DAVID FRIED selected recent works PHOTOGRAMS: In bed with lucy and dolly photograms 1 photograms 2 Rainscapes photography 1 photography 2 Vesicles of endevour photograms 3 SCULPTURES: Self organizing still life movies of interactive sculptures sculptures 1 sculptures 2 Stemmers sculptures 3 sculptures 4 EXHIBITIONS: exhibition views curriculum vitae TEXTS: english - deutsch photograms interactive sculptures interview contacts on site Optomized for 120 DPI flat-screens on Netscape type browsers. Resolution: 1400 x 1050 © david fried 2003-6
Self Organizing Still-Life (SOS) - sound stimulated, kinetic interactive sculptures scroll down : 4 movies (page 2) << Movies Page 1 _______________________________________________________________________ click images to play movies ( with sound )Interaktive Skulptur: Self organizing Still Life - (SOS) : Movies
interacting with the sounds of Venice. ( futura film prize düsseldorf )
close up of interactive sculpture in motion.
sounds of new york city stimulate this kinetic sculpture.Self Organizing Still-Life (SOS)
Acoustically stimulated Interactive Sculptures
The Acronym S.O.S implies communication within the trust of an interdependent social system. Fried has chosen SOS - Self Organizing Still Life, as the working title for his ongoing series of sound-stimulated interactive kinetic sculptures, which premiered at Art Berlin in 1998. Since then, his SOS sculptures have been in numerous solo and group gallery and museum exhibitions in Europe and the USA.
Whatever the scale or materials used for the SOS, all of these works consist of solid spheres, which are stirred into motion by ambient sound on a predetermined level object. Audible sound is transformed live into waves that silently stimulate each of the spheres into motion. The resulting action of the individual spheres and their interactions with one another are undetermined. They rearrange themselves in continually new patterns of elegantly fluid choreography. Some kiss, some spin off alone, while others race head-on only to meet with a soft embrace, or swerve around one another, often changing the path and destiny of each other without physical contact, as each sphere is able to feel one another.
Fried is able to give an individual character to each of the solid hand-made spheres, allowing them to respond and behave differently to live sound, though the artist is able to give each entire SOS a particular overall tendency of choreographic response. Like two people would dance differently to the same music, the spheres interact in a unique and live choreography directly initiated by its environment. When an acoustic signal is no longer detected, the spheres come to rest in ever-different constellations. (Still-Life)
As we simultaneously influence and trace the movements of the spheres, our attention becomes increasingly focused on the non-linear dynamic relationships that unfold between them, effectively shifting the emphasis away from the individual objects themselves towards a highly subjective glimpse of a bigger picture.
Creating a complex live visual experience, Fried‘s interactive sculptures are compelling by their symbolically provocative simplicity, as the viewer is moved to forge perspectives on relationships, life and the universe of thought.
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Fried hat für seine aktuelle Reihe akustisch stimulierter, interaktiver und kinetische Skulpturen diesen Arbeitstitel SOS - Selbst Organisierende Stillleben - gewählt. Erstmals präsentiert auf dem Art Forum Berlin 1998, sind seine kinetisches interaktiven Skulpturen inzwischen....Interaktive - Kinetische Skulptur Text >> Deutsch