Dream Amsterdam 2008 - After Spencer Tunick in 2007, the renowned composer and visual artist Ryoji Ikeda (Japan 1966) will create art projects for DREAM AMSTERDAM. Ikeda’s hypnotic work plays with human perception through installations, performances, live concerts, recordings and album releases. His work has been exhibited and presented worldwide, including Tate Modern / Queen Elizabeth Hall (London) and Centre Pompidou / Museum of Modern Art (Paris). He has won important prizes, including the Ars Electronica Golden Nica (2001). Ikeda’s commission for Dream Amsterdam Foundation presents his first large-scale artworks for public spaces and marks a new direction in his artistic career. DREAM AMSTERDAM 2008 is realized in collaboration with UK arts production company Forma and takes place within the frame of the Holland Festival. The OPENING EVENT on June 6, is realized in collaboration with Paradiso. Forma represents Ryoji Ikeda worldwide to produce and tour his work.
A New Dimension for Your Photos Web service Fotowoosh wants to be the Flickr of 3-D. Looking at the photo prints from your Washington, D.C., vacation can prompt memories of being at real, three-dimensional places like the Lincoln Memorial. But what if you could actually walk into your photograph and stand at Lincoln's feet all over again--or at least zoom inside a 3-D version of your image on a computer screen? A new Web service called Fotowoosh promises to deliver such an experience, courtesy of computer-vision researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, in Pittsburgh.
Introducing 3D Image Search Finding a needle in a hay stack is nearly impossible. But finding a picture in SpaceTime's™ visual stacks is easy. Now you can search Yahoo! Images and Google Images and take advantage of your computer's high powered graphics and fast broadband connection as SpaceTime™ displays thousands of images at once. Enter your search term and SpaceTime™ displays your search results in their own visual stack. Enter another search and SpaceTime™ displays your second search results next to your first.
Roppongi Crossing 2007: Future Beats in Japanese Contemporary Art 13 October, 2007 – 14 January, 20 - Mori Art Museum “Roppongi Crossing” is a series of exhibitions produced by the Mori Art Museum to introduce Japanese creative talent working in a wide range of genres. The first in the series was held in 2004 – and is to this day used as a reference point for contemporary Japanese visual culture. For “Roppongi Crossing 2007” four curators focused on the idea of 'intersection,' selecting 36 artists whose work has an energy and sphere of influence that spreads beyond the confines of conventional artistic categories. Their art takes a variety of forms, including painting, sculpture, photography, design, video, manga, games, and even unlikely genres such as dollmaking and bathhouse mural painting. In addition to artists who are emerging on the scene right now, the list also includes others who drove the scene in its formative period in the 1960s and 1970s, and whose feverish output continues unabated today.
Discovering the Extraordinary - Monkdogz Urban Art - by Laila Escartín Hamarinen of MU Magazine ... On March 11, 2006, in the heart of New York City’s vibrant art world, Monkdogz Urban Art exploded with an international exhibition that just seemed to dance with color style and imagination. Over 1500 invited guests and professionals attended this auspicious event which was also relayed, world wide on the web, in real time, through the use of video cameras mounted within the gallery.
