Unleashed GDS @ Watermans
Exhibition: Waterman Center in Brentford, London, Fri, 03 Sep 2010 10:00:00 BSTThe "Unleashed Devices" Exhibition will be held at the Waterman Center in Brentford, London, 3/09/2010--22/10/2010.
"Unleashed Devices" will bring together a large group of artists-hackers-designers and open source community people and will include works such as robot-drawing installations, interactive sculptures, modified toys and more . "Unleashed Devices" will be the main event of the nodeL Autumn Season (www.nodel.org). NodeL is London's Media Art Network and brings together many London art organisations. The V&A will also concurently hosts talks by participating artists.
Participating artists: Tint Arts (co-curators) The Owl Project, Hellicar & Lewis, Nanda K & Patrick T, Daniel Soltis @Tinker.it, John Nussey, Matthew Applegate @Pixelh8, Alex Zivanovic, Tine Bech, Neil Mendoza and Anthony Goh, Alex McLean and EunJoo-Shin, Ryan Jordan, Genetic, Moo Wajid Yaseen, Eduard Prats Molner and Marijana Mitrovic, Sophie McDonald @MzTEK, Mary Thompson, Peter Forde, Evan Raskob, Owen Bowden@Bulb Collective, Tom Schofield, Dave Griffiths, Stuart Dunbar, Anna Dumitriu, Megan Smith, Vincent Van Uffelen & Olga Panades, Andy Deck Jordan, Tate and Adam Tindale, Andrew Black, Thesia Machado, Daniel Ploeger.
Unleashed Devices includes strong representation from Goldsmiths Digital Studios practice based research students and alumni from the MFA in Computational Studio Arts, supporting each other and forming fresh collaborations.
These projects apply a special brand of artistic communication with science and technology, employing robotics, computer vision, phsyical modelling and formant audio synthesis, and psychedelic manipulation techniques, married with sculpture, interactivity, sound design and play.
This event will showcase the GDS potential for transdisciplinary experimentions to a wide audience in the context of a major public contemporary art exhibition dedicated to new practices.
Psychoid
By Ryan Jordan
Locating hallucinations in the brain; the psyche observing itself; cut-up reality. Psychoid uses home built, hacked up electronics and stroboscopic light to create a reality shifting installation.
Ryan Jordan is a UK based sound artist and electronic musician working with DIY punk electronics, physical performance, Pure Data, and noise. He runs noise=noise, a sporadic experimental noise media performance platform. He is Director of Area 10 MediaLab based in Peckham, London. He is an active member of London based open source collective, OpenLab; and has released music on underground labels such as Bad Sekta, Anithematica/CovenH, AntiGen, and Noiz Mutations.
Microphone
by Communications
http://comms.lurk.org/
Communications is a new collaboration founded by EunJoo Shin and Alex McLean. Microphone is their first work taking its debut at Unleashed Devices, and providing a means of oral, yet pre-linguistic communication. Mouthed vowels are transmitted across the gallery between participants, so that physical symbolic connections are felt between sound and movements of the mouth, free from lexical constructs.
Alex is a programmer, musician and software artist, performing widely as one third of the long running live coding acid-gabba-skiffle group slub. Alex is co-founder of the dorkbotlondon meetings of people doing strange things with electricity, the runme.org software art repository, and the TOPLAP organisation for the proliferation of live algorithm programming. His work in software art has been shown at the Arnolfini in Bristol and the Generator exhibition at Spacex in Exeter, and was awarded the Transmediale Software Art prize in 2002. http://yaxu.org
EunJoo Shin is an artist working across diverse disciplines, sculpture, design and sound. Her current interest is in audio-visual exploration of the natural functions of human physical activities. Her artworks have been featured in many venues, including FILE 2009 in Brazil, IF Museum Inner Spaces in Poland, Seoul Art Center and Redhead at Lower Manhattan Cultural Council in New York. Her work, Vocal Trio was selected as one of the best interactive designs in the design yearbook, CREATIO, published by the Korean Federation of Design Associations. http://ejoo.org
Ladies & Gents
by Nanda K & Patrick T
"Ladies & Gents" is a mechanical reactive installation, inspired by public lavatory graphic culture. It is intended to be a site-specific work playing on ideas of gender, morphology and symbolisation. The piece will be located at the toilet entrance area to capture the toilet's users physicality and draw it on the wall in a manner based on graffiti. To echo the ephemerality of graphic expression in public toilets, each drawing will be a unique trace of the individual physical presence erasing the previous ones. Supported by the Aikon project.
Nanda Khaorapapong (www.nandadoes.com). From Bangkok, moved to London in 2003, Nanda's reading and experimenting have involved aesthetics of body data, human-human interaction, human-machine symbiosis and analogue-digital actuators/sensors. Her current focus is on invisible sensing interface for human emotions. Graduated from MFA in Computational Studio Arts at Goldsmiths Univerity of London in 2009, she is entering a PhD program in Media and Arts Technology at Queen Mary Univerity of London in
September, 2010.
Patrick Tresset. From France, moved to London in 1991, Patrick's research and experimenting have involved perception, drawing, computing and robotics. His main aim is to design systems capable of imagining our reality. He is currently based at Goldsmiths
preparing a PhD in art and computational technologies. Where he co-directs the aikon project (www.aikon-gold.com). He graduated from MSc Arts Computing at Goldsmiths in 2006. Patrick is also web architect for Leonardo Electronic Almanac (http://www.leoalmanac.org).