There are some incredibly cool and innovative experiments coming out of the Kinect. There’s an wonderful spirit of alchemy here and I can’t wait to see the projects born out of and influenced from these experiments.
Creativeapplications.net summed it up eloquently here:
“With new technology come new landscapes. These may appear in the form of users, social groups, tools and work but in some kind of form they are connected, relating to one another and feeding from one another. Kinect is describing a new form of landscape, driven by arrangement of points derived from our physical environment.”
There’s something extraordinary about this video. Can you guess what it is? The images are lush and beautiful and suggest a passion for cinematography and lighting but that’s not it. Here’s a clue- it’s the latest from Alex Roman, who brought us The Third & Seventh last year. The answer below the fold…
Silestone — ‘Above Everything Else from Alex Roman (more…)
“If you combine the language of the eye with the language of the mind, which is about words and numbers and concepts, you start speaking two languages simultaneously, each enhancing the other.”
If you’re in Chicago on the 5th of October come and join me where I’ll be giving a presentation on Living Art and the future of photography in motion. The talk is FREE and open to the public and even better- there’ll be lot’s of cool, like minded creative types to connect with, interested in where photography and motion is going.
The talk is sponsored by the APA Midwest and Workbook and hosted by Columbia College. Please feel free to invite your friends and photo peeps that may be interested.
Tuesday, 5 October 2010
6:30p social • 7p-9p Seminar
Free & Open to the Public
Columbia College Conaway Center
1104 S. Wabash Chicago