Artists revive old methods and invent new ones to bring wonder back into photography
Some artists have responded by bringing materiality and wonder back into photography. They have returned to messy and sometimes erratic forms of photo-chemistry, reviving old methods or inventing new ones. Their works often don’t look like photography as we know it, and don’t intend to. Like old-time illusionists, these artists challenge us to figure out how the magic was done. Chromogenic print mounted on Dibond aluminum by James Welling. Mariah Robertson’s works at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), for example, have the look of exuberant abstract paintings. Vivid colours swirl over each other in non-repeating patterns, in one case literally pooling in a heap of paper on the floor. But Robertson’s colours all come from the reaction of chemical washes to her light-sensitive photographic papers. Ryan Foerster, also at MOCCA, uses a similar process, sometimes also burying his pictures temporarily or leaving them out in the rain. The idea is to allow natural or accidental transformations to work on a scarred and textured surface that may look more like geology than photography.
Innovations blending art and science: Morten Gronning from Denmark and his Happaratus, or "power glove". It incorporates mechanised finger tips which could revolutionise the world of sculpture by allowing hand sculpting of wood and stone for the first time.
It gives artists and craftsmen a totally new relationship with new materials. Since developing his idea, Morten has also had interest from bone surgeons and dentists who see an application for this technology in their fields of expertise.
There is a brand new way of harvesting wind power called Moya. It uses tiny transparent strips of material to catch the breeze. Imagine thousands of them stuck to a sky scraper or lining an underground train tunnel.
Dopa is a vibrating pen designed to help sufferers of Parkinson’s disease whose hands stiffen as the disease takes hold. When you tilt the pen to write it engages the vibrational motors helping people’s writing become clearer and smoother. It also relaxes muscles as the pen travels across the page. Imperial College's course for Innovation, Design and Engineering https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/next-generation-innovations-blend...
Binh Danh: Merging biological science and photography to invent a new art form, a chlorophyll printing process, in which photographic images are embedded within leaves.
To create these organic pictures, Danh first makes a negative image of a photograph in a transparent material. This image-bearing transparency then is placed on a leaf and secured with a pane of glass on top and a solid backing underneath. The dark portions of the negative act as a sunblock, inhibiting both photosynthesis and the bleaching effects of sunlight on the leaf’s natural pigments. Within hours or days (when the process works), the image from the negative is incorporated within the leaf.
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Artists revive old methods and invent new ones to bring wonder back into photography
Some artists have responded by bringing materiality and wonder back into photography. They have returned to messy and sometimes erratic forms of photo-chemistry, reviving old methods or inventing new ones. Their works often don’t look like photography as we know it, and don’t intend to. Like old-time illusionists, these artists challenge us to figure out how the magic was done. Chromogenic print mounted on Dibond aluminum by James Welling. Mariah Robertson’s works at the Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art (MOCCA), for example, have the look of exuberant abstract paintings. Vivid colours swirl over each other in non-repeating patterns, in one case literally pooling in a heap of paper on the floor. But Robertson’s colours all come from the reaction of chemical washes to her light-sensitive photographic papers. Ryan Foerster, also at MOCCA, uses a similar process, sometimes also burying his pictures temporarily or leaving them out in the rain. The idea is to allow natural or accidental transformations to work on a scarred and textured surface that may look more like geology than photography.
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May 1, 2015
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Innovations blending art and science:
Morten Gronning from Denmark and his Happaratus, or "power glove". It incorporates mechanised finger tips which could revolutionise the world of sculpture by allowing hand sculpting of wood and stone for the first time.
It gives artists and craftsmen a totally new relationship with new materials. Since developing his idea, Morten has also had interest from bone surgeons and dentists who see an application for this technology in their fields of expertise.
There is a brand new way of harvesting wind power called Moya. It uses tiny transparent strips of material to catch the breeze. Imagine thousands of them stuck to a sky scraper or lining an underground train tunnel.
Dopa is a vibrating pen designed to help sufferers of Parkinson’s disease whose hands stiffen as the disease takes hold. When you tilt the pen to write it engages the vibrational motors helping people’s writing become clearer and smoother. It also relaxes muscles as the pen travels across the page.
Imperial College's course for Innovation, Design and Engineering
https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/next-generation-innovations-blend...
Jul 8, 2015
Dr. Krishna Kumari Challa
Binh Danh: Merging biological science and photography to invent a new art form, a chlorophyll printing process, in which photographic images are embedded within leaves.
To create these organic pictures, Danh first makes a negative image of a photograph in a transparent material. This image-bearing transparency then is placed on a leaf and secured with a pane of glass on top and a solid backing underneath. The dark portions of the negative act as a sunblock, inhibiting both photosynthesis and the bleaching effects of sunlight on the leaf’s natural pigments. Within hours or days (when the process works), the image from the negative is incorporated within the leaf.
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Aug 6, 2016