Artist Kambui Olujimi's upcoming exhibition with the University of Cincinnati's DAAP Meyer's Gallery: http://kambuiolujimi.com/section/27538.html … [Read more...]
Global Warming Opera
Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth is going to be staged as an opera! The Italian composer Giorgio Battistelli has been commissioned to produce an opera on Gore's international multiformat hit, for the 2011 season at the Milan opera house, La Scala. The Guardian, Huffington Post, TruthDig, all over the place. … [Read more...]
Art Exhibit RE: Waves
Waves - The Art of the Electromagnetic Society Phoenix Halle Dortmund, May 10-June 29 2008 Wireless communication is, in this day and age, a given in all realms of society. Yet what manner of artistic potential is presented by the electromagnetic waves perpetually enveloping us today? And how might these influence our psyche? Waves presents nearly 30 (media) artworks … [Read more...]
GUEST LECTURE Cross Current Resonance Transducer knows which way the wind is blowin’
At SP Weather Station last Sunday, LoVid (Tali Hinkis and Kyle Lapidus) and Douglas Repetto spoke about their collaborative project Cross Current Resonance Transducer. As one of the founders of SPWS, I thought the talk was particularly well-timed: we are wrestling with some of the same issues that drive the CCRT investigations. As SPWS begins to invite Guest Interpreters … [Read more...]
Digital plants grow from weather data
Lightweeds - a project by Simon Heijdens Uniquely generated digital organisms--plant families--that grow up, move and behave closely depending on actual sunshine, rainfall and wind as measured live outside. On passing human traffic they bend, loose their seeds and pollinate to other walls throughout the space, to make up a constantly evolving wallpaper that reveals the … [Read more...]