CNC
CNC stands for Computer Numerical Control, which is a manufacturing method that uses pre-programmed software to control machine tools. CNC machines are used to cut, drill, mill, and grind materials like metal, plastic, wood, and glass.
Discerning the Silent Presence – Authenticity and Artifice
Carefully staged collision of archaeology, surveillance, and speculative fiction, Discerning the Silent Presence is a hybrid media installation that commandeers LIDAR to question whether objective scans can ever be trusted.
Komorebi – A swarm of artificial creatures that make music from shadows
Komorebi is a swarm of artificial creatures that make music in response to the sun, the clouds and the shadows of trees moving in the wind. The work suggests that “life” is not an exceptional property of organic life forms, but also a property of ...
Models of Crisis – Embodiments of a mental struggle
Models of Crisis is series of three generative kinetic objects-poems that externalize and embody the thoughts and feelings of the artist undergoing an existential crisis.
Necto – 3D Knitted, Anticlastic, Spatial Surface
Necto explores the theme of Intelligens through an immersive and computationally derived membrane structure that speculates on the future of temporary structures—lightweight, flexible and efficient, and embedded with latent intelligence.
Summer 2024 – Design Art Technology at ArtEZ
Five students from the Design Art Technology (DAT) department at ArtEZ share their final semester research projects. DAT is a four year BA that helps students develop their own voice in a complex and technological world and find their place in (or...
Renment – Writing with (linear) objects
Inspired by Charles Dickens' aphorism, 'We forge the chains we wear in life,' Yuichiro Katsumoto created a device that forms letters with chains. For Yuichiro, the chain is a metaphor for heavy and unbreakable things that bind our ideas and emotio...
Towards Matter, Particularly – Sensory encounter with a microscopic world
In 'Towards Matter, Particularly' scientific instruments are repurposed to bring to our sensual awareness the ever-present particles whirling with us. The particles determine how and when they reveal themselves, eliciting moments of light and soun...
Life and Death of an Algorithm – 33,782 dice tapestry
Continuig their exploration of fate and chance using dice in their works, Life and Death of an Algorithm 2024 (33,782 White dice, evolutionary algorithm) by Troika is the latest (and largest) itteration of the work they produced–currently on displ...
Ombres Blanches – EMFs landscape
"How to give materiality to our wireless networks data in the public space?" –– Ombres Blanches embodies in real time the interactions with the surrounding networks, in a climatic phenomenon.
Round About Four Dimensions – Exploring the Unknown
Created by Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus, Round About Four Dimensions sculpture represents a “hypercube”, “four-cube” or “tesseract”, often cited in mathematical and physical theories to illustrate concepts beyond three spatial dimensions.
Lumos Ra Interactive Lighting: RA-01
Created by computational media artist, designer and entrepreneur Andreas Rothaug from Futura Epsis 1, Lumos Ra is a lamp with app-connectivity that interprets music, playfully exploring color gradients: an interactive experience stimulating and me...
Neo-Natur – A space for thought, about and <u>for</u> Nature / ART+COM
Designed and constructed by ART+COM Studios in collaboration with Futurium and Schiel Projekt, 'Neo-Natur' is a permanent installation for Berlin's Futurium exhibition that explores our potential futures from different areas of life––from self-su...
Bit – The demise of chance and the rise of algorithm
Created bu Jonghong Park at the University of the Arts Bremen (Digital Media Program), the installation ‘bit’ represents a natural random process based on the principle of a Markov chain.
Sunny Side Up – Sunrise to sunset, the measures time and robotics
Developed by studio AATB, Sunny Side Up is an installation comprised of a robotic arm and a metal rod, proposing a contemporary version of the archaic typology of the sundial.
true/false – The audio/visual choreography of an algorithm
Created by Berlin based onformative, true/false is a kinetic sculpture comprised of arrays of circular black metal segments set in mechanical columns. Interlocking and rotating around fluorescent light tubes, the cylinders cover or expose the ligh...
Ad Inifitum – A machine parasite that harvests human energy
Hatched at the Human Computer Interaction Lab at the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) in Potsdam, Germany, "Ad Infinitum" is a “parasitical” machine that, quite literally, lives off of human-generated energy.
The Light Barrier, Third Edition – Drawing volumes in the air with light
Created by Seoul based duo Kimchi and Chips, "The Light Barrier Third Edition" is the latest and largest in the series of works by the studio to create volumetric drawings in the air using hundreds of calibrated video projections.
Trickle Down Aesthetics – Cellular Automata in recent works by Troika
A meditation on several recent Troika projects that render cellular automata with dice and anodised aluminium rather than pixels on a screen. Realized over the last four years, these works demonstrate how a prolonged investigation into a rudimenta...
A Personalised Spin Cycle – Project EVA’s Object of the Internet
The Object of the Internet is a kinetic installation by Montréal-based artist duo Project EVA. Prepared for “The Dead Web” exhibition at Eastern Bloc, the apparatus invites viewers to put their heads inside an elaborate spinning apparatus that ref...
Constructive Interference – Hypersonic & Plebian Design
Created as a collaboration between Hypersonic and Plebian Design, Constructive Interference is a sculpture designed to engage passer-bys using the wonder of moire patterns. Installation is composed of two large patterned sheets of steel, designed...
Memory Lane – Sand rock and landscape
Created by Félix Luque Sánchez and Iñigo Bilbao, Memory Lane is a sculptural representation and investigation into memory and space by questioning human capacity of generating fiction, either by means of a simple child's game or of a complex techn...
Possible, Plausible, Potential – Drawings of architecture generated by code
Created by Miguel Nóbrega, Possible, Plausible, Potential is a set of three series of isometric drawings generated by code and printed with colored markers on a plotter machine. In these drawings, Miguel explores a bridge between the iterative asp...
An Sich (The Thing Itself) – The significance of physical manifestation of information
Created by Schunck Dölker (Felix Dölker and Florian Schunck) and first shown at Unwrap (University for Applied Sciences Darmstadt), An Sich explores perception and processing of information in a time that is characterized by changes in the way inf...
Longitude and latitude – David Bowen’s CNC routed sculptures capture the waves
Created by David Bowen and titled "46°41'58.365" lat. -91°59'49.0128" long. @ 30m", is a collection of five CNC routed clear acrylic cylinders capturing the water surface data from the source location.
One Degree of Freedom – Interactive projection mapping
Created by Neil Mendoza, One Degree of Freedom explores interactive projection mapping as a means to touch and interact with an object. Drawing inspiration from marble and pinball machines, the installation gives the mapping illusion an extra laye...
The Petroglyphomat – Positive vandalism machine by Lorenz Potthast
The Petroglyphomat is a a mobile, computer operated milling machine, that can send messages to a distant future by engraving them into ancient monuments.
DWI Modular by Felix Luque – Tessellation of an infinite space
Created by Felix Luque, DWI Modular is a system comprised of 10 rhombic dodecahedrons, geometrical objects part of the family of 'Space- filling polyhedra': shapes that can be assembled to generate a tessellation of an infinite space, acting as ...
The Air Above – An irregular polyhedron of reflection
The Air Above is a new project by environmental designer Michael Pecirno that explores how public sculpture can find form and purpose entirely from its context.
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