| Se Mi Sei Vicino; If you are close to me | |
| Artist：Sonia Cillari | |
| Website：http://www.soniacillari.net | |
Sonia Cillari is an Italian media artist and architect, lives and works in Amsterdam. Her work involves the creation of sensorial and perceptual mechanisms in immersive and augmented environments. Over the last years she has been specifically interested in a field of research concerning the ‘Body as Interface’.
With Se Mi Sei Vicino she received the Excellence Prize at Japan Media Arts Festival and the Honorable Mentions at Prix Ars Electronica: Interactive Art category and VIDA 9.0: Art & Artificial Life International competition. She has been one of the expert jury for the Prix Ars Electronica 2008: Interactive Art category.
The interactive performance Se Mi Sei Vicino (If you are close to me) is a practical research into the possibility of using the 'Body as Interface'. The main point of departure was the idea to measure human encounters, with the participants realizing that the boundaries of the self extend beyond their skins. A core element of the work is a sensor floor on which a performer is standing, functioning as a human antenna; when coming close to or being touched by members of the audience, the body movements are registered as electromagnetic activity. Surrounding the floor are large projections showing real-time algorithmic organisms connected to audio compositions, which change form according to fluctuations in the electromagnetic field.
The relative distance between the bodies determines what is to be seen and heard. This work has to be considered in relation with the tradition of performance and installation art, which problematizes the distinction between active performers and passive spectators.
In fact the audiences needs to participate with the whole body. Moving, approaching and touching must be included. This interaction makes that the boundaries of passivity and activity are blurred. Everyone is a potential performer.
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| SoniColumn | |
| Artist：Jin-Yo Mok | |
| Website：http://www.geneo.net | |
Jin-Yo Mok is known as young Korean multimedia artist. He received his BFA and MFA from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea and continued his studies at New York University's Interactive Telecommunications Program. His artwork has been featured and invited from a lot of venues over the world: Ars Electronica Festival in Austria; ISEA 2006; WIRED NextFest; 2005 in Sao Paolo, Brazil; Artport at Whitney Museum of America in New York.
SoniColumnis an interactive sound installation that can be played by a person's touch. The installation takes the form of a column-like cylinder, of a height that does not quite reach the ceiling but just high enough for one's reach. Grids of LEDs installed inside the column light themselves on by the users' touch and emit unique sounds. When a user cranks the handle, the column slowly rotates itself and plays the light patterns of the user's touch.
SoniColumn is one of artist series of works, The MusicBox Project, the reproduction of his experience with a small music box that he happened to play a long time ago. The lucid sounds coming from a simple play mechanism stirred him up with his old memory echoed with them. He is pleasantly and cautiously reproducing this happy experience with a small toy which was not sublime nor mysterious, but simple and easy.
| DriftNet ver.-1 | |
| Artist：Norimichi Hirakawa | |
| Website：http://www.counteraktiv.com | |
Norimichi Hirakawa is a media artist of new generation, completed the master course of Tama Art University. His work Global Bearing won the excellent award in 8th Japan Media Art Festival, and has exhibited the works in Yamaguchi Art center of Arts and Media, Open Space 2007 at NTT Inter Communication Center (ICC) and transmediale.08 in Germany. He had won the award of distinction in Interactive Art category of Ars Electronica 2008.
DriftNet ver.-1 shows us a new method to recognize our digital world what we get along with. The world wide internet network is just like some kind of ocean, or media to Japanese. When we look around the end of ocean beach, it is like an emptiness space in searching engine site. It unfolds the anticipative energy of the ultimate searching.
We are never free on the net to choose the links and explore. What we can do is stare at the disappearance and splash of waves, like we are surfing in the internet world. The work of DriftNet ver. -1 proposes another point of view to our interactive network.
| ALAVs 2.0 | |
| Artist：Jed Berk | |
| Website：http://www.degree119.com | |
Jed Berk Born in New York, lives in Los Angeles, CA. He received a BFA from Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Art Center College of Design.
He has shown in the US and internationally in institutions such as Orange County Museum of Art in California; Museum of Modern Art in Austria; Brandts, Odense in Denmark; Espaço Cultural Oi Futuro in Brazil; Art Center Nabi in Korea.
ALAVs 2.0 (Autonomous Light Air Vessels) are networked objects that communicate the concept of connectivity among people, objects, and the environment. Through the use of mobile technologies people can influence the behavior of the ALAVs by starting conversations and building closer relationships with them. ALAV 2.0 reflects upon the current state of connectivity in our everyday lives. The potential of ALAVs 2.0 lies in its ability to captivate a wide audience and communicate the idea of people cohabiting a shared space with networked objects.