Archive for March, 2006
Invisible Suits
by Regine on March 28th, 2006
Commenting on the Invisible Coat, Jesse Pearlman Karlsberg to Daniela Kostova's Invisible Suits performance.
The suits are made from special blue screen fabric (the chroma key used for work with video blue screen technique), where the blue color could be displaced by images or video footage. The material makes the wearer both very visible (in real life), and invisible (on video) as bodies merge with the visual environment. The effect is achieved by the use of two cameras: one mounted on the person wearing the blue suit, and another one shooting h/er from behind.
These suits allow me to explore issues of silence and absence, integration and estrangement in different political and cultural environments. While drawing from theoretical concepts like the "invisible immigrant" and the double consciousness, through this work I am also exploring the space between the objective and subjective points of view.
Originally posted by Regine from we make money not art
Real-Time Awareness Maps of Cell Phone Usage [Updated]
by fabien on March 28th, 2006
Updated map of the Mobile Landscapes project creating electronic maps of cellphone use in the metropolitan area of Graz, Austria.
Originally posted by fabien from 7.5th Floor
One Year On…
by mad architect on March 28th, 2006
Apariencia Publica (Appearance Publishes)
Archidose
Archinect
Architectural Ruminations
Architectural Sketches
Architecture & Morality
A Tale of Two Architects
Bioclimatica2 (thanks Kisha)
BldgBlg
Building Big Easy
Do you want Coffee? (thanks Tommy)
Eye Candy
Field notes
Geosocial
Improvised Schema
Land+Living
Life Without Buildings (thanks Jimmy)
Miragestudio7
MocoLoco
Pen(-lex/-sieve) - An Archisophist
Polis
Refuge Welcome Centre
Strange Bungalow (thanks Yamani)
The Agora
Things Magazine
Treehugger
Tropolism (thanks Chad)
those that I've forgotten I love you too :)
A BIG thanks to Melon too - who kept asking to see the fetish
Originally posted by mad architect from architechnophilia
This Week in Tropolism
by GeoSocialReblog on March 23rd, 2006
Tropolism explores the outer fringes this week. First, it reviews the designs for the first two commercial spaceports for humankind and finds them, well, awful. Next it reviewed a winning (finally) competition entry by Zaha Hadid for a library in the remote city of Sevilla and finds it, well, underdone. The remote inner city regions of Detroit are being rediscovered by an activist group painting derelict buildings orange. And finally, the remote neighborhood of Long Island City in the remote borough called Queens, New York.
TAGS: Design, Announcements, Tropolism, Architecture,Second Life
by GeoSocialReblog on March 23rd, 2006
If you'll recall, earlier this week I mentioned the Games for Women, Games by Women, half day conference that recently took place. Well one of the games out there with a strong number of female participants is the virtual world known as Second Life. What makes this virtual space different than that of others, is that the content is both created and owned by its members. Owned as in, they own the intellectual property rights to it; thereby able to buy, sell and trade whatever they make. They also own land in game. Linden Lab, the creators of Second Life, also implemented an economic system with the ability to exchange in game currency, Linden Dollars, with that of U.S. Dollars. Robin Harper, the keynote speaker at the event and SVP of Community and Support for Linden Lab, spoke about the types of things women are doing in this space as well as some of the amazing things that have come out of it. More after the jump...
TAGS: Future, Games, Virtual Reality, Online Community,