ZeroN is a new physical/digital interaction element that can be levitated and moved freely by computer in a three dimensional space. Both the computer and people can move the ZeroN simultaneously. In doing so, people and computers can physically interact with one another in 3D space.
A group of Dutch artists have put away their paint and brushes, and instead picked up the artistic medium of financial economics in a new project they call the Art Reserve Bank.
Art negotiating the digital and non-digital as parts of the same reality does NOT have to make use of digital technology for display.
After years of research into capturing “light fields” Lytro has unveiled its first consumer product —a digital camera capable of capturing “living images” that can be infinitely refocused after capture. The technology has the potential to radically alter how all photographs are made.
Paris, France. I love this video which shows Paris early in the morning, flooded and abandoned. “5:46 am” is by Olivier Campagne who graduated from the architecture school in Nantes, France 10 years ago and has since been working in 3d imagery as a partner at ArtefactoryLab, a studio which specialises in architectural images, rendering and film.
United States, New York. Brooklyn artist Marni Kotak will give birth during a live performance installation at Bushwick’s Microscope Gallery. Her exhibition “The Birth of Baby X” will be the first in which an artist has used live child-birth as an artistic medium.
London, United Kingdom This year-long online Project was created to inspire fresh ways of looking at and documenting the world we live in. The result was a global community of photographers exploring the rewards and challenges of street photography.
Sydney, Australia. Four young emerging Indigenous arts workers from New South Wales have been awarded a two-week, fully funded, intensive residency program at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, specifically tailored to address professional development needs in the NSW Aboriginal visual arts sector. This program, the first of its kind in NSW, will begin on 16 May 2011.
Jenny Port Gallery in Melbourne, Australia is currently showing an exciting re-release of photographs documenting an historic performance from 1979 by Australian artist Jill Orr.
Jenny Port Gallery in Melbourne, Australia recently launched Brendan Lee's first novel, 'Bogan Proof Fences'. Here's an extract, and you can get in touch with the gallery if you want to purchase a copy.
Destroying the boundary between documentary and drama is this incredible short film Cicada by Amiel Courtin-Wilson. Starring Daniel P Jones as himself, Cicada provides a gut-wrenchingly intimate insight into an extreme childhood memory which shaped the person Jones was to become in life.
