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<eFashion>-mag :: August, 2006  Luxist :: July 12, 2006  "I fully admit that I don't quite understand video art but this piece is a lovely little bit of hypnotic decoration for your living room." -- Deidre Woolard [link] Core77 :: July 11, 2006  "Flear's objective was to create an organic and ambient piece operated by a surprisingly complex formula underneath." -- squirrelbait. [link] GIZMODO :: July 2, 2006  "Throw that lava lamp right out the window and stick this hi-tech piece of art on your wall. Fireflies, the brainchild of John Flear, uses a number of LEDs to simulate digital fireflies. The LEDs seem to flutter about, almost as if in Disney movie. What motivates the fireflies to move around is temperature: the LED fireflies light up in search of the "ideal temperature for their existence," a metaphor for our own lives. Normally it costs $770, but if you act now you grab it for $350. Look how calming it is..." QJ Gadgets :: July 2, 2006  By Maricar V. When some VIPs (aka boss) pay you a visit, keeping them entertained is almost always a cause for worry. It's even a cause for panic if you're an obsessive compulsive. Sometimes, you wish there's something that will keep them busy just so they won't focus too much on you. Something like John Flear's Fireflies Wall Art. It's not your ordinary wall art as it's heavily influenced by the works of Thomas Schelling, the 2005 Nobel prize laureate in economics. That alone is enough to earn you big points. OhGizmo :: June 30, 2006  By David Ponce Anything that combines LEDs, economics, complex simulations of
social patterns and art is cool by us. The Fireflies
by John Flear is a funky, “retro-futuristic” piece of wall art that was
inspired by the work of Economics Nobel prize laureate Thomas
Schelling. Each square inch of the 14 by 12 inch installation contains
one LED. The patterns created by these LEDs symbolize digital fireflies that move around their environment to find the ideal temperature for their existence. If it’s too hot they move away from the other fireflies. If it’s too cold they hang out together. This abstraction reflects the way we humans also lead our lives. We move around pulled by emotional forces in various directions. The piece is $770 at BitEditions, though it seems to be on special right now for $350. And if you’re wondering just what this stuff looks like, we’ve included a video after the jump. Make Magazine volume 6 :: Toolbox   Women's Wear Daily :: Bits & Bytes  Eight artists from New York and San Francisco explore the super low-resolution medium of LED animations in Superlowrez. Each work measures 12 inches by 14 inches and contains 168 light-emitting diodes, or one per square inch. Each LED can show eight levels of brightness. The displays, which were built and programmed by art-technology firm Bit Editions of Philadelphia, contain 128 kilobytes of memory and can show animations of 1,984 frames. Jude Tallichet re-created a snippet of Andy Warhol's film of the Empire State Building, left. Akiko Sakaizumi comments on society and gender by tweaking the imagery and narrative of early video games. Joe Amrhein's digital canvas blinks and squirms with the vocabulary of art criticism ("faux-naive," "seductive," "overcaffeinated"). At vertexList in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, through Sunday.  Productdose.com Click here to read the full article.   Apartment Therapy Click here to read the full article. "Surreptitious web links to other good sites." "This is real digital publishing."   Mocoloco.com Ambient Click here to read the full article.   Williamsburg and Greenpoing Monthly Art Guide (WAGMAG), December 2005.   artnet Magazine, "Technical Knock-Outs" by Ben Davis. Click here to read the full article.  "The best work is Jude Tallichet’s EMPR. Tallichet has taken Andy Warhol’s 1964 film, Empire -- a single static shot of the Empire State Building as the light and atmosphere change around it -- and recreated it in the Bit Editions box. Compressed into the limited time-frame of the device, the passage of time in Warhol’s famous endurance piece is signified by jerky shifts in the lit pixels, as the building starts out a shining box against a dark background, then reverses as day becomes night. The idea of the piece -- to use the filter of the primitive graphics to render the immense, symbolic building toy-like and small -- takes the enforced technological limitation and sublates it, to good effect." "And Akiko Sakaizumi creates a queasy, video game-inspired narrative, highlighted by a flying chicken body being shot at and impregnated by a phallic cannon, and giving birth to its own head."  
Makezine.com blog Click here to read the full article.   Decor: The art & framing business resource, November 2005. "Tim Redfern's new minimalist animation attracts modern buyers."   Art World News, February 2006.   Graphics.com: the shared resource for creative design. Click here to read the full article. "With an ambiguously retro/futuristic feel, a programmable LED display might be just the thing."  Macadelic.de Click here to see the full article. "Auf bitedition.com können sich Designer oder Künstler ein LED-Display für ihre Videokunst oder Kunstinstallation bestellen. Das LED-Display hat eine Größe von 30 x 35 cm und lässt sich einfach mit einer Animations-Software programmieren. Die Animation wird nach erfolgreicher Programmierung mit 10 Frames pro Sekunde auf dem Display wiedergegeben."  Origami Tessellations Click here to read the full article. "Not a bad price for such a cool idea."  |
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