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1. Displacements / Displacements 2005 Displacements is an immersive film installation. An archetypal Americana living room was installed in an exhibition space. Then two performers were filmed in the space using a 16mm motion picture camera on a slowly rotating turntable in the room’s center. After filming, the camera was replaced with a film loop projector and the entire contents of the room were spray-painted white. The reason was to make a projection screen the right shape for projecting everything back onto itself. The result was that everything appears strikingly 3D, except for the people, who of course weren’t spray-paint white, and consequently appeared very ghostlike and unreal. Displacements was produced three times between 1980 and 1984. By the third time, at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 1984, it was done. Twenty-one years later, in 2005, my long-time friend and colleague Brenda Laurel cajoled me into a redux. The young couple in the original living room are now middle age with a teenage daughter. Mom is still pensive, Dad still watches TV, and the daugther is curious. Displacements 2005 was shot and projected in digital video rather than 16mm film, which, it turns out, was much more challenging. Displacements - Michael Naimark from today and tomorrow on Vimeo. See also: "Two Unusual Projection Spaces" Presence journal, Special Issue on Projection, MIT Press, 14.5, October 2005. "Spatial Correspondence in Motion Picture Display" SPIE Proceedings, vol. 462, Optics and Entertainment, Los Angeles, 1984 Exhibitions Naimark 1977-1997 Exhibition, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, 2005 "Displacements," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1984 "Movie Room," Center for Advanced Visual Studies, M.I.T., 1980 "Beyond Object," Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, 1980 Original Credits Concept and Production: Michael Naimark Special Advisors: Patty Graves and Bob Armstrong Performers: Madelyn Morton and JC Garrett Photography: Scott Fisher Supported by the MIT Council for the Arts, the NEA Media Arts Fellowships, the Society for the Encouragement of Contemporary Arts of the SF MOMA, and Austin Conckey. 2005 Credits Thanks to Stephen Nowlin, Julian Goldwhite, Peter Lunenfeld, Nikolaus Hafermaas, and Nate Young; Peter Di Sabatino, Brenda Laurel, and Katelyn McDougle; Matthew Biederman, Bernie Lubell, Matt McKissick, and Ludmil Trenkov; and Mark Bolas, Paul Debevec, and special thanks to Perry Hoberman via Dembot

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   10 South Street, New York, NY (Map) 31 May – 10 August 2008 Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Noon – 6PM (Free) Opening Reception: 31 May, 6–8 PM [Download press release] Creative Time Presents Playing the Building: An Installation by David Byrne

   Playing the building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.

   via David Byrne

   hat tip Quipsologies

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10 South Street, New York, NY (Map)
31 May – 10 August 2008
Open Friday, Saturday, Sunday: Noon – 6PM (Free)
Opening Reception: 31 May, 6–8 PM [Download press release]

Creative Time Presents Playing the Building: An Installation by David Byrne

Playing the building is a sound installation in which the infrastructure, the physical plant of the building, is converted into a giant musical instrument. Devices are attached to the building structure — to the metal beams and pillars, the heating pipes, the water pipes — and are used to make these things produce sound. The activations are of three types: wind, vibration, striking. The devices do not produce sound themselves, but they cause the building elements to vibrate, resonate and oscillate so that the building itself becomes a very large musical instrument.

via David Byrne

hat tip Quipsologies

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3. Fold Loud by JooYoun Paek is a (de)constructing musical play interface that uses origami paper-folding techniques and ritualistic Taoist principles to give users a sense of slow, soothing relaxation. Fold Loud interconnects ancient traditions and modern technology by combining origami, vocal sound and interactive techniques. Unlike mainstream technology intended for fast-paced life, Fold Loud is healing, recovering and balancing. Playing Fold Loud involves folding origami shapes to create soothing harmonic vocal sounds. Each fold is assigned to a different human vocal sound so that combinations of folds create harmonies. via JooYoun Paek | hat tip Swiss Miss

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Rather than a conventional opening bridge mechanism, consisting of a single rigid element that lifts to let boats pass, the Rolling Bridge gets out of the way by curling up until its two ends touch. While in its horizontal position, the bridge is a normal, inconspicuous steel and timber footbridge; fully open, it forms a circle on one bank of the water that bears little resemblance to its former self. Twelve metres long, the bridge is made in eight steel and timber sections, and is made to curl by hydraulic rams set into the handrail between each section.

The Rolling Bridge won the 2005 British Structural Steel Award.

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1. One of your remarkable discoveries is that water responds to words, whether they are spoken, written, or even thought, as in prayer. Kind, uplifting words tend to produce beautifully shaped water crystals, while angry discordant expressions have produced warped crystals. via HADO | Interview with Dr. Emoto

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