, and the contemporary era that we all live in.