Michael Landy's Art Bin

Project NADAL

  

NADAL Beta 2009
canon ball, walls, zinc, tennis balls

The project NADAL is an attempt to get close to a geometrical fantasy. By facing the limits of performance and failure, by challenging borders between a champion and a machine, it can be seen as one of the constant love & hate story (interaction) which shapes our relationship with technologies. 

The installation NADAL Beta consists in a purview which is meant to insert and to deploy itself within an architectural in order to animate it. The installation proposes a degenerated form of tennis loaded by a canon ball. The machine propels balls on a meticulously calibrated trajectory in order to generate a space emulation.
The installation develops a kind of clinical juggling generated by a radical and mecanical purview... Among this perspective, the intervention questions notions of shifting process and network in order to produce an innovative plastic concretisation of circulation within a steady space.

http://www.pauldestieu.com/nadal1.php

I had a similar idea. My installation idea consists of a tennis ball machine (many) that shoot out tennis balls at the audience/visitor/viewer. Off course no one would get hurt as there would be a glass wall or netting as protection.

NADAL in KIBLA by PAUL DESTIEU 2010 from paul destieu on Vimeo.

Without Records

 

 "without records" Otomo Yoshihide＋Yasutomo Aoyama  

In this installation, there are about over a hundred portable record players without records. In the space, turntables scattered everywhere, high and low, right and left, produce noises by the rotating friction, resonating in multilayer. Quiet, low-fi sounds form groups and change the entire image of sounds. This works provide people with an opportunity to reconsider the meaning, possibilities, and historical significance of sound art composed of records and turntables, which are being consigned to oblivion in the digital age. 

Otomo Yoshihide is an artist I really appreciate. He has a huge influence on my work and ideas. Today I was talking to a fellow classmate about an idea I have for a project using CD/DVD players (although different to Otomo's colab I see a connection).  I realized that I've had this idea stored away in a hidden (forgotten) compartment of my brain. I should write everything down and then develop them at a later stage (or discard them).

Hum

Mounted on each ceiling fan is one speaker and audio equipment. Sound is activated with a tilt switch (movement activated switch) when a fan starts spinning. The sound consists of a simple, hummed melody. Each 2 minute recording is endlessly looped while the fan spins six fans spinning six melodies to create a chorus. The spinning speakers give the audio a tremolo effect (like the spinning speakers of the Hammond organ) which varies based on the fans speed. Each fan is moving in the same pattern (controlled by a computer) but the staggered start time of each fan results in an ever-changing pattern.

Exhibition History:
2003 York Quay Gallery (Toronto); 2005 Toronto Convention Centre (in conjunction with Toronto International Art Fair)

www.marlahlady.com

MUAC installation

Instalación de Cildo Meireless from Ismael on Vimeo.

Cildo Meireles is one of Brazil’s most respected and international artists. He is known as a conceptual installation artist. He is noted especially for his installations, many of which express resistance to political oppression in Brazil. These works, often large and dense, encourage the viewer’s interaction. This is a piece he showed at the MUAC museum in Mexico City.

Still no guides

Emmanuel Lagarrigue is a young French artist who works with sound as a material rather than as a medium. He uses it in sculptures and installations. This video features the piece Still no guides from 2008, an atmospheric combination of neon lights and buffer sound.

Command Line Wave

'Command Line Wave' is a work combining live performances and installations that use light cubes with built-in handheld microphones and sounds for controlling the patterns of the light. What you hear from a fax or a modem when they are connecting is the information transformed into sound under a certain rule and it somehow sounds cool. I came up with an idea of making sound for my live performances by generating sound under a certain rule. (Not a musical rule, but a rule that derives from a technical reason for communication.) 

The plan of commands to control the patterns of light on the cube becomes the rule and the sequences of those commands generated under the rule becomes music. Also, the connection of the cube has an uncertainty depending on the position and angle at which it would be placed. This is not a simple interactivity on a one-on-one level, but a work that generates not only micro rules but also macro and spatial rules by selecting commands according to the information received previously such as by how many percent the object is unreactive. The cube not only glows in response to sound , but also blinks and glows in a curve sometimes, regardless of the sound. How the cube glows can be controlled by sending sound commands. For example, in one scene, the cube blinks regardless of the sound, in the next scene, the cube reacts to low pitch sound and glows red. After that, the cube reacts to low pitch sound by glowing blue, middle pitch sound by glowing green, and high pitch sound by glowing red. Creating the cube object and designing the plan of commands is merely making a platform. There are many possibilities for which this can be presented. If one wants to enjoy such a media work using those commands and exchanging data, usually one needs a computer or a special interface device. However this work only requires speakers、and one can enjoy the results to the full extent. For example, you can input commands to an audio CD and the cube would respond fully to the sound. This work can be played using existing infrastructures.

This time we have light and sound working together. This is obviously work in progress.

Kinetic Light Installation

Beacon at Lightwave 2009 from Cinimod Studio & Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.

Lately I have been interested in exploring light (with sound). Yes I'm aware there is no sound in this particular piece.

Interactive wall

The idea was to create the wall which in case approach any person to its surface will change the visibility and make impossible to look inside into the private space of the inhabitant. The wall consist of modular cells with the dimensions 30×30 cm. In each cell three fans are located which are connected to the motion sensor. Person entering to the sensor active zone [1,5 m from the wall surface] by his motion actuate the sensor which actuate fans. Fans by their movement make the foamed polystyrene balls flying. Movement of the balls block off the view and change transparency of the wall. Active sensors actuate also stripes of leds located in the cells creating sensual scene of flying balls similar to water motion. The wall can be programmed in several different behaviors and give different impressions. It was created as a modular object and can be implementet in many different scenarios.
The cell construction.
The cell has a internal closed space filled by foamed polystyrene balls and external open space in which all wiring system was placed. Internal surface in the lowest and highest parts is filled by small holes which enable natural air movement. Back part of the cell [internal surface of the wall] impenetrable the air at all, front part of the cell [external surface of the wall] is filled by small holes and make possible to flow natural air from the atmosphere. All parts are made from transparent plexiglass.

Very interesting. This is useful for my polystyrene ball sound sculpture/objects ideas.

Floating Forecaster

Floating Forecaster from Richard Harvey on Vimeo.

A floating display that reinterprets weather information via hovering patterns and flowing movements. The user is invited to create patterns and sequences using either an iPhone interface or a sequencing program

Made with: 30 airbed pumps, a lightuino, max msp, c74 app

Adaptive Bloom

Justin Goodyer: Adaptive Bloom - Bartlett School of Architecture from Ruairi Glynn on Vimeo.

Justin’s work is a prototype responsive screen proposed as a speculative stage set. Blooming mechanical flowers are used as pixels in a grid formation responding to movement. It draws on the balletic tradition of a choreographic poem combining narrative, choreography and score.

The piece is conceived as the backdrop to a holistic improvised performance featuring an aleatoric score, with the dreamlike behaviour of the screen responding to the interplay of a male/female dance pair. It is framed from a narrative taken from the song “Busby Berkeley dreams”... http://www.constructingrealities.com/?p=5

Timecodematter Installation

In the interactive installation Timecodematter the visitor enters an arena that is bordered with vibrating sheets of massive steel. The steel objects are pulsating with low frequencies and they react to the approach of persons. The acoustic energy in this installation is both penetrating and intangible: the resonant properties of twelve different steel sheets respond to the low frequencies and produce a conjuring effect.
 

Christoph De Boeck is part of the production structure 'deepblue' - www.deepblue.be

Detroit Airport Light and Sound Tunnel

I'm interested in art/design/sound that changes the ambience of sterile boring institutionalized public spaces. I don't particularly like the music (in the documentation) but I like the concept. I like airports.

Kinetic lights

"Kinetic lights" consists of a flexible arrangement of remote controllable cable winches with attached LED light modules. Each light module can be adjusted individually in height and luminance by the control software. By synchronizing position and light animation, complex shapes and light patterns can be generated within the array. Any number of winches can be arranged in any spacial configuration. Various LED modules can be attached to the system to form individual custom solutions. White, colored or full RGB LED modules can be attached to the flexible system to produce individual custom solutions.

kinetic lights is a product by WHITEvoid

http://www.kinetic-lights.com
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