Art, Science and the Sublime: 3 questions with Anna Dumitriu » IAI TV Is the Romantic idea of the sublime still relevant? Yes, says Anna Dumitriu, and not just for art, but for science too. Anna Dumitriu is a Brighton-based contemporary artist best known for her work in bio-art. Her practice encompasses installations, interventions and performances, often incorporating diverse materials such as bacteria, robotics, digital projections and embroidery, Dumitriu seeks to blur the boundaries between the arts and the sciences. Dumitriu is founder and Director of the Institute of Unnecessary Research and lead artist on the "Trust me, I'm an artist: towards an ethics of art/science collaboration" project working with the Waag Society in Amsterdam. Nature has always been one of the most powerful ways of accessing the sublime. Science is a means of study the natural world, in all its forms, and for making predictions about it. Is science is encroaching on art’s territory, or vice-versa? The sublime an experience somewhere between terror and awe.
Vous croyez au karma ? Cette jeune femme s'apprête à en faire l'expérience... et c'est magnifique. La Thaïlande est décidément pleine de surprises. Après le court-métrage émouvant de WacoalThailand, « My Beautiful Woman », voici une autre vidéo absolument excellente ! On y suit l’histoire d’un restaurateur d’un quartier populaire qui a pris l’habitude d’aider les plus démunis depuis plus de 30 ans : un jeune garçon qui se fait prendre à voler des médicaments pour sa mère, un sans domicile fixe, etc. Voici la vidéo : <a href=" J’adore ce court-métrage pour tout ce qu’il peut porter comme sentiments. PS : Si vous aimez cette vidéo, vous devriez aussi jeter un coup d’oeil à celle-ci !
this is onformative a studio for generative design. et si les hommes envahissaient des aliens ? Alors qu’on apprenait la disparition du grand HR Giger, créateur du monstre Alien pour les besoins du film de Ridley Scott, un court métrage d’animation fait le tour de la Toile. Produit par les studios coréens d’Alfred Imageworks, il s’amuse d’une possible rencontre entre l’être humain et l’alien en inversant les rôles. L’homme, incarné par une espèce de facteur spatial – ça en jette – qui vient remettre ses paquets, débarque sur une minuscule planète. On est en 2150. Sous ses pieds, des aliens minuscules qui deviennent… des victimes. Ce court marque parce qu’on est loin de la figure de l’extra-terrestre méchant un poil envahissant dans le cinéma, du Mars Attack de Tim Burton à Independance Day de Roland Emmerich en passant par le culte Starship Troopers. Journaliste culture depuis 1956.
Software Development as Artistic Practice: How Open Source Has Changed the Way Art is Made Artists are notoriously secretive about their processes. Rothko never revealed the complex formulas behind his diaphanous color fields. Picasso gave his famous dictum, “Bad artists copy. Rather than locking their studio doors, media artists are in a constant, open dialogue over how, and how best, to make use of the technologies that drive their work. Though these open-source creative tools were developed by artists, they don’t need to be considered works of art in and of themselves. The difference between a media artist creating a tool like OpenFrameworks and a painter developing a new admixture of oil paint, for example, is that the coding tools are designed to be functional and public, a provocative quality in the traditionally covetous art-world context. Creative programming environments are functional by necessity, especially with utilities like Processing and OpenFrameworks. OpenFrameworks also came in reaction to Maeda’s work. [content:advertisement-center]
Maps to the Stars : Babylone brûlera | Au-bout-du-film.fr Deux ans après sa sombre critique de l’ultra-libéralisme économique dans l’excellent Cosmopolis, le réalisateur canadien David Cronenberg revient avec un drame saisissant qui passe au vitriol un Hollywood étouffant dans sa luxure. Après un cure de désintoxication Benjie, acteur star de 13 ans, et sa mère Cristina tentent de persuader les producteurs de son prochain film qu’il ne replongera pas. Son père est quant à lui coach personnel d’une star sur le déclin Havana Segrand. Lorsque celle-ci va engager Agatha, une jeune femme au visage à moitié brûlé, comme assistante, le quotidien de ces personnes va peu à peu s’étioler pour mieux imploser, sans strass ni paillette cette fois. « Ce n’est pas très glamour tu sais« , lorsque Havana prévient Agatha à propos de son futur travail, elle adresse au spectateur un avertissement qui vaudra pour tout le film. Il ne s’agit cependant pas de faire un catalogue des diverses moeurs hollywoodiennes. A ce jeu là Julianne Moore est excellente.
Dance Technology: Proximity, with VDMX, Quartz Composer, OpenFrameworks, Syphon With new hybrid performance comes new hybrid tools, as artists can work with an arsenal of evolving, often open, creative visual software. In a new performance for Australian Dance Theater, multiple tools merge to produce an array of visual features to accompany the choreography. Some of the glue is Syphon, the open source framework for sharing textures on the Mac, so it’s fitting this news comes our way from Syphon co-creator Tom Butterworth. Tom writes: I’ve just been doing some coding work for something I thought might make a good CDM story. Agreed! As reviewed in The Australian:Dance on the spider’s web of technology You can also hear audience reactions via Australian Dance Theatre’s Twitter Behind-the-scenes interview at bottom; images here via the Australian Dance Theater Facebook page.
An Open Source Video Mixer, Inspired by DIY Space Exploration As many ponder the fate of hardware mixing, mixing in software continues to advance. And in a reminder of just how many different applications video mixing can have, here’s a fascinating article about a new open-source Linux-based video mixing tool called Snowmix: Copenhagen Suborbitals Release Snowmix, an Open Source Video Mixer [The Power Base] What’s fascinating about it is that this didn’t come from VJs or broadcasters, but people who are experimenting in DIY, non-profit human sub-orbital flight (the Copenhagen Suborbitals). In fact, this isn’t even the only example of synergy between spaceflight and video tools. NASA’s Communication Navigation and Networking Reconfigurable Testbed (CoNNeCT) experiment uses the memory controller that was originally developed for the Milkymist system-on-chip[1] and published under the GNU GPL. Pretty awesome to have tech you developed wind up in space. As for this (software) mixer, the feature list is impressive:
flow no. 1 | kinect projector dance | princeMio flow #1 This choreography is about the duett of dance and interactive media. My ispiration is to investigate different possibilities to melt organic hiphop dance with projected light – searching for new shapes, transisition, identities and meanings. It is a portray of urban artists giving a computer the acces to their very private natural flow. Dancers follow their own flow. The flow series contains a number of choreographic and interactive media productions, searching for different digital illustrations of dancing bodies. The Installation This low weight setup consists of a kinect camera capturing the dancers movements, a notebook to evaluate the captured information and a projector to display the interactive graphics. Inspiration Projection and dance has melted to stunning experiences. Within the upcoming flow series i am interested to investigate the benefits and limitations of projected graphics and how they can be applied to the flow of urban dances like hiphop. Dance Software
Markov chain A simple two-state Markov chain A Markov chain (discrete-time Markov chain or DTMC[1]), named after Andrey Markov, is a mathematical system that undergoes transitions from one state to another on a state space. It is a random process usually characterized as memoryless: the next state depends only on the current state and not on the sequence of events that preceded it. Introduction[edit] A Markov chain is a stochastic process with the Markov property. In literature, different Markov processes are designated as "Markov chains". While the time parameter definition is mostly agreed upon to mean discrete-time, the Markov chain state space does not have an established definition: the term may refer to a process on an arbitrarily general state space.[5] However, many uses of Markov chains employ finite or countable (or discrete on the real line) state spaces, which have a more straightforward statistical analysis. The changes of state of the system are called transitions. . . is defined, while