“Using fragments of building rubble from a recycling yard, Matthias Maurer explored how he can capture their surfaces three-dimensionally using photogrammetric techniques. With the help of 3D-printed and milled connecting pieces, which can only be produced with the help of these 3D scans, he tries to integrate the fragments into new functional structures.”
“This web application accesses the source code of the website and interferes with its logic. Each time it is implemented by a unique combination of methods. The algorithm performs about 1000 interventions per second, using 369 151 937 methods.”
Some links to notes and approaches on end-user programming, or the idea of software as programming environments fundamentally composable by users.
“18 symmetrical formations composed from the archetypal postcard back delineation rules and stamp box.”
https://eatock.com/
(His projects in general)
Collection of various sophisticated generative graphics and systems. All code on Github.
https://generated.space
Ballots (generative form layouts)
Byrne Proofs (proofs of nothing)
Let’s Enhance / Duncan Robson
Apocryphal enhancement technologies in crime dramas.
No Signal (and other cellular drama) / Rich Juzwiak
Bad cellular reception as plot-device in horror-movies.
The Clock (excerpts) / Christian Marclay
24 hours of movie scenes with and about time in chronological order.
Reach, Grasp, Move, Position, Apply Force / Kajsa Dahlberg
The optimization of movements in labour and the role of film.
Exhibition and research on joints in design and art.
Global addressing system based on a 3×3 m grid of the world, where each cell is identified by a unique three word combination. Thought to replace numeric geo locations that are hard to remember and prone to errors in transmission. Covering the globe in a multi-lingual layer of random functional poetry.
“Single pages from IKEA furniture-assembly instructions were mixed together and renumbered. The result is an instructions manual of about 700 pages.”
https://ggor.de/en/project/baebel/
And other of his projects:
https://ggor.de/en/project/
An “automated lexicon”.
“The Crossing Machine is a mind tool conceived to stimulate the creation of new publishing artifacts. The main purpose of the project is to investigate technologies and publishing from a post-digital perspective and to propose new methodologies for producing self-reflective works.”
“These source images were randomly grouped and digitally merged with a Photomerge script inside Adobe Photoshop. The script is a common algorithm used to stitch separate images together into longer panoramas. In the case of “Iconoclashes,” the script attempts to blend these “God”-tagged images together, creating chimeric deities, hybrid talismans, and surreal stellae, gods and statues.”
“If completed, it would contain every possible combination of 1,312,000 characters, including lower case letters, space, comma, and period. Thus, it would contain every book that ever has been written, and every book that ever could be – including every play, every song, every scientific paper, every legal decision, every constitution, every piece of scripture, and so on. At present it contains all possible pages of 3200 characters, about 104677 books.”
Also, the principle applied to image data:
https://babelia.libraryofbabel.info
Web framework to link contents from different online services together.
Spaces created by stitched-together video materials from different places. Other works by the artist also experiment with space-time composites.
https://vimeo.com/119904435
http://www.annaschwartzgallery.com/
“The objective of allRGB is simple: To create images with one pixel for every RGB color (16777216); not one color missing, and not one color twice.”
“This project investigates the idea of using computation to “use up” a piece of technology, in this case a digital camera. Using custom-written software (and a very long period of time), every possible photograph is generated, one at a time and in numerical order.”
See also his other projects exploring ideas of technical images, algorithms, abstraction, and computational vision.
“… camera and monitor function as a mirror that links the images of the viewers. […] The software, which runs between camera and monitor, attempts to re-construct each face from image fragments of the other. The image of one face cannot be realised without the other and vice versa.
See also other works about materiality, aesthetics and potential of digital technologies:
http://www.rlfbckr.org/
Multiplicity of shapes and artifacts by combination, iteration, repetition.
“…combinations of image and text from different authors, linked by a place on earth – fragments of a collective local memory.”
The camera produces no image but a textual description of the motive, written by some strange user of Mechanical Turk web service.
Found books assembled to new books.
http://www.theinfinitelibrary.com
http://www.badischer-kunstverein.de/
http://www.kunsthausglarus.ch/
