Media Arts and Technology

Laser cloud.jpg DSC00379.JPG Expand the Vision : Flow like the rain Description/ artistic concept The project will be an interactive installation in a gallery space about the size of the Turbine Hall at the Tate Modern in London. The room will be flooded and there will be some island structures con...

From the technologies researched I would like to use the laser that produces clouds as part of an artistic environment. In order for the laser to work the air has to be highly saturated with water which made me think quite a lot about Hans Haackes "condensation piece" where the people around a glass...

1. Seismograph http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seismometer A seismograph, or seismometer, is an instrument used to detect and record earthquakes. Generally, it consists of a mass attached to a fixed base. During an earthquake, the base moves and the mass does not. The motion of the base with respect to...

1)" Build a rainbow " by Amy Youngs http://hypernatural.com/ (general site ) http://www.flickr.com/photos/amymyou/sets/72157626633597037/with/5561468862/ This installation uses waste (uneaten food, tea bags, newspapers) mixed with water to feed the plants that are growing in the colored thrift store...

Harold Cohen makes an attempt at defining what an image is by focusing on the process of art-making that according to him is a rule based activity. Cohen observes his own decisions when painting and builds a computer program called Aaron that should model some of the human behavior in the process of...

animals and kids.jpg I started looking through various images on google, national geographic website, blogs, flicker any source I can find until I happened to stumble upon images of animals that seemed to be hugging or kissing; an action which I would normally associate with human behavior. I start...

tnf_fw10_kasha2.jpg Barthes talks about the codification of images, especially advertisement that has an intended message of being read unlike a normal snapshot. He classifies the image according to various categories of reading showing us that an add has many ways of getting it's meaning across to...

The article “Marey, the analytic and the digital” presents us with the work of Etienne-Jules Marey who invented the chronophotografic gun, the predecessor of cinema. We have travelled in time from the invention of the camera obscura to the photo and now this, an attempt at movement, a capturing of a...

kircher-camera-obscura.gif What is a camera obscura? According to Webster’s dictionary it is a darkened box with a convex lens or aperture for projecting the image of an external object onto a screen inside, a forerunner of the modern camera. - A small round building with a rotating angled mirror a...