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Sound: The Blaster by Nixon
Best known for their bold time pieces, Nixon’s wireless speaker called “The Blaster” is one solid piece of sonic engineering. It’s rugged design is shock resistant, water resistant and will play for 12 continuous hours with precision tuned acoustics. Operating over bluetooth, the speaker can also double as a speaker phone when you have to […]
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Onishi Yasuaki: Vertical Emptiness and White Landscape
His installations are created using tree branches or wire, hot glue and urea. While his installations are neutral they are colored with imagination. These large spaces are activated by participants who are displaced from reality and take a journey into an alternative world. Installation Magazine: Why did you start using tree branches and […]
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Chie Yamayoshi Captures Ephemeral Eternity
Following the earthquake and tsunami that devastated Japan in 2011, artist Chie Yamayoshi looked to the annual blooming of the Japanese Cherry Blossom as a source of inspiration and renewal. An incredibly rare and transient event, Yamayoshi layers artificiality with the natural world by replicating the blooming through an 8-channel projection. Immersed within the installation […]
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Robert Seidel’s Advection
Installation first presented the work titled Tearing Shadows created by experimental film, video projection and installation artist Robert Seidel in Issue 09. The artist is debuting his latest work Advection in our digital pages. The two-channel video projected on a water fountain was commissioned by the 4th Lichtsicht Biennale in Bad Rothenfelde, Germany. The installation opened September 27th and will be […]
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Alexander Chen’s Algorithmic Compositions
As the Creative Director for Google Creative Lab in New York, Alexander Chen develops lucid, multi-media experiences that transform two dimensional surfaces into musical activations. As a musician himself, Chen applies complex codes and compositions on an interface that can be enjoyed on the most popular search engine – Google. Conductor (2011) turns the New York […]
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Gregory Siff for Helmut Lang and Project Angel Food
Using the city as a canvas, Siff painted against the Melrose street sign, the Marc Jacobs advertisement in the distance, the palm trees that lined the Hollywood hills and the bodies of pedestrians whose figures reflected in the glass. Working behind his Ray Ban frames and rocking to the beat in his headphones, Siff began […]