tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-64337232419654864302024-03-05T10:42:48.903+00:00unitBResponsive ArchitectureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger159125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-81401071052921561052013-08-09T18:21:00.004+01:002013-08-09T18:30:53.018+01:00Unit B The Unseen Landscape Year Book
The anniversary web publication of the 2011-2012 Unit B Year Book is below, or see it <a href="http://issuu.com/unitbresponsivearchitecture/docs/unit_b_the_unseen_landscape_2012?e=9013771/4366417"> via this link</a>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-24219338705190052282013-01-14T17:18:00.001+00:002013-01-14T17:18:54.359+00:00Prototyping Architecture<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJoSG3LZTQ0cE1csjLilOoTwNvXuZGP6_42NtvLrBj9pjPM17XU54HZTN8_RGW0TaWV6XWjbQ4bvg7lKsmtJwteUhECb5dq3UtlopMODFgHv0ecSwoEnJbqJTF1YrXVyR91CVbI2AaYCI/s1600/Philip+Beesley+Hylozoic+Ground+3.tiff" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="215" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJoSG3LZTQ0cE1csjLilOoTwNvXuZGP6_42NtvLrBj9pjPM17XU54HZTN8_RGW0TaWV6XWjbQ4bvg7lKsmtJwteUhECb5dq3UtlopMODFgHv0ecSwoEnJbqJTF1YrXVyR91CVbI2AaYCI/s320/Philip+Beesley+Hylozoic+Ground+3.tiff" width="320" /></a><br /><br /><br /><br />Very interesting looking exhibition on at the Building Design Centre in London on Prototyping Architecture, with examples of work by Philip Beesley and Amanda Levete amongst others. <br />"...how trial assemblies can inform architecture - with maquette’s, models and full-scale sample productions on show from around the world....Prototyping Architecture forms a bridge between architecture, engineering and art, with exhibits that are inventive, purposeful and beautiful."<br />Until 20th March at the Building Design Centre in London<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/events/event_diary_details.asp?id=817">Exhibition details here</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-80664325773266356512013-01-14T17:04:00.002+00:002013-01-14T17:04:13.876+00:00Dan Shortlisted for RIBA Bronze Medal<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6eLo5kOjM-abzd0iGqecsa_z7ir9vLz7r6UL8MJsNGK8SMHKF1uu4lclUP6bPERQfyu1NScgmt40z-Yvjtsfp1MJNE6sVbCGdMw5dOz9w_MuT3ysKbjsX6DBKj8CVhsQGmZ_rkJbq0nA/s1600/11small+copy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style=""><img border="0" height="283" width="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh6eLo5kOjM-abzd0iGqecsa_z7ir9vLz7r6UL8MJsNGK8SMHKF1uu4lclUP6bPERQfyu1NScgmt40z-Yvjtsfp1MJNE6sVbCGdMw5dOz9w_MuT3ysKbjsX6DBKj8CVhsQGmZ_rkJbq0nA/s400/11small+copy.jpg" /></a>
Congratulations to Dan for being shortlisted for the RIBA Bronze Medal. His work is on display at the RIBA until the 26th January 2013.
<a href="http://www.presidentsmedals.com/Project_Details.aspx?id=3173&dop=True"> See more here. </a>
<a href="http://www.architecture.com/WhatsOn/Exhibitions/At66PortlandPlace/2013/Spring/TheRIBAPresidentsMedalsStudentAwards2012.aspx"> RIBA Exhibition details here</a> Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-58954811422559707142012-10-13T11:57:00.001+01:002012-10-13T11:57:14.326+01:00studio 3The studio 3 blog for our MArch studio in Brighton <a href="http://studio3responsivearchitecture.blogspot.co.uk/"> Studio 3</a>
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The Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Hepworth Wakefield Gallery are holding concurrent Richard Long exhibitions, last chance to see them as they close on the 14th October 2012 (there is a video on the Hepworth Wakefield Gallery site - see below). If you can't make it to the exhibition Richard Long has an excellent website- recommend taking a look <a href="http://www.richardlong.org/"> click here</a> </i><br />
<i>'Long’s work comes from his love of nature and through the experience of making solitary walks. These take him through rural and remote areas in Britain, or as far afield as the plains of Canada, Mongolia and Bolivia. Long never makes significant alterations to the landscapes he passes through. Instead he marks the ground or adjusts the natural features of a place by up-ending stones for example, or making simple traces. He usually works in the landscape but sometimes uses natural materials in the gallery. His work explores relationships between time, distance, geography, measurement and movement.'</i> Tate<br />
For full details of the exhibitions including a video see <a href="http://www.hepworthwakefield.org/whatson/artist-rooms-on-tour-with-the-art-fund-richard-long/"> Hepworth Wakefield Gallery</a> and <a href="http://www.ysp.co.uk/exhibitions/richard-long"> Yorkshire Sculpture Park</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-84594327765251413932012-10-10T15:16:00.002+01:002012-10-10T15:17:34.551+01:00Rain Room<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcG5Wvfq3BIMwWEe25lZExeV-2bzT8kChcOJ8qR6Nw546ohtf-nh-qAFnZiWpvw2o28XDUIZEP1XZJWMIr630XjFeU0k13ueQBDA4T8z_0AQmyuMX9Foy4jYnQS50SVtyNkc8x4g8QQsE/s1600/rainroom.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcG5Wvfq3BIMwWEe25lZExeV-2bzT8kChcOJ8qR6Nw546ohtf-nh-qAFnZiWpvw2o28XDUIZEP1XZJWMIr630XjFeU0k13ueQBDA4T8z_0AQmyuMX9Foy4jYnQS50SVtyNkc8x4g8QQsE/s320/rainroom.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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Random International's Rain Room is in the Curve Gallery at the Barbican (London) until 3rd March 2013. <i>'Random International invites you to experience what it’s like to control the rain. Visitors can choose to simply watch the spectacle or find their way carefully through the rain, putting their trust in the work to the test. More than the technical virtuosity necessary for its success, the piece relies on a sculptural rigour, with the entire Curve transformed by the monumental proportions of this carefully choreographed downpour and the sound of water. Random International are known for their distinctive approach to digital-based contemporary art. Their experimental artworks come alive through audience interaction and staged performance.'</i><br />
Video and full details from the Barbican<a href="http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=13723"> here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-15092817806630222942012-06-06T19:27:00.001+01:002012-06-06T19:39:27.788+01:00Playful Ping Pong Pavilion 23rd June - 8th July LFA<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTmU015OU-ConoOJpydaTGcyEGmpc9hFCTYs5XY42yBs5o498xpunpxDX0zdTy8yIKLZk90C0QiBmCl7nGYtK86st_YTVxeSmBBsJvW0br4M_lHZIfyYLFYUsZmw-q66iEAqnx_hIJb8o/s1600/dan.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="274" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTmU015OU-ConoOJpydaTGcyEGmpc9hFCTYs5XY42yBs5o498xpunpxDX0zdTy8yIKLZk90C0QiBmCl7nGYtK86st_YTVxeSmBBsJvW0br4M_lHZIfyYLFYUsZmw-q66iEAqnx_hIJb8o/s320/dan.jpg" width="320" /></a><br />
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Dan Sweeting from Unit B and Gang of Six won a competition for the design of a playful pavilion which forms part of the London Festival of Architecture from 23rd June to 6th July, The RIBA's Love Architecture Festival, and the Oxford School of Architecture end of year show. The pavilion is based on the Ping Pong variant 'Around The World'. Students from Montana State University and Oxford Brookes University finalised the design together.<br />
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From Sunday 1st July - Sunday 8th July as part of the London Festival of Architecture the public are invited to engage with the pavilion and there will be subsequent talks and activities taking place throughout the two weeks. For details of the location in London see the London Festival of Architecture site<a href="http://www.lfa2012.org/events/view/the-playful-ping-pong-pavilion-101"> here</a>.<br />
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Playful Pavilion blog <a href="http://playfulpavilion2012.blogspot.co.uk/2012/05/competition-for-playful-pavilion.html"> here</a>.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-7289894110914847372012-06-06T18:20:00.000+01:002012-06-08T13:21:38.913+01:00Unit B 2012 ExhibitionThe Unit B exhibition at Oxford Brookes University runs until 9th June. The exhibition then goes to London at Chetwoods Architects, 12-13 Clerkenwell Green, London with the celebratory opening on 28th June and then it runs until 8th July.<br />
Invitiation with details <a href="http://architecture.brookes.ac.uk/media/resources/2012EYinvitation.pdf"> here</a>.<br />
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The Serpentine Pavilion opened on 1st June (closes 14th October). Describing their design concept Herzog & de Meuron and Ai Weiwei said:
“<i>Every year since 2000, a different architect has been responsible for creating the
Serpentine Gallery’s summer Pavilion for Kensington Gardens. That makes eleven
Pavilions so far, our contribution will be the twelfth. So many Pavilions in so many
different shapes and out of so many different materials have been conceived and
built that we tried instinctively to sidestep the unavoidable problem of creating an
object, a concrete shape.
“Our path to an alternative solution involves digging down some five feet into the
soil of the park until we reach the groundwater. There we dig a waterhole, a kind of
well, to collect all of the London rain that falls in the area of the Pavilion. In that way
we incorporate an otherwise invisible aspect of reality in the park – the water under
the ground – into our Pavilion. As we dig down into the earth we encounter a
diversity of constructed realities such as telephone cables and former foundations.
Like a team of archaeologists, we identify these physical fragments as remains of the eleven Pavilions built between 2000 and 2011. Their shape varies: circular, long
and narrow, dots and also large, constructed hollows that have been filled in.
These remains testify to the existence of the former Pavilions and their greater or
lesser intervention in the natural environment of the park.
“All of these foundations will now be uncovered and reconstructed. The old
foundations form a jumble of convoluted lines, like a sewing pattern. A distinctive
landscape emerges out of the reconstructed foundations which is unlike anything
we could have invented; its form and shape is actually a serendipitous gift. The
three-dimensional reality of this landscape is astonishing and it is also the perfect
place to sit, stand, lie down or just look and be amazed. In other words, the ideal
environment for continuing to do what visitors have been doing in the Serpentine
Gallery Pavilions over the past eleven years – and a discovery for the many new
visitors anticipated for the London 2012 Olympic Games.
“On the foundations of each single Pavilion, we extrude a new structure (supports,
walls) as load-bearing elements for the roof of our Pavilion – eleven supports all
told, plus our own column that we can place at will, like a wild card. The roof
resembles that of an archaeological site. It floats some five feet above the grass of
the park, so that everyone visiting can see the water on it, its surface reflecting the
infinitely varied, atmospheric skies of London. For special events, the water can be
drained off the roof as from a bathtub, from whence it f lows back into the waterhole,
the deepest point in the Pavilion landscape. The dry roof can then be used as a
dance floor or simply as a platform </i><i>suspended above the park.</i>”<br />
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Domus article and video <a href="http://www.domusweb.it/en/video2/the-2012-serpentine-pavilion-/"> here</a><br />
Full details from the Serpentine Gallery <a href="http://www.serpentinegallery.org/2012/02/serpentine_gallery_pavilion_2012.html"> here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-56170538190148140142012-06-06T17:45:00.001+01:002012-06-06T17:45:43.133+01:00Unit B 2012 Summer Exhibition<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/PMuYJYcUlPQ?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
Jon put together this film of second and third year unit work for the end of year exhibition.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-41991687043044478492012-04-17T16:31:00.000+01:002012-04-17T16:31:24.647+01:00Honorary Mention for Francis<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Francis Hunt received an honorary mention for his 2009-10 Unit B design project RAWlab at the Educate Prize Awards ceremony. The EDUCATE Prize was an International Student Award focused on the implementation of sustainability and reward exempla of best practice in pedagogical methods and programme development.
<a href="http://www.educate-sustainability.eu/prize"> Educate Prize.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-38028257780081367602012-04-10T17:08:00.001+01:002012-04-10T17:09:58.510+01:00AA summer workshops in JapanSummer plans? Koshirakura Landscape Workshop/The City After-Image, Koshirakura Village and F-2 Site, AA Workshops. Thursday 19 July – Thursday 2 August 2012.
For details see:
<a href="http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/Koshirakura_Tokyo"> AA workshops.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-80511246652570952862012-03-16T12:41:00.001+00:002012-03-16T12:46:44.872+00:00Reiulf Ramstad and Jensen & Skodvin<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Norwegian Reiulf Ramstad and Jensen & Skodvin will be giving a talk at the RIBA on Norwegian Architecture Landscape and Intervention on 17 April 2012 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM. Tickets from the RIBA - link <a href="http://www.architecture.com/WhatsOn/Talks/Events/2012/Spring/ContemporaryNorwegianArchitectureExhibitionTalk.aspx"> here.</a>
There is also an exhibition of their work at the RIBA from 12 April 2012 - 15 June 2012, entrance is free. Full details <a href="http://www.architecture.com/WhatsOn/Exhibitions/At66PortlandPlace/2012/Spring/ContemporaryNorwegianArchitecture.aspx"> here.</a>
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The above photograph is of Jensen & Skodvin's Gudbrandsjuvet Landscape hotel. The architects explain their scheme as: "<i>Basically each room is a detached small independent house with one, or sometimes two of the walls constructed in glass. The landscape in which these rooms are placed is by most people considered spectacularly beautiful and varied and the topography allows a layout where no room looks at another. In this way every room gets its own surprising view of a dramatic piece of landscape, always changing with the weather and the time of the day and the season.</i>"
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For more information on the projects visit the practice's web site at: <a href="http://www.jsa.no/index.html"> here</a>
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The Norwegian Tourist Route Trollstigen shown in the second image was the work of Reiulf Ramstad Arkitektker. The second image is of their project for a summer house in Hvaler.
For more information on the projects visit the practice's web site: <a href="http://www.reiulframstadarkitekter.no/default.asp"> here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-30871159100560161122012-03-06T16:38:00.002+00:002012-03-06T17:00:22.218+00:00Virtual Field Courses - FinlandThis is the start of a series of posts on buildings we have visited on our field courses, the virtual field courses. The first is from our field course to Finland.<br />
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<b>Laajasalo Church, Finland </b><br />
Architects: Kari Järvinen and Merja Nieminen
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The Architects description (translation): '<i>The height and character of the interior spaces vary, highlighting each
functional space; from the low, smooth ceiling in the foyer, we move on
to the taller pergola hall that lies between the interior and exterior
spaces, beyond which we find the bright church hall. The height and
character of the interior spaces. The halls and the foyer can be
combined into one big church space. The light towers on the yard side
shine like lighthouses at night; during the day, they let in sunlight
for the interior spaces.
The wall structures are made of glulam in the form of pillars and
stiffening boards. The ceiling structures of the church hall are made of
glulam beam trusses connected by steel joints and the beams that
support them laterally. The stiffening concrete walls and the steel
parts of the wood joints highlight the warmth of the contrasting
material, wood.
The cladding is mainly made of wood, while the large surfaces of the
halls' façade are protected by green-patinated copper sheets. The
interior surfaces are made of pine and birch plywood, boarding and
acoustic wood louvres. The impression left by the plane's blade on the
board cladding is faintly visible. The surfaces have been varnished so
that they are a natural colour or they have been left untreated so that
time can colour them. The floors of the halls are made of oil-treated
pine planks, giving rise to the impression that it is a music box or a
wooden container. The spruce planks on the façades have been oil painted
in the traditional Finnish red ochre. The wood structures enable the
structures to be expressive and easily understood. The pillars, beams,
grilles and trusses as well as their joints, the alternation between
load-bearing and the needing to be borne and the visible layering of the
structures lets the hierarchy and atmosphere of the various, diverse
spaces be articulated.
Laajasalo wooden church was realised on the basis of the winning
proposal from an invited competition held in 2000. The church was
consecrated during Advent in 2003.</i>' Kari Järvinen and Merja Nieminen (Architects SAFA)<br />
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Visit the practice web site here: <br /><a href="http://www.ark-jn.fi/"> Kari Järvinen and Merja Nieminen (Architects SAFA)</a>
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The photographs shown are from our visit.
Plans and further information is available <a href="http://www.archmuseum.org/Gallery/Photo_16_4_laajasalo-church.html"> here.</a>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/17336/ryuji-nakamura-bang.html"> F</a>rancis Hunt's year 3 Unit B project rawLAB is through to the final five of the Educate Prize. The final results will be released towards the end of the month.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-61427569047334951642011-11-29T18:30:00.001+00:002011-11-30T12:43:33.259+00:00Ando<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Charlotte sent me details of Ando's installation in London, Silence. It is beautifully detailed and after a maximum of 15 minutes should reward you with a rising mist transforming the environment. It is well worth a visit.
<a href="http://www.dezeen.com/2011/07/14/silence-by-tadao-ando-and-blair-associates/"> more details here</a> and <a href="http://www.archdaily.com/146261/video-tadao-ando-water-installation/"> here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-35814989215630579762011-11-29T18:21:00.001+00:002011-11-30T15:24:36.413+00:00Ryuji Nakamura<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Fed sent me details of this beautiful project by Ryuji Nakamura:
'<i>Porous wall of hung ribbons that create a synthetic fog between the viewer and the mannequins....Measuring 18mm wide, the thin strips of polyester ribbons create a dynamic curtain that seemingly changes its opacity depending on how far one is away from it. The resulting effect is a fuzzy aperture that focuses on one mannequin at a time, despite the fact that the clothes are lined up side to side. at once simple and airy, the design allows for an interactive space that 'breathes' in and out of transparency according to each point in the room.</i>' Design Boom
<a href="http://www.ryujinakamura.com/z_material/work/bang/00.html"> Ryuji Nakamura's web site for more details here</a>
<a href="http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/9/view/17336/ryuji-nakamura-bang.html"> design boom article here</a>
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Cornfield is another project by Ryuji Nakamura. '<i>He wanted to make it large enough so that one could not view
'cornfield' in its entirety all at once. The installation is made up of lines upon lines of paper that are
drawn upon one another, retaining a subtlety, blending into its surroundings.</i>'design boom
<a href="http://www.ryujinakamura.com/z_material/work/cornfield/00.html"> more details of Cornfield here on Ryuji Nakamura's web site</a>
<a href="http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/8/view/12335/ryuji-nakamura-cornfield.html"> design boom article and video here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-19405758609032318732011-10-26T15:28:00.000+01:002011-10-26T15:29:41.184+01:00Tacita Dean InterviewTacita Dean was interviewed on Front Row, listen<a href="http://www.bbc.co.uk/i/b015n01b/"> here,</a> but forward on to approx 7mins in to find it.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-48795506770503450652011-10-26T15:17:00.001+01:002011-10-26T15:20:54.115+01:00Interactive architectureRuairi Glynn's site Interactive Architecture.org is a good resource - it's not updated that frequently at present, but there are archives and resources there which are worth looking through.
<a href="http://www.interactivearchitecture.org/"> go to the site here</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-45819948602585069402011-10-26T15:11:00.001+01:002011-10-26T15:11:15.854+01:00Theo Jansen Strandbeest<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/SxLWEzMGjHc?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
There are previous posts on Theo Jansen's work, but if you haven't seen it it is worth looking through the site he now has
<a href="http://www.strandbeest.com/index.php"> here</a> where there are details of how these work and further information.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-21229036280561467122011-10-26T14:57:00.002+01:002011-10-26T15:00:57.395+01:00The Point of Perception<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Madi Boyd in collaboration with neuroscientists at UCL, Drs Beau Lotto and Mark Lythgoe, produced the Point of Perception. Madi describes it as<i> 'an immersive environment consisting of a ‘screen’ which is a giant gridded space of uncertainty and projected film. Our interest is in ambiguity in perception and the ‘tipping point’ where there is enough information for the brain to understand what the eye is seeing, the line between form and formlessness.' </i><i>'The sculpture has been designed in such a way that the resulting geometry could have many different possible realities, none of which are immediately obvious. By placing people in a position of uncertainty, between the known and the unknown, we aim to investigate the exact point at which there is sufficient visual information for the brain to comprehend what it is looking at. But in addition, the structure – as with all of Lottolab’s public projects – places people in the unique context of ‘seeing themselves see’, of being observers of the process by which they literally make sense of themselves and the world.'</i> lottolab
<a href="http://www.lottolab.org/articles/pointofperception.asp">more on the project here on lottolab's web site,</a> <a href="http://www.lottolab.org/index.asp"> & more on lottolab here.</a>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-30380139719278301992011-10-26T14:50:00.000+01:002011-10-26T14:50:07.765+01:00James Turrell Interview<iframe width="560" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/WHFOYp1tkQA?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-35543979975091033322011-10-14T12:48:00.000+01:002011-10-14T13:03:11.916+01:00Tacita Dean - Tate Modern<object id="flashObj" width="480" height="270" classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,47,0"><param name="movie" value="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isSlim=1" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#FFFFFF" /><param name="flashVars" value="videoId=1211868281001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fchannel.tate.org.uk%2Fmedia%2F1211868281001&playerID=42529797001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAG6PY30~,pi5vFvB_srhb0TXWeYCTDbffuRbStSTG&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" /><param name="base" value="http://admin.brightcove.com" /><param name="seamlesstabbing" value="false" /><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="swLiveConnect" value="true" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><embed src="http://c.brightcove.com/services/viewer/federated_f9?isSlim=1" bgcolor="#FFFFFF" flashVars="videoId=1211868281001&linkBaseURL=http%3A%2F%2Fchannel.tate.org.uk%2Fmedia%2F1211868281001&playerID=42529797001&playerKey=AQ~~,AAAAAG6PY30~,pi5vFvB_srhb0TXWeYCTDbffuRbStSTG&domain=embed&dynamicStreaming=true" base="http://admin.brightcove.com" name="flashObj" width="480" height="270" seamlesstabbing="false" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowFullScreen="true" swLiveConnect="true" allowScriptAccess="always" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"></embed></object>
Tacita Dean's 'FIlm' is now in the Turbine Hall of the Tate Modern (11th October- 11th March 2011). In the above video she talks about her work and one piece in particular, the search for the green ray. Its very well worth watching to hear her thoughts about ways of seeing, and the analog versus digital portrayal of the world and the things that fall between.
'<i>Dean’s films act as portraits or depictions rather than conventional cinematic storytelling, capturing fleeting natural light or subtle shifts in movement. Her static camera positions and long takes allow events to unfold unhurriedly. Other works have attempted to reconstruct events from memory, such as an infamous thwarted attempt to circumnavigate the world.</i>' TateUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-6103455551491447382011-09-29T00:32:00.000+01:002011-09-29T00:34:00.509+01:00Charles and Ray Eames Powers of Ten<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/0fKBhvDjuy0?rel=0" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>
'<i>Powers of Ten takes us on an adventure in magnitudes. Starting at a picnic by the lakeside in Chicago, this famous film transports us to the outer edges of the universe. Every ten seconds we view the starting point from ten times farther out until our own galaxy is visible only as a speck of light among many others. Returning to Earth with breathtaking speed, we move inward- into the hand of the sleeping picnicker - with ten times more magnification every ten seconds. Our journey ends inside a proton of a carbon atom within a DNA molecule in a white blood cell.
Powers of Ten is a 1968 American documentary short film written and directed by Ray Eames and her husband, Charles Eames, rereleased in 1977. The film depicts the relative scale of the Universe in factors of ten (see also logarithmic scale and order of magnitude). The film is an adaptation of the 1957 book Cosmic View by Kees Boeke, and more recently is the basis of a new book version. Both adaptations, film and book, follow the form of the Boeke original, adding color and photography to the black and white drawings employed by Boeke in his seminal work</i>.'
<a href="http://www.powersof10.com/">Powers of Ten web site</a>
Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6433723241965486430.post-21541501051085343602011-09-28T23:40:00.003+01:002011-09-28T23:40:58.334+01:00Nicky Hamlyn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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A contemporary film maker working with structural film. He explores light, time, and filmic substance. “I try to make work that responds uniquely to the unique situation in which it is made. For situation, one can usually read "location". This approach stems from years of early training in observational drawing, but I am also influenced by the idea of films as the outcome of a set of interacting factors: light, objects, camera, lenses, film stock etc.” Nicky Hamlyn.
<a href="http://www.no-w-here.org.uk/index.php?cat=8&subCat=docdetail&id=158">An example of his work.</a>
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