Gravilux - Scott Sona Snibbe

Gravilux is a work of interactive software art for the iPhone and iPad. With each touch in Gravilux, you exert a gravitational pull on a world of simulated stars. Though inspired by Newton's equations for gravity, Gravilux doesn't follow our universe's laws.

Gravilux is a combination of drawing, animation, art, science, and gaming. Gravilux was first released in 1998 as a work of interactive art that was only available in galleries and museums. Now it is available as an iPhone and iPad application. Gravilux was created for the iPhone and iPad with the help of openFrameworks.

For more on Scott Snibbe go here: http://www.snibbe.com

Coding with charcoal

Part Of You from zenbullets on Vimeo.

Short ambient video for Hessien by Matt Pearson. The track is from Hessien’s debut album. This pencil/charcoal effect achieved with code is particularly interesting to me. I am interested in the tension between analogue and digital. The point where the two sides meet. This piece manages to give an analogue effect using code. Really nice.

Super-Computer-Romantics

Supreme Believers - Nowness edit from Universal Everything on Vimeo.

Matt Pyke, creator of the graphic design studio Universal Everything, is holding a solo exhibition in Paris’s new digital arts venue La Gaîté Lyrique from April 21st to June 1st.

The show, titled Matt Pyke & Friends: Super Computer Romantics, has been specially created over two years and brings together international collaborative work that promises: Infinite mirrors, solar power driven rotations, unending journeys through countrysides, rotating sculptures, films, sound creations, transformative paintings, virtual installations… this exhibition draws us into the artist’s original, magical and theatrical universe and allows us to enter into a subtle and rich relationship with the new technologies.

The Beak Street Blog interviews Matt Pyke here.

Generative Art by Matt Pearson

Ive bitten the bullet and paid to download this book from the publishers website. I've been waiting for the release for months now. Its been postponed again and again and again. This is the first book (that I have found) specifically about generative art. Im super excited about reading it. This will underpin my research for my MA.

Publishers Description.

Artists have always explored new media, and computer-based artists are no exception. Generative art, an emerging technique where print or onscreen images are created by use of computer algorithms, finds the artistic intersection between programming, computer graphics, and individual expression.

Generative Art presents both the technique and the beauty of algorithmic art. In it, you’ll find dozens of high-quality examples of generative art, along with the specific programmatic steps author and artist Matt Pearson followed to create each unique piece. The book includes concise tutorials for each of the technical components required to create the book’s examples, and it offers countless suggestions for how you can combine and reuse the various techniques to create your own works.

Vortex HE Final Year Show

Tonight is the St Helens HE Final Year show. This invitation is the latest addition to the Vortex brand material designed by us. The show will start at 6.30pm in the new building at the Town Centre campus. There will be a samba drums performance at 7.15pm by the FD Music Production & Sound Design students. There will be work on display from BA Graphic Design, BA Fine Art Painting and BA Computer Game Art.

Sleeping Bear

This is a greatest sleeping bag. You can wear it to sleep when you go camping. It is safe that no bear will attack your camp and eat you? Or you just want to wear it, and then scare your friend when he(she) wake up in the morning.(a good idea!) Well made and Cool! By artist Eiko Ishizawa.

Via likecool

29North are go!

Finally I get the blog site up and running. There are still some tweeks to do but I will do these as I go along. I will be blogging about all of the exciting things/project with 29North and anything else that I find interesting.

The official 29North site should be up and running in a week or so. Ill keep updating on the progress of that. We have some interesting projects on at the moment including some hypotrochoid studies using a laser cutter. More to follow on that shortly.