Somehow travel & art are interlinked for me, even if ‘travel’ is just a 1 hour flight to another city… Heres a photo I shot on my phone, on the walk into town on Saturday morning:
Anyone from Auckland will of course recognise it as the work of Component, a Grey Lynn local with a wry sense of humour… Next a blurry shot from outside one of my favourite Auckland bookstores: Parsons
The book looked very interesting… But I didnt end up buying Pictures of Nothing because I instead bought this book: Digital by Design by Troika & what a book it is! Apart from enjoying the book itself, it has led me to research the work of some of the artists included & I’ll share a few below…
Listening Post by Mark Hansen & Ben Rubin collects text from thousands of internet chat rooms, bulletin boards & forums and both displays phrases starting with ‘I am…’ as well as speaks them…
Jim Campbell’s Home Movie (interview here) – beautifully pixelated!
Thomas Mcintosh’s Ondulation
Peter Vogel’s beautiful circuits
Tool’s Life by minim++
At last! A solution to commuting: Hehe’s tapis volant:
The owl project ilog:
Auger Loizeau’s audio tooth implant makes total sense to me!
Electroprobe by Troika allows you to listen in to the invisible electromagnetic world surrounding every device you use…
Digital by Design by Troika – Highly recommended!
