weaving and lacing
stand as metaphers for two interesting projects of CITA (center for information technology and architecture ) discovered via PLSJ: – weaver : Weaver seeks to explore the potential intersections between an intelligent surface and its inhabitation. As a collaboration between architecture and textile design, the aim is to explore the spatial potential of a continually […] Read Moresome things aside … and pity for the images
– Kenia won the Read Morein cinema now: Grbavica
This year’s Berlinale Golden Bear winner ‘Grbavica‘ is starting this week in the cinemas here. The film unfolds its story around the traumatic impact of war rape for a muslim mother, who tries to hide that fact as well to herself and her daughter, as to the surrounding society, which equally tries to ignore post-war […] Read MoreThe emotional house
Origanially coming along tropolism was the project description of implant matrix defined here as composed of “purpose programmed micro-controlled sensors and actuators that provide a mechanical response to user stimuli”. It is organized as a large organic array shape memory alloy (aka muscle wire) driven pores open and close as people touch sensors that are […] Read MoreImage of sound – you don’t need a TV of your own …
.. to watch football here in Berlin. Instead it is getting harder to escape the constant buzz about football and not to feel guilty of not joining the steady parties gathering around the still all over the city emerging screens and monitors. It seems almost no bar, coffee place, restaurant and as well private gatherings […] Read More
Stalking the Unseen
In its anouncement of the recent exhibition the Kunsthaus Zurich referes back to “The Responsive Eye”* show at the MOMA NYC in 1965 and as well to the known title ‘Expanded Cinema’ (pdf download). This does not sound too exciting, but includes a nice list of film screenings and artists/filmmakers – like from the rare […] Read Morechronicles of Tehran city life
Emilie Bickerton’s article ‘Squaring the Circle‘ in the recent issue of Vertigo focuses on the work of iranian filmmaker Jafar Panahi who won with his film ‘Offside’, about women illegally entering football stadiums by dressing up as men, a silver bear at Berlinale this year. Drawing a wider circle on the circles the filmmaker’s narrative […] Read Morethe attempt to make the I(o)T* heard
is the concern of Meghan Trainor’s recent project 16 Horsepower: 16 Horsepower is a performance piece in which I scan pieces of ceramic and graphite embedded with RFID tags to trigger different sounds from an audio database culminating in a series of tracks triggered by a RFID chip in my arm. This piece aims to […] Read Moreupdating …
.. my computer environment means a move which does not leave me much of my spare time for creative thinking .. thus apologies for rare posting .. nevertheless some recent updates: the Lanier article I posted a few days ago has now been also published in german through SZ .. and some advertisment as film […] Read Moreextended definitions of war
.. coming across an interesting project which describes itself as to aim to oppose war and to call for a “desertion” from a war of words in which facts are created with such force in their communication and propaganda that they can no longer be challenged. The DICTIONARY OF WAR just started with its first […] Read More