electronic-motions

electronic-motions by Tânia Falcão
www.electronic-motions.com

Distance between inside and outside

Skhizein by Jérémy Clapin
website here

High Line Chalk Shoes Art Project

During the spring of 2008, Julia Mandle worked in residency at the NYC Lab School for Collaborative Studies with two classes of eighth-grade students to create the outdoor drawing Chalk Shoes to the High Line. Throughout her residency, Mandle cast dozens of chalk shoes and educated students on the tactics of artistic intervention. The students created a drawing by scuffing the chalk shoes along the paths they will take to the High Line, thus symbolically claiming the new park for the neighborhood through the rituals of mark making and walking.
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Air bear on the street of New York

Pedestrians in New York City know that those metal grates on the sidewalks occasionally expel warm air, powered by passing subway trains. BFA Fine Arts Department student Joshua Allen Harris saw the subterranean gusts blowing a stray piece of plastic construction tape and got the idea for his latest public-art project, Air Bears. Constructed of carefully taped-together white plastic bags, the artworks look like piles of discarded detritus until a blast of air inflates them into freestanding plastic-bag polar bears, standing up and waving around in the wind. When the train-powered breeze dies down, the bears deflate down onto the steel vents.

'readable cassettes' is shown in a group show

Private View Thursday 28th October 2010 6-9pm
Exhibition Runs from 29th October - 5th December
First Thursday: In conversation with Rise Art, 2nd December 7 -8pm

395-397 Hackney Road London E2 8PP
www.primoalonso.com

Details click here

sonar shadow animations

Tool's Life by minim++
:: wood, metallic tools, touch sensor, projector, computer, etc.
:: 1200 × 1200 × 500:: interactive installation
:: 2001

We are surrounded by various tools. We usually believe that a spoon is tool for eating something and a comb is for combing someoneﾕs hair. But don't they have other purposes ?
Let's explore in a house at midnight !There are tools on a tabletop in moonlight. If you touch one softly, the shadow transforms into various shapes. Even if tools don't change own shape, their shadows may show their true characters.

summer show is ongoing

Busy but a lot of fun！Looking forward to the opening~

Pixel Games Attack New York City

Here's a very cute short video about retro pixel games on game boy. Personally I think it also implies how technology invades our real life.

isle of dogs

I'm living in isle of dogs. These pictures were taken in Millwall park, on my way back home.
Isle of dogs is a very interesting small island. One side is brand new, busy and highly developed business center, but other side is traditional farms and quiet residential area. Millwall park connects these two totally different life styles together. I enjoy the experience of walking across the park, it feels like walking across different cities or ages. Standing in the park center, I see the buildings growing behind the bush and woods, hearing the voice of development.
I don't know what this man is thinking at the moment, but standing in front of canary wharf his shadow looks tiny and a little lonely.

broken link?

I get this idea when seeing the icon of “broken link image” on internet.
“broken link” is a pun:
* the internet icon --- broken link of online images
* broken link between people
I use the concept to express that technology may bring negative effects to interpersonal communication, it may isolate us from each other if we indulge ourselves in it or use it improperly.





improve it...

make two new posters

lost in virtual reality?

The circle of no life

The circle of no life / by Erin Hanson


I also like her "WANT to NEED" project. Some images also reveal the conflict between technology and nature life.
Click here to see more

busy canary wharf

FURBY

I found this evil monster in a junk shop on the way home the day before yesterday. Then he became the most adorable guy in the house. Everybody talks to him, plays games and feeds him until the batteries are used up. And all my roommates plan to adopt one soon...
Being the first successful attempt to produce and sell a domestically-aimed robot, Furby is a hot topic about whether eletronic pets contributes to human emotional reparation.
And it is interesting to find behind the bright successful surface, a huge anti-Furby coalition is growing up. Someone says Furby ruined his childhood and someone think Furby isolated him from the real world, etc. Then they come together to destroy Furbis in different ways and upload the video to Internet.


Furby


Is It A Good Idea To Microwave Furbies？

the cassette project / Part I

The project aims to reveal the comparison of communication via technology methods and nature ways. And meantime, it also conveys the concept of slow life. (people have to read the texts slow and patiently )
I went to the 3D work shop to finish the wooden shelf part. Then I can spend more time concentrating on the texts part. In stead of creating pictures in the computer, I enjoy the process so much of making "real" stuffs in the work shop.






I bought several cassettes from a vintage shop. In order to make them look the same then I polished off the words printed on the covers.

should you Slow down? Robert Sapolsky Talk about Stress

from the world institute of slowness

Is stress good for us?
How does chronic stress affect our brian?
Is there any good news?

human chair

Sometime we are accustomed to using technology to solve problems. Have you ever thought about trying nature and simple ways? Possibly, it can not only solve the problem but also bring unexpected happy experience.



In April 2003, as is the case every year, tens of thousands of buyers, sellers and browsers from around the world gathered in Milan, Italy at the Salone del Mobile. While those attending the massive fair heralded the design industry's latest and greatest contributions to our culture of consumption, nearby a local design gallery offered a refreshing change of pace.
Opos is an alternative gallery known for displaying some of today's boldest designs, and the piece shown alone in the gallery that April, created by Spanish designer Martín Ruiz de Azúa, was no exception. In the otherwise empty gallery space, Ruiz de Azúa's Human Chair was displayed as a single image of a group of people sitting on each other's knees forming a tight circle. Propped one on top of the other in friendship and fragile dependency, the group smiled and waved as their photograph was taken.

Enter Martín Ruiz de Azúa's website to watch the video

slow communication

Stefan Agamanolis is the Chief Executive and Research director of Distance Lab .
Based on his work at MIT and Distance Lab, Stefan Agamanolis reports on hot trends in communication and connectedness that are doing battle with quality and distance in unexpected ways.


Iso-phone / by Stefan Agamanolis (Distance Lab)
Only a couple of decades ago our primary means of telecommunication was the telephone box, which essentially provides a contextually neutral space for remote conversation. Entering a telephone box equates to a cessation of all other activities, allowing the individual to concentrate solely on the conversation. The growth of mobile telephone usage however has led to telecommunication being practiced in an efficient rather that a qualitative manner. The mobile phone decontextualizes conversation. It extracts talk from specific social context, offering the user freedom to communicate from virtually any social situation regardless of the suitability. It is down to the sensitivity and discretion of the user to decide if the circumstances are suitable for communicating.
The Iso-phone attempts to redress this awkwardness and imbalance by providing a space totally dedicated to telecommunication. Going against the grain of mainstream design, the Iso-phone trades contemporary preoccupation with efficient, ubiquitous and multi-functioning products for quality and depth of a singular experience, requiring total immersion into the telecommunications media.

James Turrell's slow art

James Turrell is an American artist whose primary working materials are light, space and perception. In order to see the whole process of his works audience may spend a lond time to wait. So his work is meant to be taken in slowly, quietly, and over time, challenging audiences to see themselves seeing. In my view, his work is also a challenge and silent protest to the over-speeding society development.
skyspace / installation by James Turrell




“bridgets bardo”




“atlanta”


“argus” （white）


“raethro” (pink)