Art: Installation Sharpie Drawings

Heike Weber Installations

Utterly amazing installations by Heike Weber. She draws with permanentmarkers on acrylic floor and walls – surfaces that have reached up to 600 m2.

I can’t begin to imagine how time consuming these breathtaking installations must have been.










Via TRIANGULATION

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Gorilla Art: Theodore Watson

I first heard of Theodore Watson from Linda Fleming who teaches at CCAC and was one of the founders of Libre artist commune is Southern COlorado, the place where I was born, my middle name and the name of my company.  It was the summer the Democratic National Convention was in Denver COlorado and I wanted to go,  I had this idea to use projectors and to project highly erotic poetry onto buildings in very sterile places.  I told Linda about this and she said oh, Theodore Watson who is Beatie Wolf's brother who was at Libre's 40th birthday party that year has a program that will do that using a green lazer and projectors and it is mobile so you wont get busted.  This was highly appealing to me and she showed me Theodore's website and I have been amazed at the work he does. from the Knee deep project that is interactive and allows kids to stomp out a urban story, to the funky forest project that is also interactive, where kids make a shadow on a wall that grows into a tree and continues to grow as long as they water it with the virtual light water on the floor that they can dam and control through moving sandbars.  They must pick up the light and throw it on the tree and the second they stop watering the tree the tree begins to wither.  I think his work is brilliant and fascinating and wonderful. I am still desperate to get my hands on a green lazer and give it a go.  This is all from his website and is pretty amazing. 

2009Theodore Watson is an artist, designer and experimenter whose work is born out of the curiosity and excitement of designing experiences that come alive and invite people to play. Theodore’s work ranges from creating new tools for artistic expression, experimental musical systems, to immersive, interactive environments with full-body interaction. His recent work includes the Eyewriter, an eye controlled drawing tool, Graffiti Research Lab's Laser Tag, laser graffiti system and Funky Forest, an immersive interactive ecosystem for young children. Theodore works together with Zachary Lieberman and Arturo Castro on openFrameworks, which is an open source library for writing creative code in C++.

Theodore Watson's work has been shown at MoMA, Tate Modern, Ars Electronica, The Sundance Film Festival, Res Fest, REMF, Cinekid, Montevideo, OFFF, SHIFT, ICHIM, The Creators Series, Deitch Projects, Eyebeam, Pixel Gallery, Museum N8 Amsterdam. In 2010 the Eyewriter project won the Future Everything award and the Design of The Year award for the interactive category. 

Contact

Theodore Watson

contact me at: theo@ this website.

US Office: +1 617 959 5111 ( prefer email though )
Cambridge, MA
United States

Amsterdam Office: +31 64 367 3501
Damrak 70,
Amsterdam
Netherlands

Knee Deep 2009

Knee Deep is an interactive installation developed with Emily Gobeille of zanyparade, that invites children to jump in and explore unexpected worlds of different proportions with their feet. Stomping through a loose narrative that plays with ideas of scale, point of view and discovery of cause and effect, children gain a sense of perspective about how their actions relate to the natural systems of our world. Knee Deep allows children to see themselves and the world from seemingly impossible scales and provides a space for exploration and play where children can create their own rules and logic. The installation combines real-time greenscreening, computer vision and stomp detection.
Knee Deep was created for the 2009 Cinekid festival. Production of Knee Deep was made possible by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst.

Knee Deep video

Film Museum - Augmented Sand Sculpture 2009

Portrait Machine 2009

Funky Forest Moomah Edition 2009

Terrarium 2008

Funky Forest 2007

Funky Forest installation at Singapore Art Museum  June 02 2010

Emily Gobeille and I just completed a new installation of Funky Forest for the Art Garden exhibition at the Singapore Art Museum. Its running from now until July 18th 2010.

Laser Tag 2007

Vinyl Workout 2006

Michel Gondry Exhibition 2006

Generative Graffiti 2006

Audio Space 2005

Daisies 2005

Ars Electronica Elevator 2004

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Art: What to do with old Cassette tapes

brian dettmer: cassette tape skeletons


‘ram skull’, 2007 (altered cassette tapes)
image courtesy of the artist and kinz + tillou fine art

atlanta based artist brian dettmer creates intricate sculptural skeletons using altered cassette tapes.
dettmer began creating the pieces in 2005 as he was thinking about the demise of analog media in
the increasingly digital world. one day as dettmer was walking down the street he spotted a dead
bird and an idea hit him. ‘here was this thing that used to live, its used to fly around and play
a vital role, and now it is dead and all that remains is the solid material.’ dettmer was quick to
extrapolate this idea linking the bird’s life to that of the cassette. he transformed the skeleton of old
cassettes into literal animal skeletons. this lead to a series of 12 human skulls made from tapes,
each with a different theme like heavy metal or hard rock. the most complex piece in this body of
work is a full skeleton made from over 180 cassettes. all the pieces are made using only cassettes
tapes with no glue, tape or other outside materials. while dettmer couldn’t revel his process to
designboom, he did tell us that he heats the plastic up so he can literally form and weld them with
his wet hands and other tools.

http://www.briandettmer.com


‘ram skull’, 2007 (altered cassette tapes)
image courtesy of the artist and kinz + tillou fine art


‘elk’, 2007 (altered cassette tapes)
image courtesy of the artist and toomey tourell fine art


‘skull 11 (80's metal)’, 2007 (altered cassette tapes)
image courtesy of the artist


‘dead bird’, 2005 (altered cassette tapes)
image courtesy of the artist and packer schopf gallery


‘dead bird’, 2005 (altered cassette tapes)
image courtesy of the artist and packer schopf gallery


‘bull skull’, 2007 (altered cassette tapes)
images courtesy of the artist and mito gallery


‘bull skull’, 2007 (altered cassette tapes)
image courtesy of the artist and mito gallery


‘skeleton’, 2006 (altered cassette tapes)
image courtesy of the artist and packer schopf gallery


‘skeleton’, 2006 (altered cassette tapes)
image courtesy of the artist and packer schopf gallery


‘skeleton’, 2006 (altered cassette tapes)
image courtesy of the artist and packer schopf gallery

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