Council, the international thinktank/network of excellence that I am a proud member of gets me talking about location, my article for glass magazine and some of my projects. Wish me luck…
Archive for the ‘art’ Category
Diagram on when to use Comic Sans
Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
via this site
project80Days.com – launched
Sunday, October 11th, 2009
Having launched our first product last week with great success, it is time to look at some updates and the next steps. Being our first attempt on an unusual social media website, it sure turns out to be a beautifully complex platform. We are now looking at optional google-maps or microsoft’s bing map or even our own tile set.
We still have a long list of features to add and improve, but the first travellers are on their way and we are all very curious and excited about what will happen during the first 80 days of the project.
On slow looking, in the age of ‘cams’
Thursday, August 6th, 2009New York Times article by Michael Kimmelmann
Which makes you think what information is gathered by taking a photo with your camera or (smart)phone. I find the behavior rather peculiar given especially in situations, when time plays a role. Watching a still image (sculpture, landmark, etc.) is seemingly making sense, as looking through the camera, focussing on just taking the picture doesn’t make you miss a thing. But what about watching a performance(concert, etc.)? Isn’t it likely that the moment you take the picture, something is happening and you miss watching it. You only have the photo, which is indeed lower quality and a very diferent view of things. Maybe the real question here is, did we see what we took the photo of, or were we busy with recording? Do we reduce the quality of an experience, if we just record it instead of actually experiencing it?
fun, fun , fun (hey it’s art again)
Tuesday, July 7th, 2009I sometimes ask myself, why I post art projects, as, being an interaction artist myself, hate art, obviously. But then again, there sometimes is a certain simplicity in pure entertainment without necessarily a deeper meaning to it being art.
In this case, it’s a refreshingly novel way to include the visitor into a spontaneous narrative, which is both fuelled by the installation and the visitor him/herself. It’s the same spontaneity, I discovered years ago during the RCA-Fighter sessions.
If something is as approachable and intuitive as this one, it is worth spreading.
It also won a price in Japan.
Oups! Presentation Updated! from KOSMO – ZZZMUTATIONS on Vimeo.