Big prints

The images I've chosen for the plotter project are a selection from 100 works received. They all have a strong link with the talks. Humour, beauty, irony and a critic eye are used. Almost all of them were specially designed for LIFT. Thanks to all the people who made it possible. It was a lot of work for them and very little time. You’re all great !!!

Track 1: Akinori Oishi, Sophie Ausländer & Emmanuel Ventura
Track 2: Ramon Cahenzli. Rahel Schäpper and Andy Rementer
Track 3: Santana Dardot, Le Joli Collectif, Eboy and Tomoyasu Murata
Track 4: PhotoPhoto, Gaël Paccard & Dave Gray
Track 5: Rit Mishra, John Wu, Linvydas Krivickas, Paul Granjon & Marion Mayr

Track 1: Akinori Oishi, Sophie Ausländer & Emmanuel Ventura

Using a very simple black & white technique, Aki made a huge panorama of a happy living system full of strange creatures, half-electronic half-human.

The work of Sophie & Emmanuel is a metaphor of a climbing soul. The water colored pixels are like a camouflage. A colourful search for a better life.

Although Akinori, Sophie and Emmanuel come from totally different universes the meaning of their work went perfectly well together for LIFT.

Akinori Oishi
http://blog.aki-air.com/

Sophie Ausländer
http://www.auslandventures.com/

Track 2: Ramon Cahenzli. Rahel Schäpper and Andy Rementer

TMI - Too Much Information

Many people publish information on blogs. Many people publish useless information on blogs! But many blogs publish useful information.

Dilemma? Certainly.

TMI cannot guide you through this information. TMI is just here to present it to you, so you can judge for yourself. See 6323 headlines from 188 blogs spread over 7 days with only one glance. Now you can
make up your mind. TMI?

Techno Tuesday

A weekly comic that takes a hard look at technology and life in the modern world. The comic appears online, and occasionally in print. It has been featured in Adbusters magazine, Clark magazine, and exhibited in the Pompidou Centre in Paris. I thought a conference dedicated to technology was a prime spot to showcase this work. Also the plotter project reminded me of how technology is continuously being spewed, an issue I'm interested in.

Ramon Cahenzli
http://rca.snm-hgkz.ch/blog

Andy Rementer
http://www.andyrementer.com

Track 3: Santana Dardot, Le Joli Collectif, Eboy and Tomoyasu Murata

SANTANA DARDOT

Santana is a programmer and an artist. His work for Lift is an abstract representation of the load of energy when his two worlds meet.

LE JOLI COLLECTIF

A swiss group of illustrators from various horizons making cadavres-exquis, hybrid portraits of contemporary techno geeks.

EBOY

Well known for using the pixel to develop incredibly complex and detailed illustrations about the invading web 2.0 brands in our daily life.

TOMOYASU MURATA

A japanese artist working on mixing japanese iconographic heritage with contemporary themes, and particulary the impact of new technology in his work.

SANTANA DARDOT
http://www.sapien.com.br

Le Joli Collectif
http://www.lejolicollectif.ch

EBoy
http://feeds.feedburner.com/eboy

Tomoyasu Murata
http://www.tomoyasu.net

Track 4: PhotoPhoto, Gaël Paccard & Dave Gray

PhotoPhoto

Mixing antique photo technique and ultimate digital device, dgbp took pictures of lifters two by two.
A portait series, well aside of the snapshots wave that will occur in such an event. Dual portaits reflecting the amount of emulation and creation that's in LIFT, images connecting people of various fame and origins, images hybridizing the traditional photographic portrait and the digital medium.

GAËL PACCARD

Fragile Love Distance is a piece of work about a loving relationship happenning now in between Switzerland-Netherlands-Japan. How warm can new techonolgies be?

DAVE GRAY

Drawings made by Dave Gray during the conference days.

David Gagnebins-de-bons et Benoît Pointet
http://dgbp.ch

Gaël Paccard
http://www.gaelodilonpaccard.com

Dave Gray
http://www.flickr.com/photos/davegray

Track 5: Rit Mishra, John Wu, Linvydas Krivickas, Paul Granjon & Marion Mayr

RIT MISHRA

This artwork is a generative art that is being developed by open source software NODEBOX that is in process of development at MIT. Rit uses generative technology for creating most amusing artworks that would have never been possible by human capabilities. His artworks are simple, aesthetic and amusing. (Amusing because he writes code and magic is created by technology.)

JOHN WU

A real experience about digital fragility.

LINVYDAS KRIVICKAS: DIGITALLY DIVORCED

I reached for the hand of a Russian lady on a day we were having our rendez-vous. She asked me to marry her, otherwise I was going loose her. I did that. Then she asked me once again to arrange her a tour in the U.S. That was the last time I was seeing her real-time real place. All of our future relations were internet mail based. So, I was sure of logging in and meeting only by knowing her address, but the same time I could not have imagined where the hell in the world she was!
Almost literraly divorced quite soon after - Not long ago I discover - she's back, but married to another man, delivering a new born baby!

Beware! One day you may also taste it! Digitally divorced! Here's a story of a FLAMING MOUTH MAN!
Radioactive tea time!