In communicators iPhone users the opportunity to download the installation of the famous artist

German programmer and collector of video art, Ivo Wessel (Ivo Wessel) presented his new project, developed in collaboration with the head of the gallery Eigen Art Gerd Harry Libke (Gerd Harry Lybke), - a series of applications for the iPhone and communicators players iPod Touch. Applications (called e-art-apps) provide access to interactive works of art, which can be viewed solely through the aforementioned devices.

first such product created by an artist and musician Carsten Nicolai (Carsten Nicolai ), also known as alva noto. The work, which you can download for 1,59 euros, is a variant of the installation called rota. In his works dealing with the issue Nicolai sensory perception, and his work explores how the various optical and sound frequencies affect the person. The original installation is a cylinder with a multitude of equidistant holes, inside which is the source of light. The cylinder rotates around its axis, because of what appears strobe effect. Depending on the speed of rotation frequency of the light emission changes. It can be converted into audio information that affects the brain and cause various reactions, which can cause conditions such as trance, hypnosis, or deep contemplation.

While this installation was inspired by Nikolai ideas of the famous artist and poet Brion Gysin (Brion Gysin), who invented "dream car" - the flickering device to which we must "watch" with his eyes closed. This is practically the same hat, only speed he has is constant. The pulsating light stimulates the optic nerve, and the viewer starts to see the different colors and shapes. They say that with the help of this device can enter a hypnagogic state (when a person "wanders" between sleep and waking).

Communicators iPhone are very popular among artists. This year, the London gallery Annely Juda was exhibition of British art of the patriarch David Hockney (David Hockney), which exhibited the landscapes painted by using Brushes . Lawrence Weschler (Lawrence Weschler), published an article on these figures, said that the best thing they do not look as prints on the wall of the gallery or museum, but on the small screen iPhone, since it is the electronic version and the original version.

Another prestigious gallery, exhibiting iPhone art, - New York Gavin Brown's enterprise. In autumn 2008 the American artist Rob Pruitt (Rob Pruitt) presented there photos taken with the communicator. "All my life, everything that I see takes in this little pocket brain" - he writes in the exhibition catalog.

In June this year the painting, done with iPhone , graced the cover of popular magazine New Yorker. The author of the work of Portuguese as an illustrator Georges Colombier (Jorge Colombo).

article prepared by Julia Maksimova, AI

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