Rika Noguchi
Her “Sun” series (begun in 2005) shot the sun using a pinhole camera,
emphasizing a very Earth-bound perception of the solar body.
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Walead Beshty
Six Color Curl (CMMYYC: Irvine, California, July 19th 2008,
Fuji Crystal Archive Type C, 2008
Beshty’s unexposed film was damaged by airport security X-ray machines while traveling to Berlin. Having discovered this, he proceeded to use the film and pass it through the scanners once again on his return journey.
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Carlos Cruz-Diez
A contemporary theorist of color whose artistic proposal
is based on four chromatic conditions: subtractive, additive,
inductive and reflected color.
Nichola Kinch
Lithophane Electrotachyscope
Machine designed to animate simple loop of illuminated lithophanes.
Animation is water spiraling down the drain Installation shot of “Down the Drain”.
Lithophane
Lithophane
A lithophane is an etched or molded artwork in thin very translucent porcelain that can only be seen clearly when back lit with a light source. It is a design or scene in intaglio that appears “en grisaille” (in gray) tones.
Doing Nothing
We are constantly doing things with the general purpose to make ourselves and others more content. Could doing nothing however also be a means to this end? For his residency project Doing Nothing Maarten Hunink explored a possible answer to this question, by simply doing nothing. Curious what that’s like? You are warmly invited to sit down and join Hunink in observing what happens when you do nothing.
f21threadscreen
The F21 Thread Screen is a 2,000 pound machine
that uses 6,400 mechanical spools of thread to display
Instagrams hashtagged with #F21ThreadScreen.
Pieter Vermeersch
Gradations, 2010
Time, space and colour.
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Doug Wheeler
49 Nord 6 Est POV Luminiferous Light Volume
Phosphorescent paint applied to existing architecture, metal halide projectors
SPACE
A Blind Camera
The Blind Camera is perfect for those people bored by the mass-produced point and shoot cameras. There’s no viewfinder, no lens, or flash. All it has on the outside is an LCD screen and a shutter button.
Inside is a Sony Ericsson cellphone that pulls down images from Flickr. Whenever you click the shutter button, the cellphone pings Flickr and downloads an image that has the same timestamp as your shutter press. It’s not an instant camera as it takes a few minutes for an image to appear…
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Perfect Harmony
Audio Visual
1. Place an amplifier and a slide projector directly facing each other.
2. Fill the slide projectors carousal full of slides taken of the amplifier.
3. Run a microphone from the amplifier and place it on the top of the slide carousal.
4. Turn the amplifier on full volume and the slide projector on constant projection.
The slide projector will project the amplifier at the amplifier,
and the amplifier will project the sound of the slide projector at the slide projector.
The sound and visual function in perfect harmony.
Daniel Eatock
Daniel Eatock – Manifesto
Begin with ideas
Embrace chance
Celebrate coincidence
Ad-lib and make things up
Eliminate superfluous elements
Subvert expectation
Make something difficult look easy
Be first or last
Believe complex ideas can produce simple things
Trust the process
Allow concepts to determine form
Reduce material and production to their essence
Sustain the integrity of an idea
Propose honesty as a solution
Image Composite Editor
Image Composite Editor is the best way to get high resolution
stitched panoramas into Photosynth.
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Building a deeper understanding of images
The ImageNet large-scale visual recognition challenge (ILSVRC) is the largest academic challenge in computer vision, held annually to test state-of-the-art technology in image understanding, both in the sense of recognizing objects in images and locating where they are.
Deep Dream
Artificial intelligence code is open-sourced by Google developers,
with internet users sharing psychedelic images under #deepdream hashtag
J. M. W. Turner
Rain, Steam and Speed – The Great Western Railway (1844).
Is said to have uttered the last words “The Sun is God”
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Isaac Newton
Identifies Additive Color Theory 1666
Light refracted with a prism splits white light into its basic component colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue and violet.
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James Clerk Maxwell
The tartan ribbon photo, the first permanent color photograph.
The first permanent color photograph was taking in 1861 by physicist James Clerk Maxwell who used what is known as the ‘color separation’ method, shooting three separate black and white photos using three filters: red, green, and blue. He then projected the three images registered with their corresponding filters overlapping them to create a color image.
Bálint Bolygó
Trace
A revolving plaster cast of the artist’s head is slowly deconstructed into a mathematical diagram that changes as time passes.
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Algorithm X and Y
This light projecting mechanism responds to the movement of people around the object and moves large Petri dishes of coloured pigments along the X and Y axis.
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Rudolph Koenig
Koenig’s Manometric Flame Apparatus
was a laboratory instrument invented in 1862
used to visualize sound waves
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EarlyApparatus
Aram Bartholl
Random Screen is a mechanical thermodynamic screen that the user can’t control and that functions without any electricity. Conventional tea candles illuminate and generate the changes on the 5×5 pixel screen.
datenform
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
‘Pulse Room’
This room is an interactive installation consisting of one to three hundred clear incandescent light bulbs, which are 300 W each and hung from a cable at a height of three meters. The light bulbs are distributed over the exhibition room, filling it completely. An interface placed on a side of the room has a sensor that detects the heart rate of participants. When someone holds the interface, a computer detects his or her pulse and immediately sets off the closest bulb to flash at the exact rhythm of his or her heart. The moment the interface is released all the lights turn off briefly and the flashing sequence advances by one position down the queue, to the next bulb in the grid. Each time someone touches the interface a heart pattern is recorded and this is sent to the first bulb in the grid, pushing ahead all the existing recordings.
Morphovision
Distorted House
Morphovision is a unique display system that interactively transforms and animates a 3D solid object before our eyes. In this system, a model house is rotated at high speed, and is illuminated with special lighting from a digital projector. This enables the model to be distorted into various shapes.
Laszlo Moholy Nagy
light space modulator
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So Many Light Space Modulators
United Visual Artists
UVA is a London based art practice that combines a wide range of disciplines including sculpture, installation, live performance, and architecture.
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Rockne Krebs
The Green Hypotenuse,
7-mile-long laser beam from Mt. Wilson to Caltech, Pasadena, CA., 1983
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David Rokeby
Cheap Imitation (2002)
Marcel Duchamp’s Nude Descending a Staircase is interactively dissected and animated.
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Sonoluminescence
Sonoluminescence is the emission of short bursts of light
from imploding bubbles in a liquid when excited by sound.
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Small bubbles would emit flashes of light in ways that could only be termed ‘aces’
Domnitch & Gelfand
Camera Lucida, 2003
Evelina Domnitch & Dimitry Gelfand
Within a transparent chamber filled with water, sound waves are transformed into light emissions by employing a phenomenon known as sonoluminescence.
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Abraham Palatnik
‘Aparelho Cinecromático (cinechromatic machines)’, 1964.
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“project compositions of color light forms moving on semi-clear surfaces”
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Jean Dupuy
Heart Beats Dust – Cone Pyramid, 1968
In a black rectangular box, a window at eye level opens onto a 24′ cube which houses the sculpture. The form is created by thrusting dust up into a cone of light. The dust is Lithol Rubine, a brilliant red pigment chosen for its ability to remain suspended in air for long periods. The thrust is achieved by amplified heart-beats from an attached stethoscope or a continuous loop tape recording of heartbeats played on a speaker mounted directly under a tightly stretched rubber membrane upon which the dust sits.
Thomas Wilfred
A freeze-frame image of:
Early Clavilux Jr, ca. 1930.
Conventional artists manipulate materials [stone, pigments, etc.]. These ‘objects’ reflect light into our eyes to form the images they want us to see. If there were no light, we could not experience their art. In contrast, Wilfred ‘sculptured’ light directly.
Art and Electronic Media
A landmark survey examining the pivotal role of new technologies in recent artistic innovation.
Motion, Duration, Illumination