Niet Normaal

NIET NORMAAL 
Everyone’s heard of Average Joe, but has anyone ever met him?
What does he look like and how does he act?
Is he even a he?
And could you be Average Joe?
This website is dedicated to finding out.
It’s part of Niet Normaal, a new exhibition which explores what is and isn’t normal through the
work of cutting edge contemporary artists.

To find out whether you look normal, click here.

To find out whether you act normal, click here.

Japan Media Arts Festival

David Bowen’s Growth Modeling Device scooped up the grand prize in the Art Divistion category. The system attempts to replicate the daily growth of an onion plant.While lasers scan the onion from one of three angles, a fuse deposition modeler creates a plastic model based on the information collected. The device repeats this process every twenty-four hours scanning from a different angle. After a new model is produced the system advances a conveyor approx. 17 inches so the cycle can repeat. The result is a series of white plastic models illustrating a simple organic phenomenon from different angles.

Lawrence Malstaf‘s Nemo Observatorium

Common Flowers, by Shiho Fukuhara and Georg Tremmel (of the Biopresencefame), reverts the blue “Moondust” carnation -the first commercially available and purely aesthetic GM product- back to its natural white state using open-source DIY bio-bending methods and procedures.

Photo on the homepage: Flood Helmet Gallery from the series

Objects for Our Sick Planet, by ONG Kian-Peng.

Text by Regine of WE MAKE MONEY NOT ART

All pictures from the Japan Media Arts Festival.

Patricia Piccinini: The Story of Science

Part I: Laboratory Procedures, 2002
Science Story
Type C colour photograph
100 × 200cm
(small format) 70 x 140 cm
Edition of 15

Part II: Ethical Issues, 2002
Science Story
Type C colour photograph
100 × 200cm
(small format) 70 x 140 cm
Edition of 15

Part III: Research Methods, 2002
Science Story
Type C colour photograph
100 × 200cm
(small format) 70 x 140 cm
Edition of 15

Part IV: Thesis and Conclusions, 2002
Science Story
Type C colour photograph
100 × 200cm
(small format) 70 x 140 cm
Edition of 15

+ Patricia Piccinini

Bird Drawings

I really enjoy these drawings. They remind me of fruit!