Tag: art

Sleep No More

The British theater company Punchdrunk plans to bring “Sleep No More,” its site-specific Hitchcock-Shakespeare mash-up, to the former McKittrick Hotel building on West 27th Street in Chelsea this spring.In the interactive piece, audience members wear masks and wander around a series of rooms watching wordless dance and musical tableaus based on “Macbeth” (with a Bernard Herrmann score). When the show was produced in collaboration in 2009 with the American Repertory Theater in an old school in Brookline, Mass., rooms throughout the building were turned into scenes from “Macbeth”: actors moved giant trees around the gymnasium; Lady Macbeth went mad inside a classroom; Banquo’s ghost appeared on a stage; dancers ran through the hallways.

super awesome.
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“Queen of the Night,” very loosely based on Mozart’s “Magic Flute,” combines and amplifies the elements of his previous productions and throws in a few more for good measure. There’s a bit of opera, a lot of rock ’n’ roll, plenty of circus and magic, and hefty servings of food and drink, interwoven with a series of sacred and profane rituals that the audience experiences, as it were, on the move.

i bought tickets before sharing this, obv

BodyHack workshop

participants are making their own piece using their own body as INPUT DEVICE and also as OUTPUT DEVICE which is controlling / controlled by computer. When they use their body as INPUT DEVICE, muscle sensor will be used and when they use their body as OUTPUT DEVICE, electrical stimulation device for skin will be applied. As participants try several part of body such as, arm, fingertip, foot and the heart, they can explore their own best way of output and input system.

Artifacial

Artifacial expression is an art and research project that investigates the computer-controlled human face as a medium for kinetic art and develops algorithms for facial choreography. Small precisely controlled electrical currents are employed to stimulate the facial muscles of a live human person into rendering involuntary expressions. As the human face is controlled by a computer instead of the brain, it can be made to perform in unexpected ways, bringing together dance and technology in the most direct way imaginable.

facial hacking with electricity

Voynich before Gutenberg

Scientists have carbon-dated the Voynich manuscript, a puzzling and beautiful document covered in botanical and scientific drawings. Named for the Polish-American bookseller who acquired it in 1912, its undeciphered text and purported 15th-16th century origins have long been a matter of controversy. So just how old is it? According to the University of Arizona, the sample was dated to between 1404 and 1438, making it older than previously thought; it predates the Gutenberg bible, printed in 1453.

Kinda anticlimactic

New analysis of the Voynich manuscript reveals its secrets. It’s a mostly plagiarized guide to women’s health.

Body Worlds jewelry

German anatomist Gunther von Hagens, creator of the Body World exhibition of plastinated corpses, has launched a “merch” line. You can now buy an entire plastinated body for €70k, a torso for €56k and a loose head for €22k

allegedly only for “research”. i’d like to research how this looks on my desk.