Hyperessay: Unnumbered Sparks (2014) by Aaron Koblin and Janet Echelman

About the artist

The artist that I will be talking about here is Aaron Koblin. He is best known for his innovative use of data visualization and work in crowdsourcing, virtual reality, and interactive film.

“So I think data can actually make us more human. We’re collecting and creating all kinds of Read more →

The Japanese collective and interdisciplinary company, teamLab, calls themselves ‘ultra-technologists,’ a statement that suggests their rejection of labels to their roles in the company, but instead an integrated community of creatives working together with a common goal. Started out as a small company in 2001 doing programming for clients, teamLab made it to the international scene after Singapore Biennale 2013 Read more →

ART ISN’T A PAINTING. It’s not a song, a film, or a book. No, it’s something less tangible than that. Art is a form of communication. It’s the message from artist to audience. It’s what goes through your head when you look at a painting, listen to a song, watch a film, or read a book. Read more →

Inspirations for Manifesto

Scandinavians’ believes in truth and honest work can be traced back to the moral humanist ethos in Lutheranism, which seeks truth and reason, and believe that salvation can be gained through an honest work that benefits one’s fellow beings.

Shinto, worshiping the forces of nature. The original religion of Japan, Shinto tends to make harmonious relations between human beings, nature, and kami – the spiritual Read more →

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.

People can use their smartphones Read more →

With the aftereffects of the Great Depression and war in the 1950-60s, American consumerism burst into the persona of art. Designers produce objects with psychological needs of the users where it is responsive and organic; as it was believed that happiness could be achieved through the purchase of goods and services. Artists made popular culture their subject matter by Read more →

Art will always be fiction, no matter how close to reality it will be, while design will always be a piece of reality to consumers, whether invisible or not. Do not make fiction.

Do not create works that, despite speaking so much, might as well spoke nothing. Do not make works with shallow ideas that has almost no meaningful impact, backed up Read more →

Art and technology has advanced to an age where it is a new intertwined notion. The use of technology has been embedded into our lives that it has become apart of our identity. Hasan Elahi views art and technology as a creative problem solving between the digital world and society. Tracking Transience, was more than an art project, it was a conceptual Read more →

Of Palestinian origin, Hatoum experienced a shifting polycultural identity as an adult and this shows in her works. Her works revolve around a common theme of displacement, alienation and longing. ‘Pull’ requires the engagement of viewers to be activated. Hatoum uses materials that resonate or are personal to her, which explains why in Pull she uses her own collected hair Read more →