Video — 483 Lines by Seoul-Based Studio Kimchi and Chips

fantastic light and space installation created using 483 lines of nylon string. m.

for the exhibition moment to moment, the jeju museum of art commissioned seoul-based studio kimchi and chips to create a new iteration of their previous work ‘line segments space’. the museum’s specific architectural traits, including a panorama of reflective floors and square concrete apertures, demanded a reconsideration of the original work, leading artists elliot woods and mimi son to realize ‘483 lines’.

prior to the digital video revolution, analogue broadcasts constructed living imagery using the NTSC standard. this system generates a moving picture frame as 483 lines of modulated light, stacked from the top to the bottom of a television screen.

within the museum, ‘483 lines’ magnifies the video picture at a scale of 16 meters wide, folding it several times to fit vertically into the gallery space. this layered reinterpretation allows oscillations of depth, which are activated by ‘tuning’ the projected video to match these waves. the team describes, ‘the strictly organized lines can be illusionary, creating a confusing architecture of horizons, whilst the video played through it displays a parallel past, present and future.’

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Video — Light Barrier by Kimchi and Chips.

stellar work by the creative duo! m.

The Light Barrier series by studio Kimchi and Chips create volumetric drawings in the air using hundreds of calibrated #video projections. These light projections merge in a field of fog to create graphic objects that animate through physical space as they do in time.
The installations present a semi-material mode of existence, materializing objects from light. The third edition continues to exploit the confusion and non-conformities at the boundary between materials and non-materials, reality and illusion, and existence and absence. The viewer is presented with a surreal vision that advances the human instinct of duration and space. The name refers to the light barrier in relativistic physics, which separates things that are material from things that are light, and since 1983 has been used to specify the exact meaning of the metric system of spatial measure.
The 6-minute sequence employs the motif of the circle to travel through themes of birth, death, and rebirth, helping shift the audience into the new mode of existence. The artists use the circle often in their works to evoke the fundamentals of materials and the external connection between life and death.
The artists are interested in how impressionist painters were inspired by the introduction of photography to create ‘viewer-less images’. The #installation allows images to arise from the canvas, creating painting outside of perspective. It is a direct approach to the artists’ theme of ‘drawing in the air’.
In this third edition, 8 architectural video projectors are split into 630 sub-projectors using an apparatus of concave mirrors designed by artificial nature. Each mirror and its backing structure are computationally generated to create a group that collaborates to form the single image in the air. By measuring the path of each of the 16,000,000 pixel beams individually, light beams can be calibrated to merge in the haze to draw in the air. 40 channels of audio are then used to build a field of sound which solidifies the projected phenomena in the audience’s senses.
Artists : Kimchi and Chips (Mimi Son, Elliot Woods)
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Engineering : Chung Youngjae, Studio Sungshin
Sound design : Pi Junghoon
Production team : Lee Soyoung, Yang Yoona, Yoh Donghoo, James G Jackson, Yi Donghoon,
In collaboration with Arts & Creative Technology Center, ACC

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Viks Carbon: Carbon Fiber Bicycle by Velonia Bicycles

killer design — i want one! m.

to celebrate its second year, velonia bicycles created the ‘viks carbon’, a much lighter version of the original. they built the carbon fiber frame with all riders in mind who are constantly looking for the latest and edgiest technologies. the frameset weighs four kilograms compared to the standard stainless steel seven kilograms. the ‘viks carbon’ in its complete configuration, equipped with gates carbon belt drive and aerospoke wheelset.

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Video — Elements: An Experimental Art Film by Maxim Zhestkov

beautiful work by the russian artist. m.

Elements, an experimental art film by Maxim Zhestkov, follows more than two billion black and white spheres through a series of experiments within several enclosed spaces. Throughout the film the particles swarm through different white rooms, each labeled with subtle wall text that broadly defines the physics of each animation such as flow, diffusion, and pressure. Set to a score of hauntingly hollow tones, Elements is intended to express laws of nature and mathematics, visually representing the composition of particles found in each of us.

“The film is a trial to explore the idea that everything around us and inside us is made from simple elements or blocks which can be arranged in complex relationships and become compound structures,” says Zhestkov. “We could project this idea into emotions, behaviors, thought processes, relationships, life, planets and the universe.”

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Video — Flemish-Dutch Literature Pavilion by The Cloud Collective

simply stunning especially the wall with mapped video — love it! m.

this october, flanders & the netherlands hosted the guest of honour pavilion for the frankfurter buchmesse. the studios CIVIC & MATTERS of the cloud collective were selected to design and execute the focal point of the event: a central literature salon.

the pavilion celebrates authors and literature foremost, but cultural context and cross-over arts are also given a podium. functions in the pavilion exceed the book alone, and are grouped around the concept of ‘the narrative’ in a broader sense. there are theatre and debate spaces, several exhibitions, a graphic studio, virtual reality spaces, a bookshop, café and salon all coming together under the 2,300 meter squared pavilion.

the cloud collective’s design features semi-transparent plastic sheets, simply stacked to create a variety of walls and volumes. a temporary and low cost material, the plastic towers suggest a number of different routes through the space, offering a powerful sensory experience. close inspection or passive observance of the volumes creates a kaleidoscopic effect of light and matter. clever engineering on the part of the cloud collective made sure that once the frankfurter buchmesse has concluded the walls are all completely demountable and reusable.

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