Sunday, September 11. 2011
FAD: Sismo
The last project at the FAD festival in Belo Horizonte, Brasil:
Sismo
| This was a non-interactive, dynamic, painting (or drawing) installation that reminded me of the work of the portuguese artist Leonel Moura. The installation was composed of a drawing horizontal surface with a toy remote controlled car on top of it. The car was equipped with a pen so that its movements generated a drawing. The remove control was modified so that its input came, not from a user, but from the drawing surface itself. Underneath the surface, sensors detected the movement of the car and generated electric signals that were fed into the remote control, which in turn would act on the car. The result was a closed-loop drawing device. Unfortunately, the authors had some problems setting it up and it was only working during a brief period of time during the first day. | |
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| By Filipe Norkus (Brasil) | |
FAD: The garden of time
Another installation at the FAD festival in Belo Horizonte, Brasil:
The Garden of Time
| The Garden of Time is an interactive video installation, inspired by Jorge Luís Borges short story - The Garden of Forking Paths - which addresses the possibility of narratives with many possibilities where time forks and joins later, creating endless possible stories. The installation is composed by a wooden 3D labyrinth where you can drop a marble into its entry point and see it come out through one of three possible exits. Those exits trigger random videos segments according to the current narrative state, allowing you to experience the endless possibilities that were mentioned in Borge's story. | |
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| By Carlos Sena Caires & Jorge Cardoso, (Portugal), http://artes.ucp.pt/si/ai/tsuipen/#void | |
FAD: TimeLandscape wool rythms
Another installation at the FAD festival in Belo Horizonte, Brasil:
timeLandscape wool rythms
| This was an interactive video installation, similar to the Garden of Time in this general approach: a textil machine was adapted to control a video projected in front of it. The projected video was a landscape in Italy, from a region with an important textil industry. As you rotated the machine's crank, stripes of video would show the same landscape but at different times. | |
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| By Juliana Mori & Matteo Sisti Sette (Brasil) | |
Friday, September 9. 2011
FAD: Passo-a-passo
Another installation at the FAD festival in Belo Horizonte, Brasil:
Passo-a-passo
| This was a non-interactive musical installation were a series of motors controlled the movement of wooden arms, rotating at different speeds. For each arm there was a sensor that was triggered when the arm passed through it and that triggered a sound. Because each motor moved at different speeds, the resulting composition was essentially random. | |
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| By O Grivo (Brasil) | |
Thursday, September 8. 2011
FAD: Parasimétrica - algoritmo das cores
Another installation at the FAD festival in Belo Horizonte, Brasil:
Parasimétrica - Algoritmo das cores
| This was a non-interactive, digital project, composed of a series of prints that resulted from an algorithm that converted text into colors. From what I understood, the algorithm assigned a color to each letter of the alfabet and the prints depict three phrases. (There was no information about what phrases were represented). Although I liked the printed results, I was unable to see how this project fit in the festival theme of kinetic art. | |
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| By Cadu Lacerda (Brasil) | |
Wednesday, September 7. 2011
FAD: Nervous structure
Another installation at the FAD festival in Belo Horizonte, Brasil:
Nervous structure
| This was a (apparently) very simple installation composed of cloth stripes hung across the corner of a room. A top projection turned those stripes into a 3D light object look that waved as people approached the piece. | |
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| By Cuppetelli and Mendoza (EUA) | |
Tuesday, September 6. 2011
FAD: Leon/La-marche-de-l’oursin/Nuage-en-suspension
Another short description of another installation at the FAD festival in Belo Horizonte, Brasil.
Leon/La-marche-de-l’oursin/Nuage-en-suspension
| These are three different pieces of a non-interactive, analog installation where magnetic fields are used to create of allow movement. I particularly liked Leon due to the smooth and unexpected movement it created. Nuage en suspension was also very interesting because of the realistic effect it created. | |
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| By Laurent Debraux (France) | |
Monday, September 5. 2011
FAD Festival: Hidrostatic journey to the origins of consciousness
Here is another short description of another installation at the FAD festival in Belo Horizonte, Brasil.
Hidrostatic journey to the origins of consciousness
| This was a non-interactive, video installation that created a very interesting under-water experience and effect. It was simply composed by a water mattress and a top projection into a horizontal surface positioned right above the matress (high enough so that a person could lie on the mattress and look at the projection). The projected video was of a shot under-water with the camera facing up, so that the generated effect was that of a first-person under-water experience. | |
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| By Brandon Barr (USA) | |
Sunday, September 4. 2011
FAD Festival: ADA
I' ve just been to FAD festival in Belo Horizonte, Brasil. I was pretty much impressed with the quality of all the gallery works so I'll post here in the next few days just a few lines about each project in the gallery.
ADA
| ADA is an interactive, analog, installation where the visitor interacts with a large plastic bubble filled with air and helium inside a white room. The bubble is spiked with charcoal that leaves marks on the ceiling, floor and walls. Although the bubble is apparently easy to control, when you try it, you realise that you cannot really control it. You can give an initial direction and speed, but it rapidly regains its apparently autonomous movement, maybe due to the weight differences between the helium and the air inside it, which generate a changing center of mass inside it. | |
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| By Karina Smigla-Bobinski (Poland/Germany) http://www.smigla-bobinski.com | |
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