Featured Works From The Gallery: Week 19

Our new online Gallery provides creative professionals a platform to showcase their portfolio of work, gain exposure, build their network, find collaborators, and become eligible for funding opportunities like The Studio. The Gallery also helps fans of cutting edge creative work to discover new artists and inspiring projects. Each week we’ll be selecting a few of our favorites and bringing you the best of what The Creators Project community has to offer. To have your work featured, submit your tech-powered projects to the Gallery.

Dream Tweet: We Are Matik

We Are Matik’s interactive installation Dream Tweet creates a collective dreamscape of pouring tweets onto the Dream Tweet Bedroom wall. Visitors at the installation were asked to share their dreams and nightmares via Twitter, using hashtags to describe characteristics of the dream. Using a custom aggregation system created by We Are Matik, the tweets are collected and processed with typefaces unique to their hashtags, and then projected onto the installation in real-time, giving gallery-goers a glimpse into their collective unconscious.

SOFTlab: Xtra Moenia

SOFTlab (who recently exhibited the new Studio-commissioned work R&Dazzle at our DUMBO event) designed and produced site-specific installation Xtra Moenia last month. The dual oculus hanging sculpture served as the North Gate for the annual San Gennaro Festival in NYC, vibrantly expanding over 60 feet. Made from 4,224 laser cut panels, each panel was uniquely shaped in 3D modeling software then printed on a laser cutter and finally connected by over 6,000 aluminum grommets. The sculpture’s shape is held together by a complex system of cables and tubes attached at specific points and tensioned with proper lengths to the surrounding buildings.

vj monz: code code code

Still in the early stages of production, vj monz has developed a Processing-based sketch pattern mapper called code code code to create bespoke, reactive computer graphics. Using mouse and keyboard input controls, the program provides an interactive platform for users to manipulate colors, shapes, speed, transitions, and design. The video above is a 2D counterpart sketch to vj monz's 3D video projection, to be displayed during live performances, which will be layered with additional scenes created progressively during the performance.