http://www.geekdown.com Geekdown - A splendid display of interactive art and wearable technology Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:01:50 +0000 http://www.geekdown.com en http://geekdown.com/Jack-Kalish-Transmission http://geekdown.com/following/geekdown.com/Jack-Kalish-Transmission Sun, 07 Aug 2011 23:01:50 +0000 Geekdown - A splendid display of interactive art and wearable technology 1831136 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1831136/Still 2_fixed.jpg" width="670" height="400" width_o="1206" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1831136/Still 2_fixed_o.jpg" data-mid="9043362" border="0" align="left"/> Transmission is a sculptural, stereoscopic video installation. In it's mirrored surface, one can just barely perceive their own image engulfed in static, undifferentiated chaos. Mysterious and alien, it confronts and challenges the viewer, inviting us to peer into its depths. Look within, see yourself. From the not-quite noise emerges three-dimensional forms, an undulating space that surrounds and embraces the visitor. Tweet http://geekdown.com/Tristan-Perich-Machine-Drawings http://geekdown.com/following/geekdown.com/Tristan-Perich-Machine-Drawings Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:57:14 +0000 Geekdown - A splendid display of interactive art and wearable technology 1829040 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1829040/080611_0024_3.jpg" width="670" height="821" width_o="2048" height_o="2511" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1829040/080611_0024_3_o.jpg" data-mid="9031835" border="0" align="left"/> Machine Drawing (2010-05-15 11AM to 1:09PM) ink on paper 2005-present "My art and my music are about simple forms and the intersection of randomness, order and composition. The Machine Drawings—pen on paper or wall drawings executed by a machine that I designed and built—use randomness and order as raw materials within a composition. I am inspired by physics and math, so the machine drawings are a combination of the delicacy of real drawings and the rigid, structured system of mechanics and code. The system allows me to explore the limits of traditional drawing. The machine creates pen drawings that have a mechanical precision. It can run indefinitely, usually creating works that would take multiple days of non-stop drawing by hand to complete. At the same time, the system itself is delicate. The final drawings have a nervousness of the pen that a computer simulation alone cannot emulate. It is this balance between the code and the pen that excites me most, for the drawings couldn't be made without the code, and the code needs to be embedded in the physical world to be realized." New York-based composer and artist Tristan Perich explores sound and image through the interaction of simple digital processes with the physical world. The WIRE Magazine describes his compositions as “an austere meeting of electronic and organic.” The New York Times called his recent composition for electric guitar quartet "invigorating." His works for soloist, ensemble, and orchestra have been performed internationally at venues as diverse as the Whitney Museum, Merkin Hall, Issue Project Room, Zipper Hall, Lentos Museum and Mass MoCA. As a visual artist, he has had solo exhibitions at bitforms gallery (NYC), Mikrogalleriet (Copenhagen), the Addison Gallery (Andover), the Katonah Museum, Museo Carandente (Spoleto) and Monster Truck (Dublin). 1-Bit Music, his 2004 release on Cantaloupe Music, was the first album ever released as a microchip, programmed to synthesize his electronic composition live. His recent circuit album, 1-Bit Symphony, was released in 2009; the London Daily Telegraph writes: "From these meagre components he fashions strikingly ambitious and emotionally resonant compositions… as affecting as any piece of music that’s been released this year." Perich studied math, music and computer science at Columbia University and received a masters in art, music and electronics at ITP at Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. Tweet http://geekdown.com/Gabriel-Barcia-Colombo-Laser-Etched-Wood-Reliefs http://geekdown.com/following/geekdown.com/Gabriel-Barcia-Colombo-Laser-Etched-Wood-Reliefs Tue, 02 Aug 2011 21:13:49 +0000 Geekdown - A splendid display of interactive art and wearable technology 1811891 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1811891/ladyliberty.jpg" width="670" height="449" width_o="2048" height_o="1372" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1811891/ladyliberty_o.jpg" data-mid="8939886" border="0" align="left"/> A series of laser etched wood reliefs by Gabriel Barcia-Colombo created from antique victorian found imagery. Each woodcut depicts one of the artist's dreams through the use of cut and paste collage in the tradition of artists such as Kurt Schwitters, Henry Darger, and Robert Rauschenberg. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1811891/adam.eve.jpg" width="670" height="542" width_o="2048" height_o="1658" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1811891/adam.eve_o.jpg" data-mid="8939898" border="0" align="left"/> "Adam.Eve" depicts the biblical couple as a skeleton and dressform. Adam returns the apple to eve, who without arms cannot accept. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1811891/dear.jpg" width="670" height="775" width_o="2048" height_o="2369" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1811891/dear_o.jpg" data-mid="8939894" border="0" align="left"/> "Oh Dear" features a complacent dear grazing on an antique sofa while being accosted by the giant hand of the law. Gabriel Barcia-Colombo's work focuses on memorialization and, more specifically, the act of leaving one's imprint for the next generation. While formally implemented by natural history museums and collections (which find their roots in Renaissance era "cabinets of curiosity"), this process has grown more pointed and pervasive in the modern-day obsession with personal digital archiving and the corresponding growth of social media culture. His video sculptures play upon this exigency in our culture to chronicle, preserve and wax nostalgic. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1811891/fish.jpg" width="670" height="471" width_o="2048" height_o="1442" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1811891/fish_o.jpg" data-mid="8939891" border="0" align="left"/> Tweet http://geekdown.com/Mike-Kelberman-Rotobooth http://geekdown.com/following/geekdown.com/Mike-Kelberman-Rotobooth Mon, 01 Aug 2011 04:35:43 +0000 Geekdown - A splendid display of interactive art and wearable technology 1803698 Autobooth is one in a series of hand-crafted photo kiosks. The action performed by the user varies booth to booth, but automated synchronization to the cloud, as well as photo treatment such as watermarking span the entire series. Autobooth generates professional-grade photos, whether it's setup at an event or as a long-term installation. To retrieve your photos and for more information on the series, visit Rotobooth.com. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1803698/Screen shot 2011-07-31 at 11.53.30 PM.png" width="647" height="403" width_o="647" height_o="403" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1803698/Screen shot 2011-07-31 at 11.53.30 PM_o.png" data-mid="8900077" border="0" align="left"/> Mike Kelberman NYC-based multimedia designer and technologist, working with physical computing, interaction design, furniture design, 3D printing, sound engineering and photography. Having graduated from NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program, he recently installed an AR-triggered photo booth for shoppers in the H&M flagship store in NYC. He currently runs the Maker Bot store in Brooklyn, as well as freelance as an audio, video, and lighting engineer at Lincoln Center, The Public Theater and Fresh Air Flicks. In my spare time I wail on the guitar or the drums until his roommate tells me to stop. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1803698/rotobooth.jpg" width="670" height="928" width_o="1317" height_o="1825" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1803698/rotobooth_o.jpg" data-mid="9169032" border="0" align="left"/> Tweet http://geekdown.com/Virginie-Sommet-Wearable-Tech http://geekdown.com/following/geekdown.com/Virginie-Sommet-Wearable-Tech Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:41:59 +0000 Geekdown - A splendid display of interactive art and wearable technology 1803226 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1803226/orig_tn_photo-19261-907118-1_5.png" width="670" height="578" width_o="670" height_o="578" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1803226/orig_tn_photo-19261-907118-1_5_o.png" data-mid="8897350" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1803226/orig_tn_photo-19261-545337.png" width="670" height="446" width_o="1000" height_o="667" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1803226/orig_tn_photo-19261-545337_o.png" data-mid="8896975" border="0" align="left"/> Virginie Sommet is a mid-career artist from Normandy, France.  She has been active in the New York City art scene for the past 10 years.  Her focus has been on creating found object sculptures that reflect her familiarity with a wide range of social issues.  Sommet is driven to visually tackle challenging topics that examine societal constraints. The focus is on matters that separate individuals related to gender and urban subcultures issues. She has three different work’s series : minorities, majority and meditation.  She is vigilant and dedicated in spreading awareness of these topics to mainstream viewers. In addition to her various exhibitions and Art Salons, her work is in private collections of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, President Nelson Mandela, and Susan Sarandon. Sommet was commissioned by the board of Action Against Hunger for 2004, 2005, and 2006. The World Food Day Gala takes place on November 15, 2006. This organization “recognizes individuals who have made major contributions in the fight against hunger”. Besides her high profile collectors, her work continues to be supported by Dr. Marvin Rotman of New York, j and Yolanda Torres Torres of Barcelona, Spain and many others. Tweet http://geekdown.com/Winslow-Porter-Shiver-Timbres http://geekdown.com/following/geekdown.com/Winslow-Porter-Shiver-Timbres Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:02:02 +0000 Geekdown - A splendid display of interactive art and wearable technology 1779166 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1779166/Winslow-Headshot.jpeg" width="670" height="496" width_o="670" height_o="496" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1779166/Winslow-Headshot_o.jpeg" data-mid="8897804" border="0" align="left"/> Photo by Jon Wasserman For Winslow, music is a family business. Winslow Turner Porter the first and Winslow Turner Porter the second were both DJs. The torch is passed from AM to FM and now to wicked gear emitting amorous beats with blinking lights. One of these devices is known as the Monome. Using said tools, Winslow enjoys wrapping environments with a bricolage of sonic textures. From Spaghetti Western samples to obese, warbling bass-lines. This is the first performance of Shiver Timbres in public. He has DJed with the likes of Premiere, DJ RNDM, Oskar Mann and DJ Johnny Cocco, and for clients such as Google, Le Bernardin, Henriot Champagne and hotelier Andre Balazs. Winslow Turner Porter III is a multimedia artist and creative technologist living in Brooklyn, NY. A recent graduate from NYU Tisch's ITP program, Winslow spends his time both working on independent creative projects as well as technology solutions/consulting for major corporations like Cisco, Diesel and Rayban. This is the 2nd GeekDown that Winslow has produced with the 92YTribeca. winslowporter.com Tweet http://geekdown.com/Eric-Mika-48x48 http://geekdown.com/following/geekdown.com/Eric-Mika-48x48 Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:01:43 +0000 Geekdown - A splendid display of interactive art and wearable technology 1803078 An interface to navigate every conceivable 48 x 48 pixel black and white image <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1803078/IMG_2590.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1803078/IMG_2590_o.JPG" data-mid="8895970" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1803078/IMG_2592.JPG" width="670" height="446" width_o="2048" height_o="1365" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1803078/IMG_2592_o.JPG" data-mid="8895975" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1803078/all-thumbs-screenshot.jpg" width="670" height="502" width_o="2048" height_o="1536" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1803078/all-thumbs-screenshot_o.jpg" data-mid="8897357" border="0" align="left"/> How Many? The number of possible combinations for a given digital image can be expressed generically as the bit depth to the power of the horizontal resolution times the vertical resolution. For example, in the case of 48 x 48: 248 x 48 = 37420536508921334323679997735383224592259288235 27575869347258443714776254479140165467924450143929 01437670132804379689208425068064465164426891989140 603055800951455984840239218669734903265728846772672 8117428485865736692545611669179323917560467904459270 00356524920076885506996906946291018833594893985323538 5655600614050799627402904169955617680686939217306230732 743306013312855692685442723231659949822010462888578091 0738325528561314203788407038536864455352430554627676799 4578056343155398682013472546705135384027001520126295584 78325898666410196815710163762797034751332975175420735 579177547095504869374548228464516322805504189109462625 639916992551384801878563823666616036219819816432121284 56085078016 possibilites, or about a trigintaducentillion. It would take about 9x10683 terabytes of disk space to store all of these possibilities. Tweet http://geekdown.com/Eric-Mika-VHS-Can-n-on http://geekdown.com/following/geekdown.com/Eric-Mika-VHS-Can-n-on Mon, 01 Aug 2011 01:01:42 +0000 Geekdown - A splendid display of interactive art and wearable technology 1802955 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1802955/canon.jpeg" width="670" height="720" width_o="670" height_o="720" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1802955/canon_o.jpeg" data-mid="8897935" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1802955/vhs-cannon-catalog-shot.jpg" width="670" height="279" width_o="2048" height_o="855" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1802955/vhs-cannon-catalog-shot_o.jpg" data-mid="8895167" border="0" align="left"/> Tweet http://geekdown.com/Jack-Kalish-and-Yonatan-Ben-Simhon-Illumination http://geekdown.com/following/geekdown.com/Jack-Kalish-and-Yonatan-Ben-Simhon-Illumination Sun, 31 Jul 2011 23:11:55 +0000 Geekdown - A splendid display of interactive art and wearable technology 1802999 Illumination is an interactive art installation that uses light to discover and reveal poetry within printed texts. Visitors are welcome to put any printed text down onto the clipboard. A pair of switches built into the clipboard detects when a text is placed down. The text is then photographed by a camera suspended from above. This image is downloaded to a computer and sent to an OCR (optical character recognition) script, which scans the page to find all the words and their positions on the page. This process typically takes 1-2 minutes depending on the quality of the image, lighting, font face and size, etc. The list of words found on the page is then sent to an artificial-intelligence algorithm that stores a statistical model of grammatical structures that has been derived from thousands of works of poetry and literature that it has read. This model is used to discover poetic structures within the new text that are statistically similar to what the program has been "inspired" by. As the poetry is being made, a projector that is suspended from above lights words on the page to reveal the poetry. <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1802999/DSC_6242.JPG" width="670" height="665" width_o="2048" height_o="2033" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1802999/DSC_6242_o.JPG" data-mid="8895227" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1802999/DSC_6218.jpg" width="670" height="628" width_o="2048" height_o="1921" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1802999/DSC_6218_o.jpg" data-mid="8895216" border="0" align="left"/> <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1802999/DSC_6093 2.jpg" width="670" height="370" width_o="2048" height_o="1133" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1802999/DSC_6093 2_o.jpg" data-mid="8895261" border="0" align="left"/> Jack Kalish is an interactive artist, designer, and programmer living in Brooklyn, NY. Yonatan Ben-Simhon is a computational biologist, textual algorithms designer and mail artist from Tel Aviv & Brooklyn Tweet http://geekdown.com/Sxip-Shirey-Live-Performance http://geekdown.com/following/geekdown.com/Sxip-Shirey-Live-Performance Sun, 31 Jul 2011 22:25:23 +0000 Geekdown - A splendid display of interactive art and wearable technology 1802833 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1802833/pressphoto.jpg" width="670" height="837" width_o="800" height_o="1000" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/4/134352/1802833/pressphoto_o.jpg" data-mid="8894680" border="0" align="left"/> Sxip Shirey is a composer and performer who lives in New York City. His music is beautiful, surprising, deep and will twist your head right around. Ecstatic melody, unimaginable sounds and deep sexy beats played Industrial Flutes, Bullhorn Harmonicas, Regurgitated Music Box, Triple Extended Pennywhistls, Miniature Hand Bell Choir, Obnoxiophone, Glass Bowls With Red Marbles, human beat box and a clutch of curious objects. Tweet