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Interactive architecture, light mapping, and digital technology.

more of their work on the seeper website

super super slow posting this. saw it a while back but totally forgots to post it.

from the official Stages wesbite:

Lance Armstrong and Nike unite to launch STAGES, a global art exhibition to raise funds and awareness for the fight against cancer.

Over twenty renowned artists have donated their time and creativity to express the LIVESTRONG message and raise funds for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, which is committed to inspiring and empowering people affected by cancer.

STAGES is more than an event. It is a unique celebration of human potential inspired by Lance and dedicated to the fight against cancer.

It unites the world of art, philanthropy, and sport by bringing together some of the most renowned figures in art to produce work inspired by Lance and his fight against cancer. All work is available for purchase with proceeds directly benefiting the Lance Armstrong Foundation. Join the fight. LIVESTRONG.

Take a trip around London & bring a story to life with your photos, exploring the local streets, finding your own inspiration, oh, and you can win prizes.

There’s lots of great interactive theatre going on at the moment. An interesting Brecthian shift for audiences, breaking the 4th Wall, but perhaps important as it taps in to the desire for greater engagement and experiences – which is increasing as the economy falls. Being part of a murder mystery, solving the riddle yourself only to find that you have played the part of a ghost all along certainly hightens your review!

Discover yourself:
Punchdrunk (pioneers in my experience), the Hide & Seek Festival, Firebird Ball (Punchdrunk’s next party), A Small Town Anywhere (you play the villagers in a reworking of Le Corbeau), Etiquette (played in Cafe Oto in Dalston), Shunt (the “cabaret” club in London Bridge), Rotozazza (creators of Etiquette)… if you know any more, please suggest them in the comments page.

If we’re increasingly be about story-economies and the experience economy then this is one way to engage your audience.

Read more at The Guardian
Photo from Hinius on Flickr

Recently the 2009 installation of the TED conferences was held in California.  A bunch of new talks are up on their website  – well worth checking, as well as some of the older ones, like this one by David Carson.

Just been introduced by Culture Pundits to a bunch of new blogs. It’s always such a pleasure to discover a whole new collection of sites you never even thought existed. I’m yet to pass actual judgement, but any of the really good ones will go on to the blogroll.

In the meantime, please pass judgement – and comment here – on the following sites:

Rhizome - Potentially really interesting one, this. Looking at the “creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology”.  It’s related to The New Museum in NYC, so there’s a bias to New York, but hey, it’s an international scene!

Art Rabbit is a kind of art gallery aggregator with upcoming shows and listings. It’s similar to Fad Website which also covers contemporary art news, street art, video,design, etc. Beautiful/Decay is a good shout for contemporary, emerging and established artists acting as a good source that reveals today’s most influential and innovative talents from the creative world.

Ivy Paris News - which for a long time I thought was “My Paris News” but that’s my bad reading – is (mainly) a guide to the Parisian art scene. If you’re not in paris, try Art-Signal for Barcelona based art shenanigans. Or, for our New York readers, try ArtCal, the self-professed “opinionated guide to New York art galleries” – though to be honest, I believe that And I Am Not Lying might be more suitable to readers of TheScrapBook – it’s more…edgy.

Watercooler Games is a site about games that go beyond entertainment. Water Cooler Games explores the emerging field of games want to do more than simply being fun: they want to make a point, share knowledge, change opinions.  Sounds a bit like Auditorium or Music Catch could fit right in there.

ArchitectureMNP - part of the strangely yet awesomely named “My Ninja Please” network – aims to bring readers a regular supply of “architecture and design from around the web showcasing all of the illest, most interesting, and craziest architecture that these ninjas can find”.

City of God’s Son is an incredible synesthesic montage and re-working of a story that never really happened, but did for anyone who’s ever listened to 90s beats, watched gangster flicks and explored a city at night. Featuring “Nas“, “Jay” and “Ghost” as themselves, but not really, and narrated by Joe Bataan, director Kenzo Digital has created a world of magical realism for his a coming of age story. Set in a city much like New York but hidden deep within a jungle, the City is the other star of this musical/soundscape/movie for the blind/art installation.

More than a mere remix or mash-up, City of God’s Son explores the icons of “the gangster” through the media’s obsession as well as hip hop’s itself, using sounds, samples, original contextual quotes and references in an homage to arguably hip-hop’s most culturally potent era. It is as multilayered and as subtle as it is compelling. Huffington Post puts it thus:

COGS is part Sin City, part Orson Welles’ War of the Worlds radio programming, and part Nas’ Illmatic.

It features reworkings and quotes from Nas, Jay-Z and Ghostfce Killa, but also Samuel L Jackson, Delroy Lindo, Biggie Smalls, Raekwon and more, and can be experienced in full this Summer as Kenzo Digital presents a new form of cinema, theater, and opera, based on City of God’s Son, in New York’s Chelsea art district.

There, the listener will be able to experience City of God’s Son in the form it was initially intended — as a psychedelic, abstract combination of visual and audio sensory over-stimulation and deprivation in a unique outdoor setting.

Meanwhile, watch the trailer above, and download the “aural” experience here.

With thanks to The Huffington Post

Barcelona and Berlin installations of the Kubik modular building that appears to interact with sounds (though maybe just a sequencing program) made by ModularBeat.

View the films here and here, but this animation film perhaps demos ModularBeat’s Kubik the best