prosthetic knowledge
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Flat Earth Society
Sound art project from Art of Failure places geophysical-scale grooves onto a vinyl record:
FLAT EARTH SOCIETY proposes a transposition of the earth elevation at the scale of a microgroove record. This engraving of elevation’s data on the surface of the disk generates in consequence a subtle image of the earth. When played on a turntable, the chain of elevation data crossed by the needle can be heard.
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Escape Velocity by Jonathan Gillie
Short abstract video featuring a collage of geometric and digital animated forms.
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Golden Parachutes by James Bills
Collection of abstract isometric mathematical artworks designed with rolling dice data - via Data Is Nature:
James Bills series of projection drawings, Golden Parachutes, are generated by random numbers obtained from a series of of polyhedral dice throws. Each aleotoric drawing uses a different system, indicated by its title (such as 1xRxR or 8x8xR), to translate those numbers into indeterminate isometric lattices characterised by spectrographic elevation columns. Gold leaf gilding punctuates the upper parts of these columns resulting in illuminated grids of squares that hover above the main architectural structures.
More at Data Is Nature Here
More works by James Bills Here
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XY Plotter by Stephen Cartwright
Long exposure photography of a moving LED light on a plotter.
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“Computing/Drawing With a Vintage Pen Plotter” by Carl Lostritto
Modern drawing experiments with older output technology creating abstract art:
This is the database of “Computing/Drawing With a Vintage Pen Plotter,” a project by Carl Lostritto. Drawings are organized by method, series, and run using the following syntax: Method-Series-Run. A “method” is an algorithmic approach to controlling the pen plotter and is the most general way to organize these drawings. Within each method, a “series” refers to a specific python code and/or plotter configuration. A run refers to one drawing within the series. Whether the drawing is re-plotted or generates a series of drawings, the run identifier keeps track of their production order over time.
The collection can be found here, with some examples of animations demonstrating techniques as well as videos performing the mechanical drawings.
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The Colour Of
iOS app takes a search term, then creates an abstract collage from Instagram images based on that term:
The Color Of App from Kwok Pan Fung on Vimeo.
What is the color of happiness? Now you have an objective answer with ‘The Color Of’ app. When you search for something, the app will grab pictures from Instagram and overlap them to form an abstract image with a dominant color, which you can share on Facebook and Twitter, save as your phone’s wallpaper, or even send as a postcard. You can even explore the creations of other users. Free only on 14 December 2012 launch day, 99 cents thereafter. ‘The Color Of’ app is an art project by independent Singaporean designer, Fung Kwok Pan. It is based on his popular web art experiment to objectively find the colour of things based on Flickr. The iPhone app will be launching on 14th December 2012 for free, and with a price of 99 cents thereafter, based on photos from the Instagram community this time round.
When you search for a term, ‘The Color Of’ finds the Instagram images based on their tags, and overlap them to form an abstract image, which you can share on Facebook and Twitter, save as your phone’s wallpaper, or even send as a postcard (with our partners at Sincerely). Colors can also be searched by location or username.
In addition to creating your own, you can explore what the other users have created with the app. The Color Of is an annonymous, free-sharing network where you can view, share or save anyone’s creations.
‘The Color Of’ project adds on to the emerging field of new media and data art, where the work goes beyond a static medium by co-creating an art piece together with the user, the photo community and their ever-changing data. As a mobile app, users now have a piece of the project with them for an extended art experience anywhere and anytime.
From its creation till today, thecolorof.com web experiment has over 300 000 visits. Since thecolorof.com began tracking images created by its users 3 months ago, over 20 000 images have been created.You can find out more here
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Abstract Christmas tree sparks protests in Brussels
An updated version of a post made earlier today, now with a video from BBC News
A minimal voxelesque Christmas tree with projection mapping and a staircase to view from it’s top hasn’t gone down well with some …
Thousands of people have signed a petition against an abstract light installation replacing the traditional Christmas tree in Brussels city centre.
More than 11,000 signatures have been gathered in the online petition and a Facebook page attacking the new feature has been launched.
Critics accuse officials of opting for the installation for fear of offending non-Christians, especially Muslims.
Maddy Savage reports.
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Tai Chi - 5 Panel Display
Tai Chi master is motion-captured and represented in different abstract generative ways, but together by Universal Everything. Here is a trailer for the work currently shown at the Framed Gallery, Tokyo:
Tai Chi / 5 video artworks for the Framed digital art display
Using body motion captured from a Tai Chi master,
a series of impossible physical sculptures embodying the human spirit.
The abstract anthropomorphic forms only emerge through movement.
Framed* Space
Omotesando / Tokyo
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The Art of Hong Zi
Artist creates works with distortion effect by painting on threaded canvas which is subsequently rethreaded. It is easy to see a connection to contemporary technological distortion aesthetics, but is actually inspired via a Buddhist background:
Hongzi’s works are the products of two repetitive tasks - piling up colored threads and breaking them up again …
… If so, what is the reason why the task needs to be emphasized? It is needed to consider that the career of Hongzi started from her Buddhist painting. Furthermore the effect of her career as such appears strongly as shown in her comparing her works to sand mandala or her introducing the themes of her works as the process of generation and extinction. If it is the case, it will be no problem to say the laboriously repetitive work for tying and untying threads is the transformed form of the laboriously repetitive work for producing Buddhist paintings. When considering such repetitive work is the process of practicing asceticism to empty the minds, there is no reason not to say Hongzi’s task is also an another form of asceticism. Hongzi’s task facing the fact there is no fixed form, tying and untying threads one by one, looks to be so faithful to the teachings of Buddhism.
You can discover more of the artist’s work at their website here
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Further Abstracts by Alma Alloro
Geometric abstract animated Gifs formed with graph paper and coloured pens:
“Further Abstracts seems to be a forming contemporary statement on the classic theoretical and ideological assertions of Alloro’s later studies in the Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany. In pen drawings on architectural paper, later developed into short frenetic animation pieces, Alloro revives the Bauhaus movement’s celebrated core symbols (the triangle, square and circle), only to subvert their refined ideology of functional beauty. Replacing iconic solid colors with a hyper-saturated radiance, the bare technical grid-aesthetics of these corrupted Bauhaus designs render the modern myth of functionality obsolete. Lacking a decisive objective or directing ideology, Alloro’s practice parades these founding modernistic national elements into an amusing low-tech salad of dysfunctional glitch. Just like the action of a frustrated web user, stubbornly re-clicking on a computer icon whose link is broken, the line between distinct function and abstract causality breaks down.” — Gabriel S. Moses
There are 6 of them (and better quality as the examples above diminished from reducing the file size), but you can check them all here
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Trip
Abstract game environment made of gradient polygons - zen-like experience similar to Proteus where there are no objectives. Could be considered as a big virtual sculpture / gallery.
The link to the trailer can be found here, but embedded below is a video put together by RockLeeSmile who demonstrates the game and others thoughts about these abstract titles and the debate of whether these can be considered games:
Official website can be found here, the game’s development Tumblr blog here, and the game’s artist, Axel Shokk, has a Tumblr blog here
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The Art Of Alexandra Roozen
Hand-drawn abstract monochrome art with algorithmic, patterned and digital feel.
More work can be found at the artist’s website here
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Poemotion by Takahiro Kurashima
Publication featuring impressive abstract scanimations:
More Here (Japanese)
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House & Bike
Blog by Christian Zander documenting his experiments with Processing, creating painterly-like abstract geometric compositions from coding.
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Gantz Graf by Autechre
Music video for (at the time) state-of-the-art abstract IDM, still stands strong today. I’ve checked and it is 3 months away from it’s 10th anniversary, and is just as relevant to modern ideas to aesthetics in both sound and visuals. Personally, I believe it to be a creative milestone.
According to YouTube user IndoleMugen:
The music video for “Gantz Graf” reached a cult status in underground computer-generated imagery art circles. The video features an abstract object (or an agglomeration of objects) perfectly synchronized to the sounds in the music as it morphs, pulsates, shakes, and finally dissolves. The visuals contain the same amount of richness and detail as the soundtrack does, having a visual counterpart to every little sound or frequency range in the song. Alex Rutterford (who had previously created an unofficial video for the Tri Repetae track “Eutow” as part of a Channel 4 music programme in 2001) claims the idea for the “Gantz Graf” video came during one of his LSD trips.
