ALVARO CASSINELLI

We are at a loss when words or pictures refuse to reveal their immediate purpose. Yet…

“Des figures tirées de bas-reliefs égyptiens font leur apparition (et leur disparition), de manière aléatoire, sur une…

The drawings are not the work itself, but the artistic intervention in time and space shared…

A glitch” in a motorized face tracker produces a “face avoiding” very cute behaviour (actually the tracking mode changes slowly as the robot “adapts” to the face).…

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Interactive exhibition of 10 years of notebooks (conserving the same format) at Cafe & Shop Uma Merdre.…

A japanese garden that reconfigures itself depending on the season, the presence or absence of a human observers and develops structure in a generative way.…

Contributed visuals for Jin-Yo Mok / Jonpasang kinetic 3D matrix at Gangnam…

Connectiing Studio RADA with other milongas around the world in time and space.…

A contribution / collaboration with Horacio Cassinelli for his exhibition “IMAGEN“. Code (ATTiny25/45/85), using sleep mode…

Hugs transformed into random text – or there is a hidden meaning in that act of caring?…

This is my first work in collaboration with my brother Horacio Cassinelli. (Collective Exhibition at Galerie Shumm Braunstein, Paris)…

“scoreLight” and “scoreBots” are two experimental platforms for performative sound design and manipulation. Both are essentially…

A proposal for the Climate Clock competition, city of San Jose (poster at Art and Science Colloquium), in collaboration with Jussi Ängeslevä.…

Extending the human body with visible laser beams that act as autonomous limbs. In collaboration with Danielle Wilde.…

Using the ski slope as a dynamic display, where (laser) graphics are drawn in response to the skiers’ motion. A collaborative project between the University of Lapland, the Berlin University of the Arts and the University of Tokyo. To be deployed during the 2011 FIS Alpine Ski World Cup.…

ScoreLight is a musical instrument capable of generating sound from the lines of doodles as well as the contours of three-dimensional objects (hands, silhouettes, architectural details). There is no camera or projector: a laser spot explores the shape just as a pick-up head searches for sound over the surface of a vinyl record, with the significant difference that the groove is generated by the contours of the drawing itself.…

We performed invasive surgery on an innocent puppet to render it capable of sight. We gave “Donnie” – our bunnie-shaped doll – monocular vision by substituting one of its fake eyes by a webcam. We went even further: we gave Donnie a delusional mind, as well as the ability to project the stream of delusional imagery into the outside world, for everybody to see.…

If you blink, your favorite program will be interrupted. If you force not to blink, you won’t pay attention to it anyway. A reflection on the active role that we as spectators play in post-editing visual media. …

In the film “Scanner Darkly”, spies use a special clothing that constantly change their appearance: anonimity is achieved not by wearing a mask, but by constantly changing recognition cues. What is the “frequency threshold” at which one could still have the feeling that we are switching from one (known) face to another?…

A rotating laser line is used to “hear” a painting as a needle would read a vynil record. The “melody” is however disrupted by a particular kind of “scratch”: the spectators walking over the painting.…

With each turn of the crank, copyrighted images are progressively downloaded but in exchange your portrait is uploaded on the internet. …

A laser spot bounces on a figure being drawn on paper, trying to escape the labyrinth of lines. There is no camera nor projector; this is an experience where the audience can touch and interact with a beam of pure light – and even play a pong game with bare hands.…

“Ouroboros” is a shared virtual space, a world-scale tunnel built by chaining video-conferencing cameras and projectors in a closed loop around the world. The project was Finalist at the LIVE-BITS contest.…

Sculpting a sequence of numbers. Experiments in 2007, completed at the Media Lab Prado, in collaboration with Philippe Chatelain (workshop directed by Chris Sugrue and Daniel Sánchez)…

Audio-visual interface to control a matrix of 64 audio/video channels through touch. Collaboration between Alvaro Cassinelli, Philippe Chatelain and Daito Manabe.…

VJing performance: the body as container for particules that get “heated-up” by a sonic skin-charge, that produces an audible electrical wind. …

[By Shin Egashira with the help of Okamura technical team, Yuji Fukui (mechanical structures) & Alvaro Cassinelli (visual interaction)]…