Technology and art came together in San Francisco this past weekend at The Creators Project, an event designed to showcase the talents of emerging and established artists who are using technology to create art.
The project is part of a partnership between Intel and Vice and was initially sparked by the admiration of the artistic movement of Paris in the 20s.
"We wanted to bring the world's most innovative tech artists together, provide them with the best resources in technology, remove barriers, and give the tech and art world ground-breaking global exposure, "David Haroldsen Intel's Creative Director for The Creators Project told Mashable.
The event has been held previously at several locations in the U.S. as well as locations abroad including France, Brazil, South Korea, China, and the UK.
"The countries we travel to in our global event series are all comprised of innovative communities at the forefront of the marriage of art and technology," said Haroldsen. "Many of our creators are based out of these countries which has in turn helped us further expand, enabling us to form relationships with more and more forthcoming artists in the art and tech communities."
Both well-established an emerging artists take part in the two-day event.
"We tap into our global Vice offices and our existing creators and look for emerging and leading artists that, at the highest level, use technology to push their own creative works," said Hosi Simon, GM of Vice. "We look for innovation through collaboration, creative distribution methods, groundbreaking production methods, and their use of processing power."
While the event only took place over one weekend, the company's relationship with the artists last much longer. "We discuss the artists' dreams and ambitions in great detail, and find ways of how The Creators Project can help them reach their goals. We want to create long-term partnerships and collaborations between the artists and The Creators Project, as well as between the creators from different media and cultures," Simon added.
Check out some of the highlights from the event in the gallery blow, and let us know what's your favorite in the comments.
Origin, a giant LED cube, was set up outside at the center of the event.
Image courtesy of Bob Patterson
Event goers laid beneath Origin to watch the LED lights above.
Image courtesy of Bryan Derballa
Chris Milk's new, interactive installation entitled "The Treachery of Sanctuary" used Kinect sensors to transform people into birds on giant screens.
Each one the three screens represented a different transformative experience of flight.
Image courtesy of Bob Patterson
Kinect sensors allowed event goers to interact with a giant wall of Instagram photos from the event with the hashtag #creators. More than 2,200 photos were shared by event attendees on Saturday.
Selecting a user from the smaller Instagram photo was would create another interactive wall of photos from just that single user.
Six Forty By Four Eighty allowed event goers to interact with giant pixels. Pixel colors could be cloned by holding your hand down on one pixel and then tapping another.
The palette colors on pixels can also be controlled via remote control.
Octocloud is an interactive sculpture and multi-player game. Up to eight players can compete simultaneously using Android phones to trigger the sculpture's projected animations.
Created by SoSoLimited, Overscan is composed of five screens, with the leftmost screen displaying the original TV footage, and the remaining four screens cycling through a series of visual and typographic transformations. The software behind the project searches for patterns in video, and analyzes the closed caption feed to find emotional and thematic layers in the broadcast that are then displayed on the remaining screens.
Image courtesy of Jason Henry
Meditation is made up of three red, reactive projections that draw you in with soothing sounds, while the installations ripples react to your movement.
Origin, a giant LED cube, was set up outside at the center of the event.
Image courtesy of Bob Patterson
Event goers laid beneath Origin to watch the LED lights above.
Image courtesy of Bryan Derballa
Chris Milk's new, interactive installation entitled "The Treachery of Sanctuary" used Kinect sensors to transform people into birds on giant screens.
Each one the three screens represented a different transformative experience of flight.
Image courtesy of Bob Patterson
Kinect sensors allowed event goers to interact with a giant wall of Instagram photos from the event with the hashtag #creators. More than 2,200 photos were shared by event attendees on Saturday.
Selecting a user from the smaller Instagram photo was would create another interactive wall of photos from just that single user.
Six Forty By Four Eighty allowed event goers to interact with giant pixels. Pixel colors could be cloned by holding your hand down on one pixel and then tapping another.
The palette colors on pixels can also be controlled via remote control.
Octocloud is an interactive sculpture and multi-player game. Up to eight players can compete simultaneously using Android phones to trigger the sculpture's projected animations.
Created by SoSoLimited, Overscan is composed of five screens, with the leftmost screen displaying the original TV footage, and the remaining four screens cycling through a series of visual and typographic transformations. The software behind the project searches for patterns in video, and analyzes the closed caption feed to find emotional and thematic layers in the broadcast that are then displayed on the remaining screens.
Image courtesy of Jason Henry
Meditation is made up of three red, reactive projections that draw you in with soothing sounds, while the installations ripples react to your movement.
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