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Exit (Terre Natale) opens tonight in Bilbao, Spain
Tonight, Exit (also known as “Terre Natale”) opens at the AlhondigaBilbao in Spain. If you’re in Bilbao don’t miss this opportunity to experience the immersive 360-degree data projection.
From Stewart Smith: Exit (Terre Natale) is a 45-minute immersive visualization of human migration data divided into six narratives. 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 Exit (Terre Natale) videos at http://stewdio.org/work/terrenatale or for more information see other Terre Natale blog posts
Today also marks 30 years since Joy Division frontman Ian Curtis hung himself.
Stewart interviewed by Creativity
The design and advertising blog Creativity (formerly AdCritic) has just posted an interview with Stewdio’s Stewart Smith, conducted by Jamie Kim of Wieden+Kennedy Amsterdam. The two discuss the intersection of art and software, collaborators, personal projects, and the “fake it ’till you make it” ethos. Read up here: Face to face with the brains behind iQuit, Browser Pong and other experiments in digital fun.
Stewdio Copenhagen
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
Terre Natale exhibition in Copenhagen
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.
Stewart to lecture at EMPAC
Next Tuesday, November 17th, Stewart will deliver a brief lecture at the Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) in Troy, New York. His topic will be the Terre Natale (Exits Two) exhibition piece created by Diller Scofidio + Renfro, et al. His lecture is just one part of an evening of lectures under the banner Full Immersion: Art and the 360-degree screen, lead off by artist and scientist Bernd Lintermann of the Institute for Visual Media at ZKM, Karlsruhe. Be sure to see Eric Ameres, highly accomplished video engineer, and Thomas Soetens and Kora Van Den Bulcke along with their piece They Watch. The evening begins at 7pm in Studio 2.
Description from the Full Immersion page: An exceptional panel of international artists, engineers, and producers representing the evolving field of works created for the 360° panoramic screen. The panelists in Full Immersion – Stewart Smith, Bernd Linterman, Eric Ameres, and Thomas Soetens and Kora Van Den Bulcke of Workspace Unlimited – come from the visual arts, film, and data presentation. Some specialize in grand gestures, some write code. What they have in common is expertise in realizing works that surround the viewer, with effects that may be subtle, spectacular, or unsettling. In addition to talking about their field, they’ll also be showing up-to-the-minute examples of what’s been accomplished in it. The result will boggle not just the mind, but the eye and ear.
Bronson Animation Framework built with Processing
Bronson is a light-weight data visualization framework written in Processing by Stewart Smith and Robert Gerard Pietrusko specifically for the Terre Natale exhibition in Paris (November 2008). It was named in honor of actor Charles Bronson for his no-nonsense, brute-force approach to problem solving.
Bronson is capable of generating lengthy movies by dynamically loading and unloading complex animation instructions. It was built from scratch to satisfy some abnormal project specifications: a movie resolution of 6,800 × 768 pixels running at 30 frames-per-second, divided across six projectors onto a curved, panoramic target surface. (That’s over 150 million pixels per second.) Bronson outputs large, lossless movies that are then reformatted by a projection-curving and edge-blending system developed by ZKM.
Bronson is currently receiving some under-the-hood adjustments in anticipation of Terre Natale‘s travel to Copenhagen this December. More information to follow.
Terre Natale on Raddest Right Now
Eleanor Weber has written up the Terre Natale exhibition on Raddest Right Now. Regarding our exhibition piece she writes “Virilio’s second part is an amazing visualization of global migration in graph- and stat- form. It’s so clever and surprisingly easy to follow [. . .] it’s one of the coolest things I’ve seen since An Inconvenient Truth, and possibly more effective. It is an astounding piece of work to experience in a gallery context.” See Terre Natale on Stewdio at http://stewdio.org/work/terrenatale/.
Terre Natale surpasses 40,000 visitors
The Terre Natale exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in Paris has surpassed 40,000 visitors since opening at the end of November and the show’s run is only halfway through. Those are blockbuster numbers according to Cartier. We are very proud to be included in this exhibition. Catch it before the curtains come down on March 15th.
Praise for Terre Natale
The exhibition Terre Natale at the Fondation Cartier in Paris has received praise from gallery visitors, curators, and the press. Opening night was absolutely packed. A long queue formed at the entrance to our Exits II rotunda gallery with some visitors waiting over an hour for admittance. (We sincerely thank them for their good humored patience.) We’ve received reports that queues have continued to form outside the gallery these past few weeks; visitors waiting for their turn to enter the dark rotunda, recline on the carpet floor, and absorb themselves in the surrounding data animations.
Terre Natale has recently been featured in the International Herald Tribune, France’s Le Monde, and Esquire Magazine’s “Best and Brightest” issue with the article Four Innovative Mapmakers Re-inventing the Very Idea of Maps. You may also visit the Terre Natale project on Stewdio.
Terre Natale opening tonight
The exhibition Terre Natale opens this evening at the Fondation Cartier in Paris. This program was curated by Hervé Chandes and features works framed by artist Raymond Depardon and cultural theorist Paul Virilio. Stewdio’s Stewart Smith has been deeply involved in the design and production of Terre Natale: Exits II in collaboration with Elizabeth Diller, Jeremy Linzee, Robert Gerard Pietrusko, Laura Kurgan, Mark Hansen, Aaron Meyers, Michael Doherty, and Hans-Christoph Steiner.
Congratulations to Ben Rubin and his Ear Studio for their work on Exits I and much gratitude for their contributions to Exits II. A very special thank-you to Bernd Lintermann for contributing his panoramic projection system and incredibly sharp eyes. And finally, we are in great debt to our Cartier counterparts Francois Gemenne, Ilana Shamoon, and Marta Niedzwiecka who assisted us above and beyond the call of duty to ensure Exits II told a cohesive and well-translated story.
See Stewdio’s Terre Natale project page at http://stewdio.org/work/terrenatale.
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