Digital Architecture

Project name : The Magic Mountain.
Concept : Roses, Insects and Butterflies Amalgam.
Year of proposal : 2002
Location : Ames, Iowa, USA.
Materials : Membrane of roses, honeysuckle, lights.
Project type : Skin design proposal for an existing building [power station].

Exterior view

Relationships between elements concept

Skin Study

Butterfly ecosystems

Bird Families

"a piece of landscape inside the city, totally covered with a membrane of roses, lights and honeysuckle shrouding and unifying them with a silhouette and a single common material."

"Like a real mountain, the membrane tries to attract the most important butterfly species, right on the southward migratory route on the American continent. And will provide a resting place for migrating birds and turn into an artificial alternative to the disappeared forests and wetlands."

References :http://www.cero9.com/amidmagazine/carnal-naps/roses/
Digital Architecture Now: A Global Survey of Emerging Talent
http://www.amazon.com/Digital-Architecture-Now-Global-Emerging/dp/0500342474

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Style : Hardware Hacking + Graffiti.
Location : Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Year : 2007.
Artists : Graffiti Research Lab.
Objects : 60 megawatt Laser, digital projector, camera.
Software :  C++ using Open Frameworks

L.A.S.E.R. Tag is a cool project created by Graffiti research lab, Originally founded by graffiti writers (taggers), Q-Branch, and Fi5e, they are now a group of 12 artists who tend to explore how can technology can contribute to street art, mainly by hacking the technology itself such as the project we have here called L.A.S.E.R Tag. L.A.S.E.R Tag is a project that allows it's users to with light directly on buildings, displaying it on a very large scale.

The lab even published a how to for the public to build their own and create it.

"In the spirt of GRL's and Eyebeam's open source beliefs, we are posting the code and executable
for the Laser Tag application online for you to download, dissect, reuse and hopefully improve. The code is
C++ and compiled in a super old school Codewarrior IDE for windows but it is oepnGL based and written using openFrameworks which is a cross platform library for writing creative code. So it should be very straight forward to run in Visual Studio, DevC++ or even xcode on a mac."
- Theodore Watson

you can find the full instructions here (The software and the Setup) :
*Create your own L.A.S.E.R. Tag instructions. 

I would also highly recommend checking out Theodore Watson's Website of installations in which he calls it  interactive installation.

















Resources:
Digital by Design Troika - http://www.thamesandhudson.com/Digital_by_Design/9780500289013
http://www.graffitiresearchlab.com/blog/projects/laser-tag/
http://www.theowatson.com/
http://www.muonics.net/blog/index.php?postid=15

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One of their most prominent pieces is Pandora, a 2500 Diameter x 2400 to 5000 mm height beautiful chandelier made with 1,990 crystal chandelier which in form is never prominent, taken from a traditional chandelier arrangement then recreating a motion of explosion, the crystals move slowly.

Get more up-close and personal with their project via their website :
http://www.fredriksonstallard.com/work.php?p=work&pp=chronology

 
Berlin based artist Jeppe Hein is an enthusiast when it comes to working with technology, he is deeply interested in it's capacity to to challenge the human's expectation of what an artwork can be, his artwork present a refined concept of interactivity, where the link between the viewer and the response from the artwork are neither obvious nor immediate.

He often uses an archetypical cube in his artworks as a minimalist approach, being the most abstract and stable form of all, which in return makes it move in an unpredictable way, creating some kind of a theatrical approach to his modern take on the heritage of minimalism.

In this project the sculpture consists of 12 neon cubes, chained together in the shape of a large square in the ground, the different cubes are then lit in sequence to in a conitnues loop giving the impression of a rolling cube.

Year: 2004
Material: Neon tubes, transformer
Dimensions: 70 x 250 x 250 cm


Exhibitions:
Connected Presence - Jeppe Hein/Johannes Wohnseifer, Union Gallery, London, UK, 2004
Light Lab, MUSEION Museum of Contemporary Art, Bolzano, IT, 2005

Resources: Digital by Design Troika http://www.jeppehein.net/pages/project_id.php?path=works&id=132 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iWDPtRLsSM Get the Book on Amazon :