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Ingenious and Fearless Companions
Categories: ExhibitionsMelissa Grant, Oliver De Peyer, Paul Shepherd, Anna Dumitriu, Alex May, Kira O’Reilly1st April – 11th June 2016 Birmingham Open Media (BOM) is organising the first ever exhibition by the High Altitude Bioprospecting (HAB) science-art collective. Ingenious and Fearless Companions explores the adventure of curiosity-driven research through a quest to find microscopic life in space.…
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Gut Reactions: The Microbiome and Human Nature
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No Violence To The Sky
Categories: ExhibitionsNo Violence To The Sky – a new video mapped installation by Alex May is now on show at Level 39, One Canada Square in Canary Wharf, London. Referencing the writings of the building’s architect César Pelli, the work presents the public facade of the iconic One Canada Square building as seen in reflections in the buildings and…
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University of Calgary – International Visiting Artist
International Visiting Artist: Alex May (UK) Exhibition: Shadows of Light Feb. 29-March 4 in The Little Gallery An interactive digital artwork that explores the concept of ‘slow interaction’ Artist’s Talk: March 1 at 4 p.m. in Art Building 672, with reception to follow Workshop: Video Mapping Friday, March 4 from 1-4:30 p.m. in Art Building…
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Painting With Light workshop at UCLA
Categories: WorkshopsA few photos of the students work from the Painting With Light video mapping workshop at University of California Los Angeles that I ran on Tuesday. Tonight I’ll be giving a talk at the UCLA ArtSci LASER (Leonardo Art Science Evening Rendezvous) event.
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Pantone Colour of the Year 2016
Categories: WIPPantone announce their Colour of the Year 2016 (actually two colours): Rose Quartz and Serenity. Alex took one of the suggested colour pairings, and fed it into a modified version of the generative art system he has been developing to create slowly evolving, colour fields that degrade from smooth symmetrical patterns into smoke-like billows of colour. If you are interested…
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Mendel’s Legacy: Exploring Bacterial Genomics through Art
Categories: TalksLecture by Anna Dumitriu and Alex May at the Mendel Museum, Brno Saturday, 28th November 2015, 4:00 PM – 5:30 PM Anna Dumitriu in her current project “Sequence” uses the latest research in whole genome sequencing and the 2.8 million base pairs of DNA from the Staphylococcus aureus bacteria (the non-antibiotic resistant form of the…
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Wet Media
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Sequence at the V&A
Categories: Exhibitions“Sequence” is currently being exhibited at the V & A Museum in London, as part of the London Design Festival. A new virtual reality experience has been created using an Oculus Rift, and Alex’s Fugio art software, as part of the ongoing Sequence project using the data and footage from the project. It will be…
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Toy Hack Digital Metropolis
Phoenix Brighton received a Brighton Digital Festival Education Award to work with Alex May and Exploring Senses who created a two day workshop for thirty 13-19 year olds to hack toys, build a cardboard city for them to live in, create animations about them, and finally use Alex’s video mapping software to create a digital metropolis. The workshop…
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Data Body As Artifact: ISMAR 2015, Fukuoka, Japan
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Art That Makes Itself – Symposium Videos
Categories: TalksFrieder Nake keynote: Paul & Daniel Brown: Where to now The Digital Revolution? Maria Chatzichristodoulou, Jim Boulton, Nico Macdonald, Alex May Maggie Boden, Douglas Dodds & Ernest Edmonds
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Art That Makes Itself – Symposium
Categories: TalksBrown & Son: Art That Makes Itself Symposium Saturday 16 May, 2pm – 6.45pm Concerns of different generations, tribes and networks who make up digital culture, the challenges and opportunities for making and conserving generative artworks and rapid developments in digital image-making since the late 1960s are among the themes of a symposium on 16…
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Just 40
Categories: ExhibitionsTags: 40 minute painting
a kolkata algorithmic photography a mirror for remembering antisocial swarm robots archaeabot berlin biotechnology from the blue flower bournemouth brighton brighton digital festival cas chic cyberspecies proximity dubai fabrica featured fermenting futures flow state futurefest germany goldsmiths harr1 High Altitude Bioprospecting impakt india interview isea london my robot companion nesta nft online painting with light robots room 40 sequence shadows of light super-organism susceptible the-art-and-science-of-linen usa video video mapping watermans wellcome