Public Art

"16 Tons was a direct action on the 22-story Caseros Prison building, in Buenos Aires that sought to connect the scales of human perception and cosmic movement, through the filter of demolition architecture, revealing hidden dimensions of place and physical history as the prison building disappeared.

After five weeks of onsite work, 48 faces (aparecidos) spanning 18 stories shined out from the prison at varying times of day. Over the course of the next year and a half, the building was demolished floor by floor, and with it the images. "

"Aparecido is the past participle for the Spanish verb aparecer - to appear. Its second meaning is apparition or ghost."

http://www.sethwulsin.com/portfolios/307-16-tons

Locative Painting

http://www.rhizome.org/object.php?o=48712&m=1052875

We are Stardust by George Legrady

We Are Stardust is a two-screen projection installation that uses infrared sensors to connect the real-time location of the audience in the exhibition gallery with the total vastness of space.

"The intent of the project is to consider our relationship to both local and deep space, and how we conceptualize and situate ourselves in relation to such spaces," said Legrady, whose work focuses on how data and various forms of information are represented. "This is realized by visually mapping the schedule of scientific observations based on NASA data consisting of what celestial bodies were looked at, when, for how long, and by whom.
"In contrast to this mapping, the heat-sensing camera mounted in the gallery performs in a similar fashion to the Spitzer heat-sensing instruments and simultaneously follows the same sequence of pointing instructions to record thermal images of the public moving through its field of view in the gallery space," he said.

http://turbulence.org/blog/2010/02/14/we-are-stardust-by-george-legrady/
http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2174  

First sketches

 

As the viewer is propelled into the sky, the stars woosh him by simulating a 3D space.

Inspirations

Rirkrit Tiravanija for his relational art:
http://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/31511/

Dream Temple:
http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/FEATURES/itoi/itoi11-20-1.asp

3D projection in a 3D environment:
http://www.ndesign-studio.com/blog/3d-projection-on-buildings

Projection on flat surfaces simulating 3D environment:
http://antivj.com/murcof/

The beauty beyond:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0305/firstqsos_esa.jpg

BioArt

"Living Drawings" by Hunter Cole is a set of line drawings created by bioluminescent bacteria. The bacteria are photographed over a period of 2 weeks and as food in the petri dish diminishes, the glow of the bacteria also decreases until they finally die.

Politically Engaged Media Artwork

Marc Lee *1969 *Switzerland creates network-oriented interactive projects since 1999.
Experimenting with information and communication technologies, his projects locate and critically discuss economic, political, cultural and creative "issue-clusters" that are essential for communication processes in digital networks. 

"Latest headlines from the Internet are in real time processed, analyzed and projected on big transparent balloons. The headlines are enriched with relevant texts, images, videos, noises and appropriate talks which are searched trough search engines such as ccMixer, Flickr, Google, Pozinger, Technorati, Yahoo, Wikipedia...
The more medias coverage the particular story, the bigger the balloons arise, done by inflation with a special pump."

Breathing Newsbots