What happened on UCreateChange.com (17-23 May 2010)
“Art imitates life; life imitates Art.”
The truthfulness of this palindrome is apparent now that technology has overlaid digital worlds upon our bricks-and-mortar realm.
For example, Augmented Reality lets us look through a mobile phone’s camera and see overlays (more in our Mobile apps for your life post). On the art front, the Japanese have create a live Twitter feed on an Augmented Reality building. By looking through your phone’s camera, you can see what its inhabitants are twittering about and shop advertisements.
That’s what we saw. But we heard…
…several German inventors modified a piano to speak text from the Proclamation of the European Environmental Criminal Court. This project was part of an art event in Palazzo Ducale (Venice). What they did was to map and match a child’s reading onto the piano scales to get this musical rendition of a very dry topic.
Sometimes art has purpose.
Like this project which aims to get people to use the stairs more. They turned a staircase into a piano that it tinkles whenever you step and riff on the keys. As the video shows, almost everyone used the staircase instead of the escalator. Now that’s success, ain’t it?
Why not sell art on E-bay?
That’s what Caleb Larsen’s art piece “A Tool to Deceive and Slaughter” does…automatically. The black block connects to the internet and asks for bids on E-bay. If there’s a successful bid, the block changes owners and re-bids itself after some time. The metaphysics are beyond us, but it’s a quirky way of using how art and technology can mesh and mingle.
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