Nozoki-Hana, designed by Yuichiro Katsumoto, is an installation made to discover and imagine scents. A life-size red box is positioned to let the visitor see memories behind its wall, through scent and sound.
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Showing posts with label art. Show all posts
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
Nozoki-Hana
Tuesday, March 18, 2008
A relaxing moment for passerby
Wandering trailer wood, plaster and plastic / 360cm x 240cm x 240cm created by Michel de Broin.
What a nice way to take a break from work! One can crawl inside of a white trailer and appears on the other side of the street. I am sure one can run user studies to show how relaxing this is. This might not work well after shopping as there are no shopping bag hangers available. Open, available, and offered to passersby, the trailer is parked on downtown thoroughfares of the red light district.
View from inside sphere construct inside the caravan, somebody try to slip out by the hole.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Meat energy
A scenario from Dunne and Raby shows children growing meat to provide energy to operate a TV. Photo Jason Evans.
Posted by Cati Vaucelle
♥ The Terminally Juvenile
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Sunday, January 13, 2008
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
Wednesday, December 26, 2007
Anano
Just a post for the beauty of the eyes.
I followed the work of Anano since 2001. She designed my favorite bear characters. You can discover more pictures of her creations on her web site.
Later on she created a variety of objects and photographs, elegant, delicate, small and antique.
Two of her books on amazon
Petit a petit
Recevoir chez Anano
Marisa Jahn
Artist Marisa Jahn gave a talk at the MIT Media Lab, in the Tangible Media Group.
Her work explores ways to engage people in gaining knowledge, from literacy, to environmental literacy. She designed tools and methods to invite people in a comparative analysis of information and self-reflective process. She collaborates frequently with Steve Shada and Natalie Jeremijenko.
Interested in how human interact and communicate with each others, she designed wearable musical instruments.
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For her master thesis in the visual studies department at MIT, she designed a game called Set. Elements of the set can be regrouped, labeled and organized and shared within the players.
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Project most easily understood through direct engagement, boxSET is a game played as an intervention into any existing collection of objects (archives, record albums, a heap of junk—anything). Involving multiple players, some of whom may not have any prior relationship with the objects to be sorted, the game asks players to develop categories that describes a grouping of objects. However, the creation of order occurs simultaneous with disorder: a player may choose to remove an object from another player's collection in order to place it in his/her grouping. This rapid taxonomic metabolism encourages players to narrate out loud (or 'show-and-tell') their categories with the anticipation that it may soon disappear. Further, through taxonomically engaging with different kinds of objects, players become aware of what kinds of objects (data) are better for certain kinds of analyses (formal, textual, psychoanalytic, etc.). As the game evolves, players become aware of the difference in interpretation, the subjectivity of order, and the contingent production of knowledge.
She created throw-n-Sow a new way for people to think about and engage with their environment. Frisbees deposite seeds while in the air...
Throw-n-Sow is a flying disc toy similar to a Frisbee that uses the centripetal force generated in the act of throwing to distribute seeds into the environment. Manufactured as a toy made from environmentally-friendly, biodegradable plastics, Throw-n-Sow consists of a main body and a separate container that slides and locks under the disc. This container contains adjustable holes of different diameter to accommodate variant seed sizes. In other words, Throw-n-Sow is a literally empty container into which individuals and communities emplace selected seeds.
Throw-n-Sow is interactive eco-art project that engages diverse communities in each step of the project (manufacturing, seed-selection, site-selection, plant stewardship, art education), Throw-n-Sow raises questions about the expanded field of drawing, indigenous ecologies vs. selective human cultivation, landscape evolution and succession, ethnobotany, agronomy, etc. Throw-n-Sow ultimately aims to valorize distributive intelligence and interdisciplinary learning.
Throw-n-Sow is the kind of art that literally passes between two or more individuals. Leaving behind a trail of seeds as it sails through the air, Throw-n-Sow essentially imprints moments of play into the landscape. Individuals carrying the Throw-n-Sow disc from one place to another develop an affective relationship to the toy and to the sites in which it is deployed.
A haptic psycho therapeutic Barbie for violent kids?
Recently, Florence Gallez --Moscow correspondent for the Bureau of National Affairs-- sent me two articles about the future of the Barbie dolls. Either to mention that it is time to kill her or that 'Barbie's new dad is searching for the doll's missing wow' ...
Well, I remember a WOW and this by only switching voices between Barbie and GI Joe dolls. Maybe Mattel could receive some advice from Mike Bonanno (the Yes men) ...
In any case, I think it is time for us to make a Psycho-therapeutic Barbie that squeezes violent kids with her tiny little hands ...
Barbie as Cat Woman
Monday, December 10, 2007
When artists make toys
When artists make toys by Hellmuth, Obata & Kassabaum Architects, Inc. on Aiga
Friday, December 7, 2007
Un chandelier pas comme les autres
Hanging overhead, "El Chandelier" is a wonder to behold. A six-foot tall chandelier crawling with thousands of tiny knickknacks, the work glitters against the ceiling and is breathtaking in its degree of detail. A source of light and humor, the bulbs of "El Chandelier"are surrounded by little plastic palm trees, tassels, kewpie dolls, and golden cups. Squirt guns, fake pearls, dominoes, toy cars, miniature bowling pins, and an assortment of plastic animals - swans, giraffes, monkeys, rhinos - drip from every available surface. Dangling from golden perches are plastic babies. Above them, small girl dolls mingle with plastic white doves.
El Chandelier (The Chandelier) by Pepon Osorio, 1988. Mixed media; 78 x 48 inches in diameter.
In Osorio's quirky hands, scarlet fingernail extensions become bright spots of color in a dazzling, suspended gem. While lush with items from popular culture, the work's exuberance veils a deeper seriousness. Dizzy in its abundance, the sadness of "El Chandelier" is the sadness of a people who often lack the most basic of modern necessities such as money, health care, and access to education. An assault of cuteness, the work celebrates the beauty of kitsch and carnival while underlining the way in which an overblown or "tacky" aesthetic can be a critique of the prevailing and often puritan tastes of a dominant culture. In sharp contrast to the crisp corners and stark white walls of the wealthy galleries in which it is often shown, the accumulation of hand-glued objects in "El Chandelier" seems purposefully out of place - Art 21
Pepón Osorio b.1955, La Cama (The Bed) 1987, Mixed Media Installation
Thursday, November 29, 2007
Friday, November 23, 2007
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