text2image

here we go again.

Text2Image is one of those "data art" works that balances on the line of total uselessness and visual fascination. While there is no immediate purpose, one still spends minutes playing around with it.

It is an online tool which allows the user to transform text of any sort into a "visualization" of that very content. The results are deterministic, in that they are consistent to the given input, but extremely dynamic through its variance. Notably, "the application of these images is a complete unknown."

Well, I know a use: as a game to try to figure out how what the heck is the algorithm that turns the characters into a visual representation. As long as the word "infosthetics" comes out quite beautifully, I am satisfied.

this graphic means Kontemporat, weird.

masterdesaster.

obviously, you can also check and convert your text directly online .

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Kitchen Insects by Sayaka Yamamoto

Sayaka Yamamoto's recent Kitchen Insects collection is a graphic illustration of imaginary insects that would not be out of place in a children's book or animated series. The collection is part of Yamamoto's Little Wonders' series, described here by the designer: "When I was little I lived in the countryside, very close to the world of insects. I always enjoyed watching their many different shapes, colors and behavior - sometimes they made me scared and sometimes fascinated me. After I moved away from my parents' house to the big city, I was seeing less insects and I almost started forgetting the great times I spent with them. In Little Wonders I evoke the same feeling as I had in my childhood and express those feelings in four different ways ..."

Artist: Sayaka Yamamoto
+ sayakayamamoto.com

Quelle: http://mocoloco.com/art/archives/010409.php

flooded mc donalds - we make money not art

The South London Gallery in London is currently showing a brilliant video by Danish collective Superflex. Damn! did i have to walk to find that gallery! (thanks Gunnar for pointing me in the right direction.) Little did i know at the time that the artists had uploaded the film online:

Flooded McDonald's from Superflex on Vimeo.

As deeply rooted into economic and political awareness as ever, Superflex' latest opus, Flooded McDonald's is a 20 minute video that shows the model of a typical but empty McDonald's gradually being submerged with (collected than recycled) water.

The work is both intensely dramatic and irresistibly funny. Flooded McDonald's goes beyond the usual fast food suspect. It hints at the consumer-driven power and influence, but also impotence, of large multinationals in the face of climate change. Unlike some documentaries on the same subject, the movie doesn't point an angry finger, it doesn't give lessons nor does it make you feel as guilty as sin. Instead, the film elegantly and comically allows you to draw your own conclusions.

Flooded McDonald's is on view at The South London Gallery through March 1, 2009.