We made it on Thursday to the opening of the show Darkness Descends: Scandinavian Art Now curated by Christina Vassallo. Our friend Marius Watz had three of his pieces in the show and performed with/vs Alexander Rishaug. His responsive visuals were absolutely stunning.
View more images and short clips after the jump.
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We made it back yesterday from the Scripted by Purpose exhibition opening. The place was jam-packed with people, a sign that it *might* have been a successful exhibit. It was definitely an interesting sample of digital work, made even more interesting by the fact that ALMOST everyone who showed stuff actually DOES the work. It was also good to see (a sampling) of the new generation of scripting gurus together.
Something I would’ve liked to see more though, is real-world implementation of some of these systems. A lot of it was the standard year 2000 digital-exploration type of stuff that just doesn’t get resolved.. It is still very interesting, but only a few people showed how these systems can be translated to physical form, and they did quite successfully, with even more interesting results.
The Scripted by Purpose exhibition, curated by Marc Fornes and Skylar Tibbits opens tomorrow Friday the 7th in Philly. SOFTlab is featured among other studios/people whose work is very interesting. If you’re in the area, go check it out. We’ll be there for the opening.
Seriously, this proves to be THE EXHIBITION, it’s getting a lot of attention so don’t miss it.
Marc Fornes (theverymany) is curating “ScriptedbyPurpose”, an exhibition at the F.U.E.L collection in Philly.
The show brings together young and emerging offices/research groups/individuals in the field.
SOFTlab will be showing some stuff among Biothing, 4-pli, Aranda/Lasch, theverymany and a bunch of other amazing people.
View the beta version of the exhibition site here.
I recently came across this interesting experiment in Typographic genetics (?). It allows you to modify very common typographies and then breed them to create new Types. There is a lab area to alter traits of each type, which you can then breed to create a new race of super-Types. Quite an interesting experiment with even more interesting results. My font’s came out pretty gnarly, which leads me to believe, I’m definitely anything but an “Intelligent Designer”.
Visit the site here.
Flight 404 has posted some images of an exhibition in Seattle with Barbarians. It is actually two installations, one on “Biomimmetic Butterflies” or in their own words, procedurally generated butterflies while the other has prints of magnetic structure pieces, generated through Processing and then visualized in Maya.
This is one of the most beautiful things I’ve seen in a while. My short blurb does no justice to the complexity of the installation, so read their own stuff here.
More on the Voronoi butterflies here and here.
I had come across this experiment a couple of weeks ago but forgot to post it. Today, poking around my bookmarks I found it again.
It’s done in Processing and it displays about 3000 flocking elements. More on the project here.
And by all means, check the site All Manner of Distractions out. There are some amazing experiments in there.
Mark Goulthrope’s reactive architectural wall Hyposurface will be on display at the 2007 BIO International Convention, a Nanotech convention going on in Boston until well, tomorrow…
For those of you who haven’t seen any of dECOi’s stuff, here’s a link with more info on the Hyposurface at the SIAL.
His presentation of the Mirian Gallery is also very interesting.
You have to keep in mind that this stuff is over 3 years old, but the techniques are truly great and new parametric/reactive systems are just starting to catchup to Goulthrope.
