Archives for posts tagged ‘information’

Michael Mandiberg

Michael Mandiberg From Aaaaa! To ZZZap! opening tonight at Denny Gallery. The Wikipedia entry for “quixoticism” runs only about 255 words. But if anyone could argue for a personal mention, it might be Michael Mandiberg. For the past three years, he has been fully engaged in a project that might make even the most intrepid […]

Stephen Cartwright

Stephen Cartwright Work from XY Plotter “Every hour since noon on June 21, 1999 Stephen Cartwright has recorded the exact latitude, longitude and elevation of his position on the earth with a handheld GPS. His records now include more than 115,000 hourly recordings that span several continents and include some 40,000 miles travelled by bicycle. […]

John Houck

John Houck Work from A Digital Guide to Photography. “Digital Guide(s) to Photography – An expanding series of books generated with custom written software. The software generates every combination of pixels for a given grid size and set of colors. The project is working toward generating every combination of pixels possible on a modern digital […]

Mathieu Bernard-Reymond

Mathieu Bernard-Reymond Work from Monuments “I use different types of economic graphs (projections, stock analysis models, financial results …) to produce plastic forms, architectural accident. This information is forcibly displaced in the field of sculpture and landscape. Monuments in, I think there is any doubt about what to make of these forms raised in the […]

Stanza

Stanza Work from Sonicity “Sonicity is a responsive installation, a sonification of the real space and environment. The sounds you hear are the sounds of the changing environment, ie the changes of noise, light, temperature of the space is turned into a real time sound stream using dozens of wireless sensors presented as an installation […]

Sean Snyder

Sean Snyder Work from his oeuvre. “The various works consist of a series of experiments made by the artist in the process of digitizing and destroying his archive, in which the materials themselves become the subject of investigation. Included is documentation of the physical storage matter such as printed matter, scratched CDs and DVDs, celluloid, […]

Ben Fry

Ben Fry Work from All Streets and Print Studies. Descriptions follow image order. Go to his website, you won’t regret it. “All of the streets in the lower 48 United States: an image of 26 million individual road segments. No other features (such as outlines or geographic features) have been added to this image, however […]

Owen Mundy

Owen Mundy Work from Give Me My Data. Give Me My Data is a Facebook Application “that helps you reclaim and reuse your data.” This work, much like Jacob Broms’ Facebook Intense is an interesting peek into the scope and structure of Facebook, as well as a commentary of our cultural relationship with information. The […]

Finnbogi Pétursson

Radio transmition from two car ferries in Fjordane in Norway, 8 microphones on each ferry brings you live sound, fading in or out, depending on the location of the ferries.   A radio broadcast over Reykjavik during the Sequences festival 2006. The piece delivers 24hour silence, the only guaranty silence you can get in modern […]

Jessica Eaton

Jessica Eaton Work from her oeuvre. “Eaton’s exhibit is a display of virtuosity, each piece a microcosm of what could become the basis for a larger show. Every print in the Emily Carr Institute graduate’s show represents a technical practice she has been refining for a year or more, as she related at the opening. […]