First blog entry and we're going geek!
Here are some interactive digital artworks/projects that I find rather intriguing. I like how the use of technology brings another dimension to your experience of art - it's kinda like how Jeff Koon's blow up dog came to life in "Night at the Museum II". I'm sure that at some point in our lives, we all had that moment where we wished that an art work would come to life and interact with us. (or maybe that's just me - I always wondered what it'd be like to have a conversation with Mona Lisa!)
Cinimod Studios is a cross-discipline practice based in London specializing in the fusion of architecture and lighting design. It was started by the architect Dominic Harris, whose passion for interactive art and lighting design has produced built projects now found across the international art and architecture scene.
Here are some interactive digital artworks/projects that I find rather intriguing. I like how the use of technology brings another dimension to your experience of art - it's kinda like how Jeff Koon's blow up dog came to life in "Night at the Museum II". I'm sure that at some point in our lives, we all had that moment where we wished that an art work would come to life and interact with us. (or maybe that's just me - I always wondered what it'd be like to have a conversation with Mona Lisa!)
Cinimod Studios is a cross-discipline practice based in London specializing in the fusion of architecture and lighting design. It was started by the architect Dominic Harris, whose passion for interactive art and lighting design has produced built projects now found across the international art and architecture scene.
'Flutter’ is a new interactive artwork that explores the viewer’s encounter with a rabble of virtual butterflies. Flutter consists of a linear array of 88 vertical double-sided video fins projecting from a mirrored surface. Butterflies flash through these screens on virtual flight paths, visible for fleeting moments as the light irridesces off their wings. (seen at the recent Kinetica Art Fair in London)
To celebrate the launch of the UK’s first Restaurant and Bar Awards, Cinimod Studio was commissioned to create an outdoor interactive lighting installation. Conceived as an exploded blank canvas, the huge “exploded globe of light” was suspended from the trees over London’s famed Hoxton Square and was interactively controlled by the guests.
Over the past 10 years, artist Roseline De Thelin has been working with light as a medium and subject. Her ethereal installations explore all aspects of the medium - reflection, refraction, fragmentation and transparency (we're one step away from a full-blown PoMo reading here) Recently seen at the Kinetica Art Fair, Roseline's Homos Luminosos brings to mind Star Trek/Close encounters of the 3rd kind and the like. Fascinating stuff!
Speaking of Mona Lisa, Korean artist Lee Lee Nam uses digital technology to bring to life some of our most loved classics. Vermeer's Girl with a Pearl Earring sheds a tear as she looks out at you, seemingly communicating her melancholy (which if you watched the movie of the same name, it totally makes sense). And yes, the Mona Lisa features in his body of work as well. In his parodic take of the enigmatic beauty, Nam puts the Mona Lisa in the midst of war as helicopters and parachutes rain down upon her.
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