A voice guides you through a perfect date. Part interactive performance, part dating agency, Binaural Dinner Date invites genuine applications from individuals looking for love, or existing couples. "Come with your own date, or we'll find you one too."
#BeTheDate / @iamzuuk
A contemporary look at the institution of the museum in England. The artist was invited by the Warrington Museum to reflect on his past and to create or speculate on possible futures. The English Provincial Museum is an ode to England's imperial past, and its quasi-ethnographic collections glimpse a colonial past. With the idea of empire in mind, the artist created an installation where the multiform, deformed or monstrous form an essential part of the pieces created. Using the monument to Oliver Cromwell the artist has created a sculpture that resembles a creature half insect half sea monster that reminds us of the cruelty of the English expansion throughout the world.
TWINS is an installation of UltraHD monitors showing CGI compositions of vaguely zoomorphic, machine-like objects in constant transformation, tied and embraced in ropes in the style of Kinbaku, the Japanese art of bondage. Two television screens resembling bound bodies, enslaved subjects, and objects of both desire and display become bodies on them. Beings - subjects and objects literally tied, restricted, coerced. The monitors intrigue and seduce, invoking hidden fantasies within us, releasing deeper emotions and sensory experiences... or perhaps watching as the apple might suddenly fall from the tree for Eve, bringing sin to earth. Some people have to be tied down to be free. By being physically constrained, we became more aware of our senses. By becoming our objects, a latent violence sharpens our sensory experience.
The TOPO Canadian Artists Performing Center proposes four virtual creation projects where reality acts as an advocate for neurodiversity and positive recognition of autism. In 2018, TOPO held several workshops with a great team of artists who, through virtual reality, created experiences with a transmedia approach; thus, the participants were introduced to a documentary methodology: media production through photography, video and virtual reality technologies. The participants had the opportunity to create new means of communication, using technological and innovative tools that allow immersion in creative, rich and sensory worlds.
Latidos Marinos is a virtual reality installation that seeks to recreate and represent the universe of the humpback whale, based on awareness of its heartbeat and its songs. Using virtual reality glasses, the participant is immersed in a 360° video where they experience an abstract world built around these huge mammals. This was a winning project of the Call for Incentives for Art and Culture 2018 of the Mayor's Office of Medellín and its Secretariat of Citizen Culture. It was developed by the Ecos collective during an artist residency at the Exploratorio del Parque Explora.
Schmitz uses pneumatic sculpture, multidimensional drawing, and video to explore new forms of space. Going through temporary stages, discarding and reinventing himself, his pieces explore the oscillating stages of being and non-being, of existence inside and outside of the image. Relying on viewers to activate them, many of his pieces discuss the extent and possibilities of participation. The artist produced different pieces related to space monitoring and exploration practices, combining performance and field recording with video, sound, and the installation of objects. Schmitz's current cycle of work shows images of the Mediterranean, creating deeply ambiguous impressions of idleness and drowning, referencing the recent refugee crisis, but referring in a much broader sense to the sentiment of a life with access to privilege rather than Unprivileged existence: about movement and room to breathe instead of being locked in an airless space, about choice and empowerment instead of being reduced to fighting for the most basic necessities of survival.
SIBILA is a robotic video installation that explores through TESS (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite), a telescope developed by NASA and MIT, the possibility of finding habitable planets that may have presented favorable conditions to develop some kind of life. This system performs a study of the sky 85% looking for exoplanets of similar size and atmospheric composition to Earth, as well as the distance at which they are with respect to their tutelary star. are we alone in the universe?
NAKED IN PARADISE is a virtual reality installation that exposes the life and works of the artist Luc Courchesne as an archive built, more or less arbitrarily, by the computer. The explorable space of the archive, with fully functional versions of his early interactive works such as PORTRAIT ONE (1990), straddles two polarities: the Future, a dark space where light has yet to penetrate, and the Past, bathing in light. . At the periphery, the explorable space is a featureless white cloud (in the distant past) and a dark cloud (in the far future that extends beyond what can be imagined). In between, the cozy familiarity of a present that exposes the life of the artist from his birth to the present, an important aspect of the space is that it can be arranged and rearranged by computer algorithms in real time on demand. The title, NUDE IN PARADISE, expresses the pleasure of exposing large amounts of information and allowing the whole to be embraced - it is also ideal for diving in and exploring any of the discrete elements. In its current form, the VR Database can be downloaded as a Unity3D build for the current generation of head-mounted floppies. theater plays.
A voice guides you through a perfect date. Part interactive performance, part dating agency, Binaural Dinner Date invites genuine applications from individuals looking for love, or existing couples. "Come with your own date, or we'll find you one too." #BeTheDate / @iamzuuk