Sculpted Movement
Curated Video Artcast

During the last decade we feel technology should be everywhere and nowhere at the same time, perfectly integrated into our everyday experience, or our homes, without intruding. The future art audience has technology in their everyday life; through technology they experience the world around them, and this is what connects them to
one-another.
The Niio Featured Exhibition is dedicated to the moving image and public space, aiming to present curated screening programs to a wider audience. It is based on the idea of mediating works from an extended list of contemporary video artists, through new digital exhibition formats and cloud-based platforms.
                                                                                       

Quayola
Matter

"Matter" is the first piece in a new series of work that investigates objects with three-dimensional surface features. The subject of this piece is Rodin’s iconic 1902 sculpture “The Thinker”. "Matter" sets up a tension between physical and artificial reality, while exploring the geometric complexities of subtraction, the process of carving away from a block of material. A departure from Quayola’s past projects, in which he films and photographs his subjects directly, "Matter" originated with a computer graphic model of its subject. This 3-D model was constructed based on photos of the original sculpture, rather than using a scan or other techniques of capture. As a representation it is therefore susceptible to error, marking a shift in Quayola’s approach toward virtual space. While his past "Strata" series may emphasized perfection, this new body of work is interested in precision- specifically that of man-made crafts, those executed by hand with great skill.

Refik Anadol
Wind of Linz - Troemploeil

Wind of Boston: Data Paintings is a site-specific work that turns the invisible patterns of wind in and around Boston into a series of poetic data paintings within a 6’ x 13’ digital canvas. By using a one-year data set collected from Boston Logan Airport, Refik Anadol Studios developed a series of custom software to read, analyze and visualize wind speed, direction, and gust patterns along with time and temperature at 20-second intervals throughout the year.
The resulting artwork is a series of four dynamic “chapters”, each using data as a material to create a unique visual interpretation of the interaction between the environment and the city. Each chapter brings different aspects of the data sets to life with distinct and varied painterly, emotive aesthetics, making visible the invisible beauty of wind as a natural phenomenon.

Each of the four chapters focuses on one distinct characteristic of the Wind of Boston. The first chapter, Hidden Landscapes highlights the anemometer’s most radical readings to create immaterial, spatial experiences. Porcelain Memories recalls the intangible power of a gale when reimagined outside of the traditional constraints of time. Sea Breeze explores the paradox of soft gentle wind blowing from the sea to the site in the harsh cold of winter. Gust in the City is a top-view visualization that explores the phenomenon of high speed winds in short bursts and the constant unseen poetic dance between the forces of nature and the built environment.

Jonathan Monaghan
Scroll

Scroll is a seamlessly looping video installation. We are presented with an endless column of plastic, architecture, fur, and fabric. Taking on organic qualities the structure repeatedly spores futuristic seeds, suggesting technology itself as a reproducing life form. Maintaining an unsettling ambiguity the work calls into the question the boundaries between technology and the natural.

Ronen Sharabani
Elements

Ronen Sharabani lives and works in Israel. Sharabani studied drawing painting and sculpting at NYSS in New York , has attended the International School of Art in Italy.
Sharabani was awarded the Cannes Gold Lion Prize, for creative commercial; The Buckingham First Prize for the Expression of Music through Art; The Hohenberg Scholarship and the Golden Feather, for editing.

ZEITGUISED
geist.xyz

geist.xyz is a different kind of fashion project: what looks at first glance as an eccentric tangle of simulated dance and a color coordinated tumblr exploration turns out to be a study of handcrafted algorithmic textiles and procedural surfaces.
A synthetic ghost shifts simulated textiles from passive matter to live organisms. They behave like apparitions in an artificial choreography, with movements that are imaginary yet familiar. Like a constant metamorphosis, the same sequence gets transformed over and over again. At each step, all aspects of the designs are modified, from algorithmic pattern to color scheme to fabric behaviour. The results are meandering layers of style changes.
A linear montage shows the intricate details. Shuffled layers of metronomic sounds emphasize the transformation fluctuating in and out of sync.
The grid of moving images on geist.xyz visualizes our conceptual approach and color scheme.
Outtakes on instagram.com/zeitguised
All conceptual, design and production work: ZEITGUISED.
Sound track: "geist.xyz" by Superimposed Void (http://bit.ly/svgeist)

Ronen Sharabani
HourGlass

Ronen Sharabani lives and works in Israel. Sharabani studied drawing painting and sculpting at NYSS in New York , has attended the International School of Art in Italy.
Sharabani was awarded the Cannes Gold Lion Prize, for creative commercial; The Buckingham First Prize for the Expression of Music through Art; The Hohenberg Scholarship and the Golden Feather, for editing.