Cyprien Gaillard. The Recovery of Discovery
The Recovery of Discovery
2011
Installation at KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, March 27 - May 22, 2011
Packs of 72 000 bottles of ‘Efes’ beer
167.32 x 0.39 x 314.96 inches
Similarly to the relocation of the Pergamon Altar, 72 000 bottles of beer of the brand Efes, whose name makes the most of the mythology of the ancient Greek city of Efes, have been transported from Turkey to Germany. The cardboard boxes filled with bottles form the even steps of the pyramid. By using the monument – by climbing the sculpture and drinking the beer – its destruction is already initiated. The barbaric removal of single architectural elements that have been transported from their original location to Berlin, embodies both the concept of displacement and a tourist colonialism.
Making Future Magic: iPad light painting
This film explores playful uses for the increasingly ubiquitous ‘glowing rectangles’ that inhabit the world.
We use photographic and animation techniques that were developed to draw moving 3-dimensional typography and objects with an iPad. In dark environments, we play movies on the surface of the iPad that extrude 3-d light forms as they move through the exposure. Multiple exposures with slightly different movies make up the stop-frame animation.
Read more at the Dentsu London blog:
dentsulondon.com/blog/2010/09/14/light-painting/
and at the BERG blog:
berglondon.com/blog/2010/09/14/magic-ipad-light-painting/
Speed of Light Making of Documentary
UVA were commissioned by Virgin Media to create ‘an immersive light installation celebrating 10 years of broadband in the UK’. Speed of Light will be a series of experimental light works flowing through the labyrinthine spaces of the Bargehouse, the four-storey industrial space on the South Bank which has hosted various art events in the recent past as well as the St Martins degree show.
Audience
an installation by rAndom international and Chris O’Shea (circa 2008).
The installation includes 64 mirror objects, each controlled by 2 servos for pan and tilt. These objects would orientate towards themselves and when someone appeared in the space, they would pause, then all turn to face the person. They would track a visitor around the room, but move on to someone else if they got bored (based on various scoring) or continue to chat between themselves. The mirrors can be positioned anywhere and any angle, calibrated in a way to always look roughly at the area of a visitors face.
The installation aims to reverse the roles of the viewer and the viewed during this in-voluntary interaction. It seeks to establish a different kind of relationship between viewer and technology. Will other members of the audience experience the sensation of being ignored or excluded when they are not the centre of attention? Will the installation create a feeling of un-ease and unsettlement? The work investigates if machines can evoke diverse emotional reactions with the simplest of mean
Rainbow Church by Tokujin Yoshioka
Japanese designer Tokujin Yoshioka will exhibit a glass window made of 500 crystal prisms at MUSEUM. beyond museum in Seoul this May.
“I had been dreaming of designing an architecture where people can feel the light with all senses.”
This dreaming architecture project will be realized as a concept plan at the exhibition held at MUSEUM. beyondmuseum in Seoul from May, 2010. The exhibition is planned to last until the end of June. A 8-meter-high stained glass made with approximately 500 crystal prisms will be filling the space with rainbow colors as the light shines on it.
balls vs. lines
Make your choice:
galaxies forming along filaments, like droplets along the strands of a spider’s web 2009 by Tomas Saraceno at the Venice Art Biennale
or
atomix: full of love, full of wonder 2005 by Nike Savvas at the Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery.
Muon
An audio responsive installation for the launch of Muon, speakers from Kef and Ross Lovegrove. Created at Moving Brands.
Seriously Funny: Alejandro Diaz
“At its best, Diaz’ work is abrupt and funny, knocking both the viewer and the museum down a notch.”
Another Bright Idea, 17 x 21 in
The World’s Largest Cardboard Sign, 120 x 144 in
Homeless Speechless, 67 x 76 in
“Make your own damn tortillas—I’m Outta Here—Lupe.”
