Wanderlust

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For those of you not in the UK you can check out some of the amazing maps featured on BBC 4’s ‘The Beauty of Maps’ on YouTube. This clip features maps created in the digital world including the most complete map on the Internet and the largest map of the universe.

The Wanderlust Earth Series was created in part using data capture software which tracked mouse movements over a period of hours and days. The resulting images produced the crater like shapes seen below in a draft of Antarctica, freezing time in a static frame.

The Sprüth Magers gallery in Berlin is currently showing a new series of work by Andreas Gursky, the exhibition features six new large-scale works by the German artist inspired by the blue void of ocean displayed on an in-flight monitor during a flight from Dubai to Melbourne. A true cut and paste style assemblage “Gursky used high-definition satellite photographs which he augmented from various picture sources on the Internet,”. There is something familiar about this image… Maybe its this.

The making of Ephemicropolis from Peter Root on Vimeo.

Scanning the art and design blog The Best Part who did a nice little feature on our Earth Print series this week, we came across this time-lapse video of the making of Peter Roots installation Ephemicropolis which documents the painstaking stacking and layering of 100,000 Staples over a period of 40 hours. Like a miniature construction worker site Peter creates his micro cityscape with cold grey steel like structures, playing with super low – highrise views, pattern and perspective.

RandomWalk Triangles from Guido Corallo on Vimeo. A great little animation built with processing.org “Processing is an open source programming language and environment for people who want to program images, animation, and interactions. It is used by students, artists, designers, researchers, and hobbyists for learning, prototyping, and production.”

Another art/technology interaction comes in the Wanderlust gallery image Landing, elements of which where created using the application Mousepath, now renamed IOGraphica, which tracks mouse actions over a period of time, incorporating data visualisations which represent the creative process into the image itself.