Carsten Holler
Favorite quote: “It’s a very odd thing with a slide; it’s quite an efficient way to go from place to place, but it is also like a barely controlled fall. It’s a very specific kind of madness to go down one.”This nicely sums up the range of experience at the New Museum: "Höller creates situations which question familiar forms of perception and allow exhibition visitors to experiment on themselves, often inviting the public's active participation in so-called “influential environments."
Höller was originally trained as a scientist, and now draws on "research and experiments from scientific history" in order to "alter the audience’s physical and psychological sensations, inspiring doubt and uncertainty about the world around them."
NYTimes article describes how OWS became a global phenomenon. Using the hashtag symbol makes it optimal for spreading on social network sites. The "Occupy" part of OWS helps brand other satellites of the movement around the world. And "We are the 99%" helps communicate a message clearly, which can be easily translated and applied in other countries.
3. Interview with the man behind OWS' "Bat Signal" on its two-month anniversary.
Mark Read, 45, used a Sony 12K lumen projector that sells for around $10K to get the graphics on the wall. He used the apartment of a relative stranger in the building across the way from which to project. He wrote the words himself.
Creative agency Iris created a 3D projection called "The Snowflake and the Bubble" which plays every night for five hours. Customers can also scan a QR code in the windows of Saks in order to enjoy the show at home.
Kinect seems to be about more than just Microsoft. Coca Cola has created an interactive billboard, where people can appear to play inside a waterfall of soda. Appears to be using a technology similar to Microsoft Kinect.
Another video on the page by Kinect lays out a vision for the future of Kinect, in which the technology is a more integral part of peoples' lives. Applications are imagined in music, medicine, teaching, etc. Really cool.
Tim Heineke's Shuffler.fm aggregates music from music blogs into channels that focus on a genre. In an interview, Heineke says he says it as "a more human Pandora or a new version of rolling stone magazine or sort of MTV for music blogs." And it works with blogs/sites hosted on WordPress, Tumblr, Posterous, Typepad etc.
7. ITP Showcase
NYU exhibit of student work in the ITP graduate program in Tisch. The program's mission is " two-year graduate program located in the Tisch School of the Arts whose mission is to explore the imaginative use of communications technologies — how they might augment, improve, and bring delight and art into people's lives.
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