Hasta La Motion!

Over the last year or so, we’ve seen a lot projects involving the projection of video onto architectural structures. The most interesting of these are films that actually take the contours of the building into account, creating perceptual tricks of scale and encouraging viewers to think of the buildings as malleable structures.

To get the full effect, it helps to think about the experience of being a visitor to one of these structures—rather than simply viewing them as web video. Go full-screen, if you can.

555 KUBIK

Ubranscreen teamed up with art director Daniel Rossa to create whimsical deconstructions of the Hamburg Kunsthalle.

Tetragram for Enlargment

Collective Apparati Effimeri took a minimal approach to their projection on the Malatesta Castle Verucchio.

EasyWeb Building Projection Reel

French studio EasyWeb shows off three years of their playful interaction with architectural forms.

Mint Plaza

Obscura Digital was commissioned by McAfee to liven up Mint Plaza in downtown San Fransisco.

Phyletic Museum

Robert Seidel applies his unique approach to abstract CG imagery to the Phyletic Museum in Germany.

Puma “Lift”

Dreamed up by agency Droga5 for Puma, “Lift” turns the model inside-out, creating a dynamic performance space.

Quadrature

More minimal animation in this a/v performance by Alican Aktürk and Refik Anadol, a.k.a. Griduo.

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Zevs got nabbed in Hong Kong while throwing up a drippy droppy “liquidated” Chanel logo on the Armani store in preparation for his first solo show in Hong Kong. By staking his claim in the “brand war” he really pissed off Armani and is getting sued for HK$6.7 million. The flip side is maybe we can expect his show to sell out???

Mark Gonzales will be showing a new body of work at the Half Gallery tonight, entitled “Southwest”. If we had to guess, there might be some real pain for his sham friends and some sham pain for his real friends but then again….there could be no champagne for anyone, so who knows???? Either way, it will be packed to the gills and what is more fun then a 9,000 degree mid-summer art opening?

A collaboration between Soulwax, Fergadelic, and Riton has yielded the audio/visual/galactic space project that is: DIE VERBOTEN, a krautrock influenced musical experience that comes with some pretty complex record sleeve origami created by Fergadelic. A DVD will be released at a later date but for now you can order up some heavy vinyl, wear your kaftan, and head to the white hot Ibiza sand of your mind.

Adam Kimmel’s lookbook for Fall / Winter 2009 puts Factory alum Gerard Malanga behind the lens to recreate Warhol’s famously awkward screentests from so many decades ago. Stacked from top to bottom with familiar and talented faces, all methods of artistic expression get screentime as Kunle Martins, Matthew Barney, Francesco Clemente, and Glenn O’Brien – to name a few – sit on the hot seat in heavily shadowed awkwardness. Oh yeah, and the clothes are pretty awesome too. Check em out HERE.