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Yesterday the Terre Natale exhibition closed to a round of congratulatory applause at the Fondation Cartier in Paris. Cartier curator Ilana Shamoon informed us that the show welcomed over 80,000 visitors during its four month run, certifying it as one of their most successful exhibitions to date. Much gratitude to all attendees, collaborators, and the Fondation Cartier.
Again, warm regards to our fellow Digital Team members who spent countless hours conceptualizing, visualizing, growing, shaping, and pruning source code on very little sleep. Bobby Pietrusko‘s early sketches proved incredibly prolific and his space-time functions ran the heart of our Bronson animation framework. Aaron Meyers taught us OpenGL and was the magic behind the camera movements in the Refugees narrative. Michael Doherty brought the Disasters animation to life and put in a good deal of sweat in the Bushwick mockup space.
Cheers to the intersection of code and art. View images and a description of Terre Natale at http://stewdio.org/work/terrenatale/.
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/.
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.
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.
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.
Stewdio is temporarily relocating to Paris next week to conclude a five-month collaboration with Diller Scofidio + Renfro architects. (Stewdio phone and email will be redirected to Paris; meetings to be held via Skype.) The exhibition, Terre Natale, opens at the Fondation Cartier the evening of November 20th. It will be on view from the 21st until 15 March 2009. Our collaborative work, framed by French philosopher Paul Virilio, will appear on Cartier’s lower gallery under the title Terre Natale: Exits. It is divided into two works: Exits I, the larger open gallery piece designed by DS+R and Ear Studio; Exits II, the rotunda enclosure with immersive projection video designed by a team of collaborators including Stewdio.
Stewdio, in collaboration with Warning Office, has developed a lightweight animation framework written in Processing. The framework, dubbed Bronson, was created for Diller Scofidio + Renfro to drive a panoramic data visualization. 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 target surface. (That’s over 150 million pixels per second.) Bronson outputs very large lossless movies that are then reformatted by a projection-curving and edge-blending system developed by ZKM. The fruits of Bronson’s toil will be on exhibition at the Fondation Cartier in Paris this November as part of an exhibition on contemporary human migration.
Stewdio has joined a project headed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro for the Fondation Cartier in Paris. Principal collaborators include Ear Studio and L00K. The product of this collaboration will be a data visualization of contemporary human migration patterns to be exhibited at the Fondation Cartier in November; framed by renowned French philosopher Paul Virilio. Stewdio’s responsibilities will initially include assisting with content development, managing visual strategies, and programmatic sketching.
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