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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Cool media art installation/performance created by Chris Milk. During an Arcade Fire concert glowing beach balls were released into the audience. The balls are remote controlled, react to sound and respond to interaction with the crowd achieving really nice effects.

Visit the Creators Project blog for more images and video.

“Watch this space is a video projection mapping installation that explores the perception of space.”
Pretty nice installation by Seb Cimpean, he’s currently doing his master in media design at the Piet Zwart Institute Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam.

Charley Harper was probably one of the most uniquely talented illustrators of the 20th century. From the 1950s up until his death in 2007, Harper created a seemingly endless amount of gorgeous posters and other illustrations depicting animals, plantlife, and other natural forms.
In the 1980s and early 1990s, Harper completed ten posters for the US National Park Service, each focusing in on a specific ecosystem and its inhabitants (1&2). Amazing artwork.