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Monday, February 20, 2012
What is Nothing?
Is there such a phenomena as a void or nothingness? Interesting animation by The New Scientist online magazine.
http://www.newscientist.com/video/1291011593001-what-is-nothing.html
Thursday, February 16, 2012
51 Declarations for the Future, by Francis Whitehead
WHY
1. Climate change = culture change
2. Sustanability is a cultural problem
3. Culture is everywhere
4. Ethics and aesthetics are inseparable
5. We need a new metaphysic
6. This is ideological
7. This is pragmatic
8. This is a call to arms
HOW
9. Opt in
10. Question autonomy
11. Seek agency
12. Claim knowledge not just creativity
13. Move beyond critique
14. Demonstrate alternatives
15. Put up or shut up
16. Connect the dots
17. Be suspicious of expertise
18. Redirect contemporary practice
WHAT
19. Think systematically
20. Contend with complexity
21. Champion diversity
22. Create legibility
23. Solve more than one problem at a time
24. Sit at the collective table
25. Innovate through collaboration
26. Account for intangibles
27. Subvert the cultural quo
28. Violate your own taste
29. Get comfortable being uncomfortable
WHERE
30. Start where you are
31. Re-localize radically
32. Envision place-based practice
33. Develop spatial literacy
34. Work at all scales
35. Create situated knowledge
WHEN
36. The world is dynamic
37. Adaptation is key
38. Our perception is limited
39. The future arrives every day
40. We are running out of time
WHO
41. We are world makers
42. We are culture workers
43. We are change agents and double agents
44. We are proactive
45. We are problem-finders
46. We are at home in the future
47. We claim intentionality not morality
48. We practice in public
49. We know we don't know
50. We make new knowledge
51. We change culture.
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Sunday, February 12, 2012
Thursday, February 9, 2012
ZIMOUN
| Zimoun, 294 prepared dc-motors, cork balls, cardboard boxes 41x41x41cm, 2012. 297 x 589 x 503 cm. Photo by John Berens. | |
Zimoun | |
The Swiss Artist, Zimoun, who was mentioned in class this week is showing at bitforms gallery. On view will be an immersive, site-specific sound installation based on prepared dc-motors and cardboard boxes. Part of a series that received its U.S. debut in a solo exhibition at the Ringling Museum of Art this Fall, the installation emphasizes the grid as a method of visual organization. Precariously balanced rows of cardboard boxes form an architectural space containing a rumbling din produced by mechanical motors humming in unison. Pulsing rhythmically, each unit in the system reverberates with its own sense of purpose and timing. Temporal microstructures emerge and shift, made visible by collective behavior. With minimalist and low-tech means, Zimoun constructs a blank zone of play utilizing repetition and the physical pressure of vibration. As an author, Zimoun uses scale and tools of amplification to transform our associations with commonplace industrial objects. Tuned into kinetic and acoustic detail, his obsessive displays of collected materials unlock emotional potential in otherwise banal and chaotic gestures. In his work static volume permeates a space, yielding reductive clocklike operas of the everyday. For the duration of the show, the gallery's project room on the 6th floor will also feature four mechanical works by the artist and a video. | |
Thursday, February 2, 2012
Cyborg Digital Keytar
The "VoltAxe" - Crazy awesome music controller built by artist Julie Covello as part of a residency at the Clocktower gallery in New York. The eyepiece she's wearing displays the screen of the computer she uses to perform., creating a a very active and cyborg-like performer. There are some more photos here. And this song was supposedly made live with the VoltAxe:
Minor schwing by FreebassBK
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