Monday 30 July 2012

Digital brush strokes















"Painting with a digital brush is an attempt to free ASCII Art from the confines of the screen and enable it to exist in physical space – with simply light and paint."

Source: creativeapplications.net

Painting with a Digital Brush from Teehan+Lax Labs on Vimeo.

Monday 9 July 2012

These walls can talk

O (Omicron) from Romain Tardy (AntiVJ) on Vimeo.

O (Omicron) - A permanent installation directed by Romain Tardy & Thomas Vaquié Hala Stulecia, Wroclaw, Poland.

"When opened, Hala Stulecia was the largest reinforced concrete structure in the world. With a diameter of 65m it was home to the largest dome built since the Pantheon in Rome eighteen centuries earlier.

The piece proposed for the Centennial Hall of Wroclaw is based around the notion of timelessness in architecture, and the idea of what future has meant throughout the 20th century. By using references such as Fritz Lang’s Metropolis or the utopian projects of Archigram to confront the different visions of the future at different times, Romain Tardy and Thomas Vaquié were interested in trying to create a vision of a future with no precise time reference. A timeless future."

Source: antivj.com

Sunday 8 July 2012

The age of biological machines

"Isn't an astonishing idea that life can be programmed like a machine and then the components can be simply ordered online from a standardized toolkit, and this means that engineers and computer scientists and mathematicians can come together with biologists. This is a totally new way of doing science and it's happening right now".

"Playing God", presented by Adam Rutherford, BBC documentary, 2012