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Refik Anadol's exhibition of algorithmic streetscape imagery is now open in Stockholm

2019-07-09T18:51:00-04:00

Fotografiska, the celebrated photography museum in Stockholm, Sweden, is now exhibiting a site-specific installation by Turkish media artist and director Refik Anadol.

Scene from Latent History, by Refik Anadol.

Titled Latent History, the exhibition mainly consists of an interpolation of hundreds of thousands of photos of Stockholm's streetscapes onto a 180-foot-wide screen in Fotografiska’s large exhibition hall. Put simply, the film is "a machine’s interpretation of information from the City of Stockholm’s archives, Stockholmskällan, and the Swedish National Heritage Board’s archive, K-samsök, also known as SOCH (Swedish Open Cultural Heritage)," according to the curators of the exhibition. The film, in other words, images of Stockholm are fed into an algorithm of Anadol's design that 'reveals' the images in between them.

Scene from Latent History, by Refik Anadol.

As Anadol explains, Latent History explores "photographic memories from the past 150 years and offer the viewer a chan...

Take a virtual reality tour of "different planes of the digital and physical universe"

2017-01-20T10:40:00-05:00

You don't need a blacklight for this one: Morphogenesis, a full-length virtual reality experience that transports the viewer through elaborate, thrill-inducing shapes, will definitely take you out of this world, at least for a few minutes. The geometrically derived immersive spaces it generates come with their own audio soundtrack, adding a certain eerie/cool dimension all its own. Check out the trailer for this creation from two San Francisco-based Fulbright Scholars:

Luftwerk's FLOW/Im Fluss to illuminate Chicago's Couch Place alley with screens made of water

2014-09-11T17:06:00-04:00

Crafty space manipulator Luftwerk will showcase FLOW/Im Fluss, a nightly light and water installation at Chicago's Couch Place alley on September 17-20 from 5 p.m. to midnight. Luftwerk, the Chicago-based collaborative established by Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero, is best known for their signature medium of site-specific light and projected video installations.

Presented by the Chicago Loop Alliance, the Goethe-Institute Chicago, and the Natural Resources Defense Council, Luftwerk's FLOW/Im Fluss celebrates the 20th Anniversary of Sister Cities Chicago and Hamburg. As a nod to each city's river locations, the installation visualizes the characteristics of the Chicago River and Hamburg's River Elbe through video compositions that will be projected on "screens" made of water.

Having lived in both cities, Luftwerk is based on the encompassing, connective nature of water in FLOW as people gather to get a closer look at the flow of data readings collected from both rivers. Adding sound ...

INsite by Luftwerk turns Mies' Farnsworth House inside-out with light and sound

2014-05-15T13:23:00-04:00

Whether you're a diehard Miesian fan or could care less about the modernist architecture canon, we've heard of ol' Farnsworth time and time again since its completion in 1951 in Plano, Illinois. But Chicago-based artists Petra Bachmaier and Sean Gallero of Luftwerk want the public to see the historic Farnsworth House in a whole new light — literally — with their digital installation project called INsite.

INsite highlights the house's characteristic clean lines through site-specific digital video projections and original music compositions, thus rendering it into a new structure of light, sound, and space. In addition to recent preservation efforts to protect the Farnsworth from more floodwater damage in the future, INsite could help revive public interest in an eye-catching way that is suitable for these tech-friendly times.

Illuminating modern architecture landmarks is nothing new for Gallero and Bachmaier, who have collaborated with video designer and programmer Liviu Pasare and co...

Le Poème de WAI

2012-01-15T12:38:00-05:00

In order to celebrate its third anniversary, WAI Architecture Think Tank has released “Le Poème de WAI”, a peepshow of the visual combustible that fuels WAI’s intellectual project.

A trait d'union between brainwash and brainstorm, Le Poème de WAI shows an abstract of the forces that shape the texts, narratives and experiments of WAI Architecture Think Tank.

Music:
Miles Davis, “Ascenseur Pour L'Echafaud” (c.1958)
Jan Garbarek, Eberhard Weber, “Chorus” (1984)

www.wai-architecture.com
www.waithinktank.com

Look forward to an App Store for your walls

2011-05-09T13:46:09-04:00

FRAMED*, a new project conceived by the super-talented Yugo Nakamura, intends to revolutionize how you display art on your walls. The hardware consists of an an ultra-thin, high resolution digital screen, embedded with a fully functional computer to display multi-media art pieces. The software includes Flash, Processing, openFrameworks, and Cinder; connected and controlled via a mobile application. The user can purchase art works from FRAMED*'s online store.

This is an idea that was bound to be realized eventually. I'm still a little skeptical, but with Yugo behind this I'm more confident that this can turn into something very interesting.