Tag: Art Clay
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ETH Zurich's Digital Art Weeks
I am co-founder and scientific director of ETH Zurich’s Digital Art Weeks. The Digital Art Weeks, an annually recurring festival, are concerned with the application of digital technology in the arts. Consisting of a symposium, workshops and performances, the program offers insight into current research and innovations in art and technology as well as illustrating resulting synergies in a series of performances, making artists aware of impulses in technology and scientists aware of the possibilities of the application of technology in the arts. In 2008 and 2010, a very successful version of Digital Art Weeks took place in Shanghai and Xi’an, China, and currently DAW'13 (early 2013) in Singapore is preparation…
https://www.digitalartweeks.ethz.ch/
One of my personal highlights of the series of past Digital Art Weeks was the special opening day and the keynote of Joseph Weizenbaum (1923-2008) in 2007, as I have always admired his ambivalent position towards computer and information technology. At DAW07, we also screened the documentary ‘Weizenbaum. Rebel at Work.’ by Peter Haas and Silvia Holzinger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_LCLjqCTXs
Festival History
- 2013 - Singapore
- 2011 - Victoria, BC, Canada
- 2010 - Xi’an, China
- 2008 - Shanghai, China
- 2007 - Zurich, Switzerland
- 2006 - Zurich, Switzerland
- 2005 - Zurich, Switzerland
SQEAK - Real-time Multiuser Interaction Using Cellphones
This research project explored one approach to providing mobile phone users with a simple low cost real-time user interface allowing them to control highly interactive public space applications involving a single user or a large number of simultaneous users.
In order to sense accurately the real-time hand movement gestures of mobile phone users, the method uses miniature accelerometers that send the orientation signals over the network’s audio channel to a central computer for signal processing and application delivery. This affords that there is minimal delay, minimal connection protocol incompatibility and minimal mobile phone type or version discrimination. Without the need for mass user compliance, large numbers of users could begin to control public space cultural and entertainment applications using simple gesture movements.
D. Majoe, S. Schubiger-Banz, A. Clay, and S. Arisona. 2007. SQEAK: A Mobile Multi Platform Phone and Networks Gesture Sensor. In: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Applications (ICPCA07). Birmingham, UK, July 26 - 27.
Research: Project carried out at ETH Zurich
Location: ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Timeframe: 2006 - 2007
Realisation: Stefan Arisona, Simon Schubiger, Dennis Majoe, Art Clay
Collaborator: Swisscom Innovations
Almost Lost With Heinrich Lüber
Corebounce, in collaboration with Heinrich Lüber and Art Clay, 2006
“Almost Lost” was a performative audio-visual installation of Corebounce in collaboration with artists Art Clay and Heinrich Lüber: Streams of spoken words are deformed by interactive technology.
In der Performance spreche ich über zwei Stunden endlose Wortketten und projiziere diese gewissermassen von Innen an eine meinen Kopf umgebende Sphère. Die sich selbst dekonstruierende Sprache wird durch eine interaktive Technologie umgeformt und in Lichtform auf die Sphère und den Umgebungsraum zurückgeworfen. Die Projektionen zeigt eine Virtualität im Sinne einer “plastischen” Verformung in Möglichkeitsräume hinein. Das die Figur umgebende Halbrund bildet eine Andeutung einer zweiten Schicht dieses dynamischen Raumsystems, die begehbar ist und worin der Zuschauer sich als formender/aktiver Mitspieler in diesem System erleben kann. (Heinrich Lüber)
During the two hours of performance, I speak ceaseless streams of words and virtually project them from the inside onto the sphere surrounding my head. The self-deconstructing language is deformed by interactive technology and reflected in terms of lights and shapes onto the sphere and the ambiance. The projections show a virtuality in terms of “malleable” deformations into alternative spaces. The semicircle surrounding the character constitutes an adumbration of a secondary layer of that dynamic space. It is accessible to the spectator, who can experience herself / himself as a forming and active participant in this space system. (Heinrich Lüber)
The project was officially supported by Kultur Basel-Stadt and Kulturelles Basel-Land. Heinrich Lüber’s Homepage: https://www.heinrichlueber.ch/
Event: Digital Art Weeks 2006
Location: ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Date: Jul 12 2006
Concept: Art Clay and Stefan Arisona
Programming: Stefan Arisona
Performance: Heinrich Lüber and Corebounce Art Collective
Surréance - A River and Five Bridges
Corebounce, in collaboration with Art Clay and Anne Faulborn, 2005
This radical, eye-and earblasting performance was realised in collaboration with Art Clay (Composition) and Anne Faulborn (Cembalo). Art Clay’s composition “A River and Five Bridges” is an electronic adaptation of André Bretons “Barrières” and asserts the affinity of rational and irrational.
The visual composition’s interpretation, realised by Corebounce, absorbs the assertion by implementing a modulated flickering screen. The modulation function is both defined by real-time music analysis and live visual performance. The flicker colors were obtained by two cutouts from Paul Klee’s “The Twittering Machine”, one in blue tones and one in red tones.
The piece premiered at ETH Zurich’s main building dome during Digital Art Weeks 2005.
Event: Digital Art Weeks 2005
Location: ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Date: Aug 20 2005
Concept: Stefan Arisona and Art Clay
Composition: Art Clay
Programming: Stefan Arisona
Performance: Anne Faulborn, Stefan Arisona, Art Clay