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Wasted Spaces x Hellicar & Lewis
Wasted Spaces has commissioned Hellicar & Lewis to develop The Hello Wall. This installation uses Twitter to let the public interact with the huge wall projection on Wembley High Road.
Starting Monday 8th March, you can get involved by Tweeting commands to @thehellowall, or shapes (triangles, squares, circles), commands (more, less, shake) or just hello.
Hellicar & Lewis are a London-based duo – Pete Hellicar and Joel Gethin Lewis. They have embraced the open source revolution which creates art that is accessible and interactive.
The artists explain the artwork in more detail as follows:
“In visual terms, The Hello Wall will be a simple single colour background, with a foreground of simple shapes, in a physically realistic two dimensional simulation. Imagine a series of red circles on an orange background, bouncing off each other in zero gravity.
The installation is designed to empower people, to allow them to have a creative input into the architectural space that they find themselves in – often without any sense of control or ownership.”
EXCLUSIVE: INSA x Tate Britain
Our boy INSA is rolling big time at the Tate Britain as part of the awesome Chris Ofili show ... and we've got some exclusive pictures of his work for you right here:
Kinetica Art Fair
An orchestral milk float, robots drawing humans, and a family of holographic beings as well as other immersive experiences and arty happenings at the second annual Kinetic Art Fair.
February 4th - 7th 2010, P3, 35 Marylebone Road, W1 London.
SUNDANCE – a look at the frontier section
I spent the last few days at the Sundance Film Festival. When I’m at the fest I always make it a point to checkout the Frontier which is located in the basement of a mall. Its a sprawling space that brings together a nice mix of new media, tech and art. Here are a few pics.
Night Lights by YesYesNo
I have been doing a lot of research into video art and projections for Wasted Spaces lately, and I just came across this really amazing interactive projection on a building on the Today and Tomorrow blog. It’s called Night Lights, by YesYesNo.
It’s really cool - see for yourself:
night lights from thesystemis on Vimeo.
Deep down all women are actresses
Photographer Alex Prager completes her trilogy of intriguingly unnerving photographs—awkwardly posing her doll-like subjects in vintage-inspired panoramas—with her upcoming exhibition “Week-End” at NYC’s Yancey Richardson Gallery.
The source of a lot of buzz at the recent 2009 Pulse Fair in Miami, Prager’s highly-saturated heroines and oft-startling scenes speak to her fondness for David Lynch and Hitchcock films, as well as her belief that deep down “all women are actresses.” The carefully-executed compositions also draw both on Cindy Sherman’s early film stills series and on the fellow photographer’s later use of color.
20×200 – limited edition prints weekly
20×200 brings limited edition art to the masses. The site has a threadless type vibe minus the competition but I think sites like Etsy, threadless and now 20×200 are wonderful discovery platforms for collectible and cool items. Would love to see something like this pop up for experimental visual works.
