in my traversing, climbing, descending into and running around the ‘net i come across many sites belonging to artists that i think are worth visiting and so with no further ado i’d like to provide you with a few places to visit . . . .
daniel everett photographs scenes that any big-city dweller (and i am happily no longer one of them) would be familiar with. his images are gathered into four galleries: departure, disconnect, empty city, and untitled. “departure” captures some very sterile scenes that find their life in the utilitarian application of colour to machinery or elements of infrastructure that you might otherwise overlook. suddenly as the only source of colour they take on more value. in a sense they bring the scene “to life”.
for more of daniel’s work visit here.
much of john powers’ work dances in that space between the industrial and the artistic-magical. incorporating materials like anodized aluminum and styrofoam, powers draws the artistic elements out of the industrial.
i really like john’s drawings:
for more of his work here’s his website.
phillip beesley works out of waterloo, ontario. on the surface, an architect, underneath the surface plays an extraordinary artist using cutting edge technology to create “living” structures. his work is at once art and postulation; suggestions for how buildings could be built and what they could be comprised of. in that sense, his art is as much laboratory as it is expression.
“implant matrix is an interactive geotextile that could be used for reinforcing landscapes and buildings of the future. implant matrix is composed of interlinking filtering ‘pore’ within a lightweight structural system. primitive interactive systems employ capacitance sensors, shape-memory alloy wire actuators and distributed microprocessors. the matrix is fabricated by laser cutting direct from digital models.” (excerpted from beesley’s website.
here are three images from his matrix implant installation . . .
his latest work is entitled “hylozoic soil”. curious about the word hylozoic? so was i, and this is what i came up with.... hylozoic soil can be seen here being installed at the montreal museum of fine arts.
here’s the annotation for this film:
“components that respond to occupants' movement within the environment. the microprocessor-controlled system includes arduino hardware extended by new control boards, shape-memory alloy actuators and space sensors arranged in a distributed interactive system. lightweight lattice and geodesic organizations form a structural core, employing digitally fabricated lightweight scaffolds that house distributed networks of sensors and actuators. the structures are designed at multiple scales including custom components, intermediate tessellations composed of component arrays, and general structural systems.”
when i see beesley’s work i’m drawn to think of writers like william gibson who also think somewhere in that lovely space where the science that is becoming part of our everyday experiencing is combined with the artistic sensibilities of a person able to link the higher and lower order mapping of an object.
to see much, much more of beesley’s amazing work visit him here.
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