Noplace
ARTIST
YEAR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
Noplace locates numerous utopian inputs from the Internet and uses these data feeds to create virtual architectures. Photo and audio streams of opposing utopias are played side-by-side; the text descriptions of the content used to synchronize divergent paradises to create a narrative flow.
A museum installation includes multiple screens of different utopian visions, while a companion web version of the piece allows viewers to create personalized Noplace worlds.
These paradise types are endgames of ideological constructs, whether a vision of a classless society or a scientist’s vision of a sustainable environment.
Co-commissioned by Tate in conjunction with Tate's Online partner BT.
Biography
Marek Walczak’s art engages physical and virtual experience. Trained as an architect, his work includes Apartment which was shown at the Whitney Museum and many venues worldwide. The first Dialog Table is installed at the Walker Art Center, a shared interface the table replaces a keyboard and mouse with gesture recognition technology. Current projects bridge physical installations with user interaction, including a one block long facade at 7 World Trade Center that reacts to pedestrians walking beneath it.
Martin Wattenberg is a new media artist and computer scientist. He is the founding manager of IBM’s Visual Communication Lab, which researches new forms of visualization and how they can enable collective intelligence. Wattenberg's artwork uses data in the broadest sense - from musical scores to online photo collections - to fuel visual explorations of meaning. His work has been exhibited in venues such as the London Institute of Contemporary Arts, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and the New York Museum of Modern Art. Wattenberg holds a Ph.D. in mathematics from U.C. Berkeley.
Website
