This is really one of the coolest and most inspiring things I have seen in a very long time – maximum awesomeness!

The idea behind “unnamed soundsculpture”“unnamed soundsculpture” from Daniel Franke is the creation of a moving sculpture based on the recorded motion data of a real person. For their work Daniel Franke & Cedric Kiefer asked a dancer to visualize a musical piece (Kreukeltape by Machinenfabriek) by movements of her body. The dancer was filmed with three Kinect cameras generating a real 3D image.

“The three-dimensional image allowed us a completely free handling of the digital camera, without limitations of the perspective. The camera also reacts to the sound and supports the physical imitation of the musical piece by the performer. She moves to a noise field, where a simple modification of the random seed can consistently create new versions of the video, each offering a different composition of the recorded performance. The multi-dimensionality of the sound sculpture is already contained in every movement of the dancer, as the camera footage allows any imaginable perspective.

The body – constant and indefinite at the same time – “bursts” the space already with its mere physicality, creating a first distinction between the self and its environment. Only the body movements create a reference to the otherwise invisible space, much like the dots bounce on the ground to give it a physical dimension. Thus, the sound-dance constellation in the video does not only simulate a purely virtual space. The complex dynamics of the body movements is also strongly self-referential. With the complex quasi-static, inconsistent forms the body is “painting”, a new reality space emerges whose simulated aesthetics goes far beyond numerical codes.

Similar to painting, a single point appears to be still very abstract, but the more points are connected to each other, the more complex and concrete the image seems. The more perfect and complex the “alternative worlds” we project (Vilém Flusser) and the closer together their point elements, the more tangible they become. A digital body, consisting of 22 000 points, thus seems so real that it comes to life again.”

Links
Video – “unnamed soundsculpture” in full HD resolution
Video – Making of “unnamed soundsculpture”
Animation – We Are Chopchop
Generative Design – onformative – a studio for generative design
Music – The Naked and Famous – “The Sun”

Beautiful new styles from France: the new Spring/Summer Colletion by sessun. Some of the best styles are now available at VERVE-Shop.

Andy Warhol (1928-1987) investigated deeply again and again over his whole carreer the mass media and star cult. For the first time the exhibition “Warhol: Headlines” at the MMK in Frankfurt am Main pays tribute to his work in which he used headlines.

“I BELIEVE MEDIA IS ART.”

We visited the exhibition yesterday and were totally stoke. So we highly recommend everyone being close to Frankfurt the next weeks going to the MMK.

Exhibition
February 11th – May 13th 2012

Location
MMK – MUSEM FÜR MODERNE KUNST
FRANKFURT AM MAIN

www.mmk-frankfurt.de

Everyone being in the Los Angeles area the next weeks we highly recommend visiting Daniel Arsham’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles with OHWOW, titled “the fall, the ball, and the wall”.

From two-dimensional work to sculpture, installation, public art, and performance, this New York-based artist produces occasions to (re)consider architecture, the natural world, and the manner in which they interact. the fall, the ball, and the wall, Arsham’s first solo show with OHWOW, illustrates the artist’s continued interest in manipulating architecture and in challenging expectations of accepted realities.

Exhibition
January 20th – February 16th 2012

Location
OHWOW
937 N. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90069

www.ow-wow.com

Very nice exhibition “Pssst” at the Gängeviertel in Hamburg featuring work of artists like Jens Besser, Zonenkinder Collective and Xpome.

Location
Gängeviertel Hamburg
Kutscherhäuser, Caffamacherreihe/Ecke Valentinskamp

www.das-gaengeviertel.info

Although only open until April 17th we highly recommend visiting the exhibition “An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area, Part 2: The Future Lasts Forever” at SF Camerawork.

This second part of SF Camerawork’s 35th anniversary exhibition features historically significant works and contemporary pieces created as a means to address unique historical moments, locales, and people of the Bay Area. Major newly commissioned works will be debuted by artists Anne Walsh & Chris Kubick, working under the name ARCHIVE, and by Cause Collective, an artists’ collaborative that includes Ryan Alexiev, Jessica Ingram, Bayeté Ross Smith, Jorge Sanchez, and Hank Willis Thomas. Combined, a cast of internationally recognized artists, as well as emerging artists, from the Bay Area and beyond will come together to celebrate SF Camerawork’s anniversary in Part II of this historical exhibition, marking 35-years of Bay Area influenced photographic arts.

Location
SF Camerawork
657 Mission Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105

www.sfcamerawork.org