prosthetic knowledge

Windswept by Charles Sowers 

Art installation fixed outside a gallery’s wall, displaying natural flow and turbulence of the wind - via dezeen:

Hundreds of spinning blades reveal the invisible patterns of the wind in American artist Charles Sowers’ kinetic installation on the facade of the Randall Museum in San Francisco.

The installation, titled Windswept, consists of 612 rotating aluminium weather vanes mounted on an outside wall. As gusts of wind hit the wall, the aluminium blades spin not as one but independently, indicating the localised flow of the wind and the way it interacts with the building.

“Our ordinary experience of wind is as a solitary sample point of a very large invisible phenomenon,” said Sowers. “Windswept is a kind of large sensor array that samples the wind at its point of interaction with the Randall Museum building and reveals the complexity and structure of that interaction.”

You can find out more at Dezeen here, with photos and a video of the work in action.

IRIS by HYBE - Light Conditions 

The makers of this interactive installation / LCD Canvas got in contact again to demonstrate their work in different light conditions, and also reveal a bit more about the hardware used in it:

Expandable Matrix of Transmissive Monochrome LCD (90x90mm), Custom designed Arduino compatible controller board, DMX512, SPI, Kinect /

IRIS is a unique media canvas with matrix of conventional information display technology - a monochrome LCD. Through the phased opening and closing of circular-segmented black Liquid Crystal, IRIS can create various patterns and control the amount (size) of passing lights. IRIS is an interactive medium for visual simplicity which uses the passage of ambient light, not emission of light itself.

It is a selected and supported work by Da Vinci Idea Program(2012) at Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon, KOREA

Skyptures by Craig Johnson

Net art uses single Skype emoticon repetitively to fill the web page, creating animated patterns. 

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Screenshots 2012 by Feréstec 

Collection of compositions created using images and windows in the Mac OS environment - More Here

The artist is also currently featured at the online net-art gallery Fach & Asendorf Gallery.

Process Watch by Katja Novitskova 

Digital print for one-day art show featuring a collage of infographic data of that day:

On June 27th 2012 I did Hotel Palenque, a curatorial project of Elise Lammer. Hotel Palenque is about inviting an artist to do a one-day show that proposes two conditions: making an A0 print, and deleting the files used to make it.

Process Watch is a digital collage inframed in a outdoor poster display with two key-locks. Collage was made a few hours before the opening out of several types of real-time data from the day of the exhibition: weather reports from various cities around the world, currency exchange rates, stock exchange statistics, commodity prices, satellite footage, Moon phase and location, etc. The data gathered in the form of screenshots from the internet was then assembled in Photoshop. Fundamentally unique occurence of particular weather and economic conditions of the day were further intensified by freehand digital tool use. The print is locked in a frame and will exist as a singular piece - a document to the reality of the moment and a product of the conditions that led to it.

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Appearance Of Crosses by Ding Li 

Continual painting series by Shanghai artist creates abstract colourful grids using the cross as his motif mark unit. He has been making these paintings for 20 years and is considered one of the most important abstract artists working in China today.

DING Yi’s signature takes the form of a cross that is repeatedly and carefully constructed across surfaces. With this minimalist visual rhetoric, painting is not about illusion and the representation of objects. Instead, DING Yi explores an abstract aesthetic through the systematic repetition and direct visual representation of the cross. Created by the layered intersection of vertical, horizontal and diagonal lines across the surface, the paintings encourage the process of perception. Viewed from a distance, everything gradually converges. But viewed up-close, the subtlety of lines and color are vibrantly present. The paintings simultaneously refer to themselves, as paintings per se, and to the reality around them that has only been distilled into grids and check pattern. Rather than creating a future reality, DING Yi proceeds from a preconceived reality. He has conceptually integrated the conditions of the work’s production and reception within the work itself. The abstract realism of the paintings have, especially, become an analysis of their conditions of production: the repeated motif of the cross has been re-made again and again, indefinitely and continuously for 18 years now. In his visual structures, he seems to be aiming for a meticulous systematization of simplicity opposed to the bombastic rhetoric of the literati tradition. Thus his crosses on the surface have been described as the embodiment of a deliberate “diffusion of pictorial illiteracy.”

More can be discovered at ShangART Gallery website here

PK Note: Goes without saying there is an (unintentional) fractal / digital quality to the work.

Woven Portico 

Artist Nicolas Feldmayer uses the classical columns of University College London to create a large-scale weaved pattern with plain white fabric.

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Grupa TOK performance, Serbia ‘73 

Public performance art, using protest signs with minimal patterns.

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Pattern Recognition 

Eye-catching, otherworldly fashion shoot from DIS Magazine and Keehnan Konyha featuring head-to-toe layers of colourful patterns.

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Sigma Complex by Ryu SungHun

Collection of paintings currently shown at the Absinthe Gallery, Seoul, utilizing various layers, styles, and references at once.

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Annie Larson Knitwear 

Memphis Group inspired knitwear for that 90s look that Tumblr seems to love:

ALL Knitwear is an American knitwear label specializing in original sweater designs by Annie Larson. Each piece is designed, knit, and linked by Annie on a Brother KH-965i knitting machine and shipped to customers all over the world … 

… In 2011, Urban Outfitters directly copied the designer’s work, unlawfully using one of her early apparel patterns for a stocking hat design. Beware of acrylic fakes and corporate sneaks! Thanks to all who support my work, please say hello anytime …

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Censorship Towel

Product concept is a flesh-coloured towel with pixelated pattern.

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ASCII Catz by Kayla Mattes 

Hand dyed silkscreened t-shirts and leggings, and industrial knit Jacquard shirt, based on the development of ASCII art in the 90’s.

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Watching You - Origami Chair

Created from paper sheets of identical pieces. From designboom:

At the international furniture fair singapore 2012 the tokyo-based firm koji sekita design presented their project ‘watching you’ within the young talent zone ‘platform’. composed of paper sheets, the cardstock is scored and folded in a zigzag pattern. Each identical piece is then joined, creating the form of a chair. the strength of the seating object comes from the honeycomb pattern generated from the assembling the individual parts. Due to the flexible nature of the construction, any length of chair or bench can be produced. The accumulation and replication found in the manufacturing of ‘watching you’ is a signature of sekita.

More info and images at designboom here