FUTURE SELF studies human movement, mirroring interaction in dance, light and sound, while exploring the self, present and future. FUTURE SELF is a media artist collective, rAndom International, a choreographer, Wayne McGregor, and a composer, Max Richter.

“Life comes into being, blooms and vanishes. And where all life is built of smaller parts that form a living whole, in this video I created fractals of human body parts that are born, bloom to form a larger, more coherent whole, then die. They’re abstracted hands, ears, and faces similar to Max’s earlier ‘positive mutation’ visuals – tying a minimalist look in with abstracted shapes. Max often works with ideas around the aesthetics of science, and I wanted to connect the scientific idea of fractals to the experience of life itself.”
Dmitry Zakharov, animator.

Official video by Dmitry Zakharov for the track “Micron” by Max Cooper.

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’ –

Buero Buero. That’s what I call a nice concept for a studio website. Cheeky! And it works great.

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.

Check out this guy’s room totally change into the movie he is watching! No SFX, no post production, no cuts, everything you see here is 100% for real.
In the past, projection mapping worked only from a single, static view point, and thus was very limited. By attaching the PlayStation Move to the camera, we can track projections to screens in real time, enhancing the effect of spatial deformation and false perspective on the projections and allowing viewers to look round (virtual) corners, bend walls, create a hole in the wall, or remove the walls altogether to reveal vast expanses of virtual worlds.

Check also: Part 1 and Part 3

The making of “Hero,” a drawing composed entirely out of 3.2 million ink dots. Wow!

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

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.

haha… well, nice idea.

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.

Shadow Monsters is great interactive installation in my eyes. Visit Worthers’Original for more info.

Solar Sinter Project turns the desert’s free abundance of sand and sun into 3-D-printed glass.

Marius Hügli and Martin Kovacovsky two graduated students from HGK Basel realized this augmented reality book in 2010 as part of their Bachelor-Thesis. It’s an experimental design project which explores and demonstrates the new possibilities opened up by the use of augmented reality technology in the printing sector.

Well, nice documentation of the sound design for the new Transformers movie “Transformers: Dark of the Moon”.