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.
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.
Sunday. 10 April 2011. 17:00 UTC
One week down and one to go here at the
Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in
Karlsruhe, Germany. To recap, I’m here working with
Bernd Lintermann, head of the
Institute for Visual Media, and the
Global Art and the Museum team lead by
Andrea Buddensieg on a data visualization exhibition piece for
The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989 exhibition opening this September. Storyboarding. Coding. Bumping along to an odd mix of the
instrumentals-only version of Dr. Dre’s 2001 and the first three records from
Squirrel Nut Zippers. Not to mention the two minute trailer for the Beastie Boys’
Fight for your Right—Revisited which seems to have the
most incredible cast list ever, including what appears to be a DeLorean time machine. (“Sense is something you can’t even make sense of until you’ve been to the future and spent time there.”) So much more coding and sketching to do. Back at it now. —Stewart
Tuesday. 05 April 2011. 10:00 UTC
It’s that time again. Stewart is currently at the
Center for Art and Media (ZKM) in
Karlsruhe, Germany working with
Bernd Lintermann, head of the
Institute for Visual Media, and the ever-sharp
Global Art and the Museum team. (Bobby will return to
ZKM in June.) The result of this collaboration will be an immersive data animation of the art market—a strange and sometimes illogical economy of artists, curators, biennales, fairs, auction houses, and collectors—on display as part of the
The Global Contemporary: Art Worlds After 1989 exhibition opening this September. But for now, it’s springtime. Trees. Leaves. Rain. Breezes. Sunshine. Bunnies. Storyboards.
SQL. OpenGL. And so on. Unrelated: Seventeen years ago today there was an unhappy kid in Seattle. And then there wasn’t. How time passes.
Monday. 22 August 2011. 11:00 UTC
Our latest panoramic data animation—titled
trans_actions: The Accelerated Art World 1989–09—premieres next month in a new exhibition titled
The Global Contemporary. Art Worlds After 1989 at the
ZKM | Museum of Contemporary Art in Karlsruhe, Germany. The piece is a collaboration with
Bernd Lintermann and
Robert Gerard Piertrusko, and was made possible by the
Global Art and the Museum (
GAM) department of
ZKM headed by Hans Belting and Andrea Buddensieg. More details to follow.
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.
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.