Tomorrow, Saturday, May 31st, from 13.00-20.00 Michelle Teran, will preview the Parasitic Video Network she has produced during her artist in residency at The Interactive Institutes Art and Technology program.
The Parasitic Network includes twenty surveillance cameras and a special instrument that visitors can use to capture and record live feeds from the cameras with. Besides from capturing and recording live feeds the instrument automatically mixes different sound sources as visitors move through the space, a functionality I’ve been working on together with Yoshi Akai and Michelle.
When:
Saturday, May 31st, from 13.00-20.00
Where:
Interactive Institute, Electrum, Kista.
Kistagången 16/Isafjordsgatan 22
6th floor, elevator B
PHOTO: MIKAEL OLSSON
“The first solo UK show by the Swedish artist Peter Geschwind will fully utilize the scale and industrial aesthetic of The Exchange.
Western consumer culture is brought alive in an installation made of everyday household objects, construction material and power tools - all activated by sensors detecting the visitor’s movements. At first this automated labyrinth is playful, an absurd amusement park, full of whistling and jangling noises, but as you explore deeper a darker undercurrent emerges. With projections and shadow-plays the physical room clashes with a hallucinatory, virtual world.
Automatic was originally presented at Fargfabriken, Stockholm in 2006, but has been dramatically reworked for Penzance.” - from Newlyn Art Gallery.
I hooked up some motion sensors to automate a shadow-play for the exhibition at the Newlyn Art Gallery, a small task, but it was never the less a fun little project. I really like Peter Geschwinds work and I got to try out some new stuff with POCO C++ which is now part of cppGlue.
The exhibition opens on April 19th an will be on display until June 28th.
From Concrete Fashion, a short movie that me and Ola Hansson shot last weekend. More photos…
Soldatmarkedet* (Soldiers’ Market) has been exhibited at the
Translation exhibition in Trondheim, Norway (
BABEL, May 3 to May 13, 2007). The exhibition is part of
Trondheim Literature Festival and strive to create meetings between artists that work with text and other media.
The “version” of Soldatmarkedet presented at Translation is a continuation of an installation collaboration between me and Monica Aasprong in 2005. The first installation consisted of an old filing cabinet with 15 000 text permutations that were automatically generated out of 20 originals from the book Soldatmarkedet. This installation is a wall projected interactive triptych consisting of 300 pages chosen from the archive and juxtapositioned to form three large texts which visitors can move around freely within.
The installation is part of a project called Ord i øjet (Word in the Eye) initiated by Afsnit P. Ord i øjet presents new Nordic visual poetry and a web version of the installation will be published on the projects web site during August 2007.
*Soldatmarkedet is a text work by Monica Aasprong. Fragments have been published in literary journals, in books, and have been presented by readings and at exhibitions. The project started in 2003, and essential to the work is the title itself, to approach different possible meanings of the word “Soldatmarkedet”.
Think is a playful interactive environment where visitors can share thoughts by writing them down on pieces of paper and sending them to a wall where they are presented as bubbles emerging above the silhouettes of passersby.
Think was developed by Carl-Johan Rosén, Dietmar Suoch and Henrik Wrangel for The Interactive Institutes NVISION Studio. It will be exhibited during the The 13th International Conference on Thinking, June 17-21, in Norrköping, Sweden. The conference takes place at three different venues; Louis De Geer, Flygeln and Värmekyrkan.
More information is available on the accompanying website (which I’ve been slightly involved in the making of). The website will also feature a real-time connection to the installation during the exhibition.
This week I’ve been helping my friend Mia (www.mariaandersson.net) with an installation that will display log entries on a wall-mounted screen as they are beeing written down at a remote location.
March 13th - March 18th
Vita havet
Konstfack
LM Ericssons väg 14
T-bana: Telefonplan
I’ve added Dylan Thomas Radio to my portfolio. It’s an old project but I still like it. Now you can stream or download a podcast with Dylan Thomas reading If I were tickled by the rub of love and music by A Hawk and a Hacksaw.
While I was going through my old portfolio blog I found an entry about a spiral raster project I did with Anders Person in 2004.
Inspired by the works of Billy Klüwer and computer art produced by Experiments in Arts and Technology (EAT) me and Anders Persson wrote an application to raster images using a single line with variable width. At close range images rastered in this manner appear as spirals, as the viewer moves farther away the subject appears.
The above image is a low resolution copy of a spiral raster of Joey Heatherton. The larger originals have a much greater impact, unfortunately I can’t find them. I still have the source code though so one day I might make some new ones…
The result of my thesis work at the MSc. in Media Technology and Engineering program at Linkoping University is Pixgis, a novel application for map-centric management of photographs.
Pixgis is an interactive environment in which photographs may be discovered, viewed and managed through maps. With Pixgis finding photographs from a specific location or of a particular structure is as easy as finding the location or structure on a map. As Pixgis simultaneously displays maps, photographs and spatial metadata it also enables users to analyze photographs in new manners.
My thesis report presents Pixgis, illustrates the benefits of applications for map-centric management of photographs, exposes the problems one faces when implementing such applications and presents novel solutions to many of these problems. The thesis also elaborates on spatial metadata and methods for acquisition of photographs with embedded spatial metadata (i.e geotagging).
The application and the concepts it is built upon has received interest from camera and GPS manufacturers as well as potential end users such as disaster-aid organizations, archaeologists and city-planners.
Click on the image above to see a larger screen shot of the application in action. Pixigis is a Mac OS X application developed in Objective C / Cocoa.
Download the report: Pixgis - Thesis Report (10MB, PDF)