Wednesday. 19 January 2011. 20:00 UTC
Following a ten day design charrette at the
ZKM (Center for Art and Media) Robert Gerard Pietrusko of
Warning Office has returned to Harvard while Stewart continues to construct test animations for the panorama room. At the close of January Stewart will return to London to rejoin
Nazerno Crea and
Jürg Lehni in Shacklewell Studios.
Monday. 10 January 2011. 10:00 UTC
Stewart and
Bobby have returned to
ZKM (Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe, Germany to continue their collaboration with the
Global Art and the Museum on a new data animation piece. The work will exist as a panoramic projection—opening this September at the museum. The two are constructing the animation in their own Bronson framework, initially developed for their work on the
Exit (Terre Natale) collaboration in 2008 and incrementally enhanced and refined for later works such as
Under Vine.
Saturday. 29 January 2011. 20:00 UTC
Time’s up and our visit to
ZKM (Center for Art and Media) in Karlsruhe, Germany has ended. So many faces made this three week working-visit feel more like a home away from home. Big smiles to Andrea, Annie, Bernd, Daria, Derek, Dirk, Hans, Heike, Iris, Jacob, Jan, Jens, Julia, Margit, Martin, Matthias, Moritz, Niko, Sarah, Silke, Urs, and Xiaowen.
More after the jump…
Friday. 19 November 2010. 00:00 UTC
Under Vine, the latest collaboration between Robert Gerard Pietrusko of
Warning Office and Stewart Smith of
Stewdio will premiere this evening at the
VIP opening of SFMOMA’s autumn 2010 exhibition
How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now. Read more about this data visualization piece
here.
Thursday. 23 December 2010. 10:00 UTC
According to
SFMOMA curator Harry Urbeck, our new data piece—titled
Under Vine—has greeted over 50,000 museum visitors since the new exhibition
How Wine Became Modern opened a month ago. Physical visitor numbers can seem strange in our cultural bubble dominated by web visitors. (For example,
Browser Pong reached 50,000 unique visitors within just twelve hours of posting the
URL.) We are very pleased with the physical foot traffic and wish everyone the happiest of holidays.
Wednesday. 15 December 2010. 11:30 UTC
A rather good day to pause and review. In November Robert Gerard Pietrusko and Stewart unveiled their latest collaboration, Under Vine, for the SFMOMA’s new exhibition How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now. Under Vine is a data animation describing a modernized view of wine production and export.
Last week Jürg Lehni and Stewart visited Sara De Bondt’s Design Without Labels class at the Royal College of Art to conduct a workshop. The two gave a “subjective and fragmented” history of programming (beginning with punch card looms and largely avoiding actual computer languages all together) and then delivered an assignment brief challenging the students to create their own language and example applications for the following week. More after the jump…
Tuesday. 26 April 2011. 10:00 UTC
Our 2008 collaboration,
Exit, has been included in
MoMA design curator
Paola Antonelli’s article on data visualization in the English / Italian design and architecture journal
Domus (issue 946). Page 114 features our “Carbon Emissions Responsibility” map. For a description of and videos from the Exit project see
http://stewd.io/work/exit.
Update: The article has now been posted online. You can read it at http://domusweb.it/en/design/states-of-design-01-visualization
Saturday. 09 July 2011. 13:00 UTC
Later this month New York City’s
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) will unveil
Talk to Me, a new design exhibition curated by
Paola Antonelli. We’re excited to announce two Stewdio works will be included in the show. The first is
Exit (2008), an immersive data animation created in collaboration with architecture studio
Diller Scofidio + Renfro, et al. (Exit will be represented through video documentation as the actual piece is physically far too large to be included in this particular showing.) The second Stewdio piece is
Windmaker (2007), an ambient weather widget that applies local wind conditions to live websites. Talk to Me will run from July 24 through November 7, 2011.
Friday. 16 September 2011. 16:00 UTC
Our new collaboration with
Robert Gerard Piertrusko and
Bernd Lintermann premieres today at the opening reception for
The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989 in Karlsruhe, Germany.
trans_actions is a panoramic data visualization that illustrates the dramatic increase in the number of biennales of contemporary art and the rapid expansion of the art market following the end of the cold war. Visitors enter a large panoramic projection room bathed in animated data representing artists, curators, biennales, and market fluctuations. (Panoramic video projection, 8192 × 1024 at 25 fps. Approximate running time twenty-five minutes.) Click here to view the
trans_actions project page.
Saturday. 24 September 2011. 10:00 UTC
The
Museum of Modern Art (MoMA)’s
Talk to Me exhibition is halfway through its run. If you’re in the New York area drop in before the show closes on November 7th. The exhibition includes two Stewdio works. The first is
Exit (2008), an immersive data animation created in collaboration with architecture studio
Diller Scofidio + Renfro,
Warning Office, et al. (See also
Talk to Me: Exit.) The second Stewdio piece included in Talk to Me is
Windmaker (2007), an ambient weather widget that applies local wind conditions to live websites. (See also
Talk to Me: Windmaker.)
More after the jump…
Thursday. 22 December 2011. 18:00 UTC
The year is at its end—a moment to reflect upon twelve months of experiments, achievements, and blunders. 2011 opened with
multiple trips to Karlsruhe, Germany to collaborate with the
ZKM Center for Art and Media on a very early version of
trans_actions. In
February Stewart served on the judging panel for TED’s Ads Worth Spreading competition and tutoring a month long workshop at the
RCA with Jürg Lehni.
April was packed: More visits to
ZKM, the Creativity and Technology conference posted my
Code Play lecture video, Paola Antonelli wrote an article for Domus about data visualization that used
Exit as an example, and I posted some odd
X-Files triptychs.
More after the jump…
Friday. 15 February 2013. 20:00 UTC
My 2011 collaboration with
Bernd Lintermann and
Robert Gerard Pietrusko—titled
trans_actions: The Accelerated Art World 1989–09—is currently on display at the Akademie der Künste in Berlin in the
Nothing to Declare exhibition until May 26th. For more information, video, images, and a complete list of collaborators on the original piece see
trans_actions: The Accelerated Art World 1989–09.