HOLO 2
Wobbly drawing machines with personality, a roomful of light bulbs that pulse the syncopated rhythm of a hundred heartbeats, bouncing an encoding of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata off the moon—HOLO returns to further explore the frontiers of twenty-first century creativity.
Encounters
Vera Molnar (HU) Jürg Lehni (CH) Ryoichi Kurokawa (JP) Tale of Tales (BE/US) |
Katie Paterson (UK) Rafael Lozano-Hemmer (MX) Timo Arnall (NO) |
Inquiry From the thrill of checking your lottery numbers, to the volatility of financial markets, to the fool’s errand of weather prediction—life is more governed by chance than we’d like to admit. We share strange tales of randomness culled from early computer science, 20th-century think tank experiments, physicists’ fever dreams, and inventive artistic endeavours. With contributions from: Casey Reas, Paul Prudence, Scott Aaronson, Daniel Shiffman, Michelle Kasprzak, Mitchell Whitelaw, Daniel Rourke, Coralie Gourguechon, Scott Smith, Fanqiao Wang, and others. |
Sites & Spaces CERN, SETI, The Smithsonian—a recent wave of artist-in-residency programs suggests a growing interest in bringing artists and scientists together. Georgina Voss investigates. |
Tools in the Making Oculus Rift: Mixed Geoff Manaugh explores uses of VR that push beyond isolated film and gaming experiences, where artists and researchers alter how we ‘see’ and engage the world around us. |
Contributors Writers Dorothy Feaver Michelle Kasprzak Geoff Manaugh Simon Parkin Paul Prudence Casey Reas Jim Rossignol Daniel Rourke Vera Sacchetti Alexander Scholz Daniel Shiffman Greg J. Smith Scott Smith Georgina Voss Daniel West Mitchell Whitelaw Will Wiles |
Photographers Anne Gabriel-Jürgens Nina Lüth Robin Maddock Ye Rin Mok Victor Nomoto James Pearson-Howes Rick Pushinsky Vincent Tsang Artists Jacopo Atzori Ted Davis Cedric Flazinski Coralie Gourguechon Eva Hillreiner Peter Stemmler Fanqiao Wang Ludwig Zeller |
Guest Designer Computational designer Karsten Schmidt fed “a stream of human-generated randomness” (i.e. more than one million user-created numbers) into a genetic programming system to ‘breed’ HOLO 2’s cover. |
Team Creative Director Alexander Scholz Editor-in-Chief Greg J. Smith Editorial Director Filip Visnjic Project Manager Sherry Kennedy Art Direction & Design zmyk |