https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7dpyphjHAs

Anouk Wipprecht’s Spider Dress

“Spider Dress acts as the interface between the body and the external world,” said Wipprecht. “It uses technology and the garment as a medium of interaction.”  – Anouk Wipprecht

Nowadays, fashion is a media to explore new functions, technology and also a new area for interdisciplinary academic research including engineering, material science, fashion design, interactive design and Read more →

I will be looking at the artwork ‘The Infinite Crystal Universe’ by teamLab.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJrLo1fynag

Here’s the artwork description:

Pointillism uses an accumulation of distinct dots of color to create a picture, here light points are used to create three-dimensional objects. This interactive artwork expresses the universe through accumulated light points that spread infinitely in all directions.

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I’D HIDE YOU by Blast Theory

For my Hyperessay, I chose a new media piece by Portslade-based artists’ group, Blast Theory, renown for their works that mix interactive media, digital broadcasting and live performance. The piece is an interactive, immersive, and collaborative work called, “I’d Hide You”. Linked below is the trailer for Blast Theory’s, “I’d Hide You”.

https://vimeo.com/48141546

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The work by Aaron Koblin that I chose for my essay is Unnumbered Sparks.

As quoted from Aaron Koblin’s website, Unnumbered Sparks is a “monumental interactive sculpture in the sky”. For this installation, he worked together with Janet Echelman, an American sculptor and fiber artist. It was displayed between buildings in downtown Vancouver, Canada in March 2014 for TED’s 30th Read more →

Bar Code Hotel is the work of Perry Hoberman that I have selected. It is an artworks that works around a lot of bar codes. Upon entering the room, you will be welcomed by a colourless (white) space, numerous black and white bar codes and a large projection wall. You will then have pick up a pair of 3D glasses Read more →

Following the artist selection, the work that I will be further elaborating on in my hyper essay is Kimchi and Chip’s Lit Tree. An installation made in 2011 , Lit Tree is a light projection piece that makes use of a tree as its canvas. It explores on the concept of Interactivity where there is a perceptual conversation between the Read more →

Out of all of Levin’s works, one that I was particularly interested in was his work entitled Footfalls:

Commissioned in July 2016 by the NTT InterCommunicationsCenter (ICC), Tokyo, Footfalls is an installation done in collaboration with Levin and Zachary Liberman. This interactive audiovisual installation sees visitors stomping their feet to create the falling avalanche of bouncy visual forms (eg. balls), seen Read more →

Entangled is an interactive digital art installation which was commissioned for The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco for New Experiments in Art & Technology in 2015.

Below is a link to a video explaining how the installation works.

http://camilleutterback.com/projects/entangled/

Hypermedia_ Grammatron 1997

By: Daphne, Dhanusha, Jonathan

Link to Presentation Here