Digital Design Sensations, current exhibition.

November 18 -   March 10. 2012, Design Museum Holon.

Digitally growing flowers and a mirror where falling snowflakes make a portrait of the viewer are among the digital works that feature in Decode: Digital Design Sensations.

Curated by Louise Shannon, Deputy Head of Contemporary Programmes, V&A and Shane Walter, Director of digital arts organisation onedotzero, the exhibition shows the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small screen based graphics to large-scale installations. There are works by established international artists and designers including Daniel Brown and Daniel Rozin as well as by some of the most exciting, younger designers such as Troika and Simon Heijdens. The exhibition has been expanded to include works by Israeli artists and designers.

The exhibition explores three themes. Code presents pieces that use computer code to create new designs in the same way a sculptor works with materials such as clay or wood. The second theme, Interactivity, looks at designs that are directly influenced by the viewer. The final theme, Network, focuses on works that comment on and utilise the digital traces left behind by everyday communications, from blogs in social media communities to mobile communications or satellite tracked GPS systems.

Julius Popp – bit.code, 2009
bit.code is a visualisation of information taken from the internet.
The spinning chains represent the rapid nature of data as it moves through internet networks. At certain points the black and white chains align, displaying words collected from various internet sources, RSS feeds and news sites. The monochrome patterns can be deciphered and the words become readable.

Energy chains, motors, electronics, and custom software.
Courtesy of Julius Popp, Leipzig
bit.code has been commissioned by the V&A in partnership with SAP, as part of the ‘Decode: Digital Design Sensations’ exhibition

Holon Institute of technology : ערן גל אור, מיכל רינות, שחר גייגר, לוקה אור

צילום: שי בן אפרים

Dan Roosegaarde Dune, 2007

Dune is a responsive piece that reacts as you walk through the work. The reeds, lit with LED lights, respond to motion and touch, creating an ever-changing, immersive environment.

Stroke the reeds to interact with Dune.

LEDs, microphones, sensors, speakers, software and other media running on an interactive embedded microchip system and firmware.
Courtesy of the artist and the team of Studio Roosegaarde.

www.studioroosegaarde.net

Device <—> Interference [0.3], 2011 – Dr. Amnon Dekel and
David Opp

This new V&A commission detects speech and uses voice to text translation to generate an online search. Results are displayed on the LED screen as either word or image. These are then visually affected by information gained through capturing the cellular activity of visitors’ mobile phones.

LED display, call activity receivers and custom software [TBC]

Courtesy David Opp and Amnon Dekel, commissioned by the V&A with generous support from the Porter Foundation and in collaboration with Design Museum Holon.

Joao Wilbert – http://www.exquisiteclock.org/clock/index.php?live=1&tag=random

C.E.B. Reas TI, 2004 | photo: Tom Bland

TI, 2004
Reas visualises complex computer programmes. Here we can see an installation made up of code : a visualisation of algorithms.

The sets of computation code provide rules and instructions that define the movements, colours and shapes in the visuals you see here.
Wooden disks, projections and custom software (Processing)
Courtesy of the artist and bitforms gallery nyc.

Ross Phillips Videogrid, 2007

Videogrid, 2009
Videogrid allows you to make a moving portrait, each square
recording your image for one second. You can choose either
to make a single portrait or to contribute to a collective bank
of images, to an ever-changing collage.

Touch the screen to activate the cameras.
Touch screen, PC, camera, speakers, projector and custom software
Courtesy of the artist

Aaron Koblin Flight Patterns, 2009 | photo: V&A

Flight Patterns, 2009
About the work: Koblin specialises in taking unreadable computational data and making visualisations with it. Flight Patterns is a record of aeroplane journeys across North America over a 24-hour period. He sourced data from the Federal Aviation

WOW – Light Rain

www.w0w.co.jp

Sennep / Yoke Dandelion, 2009

Mehmet Akten Body Paint, 2009

Body Paint, 2009
Body Paint is an interactive installation that allows you to paint on a virtual canvas with your own body. Akten has created a custom software programme that converts your gestures and motion into the malleable paintbox that you see in front of you.

Move in front of Body Paint to activate.

Sensors and software (C++, openFrameworks, openCV)
Courtesy of the artist

Simon Heijdens – Tree 2005

Curators :

Louise Shannon - Deputy Head of Contemporary Programmes, V&A, London
Shane Walter - Director of digital arts organisation onedotzero.

From the exhibition at the V&A:

Decode: Digital Design Sensations from onedotzero on Vimeo.

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The website will use your Facebook profile picture and incorporate it into the Decode timeline.

The Decoder of the Day will be announced every day at midnight. The person whose profile picture appears for the longest time on the timeline will win a free entry ticket to the museum. The winner will be informed by email.

http://decode-me.org/