https://vimeo.com/1284717

Brilliant Noise by the artist duo Semiconductor takes us into the data vaults of solar astronomy. After sifting through hundreds of thousands of computer files, made accessible via open access archives, Semiconductor have brought together some of the sun's finest unseen moments. These images have been kept in their most raw form, revealing the energetic particles and solar wind as a rain of white noise. This grainy black and white quality is routinely cleaned up by NASA, hiding the processes and mechanics in action behind the capturing procedure. Most of the imagery has been collected as single snapshots containing additional information, by satellites orbiting the Earth. They are then reorganised into their spectral groups to create time-lapse sequences. The soundtrack highlights the hidden forces at play upon the solar surface, by directly translating areas of intensity within the image brightness into layers of audio manipulation and radio frequencies

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QgUzoo-r5_s&feature=youtu.be

Olafur speaking about energy access and Little Sun via Mashable

Reality projector, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles.

Sound recordings at the studio. This audio library was sent to the musician and sound artist Jónsi, who selected, mixed, and arranged the material in dialogue with Olafur into an ambient soundscape to accompany the artwork Reality projector

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Greetings from Addis Ababa - from the Poetry Jazz: Wax and Gold.

Your embodied garden, 2013, Master of Nets Garden and the Lion Grove Garden, Suzhou, China.
"What particularly interests me about the scholar’s garden are its various temporal aspects: the creation of the garden, the cycle of changing seasons, but also the visitors’ physical moving-through its convoluted and intricately linked spaces. What I find so inspiring is that these different notions of time passing are taken as explicit co-producers of the garden. When I went into the scholar’s garden, I saw the garden, but I also saw the limits of what I could see; I saw the construction of my own way of seeing things. I used the garden to reflect myself. It was gardening me, so to speak, and it was also gardening Steen’s body. It directed his relatively minimal movements, with me giving choreographic input on an intuitive and emotional level: Steen ‘becoming’ a garden, a tree, or a rock, but also becoming a user of the garden, of its conditions. This meant inversing our perspective, to look at the body as a result of the garden, not the other way around." www.soe.tv

The newly launched Little Sun Foundation is an extension of the Little Sun social business. The Foundation’s mission is to bring solar energy to the most vulnerable communities worldwide who are off the grid and beyond the reach of entrepreneurial distribution models. These communities include remote schools, refugee camps, and people affected by natural disasters. The Solar Kids School Program is the Little Sun Foundation’s first official project and has already successfully raised funds for 3200 solar lamps in rural Rwanda Solar Schools Programme

Excerpt from Buckminster Fuller - How Little I Know

Oskar Fischinger, Optical Poem, 1938 - excerpt from above review: "Like an avant-garde animation by Hans Richter or Oskar Fischinger (an avant-garde artist who once worked for MGM), an abstract “movie” of sliding, blooming rectangles, parallelograms, triangles and trapezoids plays across the giant screen — minus the film stock, of course, and blown up to monumental scale. Traditional cinematic editing devices; wipes, dissolves, cuts — are produced by the overlapping, moving shapes, further enlivening the geometric imagery."

Hans Richter, Rhytmus 21, 1921

Studio Visits: Oliver Morton shares his insights on terra-forming and geo-engeenering. www.soe.tv

Studio Visits - with philosopher Timothy Morton
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Reality projector soundscape - Olafur recorded the sounds of a piano as it arrived and was set up at the studio and as he experimented on it with found objects. This audio library was sent to the musician and sound artist Jónsi, who selected, mixed, and arranged the material in dialogue with Olafur into an ambient soundscape to accompany the artwork Reality projector. Opens March 1 at The Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles

Studio Kitchen Visits: Artist duo and resident filmmakers at the studio SHIMURAbros joined the kitchen team to make Shojin Ryori - a vegetarian, Japanese, Buddhist concept of using every part of the vegetables, not letting anything go to waste. See full film on www.soe.tv where you can also see some of the artistic work SHIMURAbros did for the studio

https://vimeo.com/23631122

Lorraine Daston in conversation with Olafur Eliasson and Mohsen Mostafavi at Institut für Raumexperimente: The Passions in Which Time Stands Still: Horror, Terror, and Wonder