Yasuhiro Suzuki: Please watch your step
“Please watch your step” by japanese artist Yasuhiro Suzuki was one of four public installations organized by the digital public art project at the haneda airport in toyko. suzuki’s floating human shaped balloon was an experiment in getting users to participate in public art. for many, airports can be a place devoid of human emotion with its vast size and long waiting periods. this site intervention hoped to evoke a positive response from by passers and provide an element of humor and surprise to their journey.
‘it’s important for people to experience and participate in public art, but you can’t get everyone in an airport to do so. however, when I think of the sight of people enjoying my work and some of the others, [I feel that] I want a lot of airport visitors to enjoy the art exhibit.‘ – YS
‘Please watch your step’ is part of ‘technology to create digital art’, a research proposal selected by japanese science and technology agency (JST CREST). it is currently being exhibited at the cyber arts japan exhibition, which celebrates the thirtieth anniversary of the ars electronica festival in linz, austria. the show will be on display until march 22 at the museum of contemporary art, Tokyo. | Via
The StandART Channel Curated by Creative Time
Curation of hotel room art is not such a new idea, but The Standard Hotel family extends this concept from the walls to the LCDs that occupy each room. “The Standard Hotels and Creative Time are proud to introduce an in-room video art exhibit featuring the work of 10 renowned international video artists, debuting on March 5th at The Standard, New York. The StandART channel, viewable on in-room televisions at all four Standard hotels in New York, Hollywood, Downtown LA, and Miami, is an extension of both companies’ ongoing commitment to presenting innovative art in the public realm.” Features artists include Marilyn Minter, Mika Rottenberg, Neistat Brothers, Lee Walton, and many others. | Via
Mark Wong: one minute movies
Mark Wong, 35, has spent the last three years turning films, including Speed, Pearl Harbour and Top Gun, into 60 second spoofs. The movie buff even built a life-size aeroplane cockpit in his garden for his version of Pearl Harbour. Mr Wong, an accountant, spends up to nine months planning, directing and making each movie with the help of family and friends, then posts them on YouTube.
“One minute isn’t very long to recreate a whole film, you have to make it coherent but you only really have time to tell the basic story,” he said. ”I’ve put a lot of effort into making the films, people really like them and I think they’ve got better and better. They look like Hollywood productions as they are shot in a clever way.” Mark’s filmed his first miniature movie, Speed, on the buses in his home city of Cambridge. ”It was great fun. I jumped on buses and filmed for as long as I could, then I bought toy buses and used fire crackers to blow them up,” he said.
The film was shortlisted in Empire magazine’s Done In 60 Seconds competition, which challenges film-makers to create a one minute version of their favourite movie. The following year his second film Pearl Harbour, also made it into the top five. Mr Wong has just finished filming Top Gun and his future plans include one minute versions of Gladiator, Jaws and Point Break.
For more, visit his YouTube channel. | Via
8-bit video game wedding invitations
Those lucky enough to be on the guest list for Darina & Niko’s geeky wedding received a CD invite containing a custom-made 8-bit Mario/Donkey Kong-themed video game which must be won to obtain the necessary wedding info.
For those of you who are interested, here’s where you can download and play the invitations! You can download it with Windows, or, using Wine, with Linux and Mac. Playable as either Darina or Niko.
Ji Lee
Ji Lee is a corean designer that grew up in Brasil and went to NY for studying. Taday he’s creative director at Google Creative Labs and on his spare times, creates projects like the one above: small scenarios stuck to the ceiling, proposing new perspectives. His portfolio is worth a visit. | Via
Sunbeam Poem Projector
Sunbeam Poem Projector by Jiyeon Song.
The type is formed ( as you can see ) through a complex array of perforations aligned with the passing of the sun. The poem takes about 8hrs to sweep through the full text. Based around the solar calendar, winter and summer display different poems. Extremely clever. Read the detailed description, see development sketches and don’t miss the ingenious video of initial experiments creating type from light and pin holes.
Be sure to check out the time lapse video. Sculpture / Installation Design by Jiyeon Song. | Via
Edit your Consciousness: Spray to forget
SPRAY TO FORGET is a conceptual and functional product based on the possibility that “a substrate to physical reality exists, and that it can be deterministically altered and influenced by human intention.” – Duncan Laurie, The Secret Art
SPRAY TO FORGET functions as a beneficial editor for one’s consciousness, removing undesired memories from the user’s psyche via supported intent. Reed Seifer proposes that “in order to forget, we must remember something else. Spray to Forget acts as a conceptual sideways-elevator, nudging the unconscious to release a difficult memory and replace it with a more appealing one, or to create a new memory through experience… It also happens to smell quite good.”
While based in concept, SPRAY TO FORGET utilizes well-researched ingredients in support of its function. An aesthetic olfactory experience is provided through a blend of essentials oils selected for their reputed aroma-therapeutic benefits in grounding and elevating the emotions. Herkimer diamonds and black tourmaline, crystals believed to metaphysically assist in the elimination of tension from the body, were steeped for several days in the purified, magnetized water used to create the spray.
SPRAY TO FORGET, handmade in an edition of 500, is available in a 2 ounce (60 mL) glass bottle. The beautiful letterpress label is signed and numbered. Buy it here.
Wonderland by Yeondoo Jung
Artist Yeondoo Jung takes children’s drawings and creates photographs based on them.
CodeOrgan
CodeOrgan is a website where you can enter any website’s URL, and, using a complicated algorithm, it turns the website’s code into “music”.
The songs will change as the “body” content of the website changes. | Via
Reknit
Reknit è un fantastico servizio offerto da Haik Avanian. Spedendo un vecchio maglione di lana, la mamma di Haik lo disferà e vi riconfezionerà un paio di guanti, alla modica cifra di 30 euro. | Via
The Faile Bast Deluxx Fluxx Arcade
Backlights, neon paint, and videogames!? What more could you want or expect from a Faile and Bast exhibition taking over two floors of London’s Lazarides gallery?
Faile and long-time collaborator Bast have transformed the gallery space into a truly experiential exhibition. Faile and Bast’s signature elements resound throughout the gallery, creating an explosive installation. Viewers are able to interact with the products of this artistic collaboration, and even purchase original works for just £2, unless, you want to use them within the exhibition. Intrigued? You should be. The show is on view now through March 27th, 2010 at Lazarides.
How Many Billboards? Art In Stead
The MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House is pleased to present its most ambitious project to date: How Many Billboards? Art in Stead. This large-scale urban exhibition debuts 21 newly commissioned works by leading contemporary artists, presented simultaneously on billboards in Los Angeles in February and March 2010.
A dedicated website, howmanybillboards.org, has been launched to provide up-to-date exhibition information as the project unfolds. | Via
