I had seen this video floating around the web and for reasons unknown, I wasn’t curious enough to watch it. That was, of course, beforeSuperForester Cole sent this in:
“How it would be, if a house was dreaming” is the title of a 3D projection instillation courtesy of Urbanscreen. The design idea was to break up the unadorned lines of O.M. Ungers’ Galerie der Gegenwart in Hamberg, Germany. The projection puts a modern twist on Ungers take on cubism, further setting the example that today’s artist are thinking outside the box….pun totally intended :) This is just the latest addition to a series of projections by Urbanscreen. Enjoy!
Wow! That was crazy! Apparently, I was really missing out when I didn’t watch this before. Thanks very much for sharing, Cole!
Love,
C
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I can not recall ever covering a video project in my Monday Modern Art Chat series, which is kind of strange somehow since I consider video one of the most interesting art genres. On behalf of myself and all the other video fans among us I’ll change this – well, at least for today.
It is often said that life passes by quickly, and that you don’t have the faintest idea of how fast this happens until it’s about to end. With this concept in mind writer and director Chris Milk created a video for the 42 second Beijing film festival. The assignment was clear: create a video 42 seconds in length.
Mr. Milk got the idea of recreating the experience some claim to have right before they pass away: seeing your whole life in a flash. Now, put all the negative thoughts about death away and watch the result of Milk’s project – it’s breath taking.
Milk and his team managed to show an entire life within 42 seconds, and this is extremely bright. I don’t know if anyone of you has seen The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, some of you probably have. It’s a nice movie, but personally I thought that three hours was somewhat ‘oversized‘. The motion picture tells covers the entire life of a man but it needs three hours to do that. Last Day Dream does the same, but within a minute. Okay, I reckon that Benjamin Button’s life was quite extraordinary, but still.
When I saw Last Day Dream for the first time everything seemed perfect about it. In the first place the way a huge story is compressed into a short time span. In the second place the cinematography, if you haven’t noticed, is straight awesome. The focus has been done brilliantly, it’s not only aesthetically correct but it also contributes to the idea we’re actually watching a man’s last day dream.
Having said that, Last Day Dream remains a shockingly beautiful piece of short video work. The message is clear: life is short, live yours now.
Let me start by apologizing for giving the impression I had discontinued my Monday Modern Art Chat series by not posting last week. As a matter of fact the Dutch final – highschool – exams kicked of today and last week I was preoccupied studying for them. Having said that, let me move on to one of the most awesome art projects in, ehh…, all time. At least, in my opinion.
I don’t know if I’ve ever talked about the Chilean project before here on SF – after searching the precious archives I didn’t find anything, so I guess not – but if I happen to have, it doesn’t matter since the project is right away awesome.
Imagine awesome light and 3-D effects in a 2-D space being merged into one project, there you have it: theANEMIX. Realized by a Chilean company with the name of Luxia (for the people with a minor interest in physics and name origins: lux unit for the intensity of light). Luxia, being founded by two Chilean architects with an enormous interest in ‘creating things with light’, has builed an interesting portfolio over the past three years.
In 2006 theANEMIX was showed for the first time and now in 2009 people and companies from all around the world are interested in a customized installation for their sales windows, bars and restaurants. The above picture was taken in the Las Urracas bar – probably situated in Chile – and shows a part of a wall-covering ANEMIX installation.
Since I have biology in school (well not for long anymore, but anyway), I was rather surprised when I read the source of inspiration the architects used. theANEMIX is inspired upon bioluminescence, a phenomenon that occurs on the floor of the deep, deep blue sea. There, on the floor of the ocean, jellyfish produce a soft glowing light in order to communicate and protect themselves from being eaten. This happens through a complicated chemical process which is replicated in theANEMIX. Thereby the creative brains behind Luxia want to create an atmosphere that’s alike the one in the ocean (except for the excess of water down there, of course).
We at SF have been working to offer more original content. A new weekly web series is in the works. Modern Art Chat is going to be a series of columns by SuperForester Julius concerning modern art. Every Monday a new work of art will be discussed.
But what do we mean by modern art and how did we get this idea anyway?
The art that we plan on covering here goes a bit beyond the MOMA (Museum Of Modern Art). Either because it’s artistic value is disputable or because the art can’t be exhibited.
“Can’t be exhibited”? What on Earth does that mean?
Well, a piece of street art can’t be hung in a museum simply because the essence would disappear. But this also applies to other art forms, such as internet art. Idea art.
I am going to talk about science in respect to art and yes I am going to talk about art that uses computers. The internet isn’t going to be absent either.
Let me illustrate all this with an example. Take a look at the header picture of this post. It has got an almost infinite number of complex mathematical shapes in it. It hasn’t been created by hand but by an algorithm (which has been created by hand actually). What sort of person is behind this creation? What’s his background? And why is it so interesting (to me)? These are the questions we’ll explore in future posts.
About a year ago, long before I joined SuperForest, I had a blog of my own: Casuquo. (Which is Latin for ‘in this case’.)
At Casuquo I posted daily about something that related modern art and popular culture in close ways. Though the subjects of the posts varied they had one thing in common. Each and every post represented a unique, original idea.
That’s basically where my fascination for modern art started. I witnessed the extreme width of the concept of art and the awesome things people did with it. And now I am here, at SuperForest, trying to spread that fascination for original ideas all over the world.
So check in every Monday and discuss the ideas with me in Monday Modern Art Chat.
He was born in the Ukraine and can be seen as a painter that uses tape instead of paint. I’m talking about the contemporary artist Mark Khaisman.
Ok, well he’s not what you’d call the classic painter. He actually puts tape on an illuminous surface (the very same tape used by FedEx for your packages).
That is indeed tape you’re seeing. Using the fact that multiple layers of tape let less light through then a single layer Khaisman creates fantastic artworks like the one above.
Khaisman manages to put such an extreme amount of detail in his artworks, which is an astonishing fact, considering that he is restricted to using small rectangles.
As he once said: “Every artist knows, the more restrictions, the better the result.” On his website you can find a variety of subjects. Varying from Romans to faces of woman (which remind me remarkably much of Roy Lichtenstein’s work).
To think of getting bundled up and trudging with your amourthrough the chill of a Parisian Winter, to Sandy Calder’s flat, and there to sit on his floor, sip a cognac, and watch as the man himself took you on a delightful, handmade trip to the circus, while Mrs. Calder sat on a chair, playing accompanying music.
Oh, for a time machine, and a star to sail her by…
Enjoy.
-Niki
(Yay! My second post!)
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