tilt shift

After seeing Sydney sider Keith Loutit’s tilt shift videos, which are very intriguing and cute, I set about trying to emulate the effect in photoshop with some success.
For those that haven’t heard of it before, Tilt-Shift is a process in which a photograph of a life-size location or object is manipulated to resemble a photograph [...]

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Creativity, Spontaneity and Poetry…

The search for new forms of communication is now part of a collective effort. In this way the old specialization of art has finally come to an end. There are no more artists because everyone is an artist. The work of art of the future will be the contruction of a passionate life.
Raoul Vaneigem
 
The same [...]

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levelhead- tangible interface rocks

Just came across Julian Oliver’s levelhead project. Such a simple maze game with a simple and compelling interface. lovely. You rotate and tilt a physical cube to move a tiny player through rooms – the object being to get through the maze. a memory game…

it is great when the content matches [...]

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I Want You To Want Me

A video installation by Jonathan Harris and Sep Kamvar for MOMA’s Elastic Mind exhibiton.
A lovely treatment of data, in this case dating data represented as balloons…

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trope development

The island development is coming along with the terraforming complete-ish.
Here are some happy snaps:

looking forward to developing the android AI’s and other scripted objects.

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creative 20/20 summit? maybe 10/20….good work keep going..

well I feel I need to blog this. after the 20 20 summit in canberra with mr rudd.
here is a link to “Towards a creative Australia: the future of the arts, film and design” and the background briefing paper.
It is good to know that: “We value our artists, film-makers, designers, authors, playwrights and performers because [...]

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FLOw

I have been reading Mihaly Csikszentmihalya’s book on flow for a bit now. It is a bit dry and awkward in that way academic writing that tries to be popularist can be, not flow-like at all…
Anyway that aside, his work definately describes the art making experience at length, using a range of examples of other [...]

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the graveyard

I have been following the online art of Auriea Harvey and Michael Samyn for many years, probably since the mid 90s. Auriea does incredibly beautiful work, especially her entropy8 site and associated projects. There is an archive here.
She has just released a new “game”, more like an exploratory space/ painting than an actual game. There is no explicit [...]

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Xipe totec – second skin – clothes that fit

I saw this at the Pre Columbian Art Museum in Santiago last year, and was strangely disturbed… I was reminded of it by a story told to me last night.the blurb from the website reads…Among the sculptures of clay Classic Period (300-900 AD) of Veracruz central Gulf of Mexico include representations of a god and a goddess [...]

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The city is a technology

“Women in the City” is a viral public art exhibition spread throughout the streets of Los Angeles that will start in February 2008.The work of four seminal women artists, who began to emerge on the international art scene at the beginning of the ’80s within the feminist movement, will penetrate the urban and social geography [...]

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Dérive — Guy Debord / Sadie Plant

“‘The Arts of the Future will be radical transformations of situations, or they will be nothing” Cineaste, Guy Debord   
Dérive
In philosophy, a Dérive is a French concept meaning an aimless walk, probably through city streets, that follows the whim of the moment. It is sometimes translated as a drift.
French philosopher and Situationist Guy Debord used this idea to get people to revisit the way they looked [...]

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art is

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compassion

 not sure this works, but it looks like fun.!.it is a machine that dunks your opponents head into water at close proximity. the relationship is reciprocal. i enjoyed the idea of it more than the video clip linked here. i always enjoy dramatisations of interactions between people using machines to illustrate the relationships. technology used [...]

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