Arctic perspective

Arctic Perspective :: until September 30, 2010 @ Canada House, Trafalgar Square, London + :: until October 10, 2010 @ HMKV, Phoenix Halle, Dortmund, Germany (Open Space Conference, September 24-26, 2010).

Simultaneous exhibitions of photographs, videos, maps and architectural models from work by the Arctic Perspective Initiative are displayed in London and Dortmund this summer. The outcome of an international collaborative project which aims to empower local citizens of the North via open and free media, communications and environmental monitoring technologies, the work highlights the urgency of the issues emerging in the Arctic: its changing cultural landscape; the potential for new intercultural dialogue; conflicting economic and territorial interests; ecological problems; climate change and the effects of ecological changes on the life of Inuit peoples.

The Arctic Perspective Initiative is an international group of artists, designers and media workers, led by artists Marko Peljhan and Matthew Biederman with collaborators Nejc Trost, Samo Stopar, Andrej Bizjak and August Black together with Miha Bratina and Ziga Testen. Partners include HMKV (Germany), Projekt Atol (Slovenia), C-TASC (Canada), Lorna (Iceland) and The Arts Catalyst (UK).

Winning design for Arctic Perspectives open design competition by Giuseppe Mecca

ttp://turbulence.org/blog/2010/06/21/arctic-perspective-dortmund-london/

Magma Architecture 2008

Berlin’s Magma Architecture won several awards for its entry in the JETZT | NOW series of temporary installations at the Berlinische Galerie, Museum for Contemporary Art, Photography and Architecture. Magma’s installation, 11th in the series, was called fittingly “head-in | im kopf” and its concept is based on exploring the properties of materials, form, color and light. The main feature of the installation is an alarmingly orange flexible fabric (polyamide-elastan mix) stretched between the walls, ceiling and floor. The fabric is the most visible part of the exhibit, yet it is also the tool with which the viewers can focus on smaller details.
from http://www.thecoolhunter.com.au

Heliocentric by semiconductor

Heliocentric uses time-lapse photography and astronomical tracking to plot the sun's trajectory across a series of landscapes. The entire environment feels to pan past the camera whilst the sun stays in the centre of each frame, enabling us to gauge the earth's rotation and orbit around the sun. As the Suns light becomes disrupted by passing weather conditions and the environment through which we encounter it, it audibly plays them as if it were a stylus.

It is usually all but impossible to visualize how the earth moves around the sun, even though we know it to be true. Instead we 'see' the sun move around us. The 'heliocentric' view of the universe was debated from the third century BC onwards and remained contentious into modern times.

Shooting into the sun creates many intriguing artifacts; lens flares and glare spill over the landscape, white outs burn the image, and colours bleed into one, creating aureoles. The power of the sun still exceeds what both the human eye and the artificial eye of the camera can bear. And whilst our knowledge of the universe is ever-growing, we can only encounter and know it from our own humble vantage point.

Brilliant Noise, by British artists Semiconductor

The Institute of Modern Art in Brisbane, Australia is currently exhibiting the video artwork Brilliant Noise, by British artists Semiconductor. Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt of Semiconductor have been kind enough to share a short version of the video with us.

Brilliant Noise is a portrait of the Sun. Unlike many pictures of the sun which have been ’shopped’ to remove the impurities and noise effects present in the original footage, Semiconductor have instead used the original untouched images, to illustrate the sun replete with interference from a variety of natural and man-made sources.

The audio accompanying the piece is natural solar radio, with white noise coming from cosmic rays hitting the satellite camera’s CCD.

The overall effect is beautiful and mesmerizing, providing an intimate portrait of our most important celestial object as it actively oscillates through time.

from http://blog.artabase.net/?p=178

http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/

Out of the Light
HD floor projection with surround sound/10.00 mins/2008

Over time, celestial patterns can reveal themselves through the play of light and shadow on the world around us. Out of the Light is a CGI time based sculpture, which recreates these shadow phenomena to explore how we can make sense of the world through observation; we experience a solar eclipse as observed through the branches of a tree, the rhythm of a city as its shadows phase from days to months to years and the transit of Venus observed through the construction of simple man made tools. Viewing these events with the unaided eye allows for anomalies in the quality and nature of light which are played upon here, to explore our perceptual sensitivities

love lace

http://blog.ponoko.com/2010/03/06/love-lace-design-competition/

via
http://makestudio.blogspot.com/

Heatherwick at Shanghai expo

http://www.heatherwick.com/uk-pavilion/

THOMAS HEATHERWICK'S AMAZING SEED CATHEDRAL FOR THIS YEARS SHANGHAI PAVILION

immersion

http://helmo.fr/projects/smoke/


Coloured Fog, Ann Veronica Janssens (Foto: Rob Poelsma)
http://www.skor.nl/artefact-1212-nl.html
http://www.installationart.net/Chapter2Immersion/immersion01.html

‘distance is the primary condition for getting close to the content of a work’ Theodor Adorno (in Grau 2003: 202)
http://helmo.fr/ongoing/smoke-/