#24 CYPRIEN GAILLARD DUST LINES

My work starts where and when the archaeologists left off.

mono.kultur | Current.

Leaving reality behind.
i’m visiting Zai and the etoy crew – just hours before they go to their huge exhibition in Korea. I will stay a few more days in their studio made out of containers. An amazing place to work from…
* www.etoy.com

The Theatre of the Air/ AIRSPACE ACTIVISM=ENACTING THE INVISIBLE

is a set of 2 exhibitions – in London and Newcastle

it is the fruit of the collaboration in between geography researcher Dr Alison J Williams and Interactions designer Nelly Ben Hayoun

The Theatre of the Air / Airspace Activism.

Jen Stark

* nice and colorful paper cut sculputures

Megawords Storefront

Megawords (Magazine) Storefront
125 N. 11th St.
The nice corner spot at Cherry St.
Chinatown, Philadelphia
All month long.
Opens Friday at 6pm.

More info: megawordsmagazine.com
Download full schedule: PDF”

from the site:
Megawords Storefront

PHILADELPHIA, PA – Megawords – the free Philadelphia-based magazine that collaborates with dozens of renowned and unknown artists and thinkers to cover the world through words and pictures, will leap off the page and into a month-long storefront exhibition during September 2008. The Megawords storefront project and exhibition will include a month-long period of intense activity including permanent and rotating installations, guest speakers, musical performances, workshops and film screenings.

“Frequently so-called ‘pop-up’ installations like this one take their inspiration from the world of advertising,” says Smyrski. “They put people in a fancy gallery space, overload the project with sponsors, and do everything possible to take artists out of their natural context. We believe people are most interesting exactly where they are, doing what they’re doing. With the storefront, we hope to spend time with people we respect, observe their creative process, and document the learning process. If we’re lucky, a community will emerge.”

(via REFERENCE LIBRARY.)

BIGGEST DRAWING IN THE WORLD

(via: Thomas Traum) 

MORE MORE MORE MORE

Richard Brown: “

I’m currently over in Vienna settng up my work for the upcoming Pask Present Exhibition which opens tomorrow. If your in the area feel free to join us for the opening night tomorrow (25th March). One of the artists exhibiting is Richard Brown, so I thought I’d show a taste of his work. Richard Brown has a BSc in Computers & Cybernetics and an MA in Fine Art and works as a hybrid artist, inventor and entrepreneur creating interactive and mimetic experiences using a wide variety of media, including the digital, the analogue and the chemical. His works explores the perception of space, time and energy encompassing ideas from cybernetics, artificial life, interaction design, emergence, complexity and alchemy.

Static Machine

Between 1995 and 2001 Richard was a Research Fellow at the Royal College of Art where he created and exhibited three major interactive works Alembic (ICA 1998), Biotica (Siggraph 2000) and the Neural Net Starfish (Millennium Dome 2000). Whist at the RCA Richard also published the book ‘Biotica: Art, Emergence and Artificial- Life‘. He has been an Honorary Senior Research Fellow at the Victorian College of Art, Melbourne University, and artist-in-residence at CEMA (Centre for Electronic Media Arts), Monash University.In 2006 Richard was invited by Edinburgh Informatics to be their first Research Artist in Residence. In this role, he has developed projects combining art, informatics and communications research.

Here are a selection of projects of his but you can see many more at the Pask Present Exhibition.

Electromagnetic Time Machine 1983

An electromagnetic kinetic sculpture using the cybernetic principle of regulatory feedback to generate complex oscillatory behaviour. Each electromagnetic relay is physically coupled to a vertical pendulum and electrically influenced by its immediate neighbour. When a relay closes it causes the relay in front to close only if the relay behind is open, thus creating a regulatory feedback loop with unstable oscillations due to the differing physical weightings of the vertical pendulums. A simple PIR sensor activates the work, the pulsing lights indicating the closing and opening of each relay.

Cybernetics concerns itself with any type of system that involves sensing and feedback, biological, ecological, mechanical and chemical. Gordon Pask created cybernetic feedback mechanisms using electromechanical and analogue components in his works, such as ‘Colloquy of mobiles’ in the same vein, Time Machine represents an alternative paradigm to the digital.

Dendritics I, II and III

The Electrochemical System is inspired by Gordon Pask’s early experiments with electrochemistry. The central negatively charged copper electrode of each glass is surrounded by four positively charged copper electrodes. Copper dendrites grow from the central electrode reaching out to the outer electrodes. The plates are connected so that each glass is in competition with the other, more charge being consumed by the fastest growing dendrite. Each outer electrode is connected via an LED whose brightness indicates the voltage difference.

This work represents an experiment in using dendritic growth as self regulating switching mechanisms, as a dendrite grows, it consumes more potential in competition with other dendrites trying to grow from the same power source. Pask describes the possibilities of chemical computing, the energy systems involved and illustrates a number of circuit possibilities for dendritic circuits on pp 105–108 in his book ‘An approach to Cybernetics’, Pask 1961.

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(Via Interactive Architecture dot Org.)

marc fornes at DRL10: “

london’s architectural association is currently showing ‘DRL10′ an exhibition celebrating the tenth anniversary
of AA’s design research lab (DRL). the show will run until march 18th, featuring work from current students and
alumni.

included in the show are the automated architecture projects by marc fornes. the works are created by applying
code and algorithms to a simple polyhedron frame structures. the process results in unpredictable new forms.

via kulture flash
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Tiny Specimens: “

The ‘nature expedition’ is a tried and true exercise in elementary school science class. Assuming the identities of junior scientists, students embark into nature to collect samples of bugs, plants, twigs and sundry living things for study. The artists Pascal Glissmann and Martina Hofflin, working in conjunction with the Academy of Media Art, Cologne, have updated this model, but with a distinct twist: their samples are solar-powered Electronic Life Forms (2004-2007) or ‘elfs’. According to the artists, ‘elfs are small, analog creatures reacting to light, calling the attention of the observer with their delicate sounds and movements.’ Isolated in glass Mason jars and accompanied by photographic documentation of the machines inhabiting their ‘natural’ environment, the artists present elf ‘specimens’ in the gallery much like exotic fauna. The set-up falsely attributes these simple robotic creatures with the characteristics of a living being, thus enduing the elfs with an endearing quality. Glissmann and Hofflin explain the underlying motivation for the project as a questioning of ‘the relationship between technology, nature and humans.’ The elf installation is currently on view in the ‘Urban Living’ exhibition at Pittsburgh’s Wood Street Galleries. – Gene McHugh

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