#art and engineering
7E Guest Artist - Yann Seznec
Our engineering/art blog started summer of 2013 that focused on our passion and profession; art, music, technology and electronics. What started out as intimate projects that revealed our relationship/marriage has now flourished to wide variety of guest artists from all over the world.
Yann Seznec is an artist, musician and founder of Lucky Frame based in Edinburgh, Scotland. His work focuses on sound, music, physical interaction, games, and instruments.
His recent work top to bottom:
Currents is a project that is both installation and performance. It consists of 172 computerized fans of varying sizes. The fans access weather data from 6 varying global locations and recreates wind patterns for the visitor.
Spores is an installation that shines laser underneath mushrooms to clearly highlight thousands of glistening spores.
Cigar box MiDI Controller is a playful project that includes 6 potentiometers, 6 buttons, 3 toggle switches, a Gametrak string controller, and a breakout board for five capacitive touch note switches.
Thank you Yann for joining 7E!
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7E Studio Guest - Kimchee and Chips
Kimchee and Chips, is a collaborative art studio based in Seoul founded by Elliot Woods (UK) and Mimi Son (S. Korea). Their works combines technical media and/or primitive materials to create interactive exhibits. They use disciplines of visual technology such as projectors, cameras, graphical computation as well as utilizing code with traditional art materials.
“Light Barrier” (2014) is a light installation consisting of convex mirrors and light to create projection of floating graphical/animating objects.
“Line Segments Space” (2013) is a spectacular light and sound installation using projection, nylon string and code. It very much resonates with works from our past 7E featured artist Jeongmoon Choi.
“Lunar Surface” (2014) is a projection image created by a vertical flag of fabric moving in wind, displaced by curves of air pressure, swinging back and forth. “As it sweeps, it extrudes a trail of light which draws a moon floating in space. The flag renders this moon from another reality, the silk surface acts as a boundary between 2 realities, intermediating the laws of the 2 realms.”
Photos do not do justice. Be sure to watch the videos. I’m loving the wordplay on their name. Sounds pretty tasty actually.
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7E Guest Artist - Julien Leonard
Julien Leonard is a generative artist and software programmer trained in computer science and artificial intelligence. His work consists of pre-defined patterns of adjacent dots or bubbles created from code. Similar to the Pointillism technique developed during the Impressionism era in the late 1800s, his work consists of dots that form an image created from computer script. His work reflect patterns of nature like that of sea creatures or underwater plants.
For those who may be slightly trypophobic as I am, don’t worry. HIs intricate work only produces a sense of awe. Be sure to check out his interactive work on his site.
-Jinna
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You’re nervous. Relax.
Big changes are in the horizon. We’re looking forward to announcing soon. In the meantime, I’m doing my best by filtering the good vibes from all the noise in this world.
Here’s a late summer playlist I created. It consists of down-tempo trip-hop, funk, electronica, rap, etc. Smooooth and chill.
Above: Dâm Funk - a modern funk supreme. Love him.
-Jinna
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7E Guest Director - Scott Snibbe
REWORK_ is an app album that features 11 interactive music visualizers of remixed works inspired by Philip Glass.
Theapp features interactive audiovisual remixes by critically acclaimed musicians including Beck, Tyondai Braxton, Amon Tobin, Cornelius, Dan Deacon, Johann Johannsson, Nosaj Thing, Memory Tapes, Silver Alert, My Great Ghost, and Peter Broderick.
“In addition to the visualizers, the app includes the “Glass Machine” which lets people create music inspired by Philip Glass’ early work by simply sliding two discs around side-by-side, almost like turntables. People can select different instruments – from synthesizer to piano, and generate polyrhythmic counterpoints between the two melodies.”
The app was directed by Scott Snibbe, produced by Ahna Girshick, and engineered by Graham McDermott, with music visualizer programming and design by software artist David Wicks.
Thank you Scott for joining 7E!
-Jinna
Be sure to check out the video of Philip Glass playing with REWORK_ on the iPad:
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7E Guest Artist - Todd Mclellan
Things Come Apart is a collection of photographs by Todd Mclellan who captures the dismantling of mechanical and electronic objects of past and present. Disassembled objects are intricately arranged in a grid-like fashion or photographed in spectacular explosion.
The engineering and craftsmanship of products are captured in a state of order and disarray. Capturing components laid out in meticulous order allows the viewer to appreciate the enormous design and engineering effort applied to even “ordinary” products.
Check out his slow motion video:
Apart PianofromTodd McLellan Motion/Stills Inc.onVimeo.
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Motion Artist Marco Bagni Joins 7E
Italian Motion Designer, Marco resides in Berlin, a.k.a. Lost Conversation. As a commercial artist, he focuses on infographics, storytelling, UI/UX and Direction.
Chasing Space is a an abstract animation investigating the Universe and the connection to life. He quotes the philosopher Alan Watts saying,”So we have this process, called life. It’s aware of itself, it’s aware of itself through you; you are an instrument through which the Universe looks at itself. And because of this there is always an aspect of itself that it can’t see. Like a snake pursuing his own tale. That’s what we find as we investigate the Universe: Make the microscope bigger and bigger, and we will find ever more minute things; Make the telescope bigger and bigger, and the Universe expands, because it’s running away from itself; It won’t do that if you don’t chase it!”
Watch the full animation here.
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7E Guest Artist - Daniel Palacios
Daniel Palacios is a multimedia artist with a Masters degree in Art and Technology from Cordoba, Spain. He creates machines that stir questions about perception, memory, moments, time and space. When I discovered his installation called Waves, I was enamored by it’s intrinsic beauty which reminds me of audio or ocean waves. Two machines are programmed to hold long pieces of rope and create unique movements reacting to it’s environment.
“The installation is affected by those who watch it. When the audience moves around it they influence the movements of the rope, generating visual and acoustic sound waves from harmonic patterns to complex ones. Depending on how we may act in front of it, according to the number of observers and their movements, it will pass from a steady line without sound to chaotic shapes of irregular sounds (the more movement there is around the installation) through the different phases of sinusoidal waves and harmonic sounds; examining the action-reaction principle applied to sound and space.”
Watch his vimeo.
-7E
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