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Exploring the intersection of technology with art is an installation in Japan called the “Floating Flower Garden” consisting of over 2,300 real, living flowers suspended in the air and motion-controlled. Floating Flower Garden is the latest installation by TeamLab, a Japanese art collective of “ultra-technologists” lead by Toshiyuki Inoko. As viewers move through the installation space, 3D cameras track them, moving the flowers up and out of the way so the viewer is constantly in a hemisphere of flowers, and multiple audience members can be tracked at once. A little different than some of the art I post, but I love the intersection of the organic and outdoors-ey with the technological element of tracking the users and moving the garden… Read More »Motion control + flowers = weird, delightful

Asphyxia is an experimental film project by Maria Takeuchi and Frederico Phillips, and it uses two Xbox One Kinect sensors to capture the movements of dancer Shiho Tanaka and then renders the data inside a near photo-realistic environment. I first saw tech like this being used by Rob Sheridan (Art director for NIN) on the same’s festival tour with the human-moved video carts. It impressed me then, but this takes the intersection of CGI and inexpensive, off-the-shelf motion-capture tech to a whole new level. as·phyx·i·a from Maria Takeuchi on Vimeo. And a really cool making of video: as·phyx·i·a – Making of from Maria Takeuchi on Vimeo.