Abstract: For my research paper I am going to focus on comparing Ken Rinaldo’s nature inspired pieces to Brian Knep’s scientific work. These artists are similar in the way that they are both working interactively, but with different mediums. Rinaldo’s focus on robotic and bio-art take his installations in a virtual world where the viewer is seamlessly merged with the mechanical forms. Knep on the other hand uses science and technology to create an embodied experience that is reactive and projected into a space. I plan on researching more about how these artists work and how technology has influenced them to work as new media artists.
Please enjoy reading my final paper, which can be seen here: JCaturano_Final
The Interactive Institute is a Swedish experimental media research institute that combines expertise in art, design, and technology to conduct research and innovation. They develop new research areas, concepts, and products to provide advice to corporations and public organizations. The Institute’s “Virtual Autopsy Table” is a unique medical visualization tool that allow people to explore the inside of a human being. With the help of an easy to use interface, the user can freely interact with the table.
Beijing based artist Wang Yuyang created this large-scale installation that suspends in between the trees in Xujiahui, China. This abstraction of the rarely seen moon in the Shanghai skies induces a kind of “artificial” natural and surprising experience for its audiences. Yuyang used energy-saving light bulbs to create a 13 foot sphere. Artificial Moon comments on the collision between the natural and the artificial, and how the timeless phenomena of the stars and the moon are becoming increasingly obscured by the light pollution in many cities.
Brian Knep is a new-media artist who uses science and technology to explore change, healing, struggle, and acceptance. Often his works are dynamic and respond to changes in their environment. He strives to create work that pulls people out of their daily experience into a new way of feeling, understanding and seeing the world. In his interactive installation, “Healing Pool,” Knep uses video cameras and projectors to create a glowing pool of organic patterns on the floor. Left alone, the patterns slowly pulsate and shift over the course of each day. When a person walks across the piece the patterns tear apart and rebuild themselves, but never exactly as before.
I just finished up the two week intensive Studio Investigations class with John Crowe. We began the class with speed dates, and eventually got married to a concept, material, or tool. Here are a few images from that class.
