BTS + ÀNIMA, Contextual framework representation

The installation uses the light you see through the fiber as a metaphor for all the collected digital souls. The light consistency shows that we were all part of an unlimited file system. Every light is so intense like the others, simulating data frozen over time, which serve as a reminder of equality human. Privacy will never be ours again, now we are all transparent. At 22 District, our lighting installation becomes a center of mass-collected thoughts and memories. These memories are not of a certain moment, nor of specific people; they have no identity and make us one more. Some of them died and some are still alive alive. Our data will transcend our human capabilities, becoming tools alien to us.

For all the information that time has preserved and will continue to maintain, our existence is an ephemeral entity; without power, it can only be visualized and felt, but it cannot be altered

Main subjects of the study
A. History of LLUM and Poblenou
B. Installation Art
C. Lighting Sector
D. Temporality and effects
E. Construction, materials and life cycle
F. Narrative, Interaction and Visitor’s Experience
G. Experience within MEATS, Festival & ANIMA

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Unit 2.1, B.L.O.O.M. project / proposals for alternative lighting strategies

Team proposal for an alternative lighting strategy, implemented as a case-by-trial research endeavor. Thankfully, the Mercado la Boqueria had just received fresh shipments of fish, of which we more than eager to stock up on!

The thing about experiments is just that in the word itself—a case of trial and error! We tried. And pretty sure we were the only ones on Earth marinating dead squid in their balconies over the weekend. Anyway, cheers to the b.l.o.o.m. project team!

ANOHNI | HOPELESSNESS | PARK AVENUE ARMORY

Anohni (fka Antony Hegarty)
Red Bull Music Academy Festival

Red Bull Music Academy and Park Avenue Armory are proud to present the world premiere of Anohni’s live show for her new album, Hopelessness, on two consecutive evenings in New York. Featuring original films, the celebrated singer, composer and visual artist will bring her politically charged masterpiece to the stage. With her haunting work in Antony and the Johnsons and her flooring contributions to the Hercules & Love Affair project, Anohni has established herself as one of the most fragile and fiercest vocalists around. Expect to see another breathtaking chapter to her story take shape for the first time ever on May 18th and 19th at Park Avenue Armory, as part of the Red Bull Music Academy Festival New York and the Armory’s Spring-Fall 2016 programmatic offerings. 

[More information here]

Maybe the queen (Naomi Campbell) will make a visit?! Can only hold my breath.

Currently Obsessed: SEVDALIZA

For her latest interdisciplinary project “That Other Girl”, Sevdaliza teamed up with Pussykrew discovering their mutual passion and corresponding references for 3D technology.

In this video, Sevdaliza has fallen victim to her own creation of a safe vacuum. Submissive to deep-rooted emotions and assumptions, Sevdaliza finds herself imprisoned in her own paintings and sculptures. Can she remain unflawed? She has become nothing more than a statue surrounded by surreal environments. Identity becomes a game, however she remains in control of the computed bodies. She breaks the stereotypes of gender roles and constructs to manifest a different notion of cyborgian identity. Sevdaliza’s husky vocals float over a mechanical bed that excites masculine energy and sexual adrenaline. As the song continues, a rhythmic tension builds slowly into a chaotic climax. Every retribution becomes more intense and personal, yet she isn’t able to break from that obscure statue of a woman.

 

directed by Pussykrew
concept by Sevdaliza and Pussykrew
produced by Pussykrew
MUA Celine Bernaerts
music produced by Mucky
co-produced by Sevdaliza

Niche Tactics: Generative Relationships Between Architecture and Site

by Caroline O'Donnell (Author)

“A snippet from Ingraham’s Foreword:

“…O’Donnell’s book provides very sharp insights into what it might mean to draw, as an architect or urban designer, in order to draw out, in an ecological sense, the ‘missing perspectives’ of diverse and com­plex contexts in past, contemporary, and future architectural work.””

Niche Tactics aligns architecture's relationship with site with its ecological analogue: the relationship between an organism and its environment.

Bracketed between texts on giraffe morphology, ecological perception, ugliness, and hopeful monsters, architectural case studies investigate historical moments when relationships between architecture and site were productively intertwined, from the anomalous city designs of Francesco de Marchi in the sixteenth century to Le Corbusier’s near eradication of context in his Plan Voisin in the twentieth century to the more recent contextualist movements. Extensively illustrated with 140 drawings and photographs, Niche Tactics considers how attention to site might create a generative language for architecture today.

 

http://www.amazon.com/Niche-Tactics-Generative-Relationships-Architecture/dp/1138793124

Interview with Routledge : https://www.routledge.com/posts/494

Micro-Exhibition hosted by Terreform ONE | BASF Creator Space™

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By 2050, there will be more than nine billion people living on Earth, primarily in cities. The needs of the growing world population for good living conditions, energy and food can only be met through innovations. Terreform ONE, a non-profit design group that promotes smart design in cities will host a series of exploratory and radical proposals for development of these smart cities. These proposals address the ecologies of cities, systems and objects at a number of different scales and incorporate contemporary bio-design methods.

A reception with a panel talk about the pieces and the trends they relate to will be held in the evening on May 28.

 

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