Derek Frech: Secure Document

Derek Frech is an American artist working out of Brooklyn, New York. He is using encryption algorithms and technology to encrypt his own prints and animations, where the constructs and devices intended to provide security become the content. His work Secure Document exhibited at Actual Size Gallery in Los Angeles in the fall of 2014.

Here is a link to a part of Frech's works, a video from the exhibit. 

“Actual Size is pleased to present Secure Document, an exhibition of recent works by Derek Frech, curated by Park Myers. Secure Document consists of three main works in which Frech has established a lexicon of encryption using security measures and mechanisms of information protection. Each work as well as the exhibition in its entirety strips its original content to a point in which the constructs and devices intended to provide security become the content.

Secure Document is comprised of works that seize encryption technologies and alter them symbolically and materially. Works in the exhibition include Encrypted Documents, a series of layered prints in which an appropriated and reformed algorithm used for the encryption of visual information is applied to documents containing redacted information. Only a selection of the prints from this series will be on display, while the additional prints will be housed in a protective case in the gallery. Untitled, a screen-based animation, distorts information to a point of unintelligibility to address the cycles of abstraction that data must undergo in order to be communicated. Tamper Evident is created through a print and removal process on metal in which forms of residue and mark making become physical allusions to digital distortion.

The exhibition restructures the hierarchies of information transmission and reception to direct the viewer to the hidden mechanics of communication. Secure Document focuses on the issues of how supposed authenticated information is understood, and the invisible modifications, mediations and subsequent forms of reception that are involved in visual communication.” – Actual Size

Evan Roth: Pop Culture Hacktivist

"Evan Roth is an American artist based in Paris whose practice visualizes and archives culture through unintended uses of technologies. Creating prints, sculptures, videos and websites, his work explores the relationship between misuse and empowerment and the effect that philosophies from hacker communities can have when applied to digital and non-digital systems."

Roth's work is a part of the permanent collection of MoMA, and has been exhibited at many other important modern & contemporary art museums such as the Tate, Pompidou, and has received numerous awards.

Roth seems to be producing a lot of different work, using a plethora of different media. Some of his pieces are created using 'new media' but he also has quite a few pieces that are simply commentaries on today's culture of continuously discovering new technologies. His piece, A Tribute To Heather, is a series of ten websites created by Roth in order to pay homage to Heather, the creator and host of a website from the computers' early age in the 90s. The Museum of Moving Images in New York (who commissioned the piece) released a statement, "A Tribute to Heather consists of ten compositions created by embedding a single animated GIF in a website hundreds of times to produce a rich tapestry of color and motion. The URL of each composition serves as its title, describing the repeated animation and the background color. Because file load times vary every time a One Gif Composition website is accessed, each viewing is unique.

The animations in A Tribute to Heather were sourced from Heathers Animations, a sprawling hand-coded archive of 90s-era animated GIFs and background images operated by its elusive namesake, Heather. Founded in 1999, the site maintains the ethos of the early web, eschewing author attribution and copyright concerns to offer a wandering taxonomy of thousands of downloadable images."

All images from A Tribute To Heather (2013)

Roth's piece Level Cleared is a multi-touch painting series that consists of 300 iPhone-sized pieces of tracing paper, with inked finger swipes that are used in the iPhone's game, Angry Birds. According to the Science Gallery website, it is “a visualization of every finger swipe needed to complete the popular mobile game of the same name. The gestures are visualized on sheets of paper the same size as the iPhone the game was originally created for. Angry Birds is part of a larger series that Roth has been working on over the last year called Multi-Touch Paintings. These compositions are created by performing simple routine tasks on multi-touch handheld computing devices [ranging from unlocking the device to checking Twitter] with inked fingers. The series is a comment on computing and identity, but also creates an archive of this moment in history when we have started to manipulate pixels directly through gestures that we were unfamiliar with just over 5 years ago.”

All images from Level Cleared (2012)

Sound Art - Singing Ringing Tree

The Singing Ringing Tree is wind driven. Located in Lancashire England it was completed in 2006 by architects Mike Tonkin and Anna Liu.

 

 

LEONEL MOURA - Ears, Art , & Motion

[copied from website]  PRO (Painting Robots Orchestra)

PRO is constituted by a series of robots able to detect sound. Each robot is receptive to a different frequency that activates a painting device. The result is a work of art that physically “translates” the musical into the visual.
PRO originates from a partnership with OCP (Portuguese Chamber Orchestra) conducted by maestro Pedro Carneiro and had the collaboration of Tiago Caldeira

Motion Graphics Sampler

Just a taste!

10,000 Moving Cities - Real Time

Interactive net-based work that allows visitors to see in real time. Shown in Seoul Korea.

From Marc Lee's description:
Visitors can select any city or place, using a digital interface. About the chosen place, the Internet is searched in real time for latest text, image, video and sound informations. Four projectors and eight audio speakers project the results into the space. Visitors are able to walk through the model and experience the information in 3D.

Attracted and inspired by images and sounds, visitors explore the places and perceive fragments of the immense amount of data. Additionally audio and visuals constantly change, they are never the same, always in movement as the place as itself.

Just as all cities in the world are different, so different and alive appear the projections and sounds. Each new request creates always new representations of the real world as a combination of visitors and digital matrix.

User-generated content is the source of the audiovisual information not censored nor chosen by a certain community, rather produced by the public including visitors maybe. Each request enables us to join and actively participate in the social movements of our time.

Michael Demers - Hacktivism

Michael Demers created web-based Color Field Paintings in 2009. The website visitor selects browser windows that are randomly assigned color.

 

According to Demers:

 

 

I am interested in how the things we do, the ways in which we occupy our time, affects our place in the world and the ways in which we move through time and space. It is the ephemera that I find fascinating — the toys and stories, collections, habits, hopes and beliefs, and the vestiges of those experiences that linger in the ether, that define us both personally and culturally...