2 posts tagged “digital art”
On invitation by the ESARQ, Sandra and I joined into the SIMAE Conference in Barcelona. The intense, three day conference covered a wide range of issues involved in the field of contemporary architecture design. The speakers could be devided into three categories: Practitioners of the Architecture discipline, Theorists and figures involved in
Marcos Novak was so friendly to invite us to join the tour he was giving for Colin Fourniers students (on a field Trip from the Bartlett School of Architecture) at the laboratories of the CNSI (California Nanoscience Institute). The interesting part is that the NanoScience Institute is collaborating with the Institute of media-art and technology of the University of California Santa Barbara, thus creating a fertile ground for interdisciplinary approaches for the creation of novel art strategies. Combining computational power, mathematical algorithms and high end visualisation hardware and software the studenst create environments representing constantly shifting visual and acoustical impressions. We could see the embryonic stage of such installations like The Brain, an installation depicting a magnetic resonance scan of Marcos Novaks brain. The animation of this scan is completely navigateable and interactive, using shutter glasses you could even see the entire thing in 3D An impressive piece of art, with enormous scientific research potential (Visualisation of Neural Networks, Simulation of Brainfunctions etc). The highlight of the day was the visit to the Allosphere, a 360º projection space with 32 ft diameter, connected to an array of speakers that can give you total control over the sound experience. Remember Cerebro in Xmen? Well thats pretty much the impression of the room, exept that this here is for real! I would love to create some work for this space, to test this unique environment.
