The silent life of things

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.

Cyber psychedelia

What is Dead May Never Die from Kadavre Exquis on Vimeo.

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

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

Drones out in safari

"Will Burrard-Lucas, a wildlife photographer, built the armored "BeetleCam" so that his camera could get up close and personal with dangerous animals. After some trial and error, he headed to Kenya's Masai Mara with his brother, Matt Burrard-Lucas, to photograph the lions there. The adorable remote-control vehicle ended up doubling as a toy for the lion cubs, making for some amazing images."

Source: The Atlantic

The aesthetics of the post-human

Images made of numbers. A virtual presence, auto-instantiated in direct connection from the source. Real-time portraits of complex sets of movements. Non anthropomorphological reflections of bodily actions. Non gendered, neutral images of functions. Non-conscious perceptions actualized in material, virtual forms. Bodies in motion converted into symbols. Bodies in control. Sense-making machines. Fleeing mirrors.