Year 3: Remembering the Present
The High Line – Book illustrated with over 500 drawings and photographs from the archives of James Corner Field Operations and Diller Scofidio & Renfro, and narrated from the perspective of the architects, Piet Oudolf. Manijeh Verghese recommended this book to me (thank you so much!), and Charles Parrack loves the book so much, he…
For everyone: a different type of museum or display made from CAKE – these interiors put that weird shellac-ed cake in the City Reliquary to shame: http://www.dazeddigital.com/artsandculture/article/30304/1/meet-the-artist-making-massive-installations-out-of-cake Janie – check out this building in Auroville, Pondicherry – water runs along the walls of the building and there are two crystals embedded within the building where rays…
Dale: Just another idea about a time-based drawing for future reference – this won the drawing prize at the AA a few years ago – its a weird section but what’s interesting is that the section changes over time as you read the drawing from left to right, collapsing time into the space of the…
Here are some of the references mentioned today: Nice drawing technique and details for Dale/ Cris and anyone else who wants to look at them: OMMX: http://www.officemmx.com/St-Loo Janie – interesting re-use competition for relocating The Museum of London in West Smithfield Market: https://www.facebook.com/museumoflondon/videos/vb.27560776046/10153787710181047/?type=2&theater] and https://www.facebook.com/museumoflondon/videos/10153798333066047/ Coincidentally there’s a good exhibition on crime at the Museum of London…
Following on from yesterday’s tutorials, here are some references to keep you thinking about how to develop and design your project going forward. Think about how to incorporate references and precedents in your portfolio by redrawing them in terms of how they relate to your project and what is interesting about them so that your…
Anoovab, this project was mentioned for you at the crit – Ai Weiwei and Herzog & de Meuron’s 2012 Serpentine Pavilion that paid homage to its predecessors by constructing and then revealing fake foundations for pavilions past. Dezeen just published an interview with Serpentine Director Julia Peyton-Jones about the project: http://www.dezeen.com/2016/02/14/video-interview-serpentine-gallery-pavilion-2012-herzog-de-meuron-ai-weiwei-excavation-movie/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Dezeen%20Digest&utm_content=Daily%20Dezeen%20Digest+CID_932da2f25b32f4160f3c7141f4779a29&utm_source=Dezeen%20Mail Also on Dezeen was…
Jia Sze – saw this and reminded me of your structures – not sure if you have seen this before – just in case here it is! La fièvre d’Urbicande (Urbicande’s fever. 1985) by François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters. Urbicande is the name of the city in which the story occurs. One day a small…
Inez – thought this might be interesting for you since it relates to the shrine you created yesterday and a death positive attitude. It might be interesting for everyone since it talks about redesigning the cemetery as a new form of museum. Enjoy! https://www.facebook.com/atlasobscura/videos/10153989551167728/ I also found these two links interesting after watching the…
I literally jut saw this on Facebook (Bjarke Ingels shared it lol) and thought it was interesting to have a look. http://92yondemand.org/future-new-yorks-skyline The biggest names impacting New York’s skyline — from Pritzker Prize-winning architect Richard Meier to Bjarke Ingels, whose firm was chosen to design Two World Trade Center and Annabelle Selldorf, known for her…
For Cris (the tourist map presentation I mentioned today that you could appropriate for your postcard drawings): https://vimeo.com/29239462 For Dave (The Ingot by Jack Self, a project that manifests intangible factors like time, space and money to create low-cost housing – could be an interesting reference for you): http://www.jackself.com/ingot#hide1 For Anoovab/Catherine (lecture video by Alex Chinneck –…
Just reading on the issues of collection, storing/archiving of art, and came across this interesting unrealised project by OMA, here discussing the role of the museum in a contemporary age. Koolhaas describes the visitor experiences in a ‘new museum’ – where there are “new conditions of artistic production” within a museum’s main and traditional setting…
http://theartnewspaper.com/market/the-price-tag-of-contemporary-art-is-just-the-beginning-of-what-it-will-cost-you/ This is an interesting news story on how material deterioration and technological obsolescence could affect the monetary value of art. It suggests that by providing a rating on an artwork’s durability through time collectors will be able to assess whether or not the work will be a good investment, i.e. is it going to…
Think these might be the people who you need to contact http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/journals/conservation-journal/issue-06/a-survey-of-plastic-objects-at-the-victoria-and-albert-museum/ http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/journals/conservation-journal/issue-21/plastics-not-in-my-collection/
I saw this article about the artist Paul Elliman who works with sound and typography and thought of your projects and our discussions yesterday about how to listen/record sound as well as how to translate sound into tangible space: http://www.frieze.com/issue/article/taken-for-wonders/
It’s been a long but interesting day – Stay tuned for your feedback 😉
Hi all – for those interested in sounds…. As I excel at using my dictaphone … when we were in NYC, I managed to keep it recording during one of my journeys in the subway… there are some interesting subway track sounds and parallel conversations recored… its like 30 mins of underground cityscape sounds… I’m not…
Hi everyone, I don’t know if this is useful to any of you who are looking at sound, but this artist, David Byrne (no relation, I promise!) does these installations of how to play buildings. He looks at attaching devices onto parts of the building and experiments with interactivity of people with the building as…
A sketch of the city of Sophronia, from Italo Calvino’s ‘Invisible Cities’. This one page story conjures a city that you might find interesting… PDF here: Sophronia
Here is a summary of the book that I mentioned yesterday, it is called ‘Earth Sound, Earth Signal‘. This might be of interest as it tells the story of how the invention of the telephone led to the discovery of ‘natural’ radio (as well as an understanding of telephone and telegraph technology, and a lot…
Interactive map that shows how much New York has changed over 200 years: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2409401/Interactive-map-New-York-reveals-city-changed-200-years.html What maps reveal about ourselves: http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150917-what-maps-reveal-about-ourselves (a great study of bias and skewed perspectives to delineate the factual and fictional) Acoustic mirrors and other devices (good for Solaf but also Anoovab): http://socks-studio.com/2013/12/10/sound-mirrors-and-other-sensory-expansion-devices-from-wartime-technology-to-radical-art-practices/ and lastly, just because I enjoyed it: A study of negative writing…
“I’m not looking for dry factual accounts of a place, instead I aim to…create a visceral, lasting impression of a particular place and time. ” “Using city maps from specific periods in history as a starting point, Matthew examines correlating literary narratives to amplify our knowledge of time and place. He focuses on cities during…
Hello All, Im not sure if this is the exact version of the NYC digimap, but it could be useful for looking at a site!! As you can measure and get a accurate information as well as some historical maps too! http://gis.nyc.gov/taxmap/map.htm Best, Cris
‘folded’ ‘wrapped’ ‘drilled’ ‘illuminated’ ‘dropped’ ‘broken’
I found some really interesting examples of how different artists have manipulated the book as an object to manifest their ideas and concepts – good inspiration for those of you working with books (Dale, Elyssa) but also some nice material examples for everyone to consider. When we go to visit the Rapid Response Collections Unit…
Someone sent me this link to a programme on BBC 4 where Sir Roger Penrose discusses MC Escher’s drawings as an inspiration to construct impossible geometries in reality. Thought it might be helpful for you to think about not just hinging but also alignment, viewing angles, planes of symmetry and points of converging to infinity: http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b06csx20/secret-knowledge-the-art-of-the-impossible-mc-escher-and-me…
Hello All, For those yet to go to the US Embassy for a visa interview, I had mine yesterday and it went smoothly and I was granted the visa without any issues, and I assume it should be the same for all, as it’s a university field trip. I was there for about 2…
A great reference for surreal collages – combining building fragments into a new kind of landscape. Great material palettes! http://www.designboom.com/art/oliver-michaels-architectural-composites-10-14-2015/
Slides from last week’s presentation (Sorry it took so long to upload): http://we.tl/QtRiMxBTlI Also some videos: Antoine Vaxelaire’s final presentation in conversation with Mies: http://vimeo.com/75191842 Mond Qu’s video showing the different digital pieces of evidence he created as part of his elaborate construct to create a fake island: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKAYqof4InI Fredrik Hellberg’s final presentation of a huge structure to…
As mentioned on Tuesday, Jorge Otero Pailos – professor at Columbia University and expert on Experimental Preservation will be lecturing at the AA at 6pm this Monday, 5 October. It would be great if you guys could come since what he will talk about will relate to the brief of the studio, as a critical…
This is a link to an article that reviews a book called Time Warped by Claudia Hammond – it might be interesting for those considering expanded and collapsed time: https://www.brainpickings.org/2013/07/15/time-warped-claudia-hammond/ Also this is a page from the book I mentioned: Here by Richard McGuire. It collapses multiple time frames into a single image – could…
On Tuesday we discussed how the interactivity of Maggie’s 3D drawing suggested a board game, with the moveable pieces working in relation to the flat terrain of the drawing. As well as thinking about board games it might be interesting to look at Madelon Vriesendorp’s ‘Mind Game’ which invites players to arrange a collection of small…
Some examples that were shown on Tuesday: Julia King and Asif Khan – Joint Diploma Operative Drawing
Great to meet everyone today. As requested, here is the extended brief that provides a framework for the year ahead. Let us know if you have any questions.
We are really excited to meet you all and get started this Tuesday. As we mentioned in the presentation, we will have our first meeting at the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London at 11am on Tuesday, 22 September. We’re going to begin by experiencing a walk by Janet Cardiff called The Missing Voice (Case Study…