Produced by The July 16 and developed by Bowyer, “Op de Beeck” for the iPhone is based on the short-movie “Sea of Tranquillity”
by the award winning contemporary artist Hans Op de Beeck.

The app allows endless browsing through the 9 movie scenes with insight into the story that take place on a fictional cruise liner created by the artist. Swipe or tap to flick through the videos and watch the scenes in loops with beautiful accompaniment written and composed by Hans Op de Beeck as well.

There is no scores, no aims, no enemies, just pure inspiration and “tranquility”.

You can also watch the full movie at hansopdebeeck.com (art works > 2010)

“Sea of Tranquillity” by Hans Op de Beeck
(Full HD video, colour, sound, 29′ 40″)

“Sea of Tranquillity” music and lyrics by Hans Op de Beeck
Vocals — Sandrine / Arrangement — Sam Vloemans

Platform: iPhone
Version: 1.01
Cost: Free
Developer: The July 16

On daily basis we come across images that are built using various code techniques, whether this be pixelation, glitch, particle fields, swarms, reaction diffusion, looking that these images on Wired Science, it’s amazing to see the similarities between the works we create and the environment we inhabit. Even more apparent when we consider that they bare no correlation to one another and the large gap in scale that exists between them. Likewise, the images below appear strangely “Digital”…

Agriculture is one of the oldest and most pervasive human impacts on the planet. Estimates of the land surface affected worldwide range up to 50 percent. But while driving through the seemingly endless monotony of wheat fields in Kansas may give you some insight into the magnitude of the change to the landscape, it doesn’t compare to the view from above.

more on Wired Science

„Start from the Beginning“ – Egyptrixx / Bible Eyes LP (Night Slugs 2011)
Animated short by A. N. Fischer / Datdatdat. You should watch it in HD on Vimeo.

The video examines the relationship between the simulated image and its physical manifestation. The landscape appearing in the video references one of Fischer´s relief sculptures (http://anfischer.com/new-relief-in-progress).

The sculpture is magnified and distorted by the soundscape created by David. As time progresses the landscape becomes increasingly complex and distorted and finally changes its aggregate state to liquid. The shapes of the polygons appear in contrast to the fluid with which they collide. The 3d model was textured with photos of the physical sculpture, which was carved from a block of mdf with a cnc-miling machine.

Project Page
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Egyptrixx on MySpace
Night Slugs on MySpace
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A. N. Fischer

Nonmanifold_mandible investigates loss of control over human emotions. To parallel unreasonable human behaviours, control over a digital charachter’s facial expression is given to four channels of emotive audio, allowing for violent reactions and a loss of identity.

Created by Ben F. Carney.

Digital Video, 720X486, Projected/Displayed on a flat panel monitor
Shown at the Museum 1626 gallery during Exhibition 1.09262009, Chicago, IL

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The Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) is the leading electronic music conference and the biggest club festival for electronic music. Founded fourteen years ago, ADE first came to light in 1996 as a small conference with a few hundred music professionals and a festival program in 3 clubs with 30 DJs. Now in 2010, ADE has grown to become the ultimate platform to meet international business partners, introduce businesses to a worldwide audience and get in touch with new people, new music and new trends. Check out the full program.

After a successful match between Amsterdam Dance Event & MUSIC & BITS in 2009, the groups are teaming up once again for this edition. Music & Bits brings together a team of international professionals and speakers to share thoughts and knowledge on the endless developing digital era.

I am pleased to announce I will be speaking at the event together with Dave Haynes (Soundcloud, MusicHackDay), Minivegas, Brian Whitman (Echonest) and others.

Filip will discuss digital ecosystems, designing for immersive experiences and what role both physical and digital play in our daily life. The talk will focus on iPhone and iPad platforms covering topics such as tools and frameworks, design, production, curation and distribution of digital content relating in particular to music and sound. If you always wanted to venture into iPad/iPhone development or simply wondered about the role these devices play in the future of music creation, production or performance, this is a talk you wouldn’t want want to miss.

When: 20-23rd October 2010
Where: All over Amsterdam
Music and Bits Conference: Felix Meritis

We are also giving away one full pass (€320) to the full Amsterdam Dance Event (ADE) with entry into every ADE venue (41 venues) without any hassle or entrance fee nor standing in line. Also included is access to full day conference with leading experts from across the globe participating in the program. (The event is totally sold out, only conference tickets remaining)

All you have to do is Tweet this and you will be entered in the random draw next friday. Read below for Rules and Information.

One lucky winner will be chosen Friday (8th Oct).

Winner is Eralda van Zurk aka @EraldavanZurk!

Make sure you are following @creativeapps as we will send you DM if you are a winner.

Facts & figures ADE 2009: festival visitors 90.000, conference visitors 2.100 (sold out), ADE Next visitors 400 (sold out), Nationalities 52, Artists 700+, Clubs/venues 41, Journalists & Media 211.

Rules and information

1. The event is being held in Amsterdam/Netherlands:  http://amsterdam-dance-event.nl/ from the 20th-23rd October 2010. You will need to arrange your own travel and accommodation (not included). If you win the ticket and you can’t make it to the event, we would appreciate you let us know so we can give the ticket to someone else.

2. Competition is open to everyone and anyone but you must be over 18 years of age. There will be a total of ONE winner for this competition.

3. Winner will be selected by random.

4. Winner will be contacted via email and will be asked to provide their full name and postal address. If they wish to pass on a ticket to another person, we will need their name and postal address. If the winner does not respond by the following Friday (15th Oct) we will pick another winner.

5. Only one entry per person.

Richard Hardy, a recent graduate from the Bartlett School of Architecture in London, created this amazing video, exploring questions whether the conception of artificial intelligence has been a necessity in human evolution and if we therefore should embrace emergent technologies to engage with problems of sustainability and the city — for Nic Clear’s Unit 15.

Richard writes:
The Transcendent City is an autonomous artificial machine that extends across the earth adapting to the natural eco-systems it encounters while deriving its energy from the renewable resources available at each particular site. The systems desire is to maintain homeostasis within itself whilst maintaining homeostasis within the greater system, Gaia. Its processes are engineered on the molecular scale by nano technologies controlled by molecular computers that monitor and analyse the environment.

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Game jams here in Europe are this weird thing. You meet up with people to develop a game in a really short time, usually something between 24 and 72 hours. Most jams have a theme that the games should be about. It’s either something very open or something very silly. I attended three game jams so far, the last one being at the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlshamn, Sweden. You can download the games from the jam here – there’s some quirky, funny stuff in there.

I had a really good time at every one of the jams – it’s a great way to meet people. I’m never really happy with the games I (co)-create at a game jam though and I usually don’t want to publish them. If you work in a team, it can be really hard to decide in which direction to go, especially if you work together with people you have not worked before. Even if you work alone it’s not so much about the result you are achieving but more about just creating something in a really short time.

In North America it seems to be much more common to have jams without any fixed theme or competition. Take TIGJam Winnipeg for example, where people just meet up and work on their own stuff. They get inspired by what everyone else is doing, but they stick to their visions and ideas and don’t have to compromise it by working under the restriciton of a theme or other ad-hoc team members. I’m curious if this is a cultural thing. What’s your experience?

Photo above by Roger Skogh

Black Rain is a a Semiconductor film by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt sourced from images collected by the twin satellite, solar mission, STEREO. Working with the project scientists, Semiconductor collected all the HI image data to date, revealing the journey of the satellites from their initial orientation, to their current tracing of the Earth’s orbit around the Sun. Solar wind, CME’s, passing planets and comets orbiting the sun can be seen as background stars and the milky way pass by.

As in Semiconductors previous work ‘Brilliant Noise’ which looked into the sun, they work with raw scientific satellite data which has not yet been cleaned and processed for public consumption. By embracing the artifacts, calibration and phenomena of the capturing process we are reminded of the presence of the human observer who endeavors to extend our perceptions and knowledge through technological innovation.

03.00 minutes /HD 16:9 widescreen / 2009
Installation version available: single screen portrait HD / 17 minute loop.
A Semiconductor film by Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt.
Data courtesy of the Heliospheric Imager on the NASA STEREO mission.
Commissioned by Animasivo Mexico City

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The Creative Review Annual is a showcase of the creative work published by the Creative Review magazine. It includes commercials, identities, posters, magazines, brochures, websites, books, music videos, installations  and in other words an endless source of inspiration from some of the best projects of 2009. Over 90 pieces of work, each with multiple images, project description and full credits are included.

Each year, Creative Review magazine asks advertising agencies and design studios to submit their best work for our Annual, representing the highlights of the previous 12 months in visual communication. The best of those entries are selected by CRs panel of judges for inclusion in our Annual, the printed version of which goes out with the May issue of Creative Review.

Application concept, design and development by Russell Quinn.

Twitter communications based on MGTwitterEngine by Matt Gemmell and Twitter+OAuth by Ben Gottlieb.
Facebook communications implemented using Facebook Connect for iPhone.

Platform: iPhone
Version: 1.0
Cost: $4.99
Developer: Centaur Communications Ltd

It’s a pleasure to announce to CAN readers that this amazing project I have been working on for the past year is now live and ready for your perusal. The Archigram Archival Project [AAP] makes the work of the seminal architectural group Archigram is now available free online for public viewing. The project was run by EXP, an architectural research group at the University of Westminster, where I teach, and was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council. This was also all made possible by the sheer generosity of members of Archigram and their heirs who allowed us to browse through the immense collection of work stored in the attics and basements and collected a total of around 10,000 images.

On Monday night was the official site launch and if you were following us on Twitter you would have seen a number of updates regarding the project. I am happy to say even with some major hick-ups just before the announcement (server power failure at the university), with about 150 attendees including collaborators, historians, journalists and fans, the launch was an absolute success. Mike and Dennis were not able to join us but they were there thanks to Skype with Dennis taking us through the different parts of the site. This was followed by Peter‘s talk on Archigram proteges with David also at the event, always in the mood to kick off an inspiring conversation.

We are incredibly pleased that now, finally after all these years, we can all enjoy the work of one of the ‘most seminal, iconoclastic and influential architectural groups of the modern age‘.

The extraordinary influence of the mainly unbuilt 1961-1974 architectural group Archigram is internationally acknowledged. Exhibitions of their work have been touring major institutions worldwide since 1992, they were awarded the RIBA Gold Medal in 2002, and they are recognised influences on many of the world’s greatest contemporary architects and buildings. Yet the bulk of their visionary work has to date remained difficult to access, largely stored in domestic conditions or temporary storage. In collaboration with the remaining members of Archigram or their heirs, and funded by a £304,000 grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council, a team from the University of Westminster has formed an online, searchable database of all the available works of Archigram for study by architectural specialists and the general public.

I have collected few projects below, just to highlight how forward thinking Archigram were, foreseeing many things we enjoy and desire today. For full list of projects, make sure you visit archigram.westminster.ac.uk. Geoff Manaugh of BLDGBLOG has also written a wonderful post on his blog about the project which is a must read. For now, I leave you with 7 fantastic but much less known projects somewhat related to CAN.

Holographic Scene Setter

Speculative proposal for holographic projection of environments, or virtual reality environment. Part of the Instant City project.

I had a holographic scene setter – a light space – switch on/walk around/3D/walk thro’/Hollywood Boulevard in my TV room/Death Valley on my patio/Tahiti in my pad/Laurel and Hardy in the morning/The ‘Who’ at night … change film – new environment/switch on/off/there – not there … what’s real/it’s observable/it’s real when it’s there/is it a dream? – a ghost? – a turn-on? … Holographic ceiling – cloud – rainbow – cloud – people – John (pee on your shoes) – scenery – event – television … great … switch on the people/turn on the crowd/bring in the whole scene … turn off the ceiling. more

Media Experiments 1-2, 1968

Light/Sound Workshops: television display system set up as an experiment in multi-channel and multi-media display with streams of images flickering across grouped screens.

A far more flexible medium is T.V. which, at the moment, is still normally thought of the single channel box, but which whilst utiliising other media such as film as content allows us far more opportunity for selection. If we then consider T.V. used in display systems monitoring a number of channels concurrently from a variety of sources, both from national and international news and entertainment networks and also from personal close-circuit and video-tape and even generated by computer, we can see what colossal potential there is in the medium. So in the not so distant future we can expect to have to deal with the multi-channel multi-media situation both professionally and as an involved audience in our own homes, and one suspects at times the distinction between producer, and audience may become blurred. more

Soft Scene Monitor: MK1, 1968

Exhibit designed for Aftenpostle newspaper and Oslo Architectfornung and exhibited at Kunstneres Hus, Oslo for a prototype home access unit to communications, audio-visual entertainments and information technology.

As the Instant City study developed, certain items emerged in particular. First, the idea of a ‘soft-scene monitor’ – a combination of teaching-machine, audio-visual juke box, environmental simulator, and from a theoretical point of view, a realization of the ‘Hardware/Software’ debate. more

Info Gonks, 1968

Speculative design maquette for educational television glasses and headgear.

Use of the 1½-inch television as a built-up pair of spectacles with stereo glasses all wired to headgear receiver: everyman his own on-the-eye and in-the-ear environment. more

Cushicle & Suitaloon, 1966

Speculative design for a personal, individual and portable dwelling unit which may be ‘worn’ for transport and unpacked for occupation.

The illustrations show the two main parts of the Cushicle unit as they expand out from their unpacked state to the domestic condition. One constituent part is the “armature“ or “spinal“ system. This forms the chassis and support for the appliances and other apparatus. The other major element is the enclosure part which is basically an inflated envelope with extra skins as viewing screens. Both systems open out consecutively or can be used independently. The Cushicle carries food, water supply, radio, miniature projection television and heating apparatus. The radio, TV, etc., are contained in the helmet and the food and water supply are carried in pod attachments.

With the establishment of service nodes and additional optional apparatus, the autonomous Cushicle unit could develop to become part of a more widespread urban system of personalized enclosures. more

Enviro-Pill, 1969

Speculative proposal for a pill for inducing architecture or virtual and imaginary environments in the mind. more.

Electronic Tomato, 1969

Speculative proposal for mobile sensory stimulation device.

MANZAK is our latest proposal for a radio-controlled, battery-powered electric automaton. It has on-board logic, optical range-finder, TV camera, and magic eye bump detectors. All the sensory equipment you need for environmental information retrieval, and for performing tasks. Optional extras include response equipment for specific applications and subtasks to your own specification. Direct your business operations, do the shopping, hunt or fish, or just enjoy electronic instamatic voyeurism, from the comfort of your own home. For the great outdoors, get instant vegetable therapy from the new ELECTRONIC TOMATO – a groove gizmo that connects to every nerve end to give you the wildest buzz.