Urban Screens Manchester
Last week I attended a great conference and programme of events and activity at Urban Screens Manchester http://www.manchesterurbanscreens.org.uk/
Our chinese artists 8gg did a great public audio visual performance on the screen outside Urbis on Saturday and we'll upload a recording of that event soon but i just wanted to highlight a few projects that i found interesting to you.
Forms part of the artist group Mader Stublić Wiermann who collectively produce some great public art work the could work well on our very own Storey.
The piece below is Twists and Turns a video cloak for the UNIQA Tower in Vienna that interprets the building as part of the piece.
Watch the video here
And see further examples of his work on his website here http://www.webblick.de/indexEN.html
He has developed some great gallery based work too.
Prof. Joachim Sauter
Founder of art+com and full professor for New Media Art and Design at the University of the Arts, Berlin and since 2001 adjunct professor at UCLA, Los Angeles. www.artcom.de
He showed us some really interesting work that is completely tied into the infrastructure of a city. For example Duality (2007)
For a new building complex in downtown Tokyo, ART+COM has developed an artistic installation. It is located on the bank of an artificial pond at the exit of the metro station Osaki. The project deals with the duality between liquid / solid, real / virtuali and water ripples / light waves.
Pedestrians walk over a 6 x 6 meters large LED plane, installed right on the edge of the water. The LEDs are covered with translucent glass diffusing their light. With their steps, the passers-by provoke virtual waves on the LED plane, computed in real-timei. When these waves hit the edge of the pond, they are extended into the water as real ripples.
Contrary to the usual practice of art in public space, the installation aims at creating an identity for the space, being based on the space. Passers-by flowing from the metro station are offered a moment of contemplation.
Els Vermang
Member of Lab(au) www.lab-au.com A laboratory for architecture and urbanism in Belgium
She showed us recent projects of the Dexia Tower in Brussels and Lab(au)'s approach to using spatial and temporal programming of light to creative an interactive relationship between the useri, the building and the city.
MegaPhone by Jury Hahn
http://www.playmegaphone.com/
I also played on the MegaPhone at All Saints' Gardens
Megaphone is a phone controlled, real time, multi player collaborative gaming platformi for public spaces. They were fairly simply video games at this stage but with huge potential for engaging audiences. Comming soon to a football stadium near you!
