Maskinstorm blog

Game art arcade

Thomas Petersen — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:26:00 +0000

Here are a few photos from Maskinstorm's first exhibition project, which focused on experimental, artistic, modified and political game art works. It took place in the limestone mines of Thingbæk as a part of the digital art festival MINE 06. More info and more photos at: http://www.maskinstorm.org/projects/mine.htm .

(Photos: Thomas Petersen)

Tree of Light

kristine@nohalo.dk (Kristine Ploug) — Wed, 14 Sep 2005 12:57:00 +0000

This tree is projected onto various facades and move in the wind according to the actual wind. When someone passes a leaf falls off and 'is dropped' on a location near by.
The work is done by Simon Heijdens (NL). Read more here:
http://www.simonheijdens.com/info/tree-simonheijdens.pdf

Meso: Lightstrive

Thomas Petersen — Wed, 05 Oct 2005 12:43:00 +0000

Sebastian Oschatz from the German design bureau/artist group Meso showed this project as a part of his presentation at the Generator.x conference in Oslo. Basically this installation is an augmented facade, where the audience can play with a virtual light source, which supplements the original architecture in a somewhat discrete but magical way. The project was made in connection to the Olympics in Athens 2004 and was created with the Meso's own programming environment vvvv. Check out the documentation at: http://vvvv.meso.net/tiki-index.php?page=Lightstrive and be sure to watch the video clips.

Digital Landscapes

Thomas Petersen — Wed, 16 Nov 2005 19:45:00 +0000

I am a big fan of the landscape image interpreted through digital media. This has been a focal point of my own work and I've also been rummaging the net to explore the genre. Here are a couple of great examples:

Susan Alexis Collins: Fenlandia
Web cams slowly harvest pixels from various countryside locations. As the days and nights progress, the image records multiple layers of time in one image. http://www.susan-collins.net/fenlandia

Cory Arcangel: Clouds
A hack of the Mario Brothers Cartridge removing all elements but the drifting clouds. There is something wonderfully meaningless about the process of eliminating all functional elements from a game and revealing the simple beauty of pixilated clouds. http://www.beigerecords.com/cory/21c/21c.html

Whispering Garden

kristine@nohalo.dk (Kristine Ploug) — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 14:25:00 +0000

This work by Lars Spuybroek and Edwin van der Heide looks pretty cool. We-Make-money-not-art.com writes:
"Whispering Garden is a synaesthetic node, short-circuiting all elements and forces that are present: connecting the wind to light, light to structure, structure to sound, sound to architecture, architecture to bodies, looping all the loops, making everything sensing everything, making everything sensuous. "

More pics here: http://www.designws.com/pagina/1spuybroekrdam.htm

Virtual Tennis

kristine@nohalo.dk (Kristine Ploug) — Wed, 07 Sep 2005 18:41:00 +0000

Dirk Eijsbouts' (NL) virtual tennis player mixes the physical and the digital. The piece won Honorary Mention in the Interactive Art category of this year's Ars Electronica. On this pic Maskinstorm is doing live surveying in Linz Sep 2005.

Smoke tree 2006

tatiana — Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:48:00 +0000

Maybe we could use this project in the exhibition : "Still Nature"?

"Smoke tree" - A virtual sculpture : www.johngerrad.net

Update from Maskinstorm

kristine@nohalo.dk (Kristine Ploug) — Sun, 28 May 2006 12:58:00 +0000

After a joint inspirational trip to Ars Electronica, after many interesting meetings, after lots of discussion. After all that, Maskinstorm has created its first project as a group. This is so exiting ...

It is an exhibition encompassing everything that we stand for, and we are so looking forward to telling everyone about it.
However, right now we are in the process of applying for funding, looking for the perfect location, etc., so we can't say anything yet. But we will be back with more news.

SPORE 1.1 - by Swamp (Doug Easterly & Matt Kenyon)

Thomas Petersen — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 14:32:00 +0000

A market-driven, self-sustaining ecosystem for a rubber tree plant. The life of the plant is in the hands of the home improvement company Home Depot. In tune with the condition of the company's stocks, the plant is watered accordingly. If the company does well, so does the plant. If not, it might die. The whole setup is controlled by a computer, which checks the stocks once in a while (wireless).
http://swamp.nu/projects/spore1.html

Wooden Mirror

Sonja Thomsen — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 09:53:00 +0000

Wooden
Mirror

by Daniel Rozin

Instead of pixels on a screen Rozin uses small blocks of wood

Border patrol by David Roke...

Sonja Thomsen — Sun, 28 Aug 2005 09:00:00 +0000

Border
patrol

by David Rokeby and Paul Garrin

Scary installation imitating a border that you can't help getting
too close to. On screens you see cameras seeking to aim at your head and
body. When the target is found shots are heard.