Crystal funk.

Crystalpunk Workshop

Perusing the participants involved at the Crystalpunk Workshop organized by the ingenious SocialFiction, I discovered and rediscovered some interesting lattices and rare gems.

Karen Curley of ResolutionIsland has been feeding images of her monitor to her monitor to produce these Op-Art feedback vortexes. Check out the fingerprints and circular labyrinths immerging in this set too. Also in the motion section of her site there are some enigmatic stills and dreamlike textures to be explored.

Related: video feedback article (with links on how to make different types of video feedback)

Manuel Dahm has a new set of works at Dr3 called Linecons that explore calligraphic signatures to produce symmetrical insectoid sculptures.

Tom Carden is documenting his proce55ing experiments here. Toms works ranges from map interfaces to generative works for fashion photography – lots of interesting applets here. It’s also worth noting that Tom has a Proce55ing reblog set up too, Proce55ing recently won a Golden Nica Net Vision award at the Prix Ars Electronica 2005.

We’ve had both Spam and Anti-Gravity poetry mentioned at Natureisdata recently, Megla has explored poetic space by adding a visual dimension, a poetic walk-through where movement of the reader’s body enhances the potency of the work. A different kind of poetry walk-through is expressed at Thomas Laureyssen’s PedestrianLevitation, he says:

‘It visualizes the real movement of people, and adds a virtual movement based on the assumption that the mind of people is not subject to gravity or any other physical limitations.

Irregular white triangles are applied on the sidewalk- for the real movement, and up onto a high empty wall for the virtual movement. The work creates a graphical layer above existing architecture that acts as an interface towards movement of thought. The work flows from the pavement up to the wall of a building or buildings. It creates a visual motion: when you walk into the work, your visual senses are pulled to the directions of the triangles.’

Anti-gravity Psychogegraphy?!