Category Archives: Art & Innovation

CELL

INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION

James Alliban & Keiichi Matsuda

UK, 2011

Commissioned by Alpha-ville for the 2011 festival this interactive installation plays with and proposes alternative landscapes in the technological ether surrounding our everyday movements. Personal identity is increasingly becoming a broadcasted...

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venue: Netil House
date: 23-25/09/2011
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Biosynthesizer

Live sound performance

Ka5 (Ka Fai Choy) & Mark McKeague

SG & UK, 2011

Times: || SATURDAY 24 (14:45 – 15:00) || SUNDAY 25 (14:00 – 14:15)

Biosynthesizer is an audio-visual experiment exploring the possibilities of human circuit bending. Hacking into the electric...

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venue: Netil House
date: 24-25/09/11
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Written Images

DEMO

Martin Fuchs & Peter Bichsel

CH, 2011

Digital technologies are successful tools in contemporary design. Their ascent, however, is a continuation of well-tried and reliable analog processes. No matter whether paper or digital approach...

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venue: Netil House
date: 23-25/09/11
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Edits

INSTALLATION

Dean McNamee & Tim Burrell-Saward

UK, 2011

Originally installed as part of Wikipedia’s official 10th anniversary party, at the Louise T Blouin Foundation in West London in January 2011. Alpha-ville are pleased to present a re-formulated version of this i...

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venue: Netil House
date: 23-25/09/11
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Rot.Skecth

WEB EXPERIMENT

Jean Helfenstein

US, 2011

Rot.Sketch is an HTML5 experiment that allows user to create abstract graphics using a drawing process inspired by the Spirograph. Read more >

venue: Netil House
date: 23-25/09/11
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The Godot Machine

INSTALLATION

Ollie Palmer

UK, 2010-11

The Godot Machine is a device which monitors and prevents the movement of a single ant.An ant sits atop a white globe, monitored from above by a camera. As the ant moves forwards, the sphere rotates backwards. As the ant moves left, the sphere moves right. No matter which di...

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venue: Netil House
date: 23-25/09/11
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Be Your Own Souvenir

Hybrid installation

blablabLAB

ES, 2010-1

Be Your Own Souvenir connects street users, arts and science, linking them to under-lying alternative spaces and their own realities. The audience are released from established roles in a perspective exchange: spectator-performer, artist-tourist, observ...

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venue: Red Market Square
date: 22-23-24/09/11
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fbFaces

IDENTITY

 

Joern Roeder & Jonathan Pirnay

DE, 2011

“fbFaces“ is a project by Joern Roeder and Jonathan Pirnay. It explores the issue of data accessibility on the Internet; a topic that is gaining more and more importance and currency in these times of privacy protection and social networks.

“Inte...

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venue: Netil House
date: 24-25/09/11
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Nine Point Five

DATAVIZ

Dean McNamee & Marcin Ignac

DK, 2010

Nine Point Five is an interactive visualization of earthquakes over the past 30 years. It uses the newly developed WebGL technology to create an fluid and interactive in-browser experience, presenting the events over an interactive Earth....

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venue: Netil House
date: 23-25/09/11
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Influencia

INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION

David McLellan, Nico Antonogiannis, Coy Chen, Sunny Shao, Anna Jansson

UK, 2010

In an enclosed arena a dozen small colour-coded autonomous robots coexist and communicate with participants. Through sensors and programmed behaviours the robots sense and respond to the presence of people within the arena. Participants must a...

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venue: Netil House
date: 23-25/09/11
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The Johnny Cash Project

Web Experiments

Aaron Koblin

US, 2010-11

The Johnny Cash Project is a global collective art project. Alpha-ville in collaboration with the JCP offer visitors the opportunity to watch, explore and participate at our Innovation Space.The JCP invites people to share their vision of Johnny Cash, as visualised in your p...

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venue: Netil House
date: 23-25/09/11
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Hackney Hear App

DEMO

Hackney Hear

UK, 2011

The award-winning Hackney Podcast invites you to test their new smartphone app, Hackney Hear.

Walking along through London Fields ...

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venue: Netil House
date: 24-25/09/11
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Wonderful Little Creatures

Performance

Sean Rogg with Sam Willis & Alessio Natalizia (aka WALLS)

UK, 2011

Times: || FRIDAY 23 (17:30 – 18:00) || SATURDAY 24 (17:00 – 17:30)

Wonderful Little Creatures is a live art and sound performance by Sean Rogg. A small laborat...

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venue: Netil House
date: 23-24/09/11
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Bitquid

ART INSTALLATION

Jeroen Holthuis

ND, 2009

Jeroen Holthuis explores the relationship between two parallel worlds; our digital and analogue environment. Bitquid explores the relationship between these environments by transforming bits to atoms. It is a system of parallel hoses through which coloured and c...

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venue: Netil House
date: 23-25/09/11
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Grey Matter

Online/Live Performance

Man Bartlet

US, 2011

Dates: 24 (Netil House) || 25 (V&A)

Times: Throughout the day.

Combining online performance and interactive installation, Grey Matter will mine notions of collective and individual i...

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venue: Netil House & V&A Sackler Center
date: 24-25/09/11
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Pas a Pas

INTERACTIVE

Ishac Bertran

ES, 2010

Pas a Pas is an interactive educational tool for schools that enables children to learn and experiment with different sets of elements using animation. It aims to use the physicality and the animated outcome of stop motion animation to bridge the gap between abstract concept...

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venue: Netil House
date: 23-25/09/11
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