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floresenelatico: pedro cabrita reis

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:12:29 +0200

pedro cabrita reis

prostheticknowledge: Phantom Geometry Experimental 3D printing...

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 02:11:19 +0200

Phantom Geometry

Experimental 3D printing using special UV light responsive resin, by Liz and Kyle von Hasseln:

Phantom Geometry from Liz and Kyle von Hasseln on Vimeo.

This is ‘Phantom Geometry’, a masters thesis in architecture by Kyle von Hasseln and Liz von Hasseln, developed in the Robot House at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI_Arc). It was awarded the inaugural Gehry Prize at the SCI-Arc commencement ceremony on September 9.

This work is centered on the development of a system for generating material volume from streaming information. The system uses UV light from a modified DLP projector to continuously and selectively cure photo initiated resin within a shallow vat system we developed for the project. The cured part is simultaneously and continually pulled away from the vat, allowing un-cured resin to flood in beneath it to be subsequently cured. The result is the material reification of streaming data that emerges along the motion path of the Staubli robot maneuvering the vat/projector apparatus.

This system of fabrication relies upon native real-time feed-back and feed-forward mechanisms, and is therefore interruptible and corruptible at any time. The streaming data input may be transformed or modified at any time, and such interventions impact emerging downstream geometry.

“Cities are structurally changing around the needs of a...

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:14:05 +0200

“Cities are structurally changing around the needs of a bunch of algorithms that have no agenda that would be of much correlation to anything you may happen to be doing in that space. To illustrate this, a journey through the nuances of Google Earth is used which shows how the buildings of global super-cities look when the application is navigated in unorthodox ways. “

artandsciencejournal: Mark Dorf Digital and natural worlds...

Sat, 29 Sep 2012 10:53:10 +0200

artandsciencejournal:

Mark Dorf

Digital and natural worlds combine in this hybrid work by artist Mark Dorf. In this series, Axioms & Simulation, Dorf tries to show what is lost in the conversion from reality to digital. As he states,

“As a developed global culture, we are constantly transforming physical space and objects into abstract non-physical thought to gain a greater understanding of composition and the inner workings of our surroundings. These transformations often take the form of mathematical or scientific interpretation. As a result of these changes, we can misinterpret or even lose all reference to the source: when the calculated representation is compared to its real counterpart, an arbitrary and disconnected relationship is created in which there is very little or no physical or visual connection resulting in questions of definition.”

I find Dorf’s work very comforting. It demonstrates how the line between digital and real life can never be fully blurred. To see more of his work, click here.

- Lee Jones

Video

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 18:24:41 +0200

prostheticknowledge: Francoise Gamma - American Fantasy...

Sat, 07 Jul 2012 18:21:34 +0200

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Francoise Gamma - American Fantasy Classics

Well-known contemporary net / gif artist has real-world solo exhibit, including laser-sculpted 3D physical stills:

American Fantasy Classics is pleased to present the work of Barcelona-based artist Francoise Gamma. Drawing aesthetically from the early days of web-based graphics, Gamma’s low res hallucinations feature a uniquely hypnotic pulse of violence and eroticism.

Harnessing the power of rare crystals and secret lasers, the mesmerizing animations have been exhumed from the wilds of cyberspace for his first solo exhibition.

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Manuals for Urban living

Sun, 17 Jun 2012 19:32:07 +0200

Manuals for Urban living

3D printable robotic arm

Sat, 09 Jun 2012 20:20:58 +0200

3D printable robotic arm

Kadâmbini, an audiovisual and cinema show by iduun A club placed...

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:04:19 +0200

Kadâmbini, an audiovisual and cinema show by iduun

A club placed there, in the middle of nowhere. Kadâmbini, handlebar mustache and aviator glasses screwed on his head, is ready for the most incredible journey of his life : a journey mode of nonsense, absurdity and manipulation, built of loops, lights and reversed situations.

The poetic world of Kadambini is inspired by Lewis Carroll, Homer, Saint Exupery and Terry Gilliam for a journey that follows its own dreamy logic.

catrinastewart: The giant mirror of Viganella built to combat...

Wed, 06 Jun 2012 02:01:08 +0200

catrinastewart:

The giant mirror of Viganella built to combat the 83 days of darkness in the year

In amongst the steep mountains of the Italian Alps lies the village of Viganella, a remote commune with a dwindling population of 200. Every year from November 11th to February 2nd, the village is cast under a dark shadow as the sun disappears behind the mountain. The mayor of the village Pierfranco Midali decided to combat this by building a giant mirror on the opposite mountain which would reflect sunlight back into the village. The mirror measures 8 meters by 5 meters and cost 100,000 euros to build and install. The project was such a success that people have began moving back to the village, and the mayor is now regarded as a hero.

Paper crease drawings by Simon Schubert

Mon, 28 May 2012 16:37:00 +0200

Paper crease drawings by Simon Schubert

“A large part of my work is made from A4 sheets of paper....

Mon, 28 May 2012 16:00:54 +0200

“A large part of my work is made from A4 sheets of paper. It is probably the most common and consumed media used for carrying information today. This is why we rarely notice the actual materiality of the A4 paper. By taking away all the information and starting from scratch using the blank white A4 paper sheet for my creations, I feel I have found a material that we are all able to relate to, and at the same time the A4 paper sheet is neutral and open to fill with different meaning. The thin white paper gives the paper sculptures a frailty that underlines the tragic and romantic theme of my works.

The paper cut sculptures explore the probable and magical transformation of the flat sheet of paper into figures that expand into the space surrounding them. The negative and absent 2 dimensional space left by the cut, points out the contrast to the 3 dimensional reality it creates, even though the figures still stick to their origin without the possibility of escaping. In that sense there is also an aspect of something tragic in many of the cuts.”

FTF Inspillo Packagee Font

Sun, 27 May 2012 11:41:00 +0200

FTF Inspillo Packagee Font

painites: Roman Ondák

Sat, 26 May 2012 14:37:04 +0200

painites:

Roman Ondák

prostheticknowledge: The Paintings of Michael Dotson Portfolio...

Fri, 25 May 2012 12:13:00 +0200

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The Paintings of Michael Dotson

Portfolio of spatial and geometric compositions within a room-like setting.

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David Crandall and Noah Snavely discuss how to apply the methods...

Thu, 24 May 2012 01:34:05 +0200

David Crandall and Noah Snavely discuss how to apply the methods of computational photography to the vast wealth of images online to not only get a better spectrum of images of a single place — see geotagging on Flickr — but to also create whole new images.

Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin MausBerlin, 2008 The “Perpetual Storytelling...

Sun, 20 May 2012 19:35:00 +0200

Julius von Bismarck & Benjamin Maus
Berlin, 2008

The “Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus” is a drawing machine illustrating a never-ending story by the use of patent drawings.

The machine translates words of a text into patent drawings. Seven million patents - linked by over 22 million references - form the vocabulary. By using references to earlier patents, it is possible to find paths between arbitrary patents. They form a kind of subtext.

New visual connections and narrative layers emerge through the interweaving of the story with the depiction of technical developments.

From line to hyperreality From Perry Kulper to Aristide Antonas,...

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:37:00 +0200

From line to hyperreality

From Perry Kulper to Aristide Antonas, from Xavier Claramunt to François Roche, a group of architects in a timeless dialogue examine the methods and aims of representation in architectural research today An architecture report from Barcelona by Ethel Baraona Pohl,AR interaction by dpr-barcelona powered by Aurasma.

hadrianestou: Mario Chiattone - Bridge and study of Volumes...

Fri, 18 May 2012 00:19:52 +0200

hadrianestou:

Mario Chiattone - Bridge and study of Volumes (1914)

Conclusions for Research Paper on Body Representation in...

Thu, 17 May 2012 10:03:19 +0200

Conclusions for Research Paper on Body Representation in Architecture

“At a time when religion and divine order was embedded in every object, body was a reference for construction, which created interest in documenting every aspect of it, including its range of motion. However, interests shifted to architecture with its sublime nature where the viewer had to project the feeling of experiencing it. Later the body was reintroduced abstractly to acknowledge its activity, but the active body was seen as a penalty to technology. Thus focus shifted to ideas that began to document overcoming bodies fatigue, extracting more out of the worker and inhabitant. Body measurements were used for efficiency in saving time and labor and the body was seen as a machine. With increasing metaphors and critiques of the body as machine, the representation of the body became further abstracted. Now interest is in no longer further exploring the relationship of the human proportion within representation. Current representation does not show an intimate relationship of creating human figures, and the desire to even create a body type has disappeared as increasing output demands has created convenient methods to represent scale via human stock figures. The historic body as a construction reference is now an adaptable framework for the environment.”