Floating Mountaintop Castle by Ahmet Ogut
For the Belgian Art Festival TRACK in Ghent, Ahmet recreated the town’s historic public arts compelx on a giant, inflatable floating rock in homage to ”La Chateau des Pyrenees” by Rene Magritte.
Artist: website (via: designboom)
“Ice Angel” (2012) is an interactive artwork providing the participants a glimpse of themselves depicted in angelic form. Inspired by the way children create snow angels in fresh snow, Ice Angels introduces the digital twist of being a performance portrait device that pairs the participant to their angel identity.
Ice Angel combines human performance and emotion within the surreal construct of an interactive artwork. It is experienced through the participation of the viewer who adopts the role of performer. Through this role reversal a curious thing happens in which the viewer is now the subject of a living portrait, with their hidden “angel” revealed for all to see.
As the user moves their arms a new wing shape appears, unfurling from the shoulders, creating the angel traces within virtual snow. The wings are created dynamically and are linked to the participant, creating a performance proportional to the user’s physical extents. The artwork has a ‘memory’, capturing a hidden view of the participant and their angel wings, and this specific angel identity remains linked to that participant in any future encounters with the artwork.Artwork by Dominic Harris;
Designed and produced by Cinimod Studio.
(Fuente: collectiveisolation)
Reconfigured Grid Painting nº 9, 2011. Acrylic on canvas.
Reconfigured Grid Painting nº 15, 2011. Acrylic on canvas.
Stunning Pour Paintings by Holton Rower [VIDEO]
Head on over to The Hole in New York right now (until May 26) and you’ll be able to experience an amazingly colorful exhibit by Holton Rower. The first New York solo exhibition for the artist, “Pour Paintings” is just that, they’re paintings created by carefully pouring paint over plywood. The result is incredible color combinations that are stunningly psychedelic. Make sure to watch the video at the end of this post to see how this type of beautiful art form takes shape.
[Via mymodernmet]
Photos via [The Hole] and [Scott Lynch]

