Current Album: PQ installations
Images: Since a week an experimental JS# Protoquadro set is hanging in the main lobby of Philips Research library building in Eindhoven. It took the place of a loud CNN newsreel. The lobby ladies now look over the screen of their own computer more often and told me they have a nicer day there: “it’s a more peaceful feeling and I like to see what’s in it now and then”. Passers by happily look too, and people that have to wait get hooked.
In last week and to the end of this one a new protoquadro is being exposed within Philips Research annual CRE exhibition in Eindhoven.
Current Album: A- bridging mirrors
Images: The piece exposed is a new concept for one screen. It is based on a modified EPQ-JS# algorithm and rendering strategy, the same used for the multi-screen installation Junglescape that shows in Philips Shoplab. It runs in full HD1080i resolution on an Aurea screen, covered with a handmade platan wood frame and hanged in portrait mode.
I have been talking with public and visitors for two days and had very interesting feedback comments. The piece has been received wonderfully as the protoquadro project. It gets easier to explain it as a pictorial artistic technique than in 2004, and visitors often seated on the couches in front of the piece to take their time to look at it in it’s changing behaviour.
Many questions regarded the possibility of housing a protoquadro home as a painting.
Concept and photos for JS#A protoquadro are by F. Bonelli:
thanks to Rob for the stand-alone version of EPQ engine on wich the painting is running and the all SUb crew. Special thanks to Arianna de Angelis for her mysterious and dynamic image and to V. Nieuwenhuis for inspiration and sharing with me his tricks-of-the-trade.
Federico will present his views about the art of transformation and the thoughts behind SUb approach to art in the next Upgrade in Eindhoven, the 5th of may. The event, organized by Rene Pare and Carmin Karasich will be held in TAC (temporary art center) from 20:00 to 22:00.
see more details here: http://www.dse.nl/~mad/upgrade/
Federico will chat about top-down and bottom-up, the empty space, media transformation, and the spirit of aRT. All invited to join in.
Friday the 30th of November, in Eindhoven, the first Enhanced Protoquadro (EPQ) Junglescape has been presented to a selected audience.
d/l the clip for | desktop (20.2 MB) | ipod (16.7 MB)| mobile 3gpp (1.4 MB) |
For the occasion the premises guested 6 pieces from our past and one piece from our future. In the space of the experience lab, open for once for all guests was possible to see:
- NG#-UC - “Unlikely Canvases”, in the full resolution version that has been shown in Washington DC in september, on a plasma philips screen hang in the sleeping room
- NG#-SLF - “The Secret Life of Flowers”, in various incarnations: in two mirrors and in a frame in the living room
- SATOR - “Magic Squares”, that was working horizontally in a table top and dialoguing mutely with his “counter altar” piece, a 3×3 combinatorial magic square in a small window in the kitchen
- NG#-Dummies, also in a frame computer, changing very slowly in the shop himself, remixing shop windows dummies in ever changing combinations
- AI - A video installation, spanning over the two plasma screen in the entrance lobby, with it’s strict aesthetics of perpetual combinations
- EPQ-Aut - “Autumn”, A preview of a work in progress centered on the colors and shapes of autumn and their modification property on dreams, that was exposed on 3 screens in the main room of the homelab
Last but not least EPQ-JUNGLESCAPE, blossoming in full interactive version with the many people intervened to the presentation from the shopwindow itself.
The event was introduced by a speech of Emile Aarts, Vice President and Scientific Program Director at Philips Research, that recalled the role of “visionary statements” and art in research.
A brief presentation from Everts Van Loenen, Principal Scientist in the Media Interaction Group of the Philips Research Laboratories in Eindhoven followed.
Federico Bonelli’s short speech about the role of modernism in the development of their painting ideas, in particular starting from the sentence of Boccioni that opens also this website under the term of “concetto formale”. He followed with a small glimpse of future ideas to be researched with the new rendering platform behind EPQ.
To close the brief introduction Maurizio Martinucci spoke about the paintings in the show and about the motivation to re_search.
Some of the guests followed Federico in a tour of the premises in which he demostrated the ability of the protoquadros to open up storytelling.
In the next days will be available more pictures and a short edit of the video material we shot.
For now we want to thank warmly all people at Philips Homelab for the welcome and the intelligent respect with they have helped us to set up the showcase.
Current Album: Homelab 30 nov
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Yesterday, guested by the Van Abbe Museum in Groningen in a Symposium on the theme: “Urban Screens Prelude to Virtual Reality in Public Spaces?” and together with Evert van Loenen from Philips Research, I have presented a preview of the EPQ Junglescape installation.
The Symposium was part of the program of the Image Radio Festival.
The Auditorium of the Museum was decorated by the enhanced version of Unlikely Canvases, hosted into a 42″ Philips display hanged on the wall, that expressed with strength the concept of ambient aesthetics connected to the protoquadro. The film previewed with the audience in the museum will be on-line in the next days. It shows EPQ-Junglescape on the 4 windows of the Shop window installation in Homelab premises.
Invited speaker were Mirjam Struppek, George Fifield, Evert van Loenen and Federico Bonelli, moderated and introduced by Carmin Karasic.
A short clip documenting modes of interaction between passers by and the shopwindow installation at Philips Homelab showing Junglescape was shown to a attentive audience inside Evert van Loenen presentation. Many question followed in during the panel discussion and between panelers and guests in the following dinner.
The event was streamed live by citytv.nl
A interesting comment about the event has been published on the dutch newspaper NRC. YOu can find it in the press section or linked here
(photo of F.B. is from brian pagan, public on flickr, thanks Brian!)
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If you like to know about protoquadro projects you can still visit our old sites:
- NG : Site dediacated to the first two protoquadros: UC# (Unlikely Canvases) and Secret Life of Flowers
- SYB: Dedicated to the Protoquadro developed into SYB gallery in the summer of 2005
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Has exhibited the NG#- Unlikely Canvases Protoquadro in Washington DC from Sept 25 to October 1.
In the photos you can see Amy and Tez posing with the improved version of NG#-UC, running at a resolution of 1440*900 pixel.
