Golan Levin makes art that looks back at you

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15 жыл бұрын

www.ted.com Golan Levin, an artist and engineer, uses modern tools -- robotics, new software, cognitive research -- to make artworks that surprise and delight. Watch as sounds become shapes, bodies create paintings, and a curious eye looks back at the curious viewer.
TEDTalks is a daily video podcast of the best talks and performances from the TED Conference, where the world's leading thinkers and doers give the talk of their lives in 18 minutes. Featured speakers have included Al Gore on climate change, Philippe Starck on design, Jill Bolte Taylor on observing her own stroke, Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child, Jane Goodall on chimpanzees, Bill Gates on malaria and mosquitoes, Pattie Maes on the "Sixth Sense" wearable tech, and "Lost" producer JJ Abrams on the allure of mystery. TED stands for Technology, Entertainment, Design, and TEDTalks cover these topics as well as science, business, development and the arts. Closed captions and translated subtitles in a variety of languages are now available on TED.com, at www.ted.com/translate. Watch a highlight reel of the Top 10 TEDTalks at www.ted.com/index.php/talks/top10

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@HiAdrian 15 жыл бұрын

I love this kind of stuff. I hope we'll see more body-electronics interaction in the future, à la DDR.

@ktorn1 Жыл бұрын

this talk never gets old

@Mastakirby 14 жыл бұрын

6:45 and on...that man is my new hero :D

@DixyRae 15 жыл бұрын

"All children are artists. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows up." -Pablo Picasso.

@DavidRutten 15 жыл бұрын

Brilliant!

@carmenwhite8432 8 жыл бұрын

I so enjoyed this....

@Decimaster321 15 жыл бұрын

The taker of doubles is adorable :)

@DixyRae 15 жыл бұрын

As long as we don't forget to augment such limitless experimentation with skills, methods, and thorough education of history. Ignorance of and hostility towards art tends to stem from a lack of education rather than an abundance of it.

@sylvur 14 жыл бұрын

Oooh! I want that last robot as a robot pet!!! Who wouldn't love a 1 eye snake that just goes: "huh!?" and stares at you like if you did something wrong. lol

@NastyDHL 15 жыл бұрын

Yeah, I agree. The people who it truly unnerves and bothers are the propagators of the mindless competition. They are relatively content, but as soon as someone else shows off something and rubs it in their face ("first"), they instantly feel jealousy and resentment. They are the one living in mindless competition, they will be fine but as soon as they see someone else has something they don't have, they begin to harbor anger and envy, until they can rub something in others faces, too.

@DixyRae 15 жыл бұрын

Perfectly understandable. Being school for a long time doesn't necessarily mean that one has had an education. If there's one thing that Post Modern artists can all agree upon, its that we can't agree upon anything. Its given me my fair share of frustration as well.

@LeMixtapeRomance 15 жыл бұрын

the speech part reminds me of the caterpillar in alice in wonderland... very entertaining!

@ccm800 12 жыл бұрын

I met Golen tonight. Lovely

@lianimator 15 жыл бұрын

NEW FAVORITE ARTIST!

@veronicadredd22 15 жыл бұрын

Wow!

@ultravidz 15 жыл бұрын

I WANT ONE!!

@yuothineyesasian 15 жыл бұрын

It does seem that the previous TED talks were much more enlightening. But did you expect them all to be excellent? By my count there are only 8 - 10 really great TED talks.

@AguzSuiCaedere 15 жыл бұрын

Wow... so interesting! I like this kind of stuff... :D

@persebra 4 жыл бұрын

i need to make that double taker and incorporate it into my security system.

@osofrontinoquantico 15 жыл бұрын

that was pretty cool...

@Poppleganger 15 жыл бұрын

since forever

@Slance1Himself 15 жыл бұрын

very interesting

@popaddict 15 жыл бұрын

I take it you're referring to that 'snout' device. I don't think you can use technology like that to intimidate or reduce stealing. The result you'll get with stuff like this is exactly what you see here. People will more than likely just stand around and be goofy with the contraption. Interactivity does that. Its fascinating how interactive technology does that. Put people in the presence of something like that and it will automatically illicit a playful response!

@lakermangmx 15 жыл бұрын

This was fun :))

@clearmenser 15 жыл бұрын

The lack of an art category doesn't mean that the iPhone store is lacking art programs it's the failure of hard defined categories. If the apps were arranged by tags then the "art" tag would certainly be front and center. Tag clouds rule, hierarchies drool.

@Skymning 15 жыл бұрын

That is fucking amazing.

@CrimeEnjoyer 15 жыл бұрын

Where can I buy one of those eye boxes!?

@DibbityDan 15 жыл бұрын

i'd love to project that eye recording thing on somebody's wall

@TakeTheGreenPill 15 жыл бұрын

I hope this guy is on our side...

@lvecsey 15 жыл бұрын

this reminded me of some Ken Perlin stuff

@TheVigilante2000 15 жыл бұрын

So sound and shape are related in language? English or all languages? I would like to see the research on that.

@matthewgutz 15 жыл бұрын

i want one :P

@DrawinGreen 15 жыл бұрын

Me too

@sigmundklaus 15 жыл бұрын

I'm of no camp :) I just think that there is a line ( it can be a subject ti debate where it is) between engineering and art... In my opinion this guy is on the engineer side :)

@ordnascrazy 12 жыл бұрын

[Esperanto] Tre amuza estas la okul-vermo!! :D

@jasonlajoie 15 жыл бұрын

I think perhaps for many 'firsters' it's just a joke that they know pisses some people off. Most of us casual viewers have no feelings about firsters one way or the other. But for those who are annoyed by someone typing 'first', they give a reason for firsters to keep typing 'first'.

@BLACKandASIANracists 15 жыл бұрын

it's also yellow and brown

@Poppleganger 15 жыл бұрын

Probably Max/Jitter. Maybe PD.

@Poppleganger 15 жыл бұрын

i'm of the camp that thinks art is simply what people make of it, so i think if it's viewed as some evasive mystic thing, then it will sound pretentious when someone declares himself an artist. i don't think it's mystic. i think it's good or bad, and to say you're an artist is just a way to describe what you do. in terms of what Levin expresses, I see it as a curiosity about the world and about ourselves.

@Palaflax 15 жыл бұрын

XD I want to meet the double taker, that thing looks amazing.

@Slance1Himself 15 жыл бұрын

yeah, to some people it's like being the first man on the moon or as you said "the first to claim it's virginity", i agree

@willowtreephoto 15 жыл бұрын

I agree, it seems somewhat shallow to compete for glory alone, but social acceptance is a big part of who we are. The is an innate drive to have someone on top. If theres an opening people try to fill the Alpha-gap. Finding happiness in the modern world requires these things to be set aside. Especially on the internet, insulting people, or trying to express dominance is so meaningless. We should co-author a book called "firsting"

@lainieyeoh 15 жыл бұрын

Heck, there isn't an art category for KZfaq eitiher (which I find annoying because I upload a lot of videos about the arts).

@evildevillivedlive 15 жыл бұрын

I feel the same Paul, too bad they mix it up with Gordon Brown, Al Gore, Michael Shermer and such..

@RiverSiege 14 жыл бұрын

That staring robot at the end is so cute, I want one :D

@P00P0STER0US 15 жыл бұрын

The big eye was a big finish :o) I found he killed a little bit of applause by setting up the wrong expectation in the audience. For instance, the 30 minutes of nonsense was probably assumed to be English non-sequitur. Nobody could relate to the achievement since they can't relate to the sounds, and thus can't weigh what they know against what the software produced. Again with the eye tracking, he made it sound like we were going to see something else and the eyes were the quick intro to it.

@polymath7 15 жыл бұрын

I agree with you entirely; egalitarinasm has absolutely no place in art. If it is true to say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder, it is at east equally true to say that comprehension (or want of it) is in the brain of the beholder. Unapologetic elitism is a good thing.

@Trazynn 15 жыл бұрын

Dadaism

@Lacross2569 15 жыл бұрын

Robots w/ GUNZ

@aaronkeogh 15 жыл бұрын

wokachica wokachica wokachica wokachica

@polymath7 15 жыл бұрын

* at least

@willowtreephoto 15 жыл бұрын

Competition without challenge is meaningless. Firsters are an interesting, but meaningless phenomenon that I will tell my grandkids about

@sprattusmaximus 15 жыл бұрын

Its literally verbal diarrhea at 5:30

@Lawh 15 жыл бұрын

Pretty hilarious.

@zeytelaloi 15 жыл бұрын

lmao

@pran1zzle 15 жыл бұрын

LOLEYES

@bluebomber81 15 жыл бұрын

Yea, when that Jaap guy is doing his thing, there are several times where the jibberish appears on screen before he says any of it. Not exactly real-time recognition. More like a well rehearsed sham. And the rest isn't all that impressive considering my webcam is near enough in technology to replicate the tracking features demonstrated in this video.

@sigmundklaus 15 жыл бұрын

I just have a bad feeling about people, who call themselves artists... "I am an artist"... always reminds me of wannabe aritists who have nothing to express. On the other hand I beleive, that almost every engineer is an artist in some way. But I don't see what this guy has to express... And for me that is something art is: expressing something in a "differnet way"... But life is not just black and white... :)

@lqlqlqlqlq 12 жыл бұрын

isn't that a good thing? :)

@BLACKandASIANracists 15 жыл бұрын

hahaha

@p3destrian 13 жыл бұрын

haha the man performing nonsense is so weird!

@bowakowa 15 жыл бұрын

you're probably not the sort we'd like to empower anyway, with that attitude

@DuttonWebb 15 жыл бұрын

acts and looks a little like tony stark

@polymath7 15 жыл бұрын

I always quit listening whenever someone says "empowered".

@NastyDHL 15 жыл бұрын

Competition without a self-reliant goal is meaningless. If you want to compete to get something for yourself, that's great. If you want to compete to get something so others think of you differently, then you are weak.

@holdmybeer 15 жыл бұрын

I have seen sounds but that was drug induced

@Iker888 15 жыл бұрын

since when is art associated with cheesy emotionalism?

@markondash8655 2 жыл бұрын

caca poo poo

@twistedsting 15 жыл бұрын

pause at 6:31 and count how much black people you see i counted 2 and how come there aren't there more than i expected

@NastyDHL 15 жыл бұрын

just saying...

@ZombieToaster 15 жыл бұрын

Well the whole point of the nonsense talk was that it really was nonsense. No one would be familiar with its sounds. Altho I noticed the subtitles used the german alphabet.

@sigmundklaus 15 жыл бұрын

the guy is clearly an engineer,... kind of stupid calling himself an artist... he creates some instruments...does not express anything