James Medcraft - Tempest (2010)
Photographic studies of crowds
and their respective aftermaths at Dissonanze 10
James Medcraft (°1982, East Anglia, UK )
http://www.jamesmedcraft.com/
"The Tree was constructed from a series of varying sizes of rectangles and squares frames, rising from the ground and interlocking in a 3-dimensional space, forming a semblance of the Banyan Tree. At night, with the addition of LED light tubes, the Tree glows magically like a huge lantern. As one stands under it and looks up, these lines of light would coalesce into imagined constellations of faraway stars. The Tree reacts to sound as well. A series of microphones are hidden within the structure of the Tree. The microphones will be programmed to pick up sounds made by the public. The louder the sounds made, the brighter the tree becomes! The Tree will gently pulsate with light, ever reacting to the soundscape produced around it." (txt: Farm)
"These visualizations of future architectures search for the accidental in computer driven manufacturing processes. Based on iconic housing shapes, these buildings were intended as prototypes for mass-customization. Yet, as things go with computerized manufacturing, there have been misplots. The cartridge was not loaded properly. The concrete was set to the wrong parameters or scale. The printer module falsely translated a data set…" (txt: Zeitguised)