prosthetic knowledge
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Back from hiatus …
Hi all …
Who would have thought that for many months, commuting, working a day job, researching and working on a blog into the late hours with (usually much) less than 5 hours sleep every night, with a change of season, and spending no quality on anything would make me a sensitive, anxious, tired individual …
Yes, I’m an idiot … and … caffeine is one hell of a drug …
In some ways, I wish I could make this blog work financially, but I don’t think anyone else has managed a magic formula, and I can’t see myself doing so either. But I can’t see myself giving this up, it’s something I enjoy doing, and I very much will continue to run it :)
I have to say, thank you to EVERYONE who sent well wishes to me, you know who you are, and you know I am grateful to every single one of you. You make this endeavour all the more worthwhile …
Oh … and V5MT … you’re an absolute star …
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Transits by Ursula Damm
Generative video uses footage of city viewpoints yet regains the traces of people and transport moving by - the effect is reminiscent of Marcel Dulchamp’s “Nude Decending a Staircase”. Embedded below is a segment from the film:
“transits” - generative video installation from resoutionable on Vimeo.
[Google Translate:]
Transit is a video installation that was produced for the exhibition place of sensing House of Electronic Arts Basel.
The installation uses static video recordings of Aeschenplatz in Basel to record traces of passersby on an urban transportation hub and make visible in their characteristics. , A newly developed software (Author: Martin Schneider) understands the entire video frame than neural feature map (Kohonen map). Each pixel of the video image is stored and subsequently using special algorithms “remembers” or processed. On the one hand we wanted long lingering elements into the picture enroll, on the other hand has this vision and its own dynamics: colors attract and movements pushing pixels in the detected direction.
The work is by Ursula Damm, and you can find more info at her site here
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Lee Byung Ho
Artist creates sculptural-like works whose subjects age before you, transformed from young to old and back again.
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Colors Magazine: Beijing by Peng & Chen
Photo collection of pre-Olympics Beijing, exploring the area and various residents:
To paint a picture of Beijing City before the 2008 Olympics, Beijing City Stories spent two months planning and producing a special feature for Colors Magazine. In most Western countries, cultural changes usually take place over the period of hundreds years. While in the East, China seems to have gone through all these changes in a matter of two decades, whether it be political, economical, lifestyle, or cultural changes. China has transformed dramatically, this is something every single member of the Chinese population has experienced - many seemingly irrelevant elements have been brought together, peoples values are being moved from one extreme to another extreme. Chinas recent changes have brought excitement throughout the country. However, while some things are gained, it is only fair, that on the other hand, some things are inevitably lost. Without knowing what to expect, peoples lives become uncertain. With China experiencing so many changes since implementing the Open Door Policy, what are its people going through? This might just be the most note-worthy, and most meaningful era in Chinas history. That is why we have chose this time, right before the 2008 Olympics, to look into the lives of more than a hundred Beijing residents, to document their memories and life-stories.
Many more examples can be found at Peng & Chen’s website here
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AIKON Project
Sophisticated drawing machine features robotic drawing arm and camera sensor. It is called ‘Paul’ …
[the first minute demonstrates what happens initially, the real action starts afterwards]
I’ve covered the project before, but has since made much progress. From the project website:
Drawing, is the human activity we investigate in the AIKON project. It has been practiced in every civilisation for at least the last 30,000 years. The project will be using computational and robotic technologies to explore the drawing activity. In particular the research focuses on face sketching. What can explain that for a non-draughtsman it proves so difficult to draw what they perceive so clearly, while an artist is able to do so sometimes just with a few lines, in a few seconds? Furthermore, how can an artist draw with an immediately recognisable style/manner?
The main objective of our investigation is to implement a computational system capable of simulating the various important processes involved in face sketching. The ensemble of processes to be simulated, including; the visual perception the subject and the sketch, the drawing gestures, the cognitive activity: reasoning. the influence of the years of training, etc., the inter-processes information flows. It is evident that due to knowledge and technological limitations the implementation of each process will remain coarse and approximate. The system implemented is expected to draw in its own style.
More about the project can be found here
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Via Minimal Exposition:
tomohide ikeya was born in japan. he met an underwater photographer, having scuba diving as a hobby; this meeting made him want to be a photographer. he started his career as a photographer’s assistant in 2000 and has been working as a freelance photographer since 2002.
“some things are beyond our control.”More examples of the photographer’s work can be found at Minimal Exposition
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Andrew Young
Painter of people with a knack for various styles
Website + Portfolio can be found here
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Letraset - Architecture
(via youmightfindyourself)
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Typeface
Trailer for documentary on an old museum preserving the technology and tradition of wood-carved printing type.
In rural Wisconsin, a lone employee waits in a cavernous old museum for visitors to come. A few individuals straggle in every few days and then, come Friday, the museum fills with life. Machines hum, presses print, artists buzz about. One weekend each month, the quiet of Two Rivers is interrupted as carloads of artisans drive in from across the Midwest. The place comes alive as printmaking workshops led by, and filled with, some of the nations top design talent descend on the sleepy enclave.
In a time when people can carry computers in their pockets and watch TV while walking down the street, Typeface dares to explore the twilight of an analog craft that is freshly inspiring artists in a digital age. The Hamilton Wood Type Museum in Two Rivers, WI personifies cultural preservation, rural re-birth and the lineage of American graphic design. At Hamilton, international artisans meet retired craftsmen and together navigate the convergence of modern design and traditional technique. But the Museums days are numbered. What is the responsibility of artists and historians to preserve a dying craft? How can rural towns survive in a shifting industrial marketplace where big-box retailers are king?
