Montreal artists Jean-Sebastien Baillat and Guillaume Cardell join forces with designer Daniel Iregui for this online experience at the occasion of the BIAN (International Digital Arts Bienale) taking place from April 18th to June 13th in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Phenomena is an online interactive experience with 9 chapters released over the course of the BIAN. This is the first chapter and it has really captured our attention for it’s hypnotic aesthetic and of course the quote referenced: “Any sufficiently advanced technology is undistinguishable from magic” by Arthur C. Clarke.”. This work links to the stunning image of the BIAN. Play with it from here:

http://bianmontreal.ca/phenomena

Keywords: interactive, strobscopic, online, magic

You probably have seen a diorama (a small-scale replica of a scene) before but this one is got to be amongst the cutest ones.
Made as part of the graduation work of students at Otis College of Art and Design (California), the project took 3 months to film. The details are very impressive and the scene flows nicely.

One to watch: Mike Ko

Keywords: modelling, 3D, diorama

‘Unnamed Sculpture’ is a moving sculpture that reproduces the body data in the shape of a motion sculpture. Using 3 kinect cameras the artists have recorded the dancers movements and have created a multidimensional piece that plays very well with space and sound, with physicality and virtuality. As the editor says, ” with the complex quasi-static, inconsistent forms the body is painting, a new reality space emerges whose simulated aesthetics goes far beyond numerical codes”. Very nice work.

Read article in CAN.

Produced by Onformative Studio and We are Chop Chop. Music by Machinefabriek.

Keywords: kinect, motion sculpture, data, body

Nice new installation by AntiVj’s Romain Tardy. It’s the first of a series of 5 “versatile” installations. Looking forward to seeing the next ones.

Keywords: mapping, installation, antivj

Artist note:
Matter is a time-based digital sculpture; a celebration of matter itself, the substance of all physical things. It describes a continuous dynamic articulation of a solid, pure block of matter, from the simplest primitive forms to the highest details of geometric complexities, and vice versa… from the unpredictable grace of geological processes to the perfection, beauty and precision of man made crafts.
The subject of this piece is Rodin’s sculpture Le Penseur (The Thinker), a masterpiece born as the avant-garde that has since become a universal classical icon, and now considered the bridge from classical to modern sculpture.
Commissioned by Audemars Piguet
Opening March 21st, Park Avenue Armory, New York

Artist: Quayola
Sound: Matthias Kispert

Keywords: digital sculpture, mesh

Music by Emptyset

Video by Clayton Welham and Sam Williams

Medium is stunning audio & visual piece by Emptyset and visual collaborators Clayton Welham and Sam Williams. The project created around the Woodchester Mansion in Gloucestershire. The Gothic Mansion was abandoned by its builders in the middle of construction, leaving behind a building that appears complete from the outside, but with floors, plaster and whole rooms missing inside. It has remained in this state since the mid-1870s.

Woodchester Mansion
There were recordings with vintage mics and other analog machines then transformed into the powerful sounds you hear. All footage was filmed on site and broadcast, processed and captured before editing, mirroring Emptyset’s ‘chain of sound’ processes.

Keywords: av, analogue, sound, process, abandoned architecture

Links: Subtext, Emptyset in The Wire.

Resonate is a new platform for networking, knowledge sharing and education bringing together world class artists to drive a forward-looking debate on the position of technology in art and culture.

Be part of something very special and enjoy, learn and get inspired with FIELD, LAb|au|, Onedotzero, Régine Debatty, United Visual Artists, Andreas Müller, Jer Thorp, Alva Noto & Blixa Bargled and many more!

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The Hackney Hear app was demoed at the last festival has just launched for iPhone only for the moment. Testing the app today, it’s a very interesting experience, as you walk around it triggers different sounds using the geo-location functions on your phone and playing stories, soundscapes and audio treats. There are also walks (audio tours) to discover Hackney in a very unique way.

Congratulations Hackney Podcast and the Hackney Hear team!

Download Hackney Hear.

Keywords: soundart, audio tour, geolocated, hackney

by Factory Fifteen

Another dystopian story by the team at Factory Fifteen who you might remember from Robots of Brixton. With GAMMA they explore a city that was abandoned following a nuclear disaster and its efforts to regenerate the area. Some very amazing landscapes filmed on location during the Unknown FIelds Division visit to Chernobyl.

SYNOPSIS
In a post-nuclear future, when the earth is riddled with radiation, a new urban developer proposes to regenerate the cities back into civilisation. GAMMA sets out to stabilise the atomic mistakes of yesteryear for the re-inhabitation of future generations. Using its patented ‘Nuke-Root’ technology; part fungi, part mollusc, GAMMA intends to soak up the radiation and remove it from the irradiated cities, rebuilding them in the process.
Setting out from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, GAMMA launches its RIG_01 BETA and heads east to the iconic disaster sites of 1980′s USSR. The film follows a group of researchers investigating GAMMA’s practice from launch to deployment. Moving through a trail of unsuccessful ships across the desert, we follow the researchers from Aralsk’s littered sea bed east to the Ukraine.

GAMMA begins its quest of nuclear stability in the Ukraine; Pripyat is used as a test bed for the deployment of GAMMA’s patented ‘Nuke-root’ organisms. Intended to soak up the radiation, the roots infiltrate the ground and built structures to absorb the ‘nuclear nasty’s’. As with many urban developers, GAMMA’s execution is cheap and ineffective. The city is in turn rendered more radioactive, broken and uninhabitable than before, only now with an outbreak of growing ‘Nuke-roots’. The film follows the researchers through the ruins of the 70′s utopia, moving across a whole city that consists solely of desolation and total abandon, the researchers witness the aftermath of GAMMA’s almighty cock-up.

GAMMA is directed by Factory Fifteen and was filmed in the Ukraine and Kazakhstan in association with the Unknown Fields Division.

Keywords: scifi, chernobly, architecture

The network has developed projects such as ICAS Kitchen and CineChamber. We look forward to exciting collaborations and exchange with other members!

Congratulations also to Nemo (Paris) and Dis-Play (Spain).

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