Body Pixel

Data visualization fascinates me, too. People hooked up to wearables sometimes use it as an interesting way to combine garments and illustrative parts or schematic elements used in visual representation of data. It’s an open and creative field for last few years, but basically very old visual technique. It’s almost old as the history of cartography…

Jonathan Wood’s wearable installation Suspension Dimension is an example how you can make an actual object that looks like 3D spacey data visualization… Suspension Dimension was awarded in 2008 at the awe-inspiring  Montana World of WearableArt™ Awards Show in Wellington, New Zealand.

2008 Montana World of WearableArt™ Awards Show
‘Suspension Dimension’ by Jonathan Wood, United Kingdom
Winner of the Wellington International Award
(c) World of WearableArt™ Ltd

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Wonderful visualization of Eyjafjallajökull volcano created by Joanie Lemercier from AntiVJ has been designed in susceptible and subtle manner. I just found fresh footage uploaded in last few hours…

The project was presented a day or two ago at the Onedotzero Festival in London.

Photo: Joanie Lemercier, Eyjafjallajökull (c)

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Joost Rekveld was a jury member at this year’s edition of 25FPS – International Festival of Experimental Film and Video… Rekveld is internationally acknowledged experimental filmmaker and kinetic & light installation artist.

He has collaborated with choreographer and dancer Emio Greco on Purgatorio, whose motto is ‘exploring the connection between body and mind rather than being limited to the physical possibilities of the dancing body.’

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In May this year I had an opportunity to partake at the first regional Wearable Technology workshop at Digital Media Lab Ljudmila.org in Ljubljana (Slovenia), organized my MoTA – Museum of Transitory Art. The workshop was led by MFA intermedia students from the University of Maine (USA), Abigail Stiers and Alexander Gross.

Since, Abby and Alex were for last three months lecturers at the CIANT – International Centre for Art and New Technologies in Prague (Czech), it was really nice to talk about their own work, the perception of technology and DIY scenes in USA and Europe, and the generation gap between new media art and fine art. Oh, we talked a little bit about Arduino, too.

Photo: Abigail Stiers, taken from CIANT (c)

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Selected works by Compagnie Adrien M for today’s edition of Body cinema screening… Compagnie Adrien M has been founded by the French juggler and computer scientist Adrien Mondot. The company mixes computer graphics, lighting, juggling and dance.

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You know, my digital dad is media artist and designer John Maeda… of course, he doesn’t know that I even exist… I mean, he has lotsa digital kids scattered  around the cyberspace…

Oh, how I like his work, because his books are like the Tao Te Ching for us, digital natives trying to find a glimpse of nature in rows and rows of pixels…

Photo: John Maeda, taken from karagatan.wordpress. com

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