The Musée de l'Elysée has teamed up with EPFL for an exhibition on the revolution of amateur photography due to digital technologies.

Core of the exhibition is a flux of images collected on the exhibition's website. Everybody can upload his photographs, each of which will be displayed for 5 seconds in the exhibition.

An interesting point is that all the images will be stored at EPFL's Audio-Visual Communications Lab in order to consitute the biggest image database available for scientific purposes to date.

INFERNOPTIX / DIGITAL PYROTECHNIC MATRIX



http://www.infernoptix.com

High resolution showreel video

Low resolution showreel video

Film

Projet

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"Diapositives" 1995-1998

By directly projecting a three dimensional object, mechanism in order to obtain a picture, this work (mechanisms in slide-form, or "Diapositives"), is experimenting with a different kind of cinema.
The presence of objects and elements in the slide creates its own live action. The spectator shuttles constantly between his view of the projected object and his supposition of what is really contained in the projector.
The image projected is by definition weightless. By introducing real elements I am attempting to give it a particular physical consistency.
This first work with slides is presented during a thirty minutes projection-performance which includes about twenty devices. Each "Slide" describe a very short story and the projection (with an adapted slide projector) juxtaposing them in an experimental production.
The following work "Demi-pas" is more recent and develop the concept of " inverted camera ": a computer assisted slide projector which is able to produce a "film".

Voici quelques liens pour découvrir le travail d'Andreas Gysin, intervenant invité cette semaine à l'école.

Here are some links to discover the work of Andreas Gysin, visiting professor this week at school

http://www.ertdfgcvb.ch/
http://www.gysin-vanetti.com/

Quelques travaux intéressant de l'artiste Frank Fietzek / Berlin

link to the website

et lien spécial pour Gabriel:
blind Robot

Mindball is an experience product, a game where two players control a ball with their brain waves. The player being most relaxed wins the game. The brain waves are detected by sensors attached to the headbands. The sensors (electrodes) are connected to a biosensor system. The biosensor system, registers the electrical activity in the brain so called EEG. The brain waves increasing the chance to win Mindball are called Alpha- and Theta waves. They occur when we are calm and relaxed. The players brain activity is shown in a diagram on the monitor. The player being most relaxed makes the ball roll over to the opponents goal, with his brain waves as only aid, and thereby wins the game. The outcome of the game is seldom straightforward as the transition from calm to excitement and vice versa goes very quickly. Mindball is an exciting and audience friendly game where the audience can follow the game both by watching the ball on the table and the diagram on the monitor as well as watching the more or less relaxed faces of the players. The product Mindball originates from the prototype Brainball which is developed by the Smart Studio at The Interactive Institute.


The Mindball versions:



Interactive Productline AB

A glasgow, des installations de Sandy Smith qui rappellent un peu celles réalisées par l'arte povera de la fin des années 60 (je pense surtout à Mario Merz: construction d'igloos, de fagots, de tas, d'arches, ... en matériaux pauvres), mais ici avec des ordinateurs récupérés. Ou comment expérimenter le potentiel constructif et intéractif ou encore auto-interactif des ordinateurs et écrans.
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ComputersForArts.org est aussi une association récupérant de vieux ordinateurs.
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Quelques projets ici

By Stuart Wood and Florian Ortkrass



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Universal Digest Machine
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Installation de Marius Watz à propos du 'netspace' et de ses 'webspiders'. Le projet l'amène à des constats intéressants à propos de certaines configurations de liens.