M A R L O Y A R L O

Lumenoise is a light pen, which turns your old CRT-TV into an audiovisual synthesizer, made by Niklas Roy.

You paint abstract geometric patterns and sounds directly onto the screen. It is a playful and performative device, as anything that you do will cause an instantaneous reflection in the gadget’s sonic and visual output.

http://www.niklasroy.com/project/116/Lumenoise

http://www.todayandtomorrow.net/2011/11/08/lumenoise/

In Africa, a photo studio is the place where dreams come true. For a few pence, ordinary mortals can strike a pose and achieve immortality, have things they haven’t got and may never have, be people they are not and may never be, have access to the inaccessible. People start asking for personal portraits that go beyond the image usually present on identity papers, often the only ‘popular portrait’ available.

This open new roads to the art of photographic portrait, with possibility for the artist to catch special moments in people’s existence: people ask for a picture for several reasons, but with the common desire to have a ‘funny picture’.

In this process, new forms of self-representation become part of a new social identity: this is the framework in which we might consider the work of Philip Kwame Apagya.

http://www.designboom.com/portrait/apagya.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Kwame_Apagya