Art Sleeps With Tech and Makes Some Bizarre Babies [Video]

This weekend marks the celebration of the Vimeo Festival + Awards, which assemble experts and achievers in online video. And, some pretty spectacular visual artists, merging DIY tech ingenuity with brilliant sculpture. And we’ve got the highlights below.

The exhibit consisted mostly of students from NYU’s famed ITP program-whose awesomeness we’ve covered before-and made vivid the mentality they breed over there. Art doesn’t need to be on a wall. You’ll be able to touch it. It might probably touch you. It is going to shake, and gurgle, and have interaction with its surroundings.

Take this project, as an instance. a sequence of motorized boxes, each representing a loved one-as depicted through a physical interface, of types.

Also endearing for its touchability was this paper slider project-a play on the very notion of the touch ” screen,” that provided functionality with an adorable and extremely clever low-tech approach.

But art, as any professor of the sector will let you know, can often be about confrontation. It shakes you! And this work does literally that, heading off viewers with aggressive rumbles it detects around itself. Not as cute as it looks, but a blast to sit down around with. Just don’t try and pet it.

Light played a massive part within the gallery’s collection-particularly the usage of projection mapping. This installation used splendidly executed projection to stick disturbingly lifelike mini-folk in specimen jars.

Illumination was also key with this incredibly complex looking contraption-nine years inside the making-essentially a machine that did nothing (beyond look rather pretty). But its complexity was a feat of its own, pumping dyed liquid through beautifully woven tubes.

The festival has way more to give, and should continue through Saturday-for those of you within the NY City area. [ Vimeo ]

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