OFFF Barcelona 2012

May 27, 2012

OFFF features the most relevant artists of our time. Once on stage, they share their work, visions and experiences, which merge the last possibilities of technology with innovative concepts.

Commonly they are not attached to just one platform, their outputs may overlap interaction, music, motion, biology, robotics, pornography. Check the highlights:

Memo Akten
A scientist/artist that extracts and amplifies the unseen by exploring processes rooted in observation, math and science.
www.memo.tv
www.msavisuals.com

About a realtime projection mapping for Sony PS3 Video Store @ Offf 2012

Realtime projection mapping for Sony PS3 Video Store

“Forms”, a collaboration with Quayola, investigates the aesthetics of athletic motion.

“Forms” (process)

Lucy Mcrae
Is a dancer, interior and fashion designer, hmm… actually a body architect.
http://www.lucymcrae.net/

About “Swallowable Parfum” @ Offf 2012
A pill that you can swallow to later perspire its odour.

Teaser for “Swallowable Parfum”

Music Video for Rat Vs. Possum – Fat Monk
Dir: Lucy Macrae

Making of Rat Vs. Possum – Fat Monk

Champagne Valentine
Interactive, cross-platform team that creatively direct brands into romantic digital spaces.
www.champagnevalentine.com

About “Toxoplasmosis” @ Offf 2012

Video for the forthcoming book/dvd “Black Material”, collaboration with Lucy Mcrae

App for Tate Modern’s exhibit “How it is”

Visual music variation of “The Neverending Why” by Placebo
You can shoot your own variation for the Placebo song at theneverendingwhy.placeboworld.co.uk

Found
A band, art collective from Edinburgh working mainly with interactive sound installations.
www.foundtheband.com

About “Cybraphon” followers @ Offf 2012
Cybraphon is a autonomous emotional robot band, it googles itself to check its popularity on the web. The obsessive machine will then play sad or cheerful songs according to what people are buzzing about it.

Cybraphon’s first song

About “The End of Forgetting” @ Offf 2012
The installation remembers every sound it hears. These can be accessed by turning the wheel. Over time, its memories become confused.

“The End of Forgetting” by Found

Die Lamb
Matt Lambert is a filmmaker, artist and head of video for the multidisciplinary art collective Bare Bones. His subjects orbits around sexuality, punk, deterioration and violence.
www.dielamb.com

About “Fickmaschinen” @ Offf 2012
We are nothing but fuck machines

About “xxxanima” @ Offf 2012
It’s a project that searches the internet for porno hashtags to generate an animation that represents our  collective dirty consciousness.

“Footprint” for Discovery Channel

“We Who Are Young Who Are Old”
Based on the poetry of Dylan Thomas.

www.offf.ws


Written by Marcos B. Oliveira
http://www.deepbeep.com/discognate

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