Assignment 2- Research

After many research on various digital multimedia artist, I had confirm the 2 artist which i will use for this assignment.

The first digital multimedia artist I had chosen is Dante Leonelli. He is a pioneer of kinetic light sculpture. He had been working on various project since the 60s like the Neon Ice Bridge, and many more proposals which are not accepted due to particular reasons. Recently, he has proposed the Eco Halos, which monitor and reflect changing level of environmental traffic and air pollution. It is a collaborated project with many others to succeed in this project. Most of his projects are related to neon light and argon gas.

I specifically choose his work, the "Eco Halos" to be used as reference for my artwork. I will apply his concept on environmental traffic and air pollution and also the neon colours and make my own artwork from it.

Green  = Good
Blue = Ok
Red = Bad
Flashing Red = Critical

Notting Hill Gate Halo.

The second digital multimedia artist I had chosen is Ken Rinaldo. He creates interactive art installations that explore the intersection between nature and technology. His works involves with ecological issues which often overlooked in favour of technological progress. Rinaldo is concerned with an idealized melding or an intersection that he believes is possible between natural and technological systems. He often asserts that integration of the natural and non-organic electro-mechanical elements are part of an important and very natural confluence and co-evolution that is necessary between living and our evolving technological material. His art works are influenced and evolve with research into living systems theory, artificial life and the current technologies we use to model and express mimesis through our current understanding of natural living systems.


For my artwork based on Ken Rinaldo's works, I will apply the concept of intersection between nature and technology. In addition, I will use neon colour because most of his works involves sensors and lights.

References:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Leonelli
http://www.danteleonelli.com
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Rinaldo
http://kenrinaldo.com/index.html
http://www.wired.com/beyond_the_beyond/2010/06/augmented-reality-ken-rinaldo-augmented-fish-reality-2004/
http://www.ecohaloproject.com/index.php
http://vimeo.com/27053368