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The Typographic Voice Kiosk: Images
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Project: The Typographic Voice Kiosk
Sunday November 24th 2010
11.00 – 17.00
Project Space Onomatopee
Kanaalstraat 8, Eindhoven
Free entrance
THE KIOSK showcases the work that was created within the scope of the ‘Typographic Voice’ minor, which ran through the months of september to december 2009 at the ArtEZ Academy of Arts Arnhem. This minor focused on the changing role of the designer, transitioning from maker to author, and assessed the affects current technology has on stable and unstable media, language and communication. Students were encouraged to interact during all phases of the project by ‘open sourcing’ their creative process on the Typographic Voice Blog.
The design of the exhibition was based on this conflict of language, form and medium. It is an attempt to take concepts that are native to the virtual domain and translate them directly to the project space of Onomatopee, displaying the work in such a way existing relationships between pieces become visible. This relational context should result in a visual interaction between the work.
Every student was asked to select a maximum of three pieces to showcase at the exhibition. These pieces were hence provided with a descriptive text and tagged with several keywords the student defined himself. These keywords (or ‘tags’, as known on the internet) vary from formal characteristics as ‘black & white’ or ‘catalogue’ to more abstract concepts like individuality and language. The extent to which these keywords match ultimately determined the position of each piece in the project space. This results in a spatial distribution of work where physical distance actually resembles the substantive relationship between the typographic pieces.
Visitors of the exhibition can navigate the space by use of the handouts provided at the entrance. Twelve piles correspond to the 12 most popular keywords used to describe the exhibited pieces. Every handout displays all pieces tagged with the respective keyword, and provides for each a description and information on where it is to be found. The visitor’s selection of handouts then determines how he or she explores the work exhibited at the Kiosk.
Other members of the Kiosk team included: Charlie Berendsen, Leonie Krol, Dominique Banning, Marjolein Hameleers & Ralf de Graaf
UPDATE: See photos of the project
New rendering of Space Type
Here’s a new rendering of the Space Type experiment.
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Dynamics in Color in NEMO Amsterdam
I think it’s safe to announce the exhibition of the Dynamics in Color project in the form of a video installation in Science Center NEMO Amsterdam. The installation will record live on the first floor, and project on a single broad screen.
I’m really excited to see it working. I believe Theo Watson said one of the biggest compliments an interactive installation can get is that children start playing with it without the need of an explanation. The environment of NEMO should be ideal to see this tested. Fingers crossed!
Dynamics: Walking from Tiemen Rapati on Vimeo.
The installation will probably be running within the first two weeks of 2010.
Conceptual Type: Sellvetica
This conceptual type is based on the western culture embedded in the typeface Helvetica. Helvetica is a typeface apparently able to fit any brand or product, and this shapeshifting behaviour projected on western consumerism is what provided the base for this conceptual type.
Sellvetica is a typeface that has in theory infinite fonts or variants. As a projection on any consumer product will do. This is the "Philips Senseo" font.
Pictures are taken at a 30 degrees angle from the projection, complete font comprises the full 360 degrees of the consumer product.
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Veejaying at Studio K/Stedelijk Museum
Last saturday Charlie, Thomas and I were invited to create the visuals to a party hosted by Studio K & Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. DJ’s were provided by the Stedelijk (who knew a museum has dj’s?) and we had decided upon creating sets on the fly by means of combining self written processing sketches & imagery. No vj-software or whatsoever, just two video mixers to make smooth transitions. Apart from one laptop suffering cola-damage, it went fairly well.
Sketches included: audiotypography, visual soundscape ( = sandersketch 2.0), rotating sound, rgb dynamics and audio snow.
Veejaying using only Processing from Tiemen Rapati on Vimeo.
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Project: Space Type
Continuing from the Negative Space post, I proceeded into converting text to a spatial environment. This first experiment adds the previously mentioned ‘impact’ that a word has, in positive or negative context, to the z-axis. This produces a landscape in which words with strong positive connotation form mountains, while negative association results in deep pits.
TodaysArt 09: Typographic Gun
At the TodaysArt festival at the Hague the public library featured an installation we developed along the lines of the festival’s “conflict” theme. During the night hours, we project on the windows an aggressive dreammachine-like flickering.
Since the very moment paper press was invented, type has been a weapon, with paper being the battleground. The recent shift towards digital media has expanded and intensied the written warzone even further.
The audio-visual installation named ‘Typographic Gun’ explores the subjective potential of the written medium. The library becomes the epicenter of a conflict between two opposing texts, opinions or ideals. The subjectivety is hidden behind interpolating typography, alternating at 5 to 20Hz, melting the two channels together, but at the same time generating the conflict by means of anticolors and after image. Any spectator can choose to block out any of the information streams by means of a color filter. And every book that has been loaded into the system produces its own unique soundtrack, converting sentences to a rythm of microtonal sound that add to the conflict experience.
typographic gun from thomas vissen on Vimeo.
Martijn van Boven
Charlie Berendsen
Marie-Anne Huiskamp
Joost de Nooy
Sander Sturing
Thomas te Braake
Tiemen Rapati
Project: Human Nature (Zuidas)
Human Nature from Tiemen Rapati on Vimeo.
This video documents an installation we used to visualize the concept of abstracting nature by indexing it on its functionality only. An extreme point of view, taken to highlight the level of cultivation the new to be cosmopolis of Amsterdam, the Zuidas, aspires.
Sander Sturing and myself as representatives of the ArtEZ Art Academy developed the project in collaboration with the VU Architectural History, which provides us with the historical context.
The Comment Condensator
Exploring the mental images of people.
When we offer people only the reactions to an event, an image forms in their head of what must have happened. This is probably an unique image for everyone, their unique reality, with common factors and differences. Exposing this interpretation can be done by condensing the mental image.
Developed in collaboration with Tineke Dorst