Featured Work From The Gallery: Week 25

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.

Gabriel Barcia-Colombo: Blend

Frustrated by the rules of traditional cinema, Gabriel Barcia-Colombo began to experiment with video sculpture, taking cinematic experiences off the screen, using them to augment the banality of everyday life. His haunting, interactive video projection installation Blend memorializes a miniature holographic 1950s housewife, imprisoned inside a household blender—the very domestic object that is supposed to make her life easier. When the kitchen appliance is switched on, the tiny animated specimen is puréd inside the blender and sent flailing into space, becoming disheveled in the glitchy, vacuum-sealed tornado.

Alessandro Dondero: Synaesthetic Way

The project Synaesthetic Way is proposal for a metro station in Milan, which would visually inform passengers of their train’s arrival time through projected colors and patterns that play to people’s moods. A relaxed mood, signifying “no rush” is illustrated by calm blue and green waves, while blinking, red arrows signify a train’s arrival, rushing patrons to the train’s platform. By incorporating theses projections with an application developed for mobile devices, technology would aid in the ease of travel between San Donato and Comasina.

António Gomes: Memory Of A Tree

The narrative installation Memory Of A Tree explores both virtual and physical space through the symbiotic relationship of video projection and gestural interaction. Encased inside a glass box, a dead tree branch is revived through human sensory communication. As a visitor places their hand upon one of the designated imprints, the tree branch projects a shadow and transforms into an fully developed structure. The tree continues to grow, decay and interact with other elements, animating the dead branch’s past life. Similarly using the medium of technology to converse with nature is Kimchi and Chips interactive video installation Lit Tree.