Opera for a Small Room – A Music Installation

Some time ago, I visited the Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA). Most exhibited artworks could only raise limited interest in me, but there was one exception: The music installation „Opera for a Small Room“ by Janett Cardiff and George Bures Miller. Unlinke our interactive music installation Dave, this installation is not interactive, but it […]

Lichtfaktor – Animated Light Paintings

Combine long exposure time and bright objects and you get beautiful images. You can find plenty of examples spread over the internet. What is very uncommon, though, are animated light paintings. Lichtfaktor creates such beautiful animations. His myspace-profile contains various beautiful light paintings and this video: Fascinating. 🙂 (via pasQualle via Nerdcore)

Inversion – A House Installation

In 2005, the american sculptors Dan Havel and Dean Ruck built some kind of vortex into two houses. They called the resulting artwork, which lead like a tunnel through the house, “Inversion”. Unfortunately, this weird construction had only a very short life span. The two houses were scheduled for destruction just a few months later […]

Thomas Briggs’ Physically Abstract Art

Thomas Briggs creates images by the use of mathematical functions. The results are beautiful and abstract artworks which remind me a little of fractal art (although they work differently). My methods resemble physical simulation and data visualization from the sciences, but I turn them to my own uses. I feel that I have more complete […]

Volume: Bright, audiovisual and interactive installation

The audiovisual and interactive installation Volume consists of numerous shining columns, which are installed at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. The columns change their optical textures when visitors walk between them. Probably, the sound of the installation changes as well – but that is not described anywhere. Volume is a cooperation between United […]

Dave: The Interactive Music Video Installation

Last semester, Erik and myself created an interactive music video installation called “Dave“. It was the – so far – most intense project I have done. Well, it was worth it. 🙂 We created the first installation of this kind that I know of. The recipient, surrounded by displays, can alter the course of the […]

Strandbeest – wind powered “artificial life-form”

Theao Jansen builds artificial creatures, which can move with the wind. He calls his creation “Strandbeest“. Those beests combine an artistic beauty with technological fascination. Despite their size and complex structure, they move with such ease that they appear kinda surreal. Don’t miss the videos on the Sandbeest site. The newest specimen of Sandbeests can […]