Posts Tagged ‘art’

Flux/S – Drafts Establishing Future

Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
 
September 9, 2010toSeptember 12, 2010

Flux/S takes the transformation of Strijp-S from the former – restricted access – Philips industrial estate to a cultural and dynamic city centre as its inspiration for a cross-disciplinary arts manifestation. To mark the first ten years of this long-term development of 27 hectares of dismantled industrial heritage and wasteland, Flux/S invites artists to respond to these developments through visual arts and performance, interventions and dance, architecture, music, new media and poetry & literature. The developments on the site reflect the topical emphasis and practical ‘playground’ nature of the place, resulting in an ever-changing arts festival.


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In the second episode in 2010, Flux/S will focus on draft structures, choices and proposals in the broadest sense. As the conceptual and architectural aspects are becoming less abstract in the development of Strijp S, the contours of projected social behaviour point to the basic interpretation of essential conditions. Flux/S – Drafts Establishing Future examines the how and why of these conditions, their underlying mechanisms and the shapes they might take. Invited artists offer alternative approaches, factual and fantastic structures and models, and unexpected opposites, correlations and influences.

BALTAN Laboratories is pleased to collaborate with Flux/S in the presentation of 12_Series by Telcosystems, developed at BALTAN Laboratories under the umbrella of BALTAN’s Poeme Numerique programme.

From the EMF Orchestra Workshop

Monday, July 12th, 2010

Photo: Boudewijn Bollmann

On a hot, hot day in Eindhoven, BALTAN Laboratories and workshop leaders Wendy Van Wynsberghe and Peter Westenberg (Constant, Brussels, BE), with Julien Ottavi (APO33, Nantes, FR), hosted Angela de Weijer, Olga Mink, Danielle Roberts, Jan van den Dobbelsteen, Mini Smulders, Sarie Hermens, Sarah Matot, Niels Bergmans and Lucas van der Velden for a one-day Electro-Magnetic Field (EMF) Orchestra Workshop.

After a morning and good part of the afternoon spent building and designing and winding and soldering their own EMF antennae (and a number of trips to the electronics store to remedy a slight technical difficulty with the amplifiers), participants took to the city for a collective intervention on a walk between Strijp-S and the centre of Eindhoven.


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Funware Residency: Naked on Pluto by Dave Griffiths, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk

Wednesday, July 7th, 2010

“You are 4.3 billion kilometres away from the nearest human, what would you like to do?”

Naked on Pluto is a text-based multiplayer game on Facebook. You are stranded on the planet Pluto, naked, alone. Your world is empty except for fragments of data, objects relating to your past life on social networks – but seen through the distorted lens of the game world. You can explore this world, at first alone and later in the game you’ll be able to invite and interact with friends. You can add and manipulate objects you encounter, interact with others and bots. Once you enter deeper into this world and web of data, you become aware of increasing complexity, characters appear you may recognise – are they friends or animated bits of data? Information is substituted and modified in subtle ways. Is it possible to remember what was ever real in the first place?

The game explores the limits and nature of social networks from within, slowly pushing the boundaries of what is tolerated by the companies that own them, carefully documenting this process as we go. Story and play are combined with an investigation on how exposed we are on social networks, and how our data are being used.

The project will be developed during a shared residency at NIMk, BALTAN Laboratories and Piksel, between June and November 2010, by Dave Griffiths, Aymeric Mansoux and Marloes de Valk. They will be in residence at BALTAN Laboratories in October 2010. The project is licensed Copyleft. The research and development process will be documented and can be followed at http://pluto.kuri.mu

Naked on Pluto will be presented as part of the Funware exhibition at MU in Eindhoven in November, at HMKV in Dortmund and as part of the Piksel festival 2010. (more…)

Fontys Hogeschool Art & Technology Minor: The Pillar of Context (update June 1)

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

This week’s blog post is written by me, Dennis Didi, student in the Fontys Lifestyle Minor and member of the Studio Feel group. Studio Feel is creating the Pillar of Context installation, as explained in our previous post. I will give an update on how things are going in week 4 and especially on my part in the game: programming the visualisation in Adobe Flash authoring tool with Actionscript 3.

The Pillar of Context is about visualising different subjects in such a way that viewers will have a hard time understanding what they see and hear. Trying to bridge the gap between one subject and the other, trying to bring them into relation but not really understanding why. It’s just something we humans do! Well, for this to work we had to think about techniques we could use. So for the technique to qualify, it had to offer versatility, a wide array of realtime programming possibilities and a rendering engine.  The technique also had to be capable of supporting interactivity. And last but not least, it had to be a technique we already master. So we did a little 1 + 1,  and Actionscript 3 was the sum.

From then on we thought about ways to randomly visualise the subjects (as symbols, soundbites and realtime quotes) and about the use of subtle interaction. That meant that we had to write at least four functions for the main program:

- a random symbol function
- a symbol supporting soundbite function
- a symbol supporting realtime quote function
- an interactivity function

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Fontys Hogeschool Art & Technology Minor: Group 11

Sunday, May 30th, 2010

Group 11: Sjef Snijders, Rik Stabel, Tim Fokker, Femke van Gemert, Stefan Klokgieters, Ruud van Manen

Our project is based on an assignment from Geert Mul: make a performance/installation/movie for a place with the theme ‘meaning comes into being from the relation that the image, the word or the sound has with other images, words and sounds’.

We started off with a brainstorm on the subject of the relationship between word, sound and image. We ended up with 4 different concepts which we discussed with the artists at BALTAN Laboratories. With the feedback they gave us we combined 2 of the concepts. What we ended up with was a concept in which an environment is reduced to its bare essential sounds.

Our installation uses a beamer that visualises a busy city. The amount of sounds you hear depends on the amount of people in the room at that specific time. Meaning that every person in the room has his own influence on the experience of the whole environment. (more…)

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