PIXFLOW #2 BY LAB[AU]

Pick of the Week #97

This week’s pick is Pixflow #2, a software artwork by LAb[au] and part of the exhibition ‘Noise’ at the 55th Venice Biennale. The exhibition was curated by Alessandro Carrer and Bruno Barsanti with the contribution …

NOT EVEN LOVE WILL TEAR US APART BY LIA

Pick of the Week #96

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“Not Even Love Will Tear Us Apart is a generative artwork composed by digital artist Lia. The film is composed of continuously evolving forms that, through rotation, movement and mirroring, suggest the symbol of …

GRAPHEME BY ROBERT SEIDEL

Pick of the Week #95

This week’s pick is Grapheme by Robert Seidel, a laser cut projection sculpture and permanent installation at Museum Wiesbaden.

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Seidel is a Berlin based artist working in the mediums of experimental film, video projection and installation. Similar …

I LOVE YOUR WORK BY JONATHAN HARRIS

Pick of the Week #94

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This week’s pick is Jonathan Harris’ ‘I Love Your Work’, an interactive environment and documentary about lesbian pornography.

Jonathan Harris is an artist and computer scientist. Known most famously for co-creating ‘We Feel Fine’, he makes …

MEMENTO MORI BY MARTIN BIRCHER

Pick of the Week #93

This week’s pick is Memento Mori by Martin Bircher, a sculptural installation about technology and the passage of time.

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Bircher is an artist and lecturer from Switzerland. He received a degree in Fine Arts with …

LOOK UP: 100 YEAR STARSHIP SCREENSAVER BY ROBERT HODGIN

Pick of the Week #92

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This week’s pick is ‘Look up’, a cosmic screensaver created by Robert Hodgin for the Barbarian Group and 100 Year Starship.

Hodgin is an code artist living in Brooklyn. He is a founding partner …

PLAYING WITH FIRE BY ALEXANDRA LEVASSEUR

Pick of the Week #91

 

This week’s pick is Playing With Fire, an animation by illustrator Alexanda Levasseur.

Levasseur Lives and works in Montreal, Qc, Canada. She studied Fine Arts and Graphic Design at University of Costa Rica, a Postgraduate in …

THE DEFECTOR INTERACTIVE BY FATHOM FILM GROUP

Pick of the Week #90

This week’s pick is ‘The Defector Interactive’, an online cinematic experience about escaping North Korea.

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“The Defector Interactive is a cinematic journey into what it’s like to be a North Korean who tries to …

DIGITAL DRAWINGS BY SHANTELL MARTIN

Pick of the week #89

 

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This week we introduce you to the work of Shantell Martin, an illustrator and pioneer of digital drawing.

“Artist Shantell Martin collaborates with her surroundings, translating into glyphs, lines, recurring characters, and words …

DATA CUISINE BY PROZESSAGENTEN

Pick of the Week #88

Data Cuisine is a data visualisation project that uses the medium of food to express data. They ran a workshop at the Open Knowledge Festival in Helsinki and also presented at Resonate.

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VISUALISING FUKUSHIMA BY INTERACTIVE THINGS

Pick of the Week #87

A web publication about the effects following the Fukushima nuclear disaster.

 

 

Interactive Things are a user experience & data visualization studio based in Zurich. Their past work includes the World Inequality Database on Education …

GRAVITY BY SERGIO CALDERON AND FIELD

Pick of the Week #85

Gravity is Sergio Calderón’s chapter of Energy Flow, a collaborative app by FIELD for iOS and android. The non-linear film experience is unique every time it is played, and explores the complexity of how things …

VISUALIZING OPEN PROCESSING BY SINAN ASCIOGLU

Pick of the Week #84

Visualizing Open Processing is Sinan Ascioglu’s interactive data visualization of the activity of users on OpenProcessing.org in 2012.

Ascioglu is a User Experience and Interaction Designer from America. He launched OpenProcessing almost 5 years ago as a forum …

WIDE SKY BY MARCUS ECKERT

Pick of the Week #83

This week’s pick is Wide Sky by Marcus Eckhert, an iphone game app.

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Marcus Eckert is a freelance iOS Developer and Motion Designer. He describes Wide Sky as “A game and experiment in design”. The objective …

KINGYO KINGDOM BY COHEN VAN BALEN

Pick of the Week #82

This week’s pick is Cohen Van Balen’s film ‘Kingyo Kingdom‘, a documentary on the selective breeding of Ranchu Fish.

 

Revital Cohen and Tuur Van Balen are London based Designers and Artists that …

DATA.SCAN [Nº1-9] BY RYOJI IKEDA

Pick of the Week #81

This week’s pick is  data.scan [nº1-9] by Ryoji Ikeda, an audiovisual installation currently exhibiting at MU in Eindhoven.

Born in 1966 in Gifu, Japan, Ikeda lives and works in Paris, France.

His work is described as …

ADAM MARTINAKIS

Pick of the Week #80

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Born in Lubań, Poland, in 1972, Adam Martinakis studied at T.E.I. Of Athens, Faculty of Interior Architecture, Decorative Arts, and Industrial Design, and since 2000 has been working in the Digital Arts. He has …

CONSUMPTION BY LI LIAO

Pick of the week #79

This week’s pick is ‘Consumption’, a performance by Li Liao.

Liao entered the work force at the Shenzhen Foxconn factory for a total of 45 days, before using his earnings to purchase the same iPad Mini he was …

SAVE FOOD FROM THE FRIDGE BY JIHYUN RYOU

Pick of the week #78

“Observing the food and therefore changing the notion of food preservation, we could find the answer to current situations such as the overuse of energy and food wastage. My design is a tool to implement 

THE ALWAYS-ON TELEPHONE CLUB

Pick of the week #77

Arcade is an an interdisciplinary design studio formed of William Coleman, Keiichi Matsuda and James Alliban. Arcade work at the intersection of physical and virtual, to expose new problems and opportunities from emerging technologies. They design …

DOWNLOADED BY ALEX WINTER

Pick of the Week #76

This week’s Pick is the upcoming documentary by Alex Winter, ’Downloaded’. Premiering at SXSW 2013, this documentary focusing on Napster and the advent of digital file sharing investigates the digital revolution; “the kids that …

APITAGORAS BY ALBA CORRAL

Pick of the Week #75

This week’s pick is Alba Corral‘s ‘aPitagoras‘, a free Art App which creates concentric circles at the user’s touch. The interactive app allows the user to make their own wallpaper for their …

TOMTEN

Pick of the week #72

Graphset‘s Tomten is a 3D animation film and part of a new exhibition at Centre des arts d’Enghien-les-BainsProjections video dans l’espace public (Video Projections in Public Space).

Graphset, aka Mikkael Doczekalski, designed …

KILL YOUR DARLINGS

Pick of the week #71

Jeroen van Loon‘s ‘Kill Your Darlings’ is an installation artwork that takes online content out of its original context, creating discussion on the topics surrounding privacy, bullying and the use of real-time media.

Van …