When machines which have a specific scientific use are utilised for art, one can’t help but find this somewhat amusing. Science and art are two drastically different disciplines (we are lead to believe), yet they overlap in so many ways. Perhaps the analogy of “two sides of the same coin” is fitting here. Exploration, understanding and recording are all vital to the progression of any scientist and artist alike.

Benedetta Bonichi is very well established – lecturing, exhibiting and teaching in enough art institutions to make ones head spin. While most artists study light, her greatest development came while developing sculptures around the theme of shadows. In 1999 she turned her back on the world of light entirely – radiography became her paintbrush:

“…Radiography is more than a technique. It is rather a teknè; that is the only possible “means” to read reality, through matter rather than light. Radiography, together with photography, digitalisation and fresco powders…”

Visit her site here.

Data visualisation is fun stuff. Perhaps it’s the apparent random nature of itself, the pre-defined beauty in which is operates, the unconventional approach to creating art or the scientific, calculable understanding which forms its backbone of any given representation that connects with us. Where computers and technology dictate almost every aspect of our lives, we’ve been nurtured by their presence, and as a result, crave it subconsciously elsewhere.

The WEB2DNA is very pretty indeed. Operating within a blue colour scheme, lines are placed within each designated column which visualises your website structure. It’s a visual representation of your webpages DNA. “Basically a semantically rich site will appear brighter than one with messy old-style code.” Nice stuff.

You can view the pandemic60 php file here.

Also, be sure to check out DNA11 – it’s what gave the inspiration for WEB2DNA, and in itself is a pretty neat idea.

Here’s something a little different. Music video clips tend to be pretty standard eye-candy affairs but occasionally technology rears its head and we get something special. The video clip of interest is suggestive of the years-old websites of Requiem for a Dream and that strip-club one that escapes me (both done by the venerable Hi-Res). It’s a simple equation: interactive video + music = interactive video music. Ok, maths was never my strong point, but the point remains – we will see a lot more interactive music videos in the years to come.

The Arcade Fire have an established following, and although they’re not being featured on this site for their musical merit, being selected by David Bowie for his own festival is pretty impressive.

Check out the video clip to Neon Bible here.

The notion of speed connects well to the current generation of young professionals shaping the world. The immediacy of the “I want it now” desires of consumer (and delivery of advertiser and manufacturer) will surely be an issue of society. Interpret “issue” however you wish – is this a problem, or merely a trend? This isn’t a new though – it’s pretty damn obvious really. Society has been speeding up for a long time and the fun part is figuring out what’s happening next.

Either way, the dizzying psycho-typo-pathic animation of Flickermood demands your attention. It’s akin to being slammed against a brick wall….and wanting to do it again. The exciting news is the line “previous of the upcoming video for Forss”. Oh yes, there will be more. Stay tuned.

View Flickermood here.

…and have a look at My name was God – probably the professional folio of the minds behind flickermood

The field of Photography time and time again proves it’s worth as a legitimate conceptual medium. There are a wide variety of photographers out there who are experimenting with photographic subjects that go beyond traditional compositions. Once such artist is Chema Madoz, who has a knack for combining everyday objects within a single composition to challenge our interpretation of the world around us.

Hailing from Spain, Chema Madoz (or Jose Maria Rodriguez Madoz) has been widely recognised as a master at blending surrealism with photography.

For some fine examples of his work Click Here