Inspiring visuals, often familiar yet different.

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“TrueIsTrue has been my online sketchbook for over a decade. This new work represents ideas and work done one the side of my client work.”
– Michael Cina on behance.net

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This installation draws information from the intensity and movement of the water in a remote location. Wave data is being collected in real-time from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration data buoy Station 46246 (49°59’7″ N 145°5’20″ W) on the Pacific Ocean. The wave intensity and frequency is scaled and transferred to the mechanical grid structure installed at The National Museum in Wroclaw, Poland. The result was a simulation of the physical effects caused by the movement of water from this distant location.

Work by David Bowen a real mastermind when it comes to kinetic, robotic and interactive sculptural work.

«ADA» is an interactive art-making machine. Filled up with helium, floating freely in a room, a-transparent, membrane-like globe, spiked with charcoals that leave marks on the walls, ceilings and floors.

Work by KARINA SMIGLA-BOBINSKI

A try to visualize the flow of the famous painting “Starry Night” of Vincent Van Gogh.
The user can interact with the animation. Also, the sound responds to the flow.

This project is just too nice! A record player that plays slices of wood.
Modified record player, wood, sleeves. 2011 by Bartholomäus Traubeck.

– Years – ‘scratching’ –

Theo Jansen is a dutch artist who fuses art with engineering to create new forms of life, the so called “Strandbeesten”. Consisting mainly of PVC pipes, the Strandbeesten use wind energy to walk and are even able to store the energy in PET bottles. Theo Jansen keeps improving his creatures with new mechanisms that make them more viable. For instance they can detect water and turn around to avoid drowning.

http://www.videoportal.sf.tv/video?id=1e9cff02-87bc-4e47-98f5-906b3d1f7742 (de, swiss tv)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSKyHmjyrkA (en)

pulse is a live-visualization of recent emotional expressions, written on private weblog communities like blogger.com. Weblog entries are compared to a list of emotions, which refers to Robert Plutchik’s seminal book Psychoevolutionary Theory of Emotion published in 1980. Plutchik describes eight basic human emotions in his book: joy, trust, fear, surprise, sadness, disgust, anger, and anticipation. He developed a diagram in which these eight emotions, together with their weakened and amplified counterparts, form a three dimensional cone, consisting of 24 areas. The cone is the basic form of pulse, which can enlarge in the 24 directions of the different emotions. Each time an emotion tag, or a synonym of it, is found in a recent blog entry, the shape-shifting object transforms itself in such a way that the new volume represents a piece of the overall current emotional condition of surfers on the Internet.

RECOIL PERFORMANCE GROUP with ‘Body Naviguation’: two dancers and their digital reproduction are the scenographic frame of this humorous and emotional portrait of human relations.

A work by Australian visual artist Kit Webster, ENIGMATICA II is a visual experience that distorts reality and destabilizes its audience by using stimulation and loss of perception. The sculpture consists of ten suspended frames that diminish in size down the length of the gallery.

Continued with Enigmatica III.

Mortal Engine is a intermedia dance performance using movement and sound responsive projections to portray an ever-shifting, shimmering world in which the limits of the human body are an illusion. Produced by well known australian dance company Chunky Move. Interactive System Designer is Frieder Weiss.

This artistic performance is an interplay between contemporary dance and computer-generated imagery aimed at conveying the feelings of a person through sound, dance and video.

Filmed at MAPPING FESTIVAL – Geneva May 2011

A great animation film (Please Say Something, 2009) by David OReilly about a troubled relationship between a Cat and Mouse set in the distant Future.

SHOAL by Troika is a Multimedia installation spanning across a 50 meter long corridor, 467 fish-like objects wrapped in iridescent colours and suspended from the ceiling rotate rhythmically around their own axis to display the movements and interdependency typical to shoal of fish.
The ceiling architecture is set in motion and appears liquified changing the spatial experience of the corridor while opening up the surrounding architecture infinitely towards Lake Ontario.

So, let’s start sharing things again. Just found this old link to a really fascinating video of the TM5 – Time Machine! installation. Don’t know why but I really do like this one.