
Stewart is traveling to the ZKM Center for Art and Media in Karlsruhe, Germany today as an artist in residence. He’ll be collaborating with ZKM on the development of visual elements for their technology-driven segment of an opera concerning climate change and the Amazon. [ZKM Press Release / Google-English version] The opera will premiere in Munich this May. For more information see the opera’s official website, Amazonas.

On Monday, February 22nd Stewart will speak about Stewdio from 6.30 to 8pm at the Apple Store in SoHo. This is part of an ongoing lecture series of Young Guns recipients organized by the Art Directors Club. The event is free and open to the public. Bookmark http://stewdio.org/apple for further details.

Browser Pong has just been added to the Chrome Experiments library, a website that features notable JavaScript experiments in the spirit of the Google Chrome browser. Many thanks to Aaron Koblin and everyone behind the scenes of Chrome Experiments who are keen to promote the browser itself as an art platform.
Experience Browser Pong yourself at http://stewdio.org/pong/. To leave comments on the Browser Pong’s Chrome Experiments page see http://chromeexperiments.com/detail/browser-pong/.

As of today Stewdio has officially moved from New York City to London, traveling five hours into the future to arrive at Greenwich Mean Time. This means we are no longer located on Stewart Avenue in Brooklyn, but at the following address in Hackney, London.
Stewdio
Studio 2A. Unit 10
18-24 Shacklewell Lane
London E8 2EZ
Thank you New York City, both Manhattan and Brooklyn respectively, for hosting Stewdio so graciously. It’s time to continue the adventure elsewhere. We will again offer our services beginning Monday, 18 January 2010. In the meantime please enjoy our 2009 holiday offering, Browser Pong. Of course, many of you already have.

Today It’s Nice That has posted Stewart’s 2009 Review as well as a brief page for the newly released Browser Pong. This makes for a sweet morning at Stewdio.

Happy holidays from Stewdio. Today we are releasing Browser Pong, a collaboration with sound artist and musician Dominic Matar of Nine Cats Music. Best in Safari for Mac. Also supports Chrome, FireFox, and Opera. Enjoy it here: http://stewdio.org/pong/.
Update. We’re pleased to see our Pong blowing up on Twitter and bloggers taking notice. Browser Pong was even briefly on the front page of Paul Graham’s Hacker News. So thank you all for posting and tweeting over the past 19 hours since we launched. Keep it up!
Update. Add these to the list of sites recognizing Browser Pong: It’s Nice That, Boing Boing, Daring Fireball, and more. Thanks everyone. Your support garnered Pong over 100,000 visits within its first 24 hours. Well done.

Stewdio has been temporarily relocated to Copenhagen, Denmark at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg in preparation for the opening of the Terre Natale (“Native Land”) exhibition this Friday at 8pm. Pictured above is the Terre Natale command center manned by Robert Gerard Pietrusko of Warning Office, Stewart Smith of Stewdio, and Nikolaus Völzow of the ZKM Institute. (Photograph by comrade Jeremy Linzee, formerly of Diller Scofidio + Renfro.) If in Copenhagen join us for the opening on Friday.
From Stewart Smith: Terre Natale, or “Native Land”, is an immersive visualization of human migration data. Our historical focus is primarily from 1990 through today, augmented by occasional older data points or forecasts into the future. Humans migrate for various reasons. Political turmoil may create refugee migrations. Environmental disasters create refugees of a different sort. Some people migrate to wealthier economies sending micro-transactions, or remittances, home to their native land. We have recently crossed a threshold; 50% of humans have migrated from rural areas into cities. As of 2007 one out of every two people is now an urban dweller.
See previous Terre Natale videos: http://stewdio.org/work/terrenatale

Currently in Copenhagen… Rendering LandSat data…

Earlier; the immersive rotunda wall under construction.

The exterior of the rotunda wall as seen from our hidden “command center” area. The lowered false ceiling and one of the surround speakers are visible against the backdrop of the Kunsthal Charlottenborg gallery.

Table one of two in the hidden command center.

Stewdio is temporarily relocating to Copenhagen next week to install the newly augmented Terre Natale exhibition piece at the Kunsthal Charlottenborg. (Stewdio phone and email will be redirected to Copenhagen; regular meetings to be held via Skype.) Terre Natale opens on Friday, 4 December and will be on display through Sunday, 21 February 2010. See Terre Natale on Kunsthal Charlottenborg for more information.

The Jed’s Other Poem music video will appear in the Altered States segment of the Cinamatics Festival this Friday, November 20th. If you happen to be in Brussels at exactly 9:27pm you can see it for yourself. Check out the excellent selection of pieces playing throughout the evening here. Description from the Cimatics site:
Altered States: When Dreams Turn Into Data
With the digital invading every creative enterprise and form of expression, pencils have become pixels, dreams have turned into data. While cinema’s obsession with the ‘holy grail’ of photorealism has generated a blizzard of visual extravaganzas aimed at a suspension of the distinction between representation and simulation, a generation of DIY bricoleurs use ubiquitous ‘tools of vizuality’ (Kevin Kelly) to explore alternative viewings and readings of the familiar. Through processes of transference, translation and combination, they encode, reveal or impose layers of information and deceive expectations about visibility and availability. Poking the surfaces of various images, sounds and symbols, their renderings create poetic, playful and often melancholic environments that are both alien and familiar, questioning our relation to images and our imagination. (In collaboration with Courtisane.)