art

"Black Rain" from Semiconductor

Posted Fri, 04/10/2009 - 12:30 by Nick Winterhalter

This amazing art film by Semiconductor was created using satellite video of solar wind and coronal mass ejections.

Here we see the HI (Heliospheric Imager) visual data as it tracks interplanetary space for solar wind and CME's (coronal mass ejections) heading towards Earth. Data courtesy of courtesy of the Heliospheric Imager on the NASA STEREO mission.

Working with STEREO scientists, Semiconductor collected all the HI image data to date, revealing the journey of the satellites from their initial orientation, to their current tracing of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Solar wind, CME's, passing planets and comets orbiting the sun can be seen as background stars and the milky way pass by.

As in Semiconductors previous work 'Brilliant Noise' which looked into the sun, they work with raw scientific satellite data which has not yet been cleaned and processed for public consumption. By embracing the artifacts, calibration and phenomena of the capturing process we are reminded of the presence of the human observer who endeavors to extend our perceptions and knowledge through technological innovation.

Via boingboing

Arachnophilia: La Princesse in Liverpool

Posted Wed, 02/25/2009 - 16:56 by Nick Winterhalter
la_princesse.jpg

Photo by Peter Carr

"As part of Liverpool's Capital of Culture year, the French group La Machine were commissioned to create a large piece of street theatre, on the scale of their earlier work, the Sultan's Elephant. Many were expecting to see something using the iconic Liverbirds, the symbol of the city but instead we got a spider.

One of the best photos sets of the La Princesse event I've seen yet.

Via Boston Globe

City of Shadows

Posted Fri, 07/25/2008 - 18:40 by Nick Winterhalter

In City of Shadows, Alexey Titareno uses long exposures to create a haunting effect.
City of Shadows

The Boggy Empire of Belarus

Posted Thu, 05/08/2008 - 12:50 by Nick Winterhalter

0FF229A2-0803-47C3-8FC6-9D8DC8BFA9E8.jpg
Machine ( III ) by Vladimir Tsesler & Sergei Voichenko

A bog is a weird, even mystical substance. It is impossible to build something on a bog, for it will inevitably drag, digest, dissolve in its guts any alien “body.” However, it is equally impossible to completely destroy this substance, it is risky to challenge its seemingly chronic apathy. The destructive energy of the aroused element can turn into an apocalyptic tempest, the consequences of which will be fatal.

The 2004 exhibition entitled “Balota Empire,” after the Belarusian word for bog, is devoted to the problem of national-cultural identity and encompasses a multiplicity of actual questions and subjects that excite the majority of representatives of the Belarusian culture. This project represents the interesting and bright phenomena in Belarusian art today.

Olga Kovalenko, The Artists of the Bog Empire, in Umělec