Miwa Matreyek's glorious visions

Miwa Matreyek work as a multimedia artist involves the use of animation, performance and video installation to explore personally discovery. Matreyek interacts with the work by using her shadow which appears to the audience to be interacting with the projected animation and video. The execution of the work was done very well but the video visuals seem to be too contrived to appeal to a certain audience. This work By Matreyek beings up the question whether the work only need to be interactive with the artist to realise to purpose or does it need to interact with the audience.

Waste Land

Released tomorrow, 29th Oct 2010, is the documentary Waste Land by LucWalker. y Waste Land follows the artist Vik Muniz return to his homeland of Brazil and his visit to the largest garbage dump in the world, Rio de Janeiro. Here Muniz met the people who work and live in the garbage dump. He then created portraits of these people using ideas found from the garbage dump. These pieces of work where then auctioned off when Muniz returned to New York. All the processed from the auction where giving to the people of Rio de Janeiro. It will be an interesting watch, mainly how these pieces of art change the people life in Rio de Janeiro. Will they create permanent change or will it be a pasting fade in the history of the garbage dump.

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Daniel Rozins's interactive mirrors

Poladroid

This is a great program where you drag and drops your photos into and  they out come out as polaroids. What am thinking could a program like this be used to exhibited photography, where the viewer has to "develop" the photograph by shacking it before viewing the photograph. Get the program here

Is Photography Over?

SFMOMA has been collecting and exhibiting photographs since the museum's founding in 1935 and is dedicated to the examination of the medium in all its forms. This major symposium on the current state of the field is the first in a series of public programs on photography. The texts below reflect the initial responses of 13 invited participants to the symposium's central question: Is photography over? The discussion begun here will continue on April 22 and 23, when the participants will convene at SFMOMA for a series of public and private conversations on the current state of the medium. (text from SFMOMA overview)

Morocco and spain

Flying Lotus videos

Really like this new sony and the video is ace too. not sure why i like it, maybe because of its childish nature or how rough the models and animation are but still being entertaining.



this video shows artist Leigh Mccloskey development of the flying lotus ablum cover: COSMOGRAMM. really like Mccloskey visual style and his studio is soo awesome.

Thrush

This video won the vimeo narrative award at the recent vimeo video feaative. Its completely made up using photographs which makes me think if an interactive story could be told though photographic images alone.

Kiel Johnson

Kiel Johnson has to be one of my favouritet artist/ sculptures for his cartoony, childish use cardboard in his work. Hi-fuctose has a piece on Johnson show Publish or Perish and it’s accompanied with a great interview with Johnson. (click here). Click here for Kiel Johnson's website

TheNewLeaf.org

Great piece of design work here from I Shot Him. I really like the use of character design and textures in the animation. The whole branding is really fresh and I enjoy that they not gone down the usual route of weed leafs and Rastafarian influences. There also an interesting article on the design process on The Black Harbor . (Click here)

RIP Curl Mirage

Greate video from Rip Curl showing a very interesting use of D-SLR. I would say the second video, which shows how the effect was created, was alot more entertaining.

Leeds by night

Photographer Stephen Griffin has greated a really interesting interactive way in which to display his photogrpahy project leeds by night. I really like the nature background sound and the fact that all the photographs are tag in a street map giving an extra dimenation to the images.

Make Something Cool Everyday

All the above images are from Brock Davis Make Something Cool Everyday collection on his site. Whats really nice is that you can see the development of ideas though a sequnce of time.