Interactive Media

Modified Social Benches Jeppe Hein, Modified Social Bench NY, 2015. Courtesy KÖNIG GALERIE, Berlin, 303 Gallery, New York and Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen. Photo: James Ewing. Made by Jeppe Hein, modified social benches is a rather interesting art piece in that people who interact with this art piece do not often take notice that they are indeed interacting with it.  Due to their alterations, the benches look like a combination of a dysfunctional object and a functional piece of furniture. This points out the contradiction between artwork and functional object in which some art forms a unique statement but creates a scarcely functional piece of work. The belief behind this art piece is that artworks in public spaces open up new possibilities for the viewer to lose one's timidity towards art. Passersby can interact with Hein's works without even knowing that they are art.  This creates an opportunity to unite people of different backgrounds, encouraging interact...

Virtual Depictions: San Francisco / Public Art Project from Refik Anadol on Vimeo . ‘Virtual Depictions:San Francisco’ is a public art project by media artist Refik Anadol which consists of a series of parametric data sculptures that tell the story of the city and people around us within a unique artistic approach for 350 Mission’s media wall.  This art piece takes data from the real world and transforms it into something else, giving the data new meaning and giving rise to new interpretations which are now visualised through an abstract medium.  The main idea of ‘Virtual Depictions:San Francisco’ was to bring a 21st century approach to public art to define new poetics of space through media arts and architecture. It was also used to create a unique parametric data sculptures that has an intelligence, memory and culture. Through architectural transformations of media wall located in 350 Mission’ lobby, home of Salesforce, the main motivation with this seminal media...

Miguel CHEVALIER Dear World… Yours, Cambridge from Claude Mossessian on Vimeo .

Infinity Room - [TIEE] from Refik Anadol on Vimeo . "Infinity" is an immersive environment project by Refik Anadol. The project is an integral part of artist’s ongoing ‘Temporary Immersive Environment Experiments’ which is a research on audio/visual installations by using the state called immersion which is the state of consciousness where an immersant’s awareness of physical self is transformed by being surrounded in an engrossing environment; often artificial, creating a perception of presence in a non-physical world. In this project light is the major element in the experiment, used to blur and interconnect the boundaries between the two realms actual/fictional and physical/virtual. It signifies the threshold between the represented space created by the projection technology, and the physical space where the viewer stands. The project discusses the inherent spatial qualities of immersive virtual environments and their effect on the exposed person. This project inte...

Antrum by Mathrioshka from CENTER MARS on Vimeo . Created by artist Mathrioshka, the installation is made to look like a grotto of the membrane. The surface is inhabited by strange creatures made out of lights representing  pure mathematical abstractions mixed with natural shapes . Its complex structure causes association with living creatures, space objects and architectural constructions.  Viewers can push the membrane and try to make contact with them.  There is always this fascination with interacting with an object given "life" by a human being. We love to see it interact with us, react to us and attempt to form a sort of communication with the object. This art piece brings about the question of "where is the boundary of life" when it comes to animating and stimulating objects that can react to us. It is interesting to see how an object reacts to different interactions we do to stimulate it and amazing to see an illusion of life in what we imagine to ...

EPICENTER from SILA SVETA on Vimeo . Epicenter was created by Russians, TUNDRA and Sila Sveta  to celebrate 7th Anniversary of ARMA17 in Moscow. Each group created an installation that places the viewer in the “epicenter of borderless creativity."   "The viewer enters into a totally immersive and unfamiliar dark space. He trues  to understand what is waiting for him, but the picture of the world is  changing with light and sound. Confronted with an unfamiliar, fast-paced changing scene, the viewer is made to feel small and insignificant in face of the scale of what is happening in front  of him. It is  as though he is  an unwanted witness of an unknown lighting  phenomena, placing  him  right in the Epicenter of an uncontrollable massive activity. Personally I find this work rather  interesting  as it deals with simple changes in lights and sounds to build an unfamiliar  space . Watching the video makes you feel...

GOLEM X MBA from BK I Digital art company on Vimeo . The Lyon Museum of Fine Arts asked artist Arnaud Pottier to bring sculptures, including Laurent Honore Marqueste’s Perseus Slaying Medusa, James Pradier’s Odalisque, and Barrias’ Les Premières Funérailles, to life. The artist thus used projection mapping, to turn the statues into a display.   GOLEM is a concept that uses sculpture and video mapping to create an uncanny feeling. It brings the  statues to life by lending them emotion despite their stationary features. This is done by projecting facial features onto the face of the statues which then creates the illusion of the statues becoming able to blink and express different facial emotions. Eyes of the statues become able to blink and this creates the illusion that the statues are really alive but frozen in their various poses. The lights also lends shadows to the bodies of the statues which seem to pulse as though they are organic due to the shifting of the s...

"NONOTAK studio is the collaboration between the illustrator Noemi Schipfer and the architect musician Takami Nakamoto... In early 2013, they started to work on light and sound installations, creating an ethereal, immersive and dreamlike environment meant to envelope the viewer, capitalizing on Takami Nakamoto's approach of space & sound, and Noemi Schipfer's experience in kinetic visual." --- http://www.nonotak.com/ABOUT-CONTACT This art piece Daydream V.4 makes use of kinetic visuals and sounds to recreate the experience one feels in dreams. By using different visuals that seem to repeat itself in a never-ending pattern accompanied with a choice of sounds that have no distinct beginning  or end, a surreal experience like that of the dream is recreated. In this installation there is no distinct structure or order, everything seems random but not to the extent where everything is chaotic. There is still some semblance of a pattern going on in this p...