Open Source Satellite Initiative
After three years of research and one year of experience as a satellite engineer, Hojun Song has found that it is possible to launch and operate a personal satellite at a fairly reasonable price.... READ MORE...
Design
Live Architecture Network. The Net As A Design Project
The parametric or associative design is based on the use of integrated systems of CAD/CAM (Computer-Aided Design/Computer-Aided Manufacturing) which allow a direct dialogue between the machine that models and the machine that makes the constructive elements and assembly pieces, generating a new process of ideation/production. The traditional relationships between the actors of this process change: every project can be planned out in an super-customized way and the variables which can be immense enlarge exponentially... READ MORE...
Landscape And Interaction. Matteo Pennese, The Sound Within Space
Systems of interaction between acoustic and electronic music are the base on which the Twentieth century's musical performance developed and grew. It is possible to find live electronic, namely performative, tracks, since the very beginning of experimental-contemporary music. In some cases even some of the very early works of electronic music, as Maderna's Musica su due dimensioni (Music on two dimensions, 1958), are filed among the so-called live-electronic compositions, marking by using this term the performance aspect that used to conciliate the writing for an acoustic instrument with the magnetic tape during the live execution.... READ MORE...
Directkorenhaus Berlin
Last May 28th, 2010 the Direktorenhaus will be opened a new art space in Berlin, an experimental laboratory for Gesamtkunstwerk, the synthesis of the arts.... READ MORE...
Smart Urban Stage: The Future of the City
Parco della Musica Auditorium in Rome from 25 June to 31 July will host "smart urban stage", an innovative road show that will reach six European cities and address these issues by proposing an interesting opportunity for dialogue and discussion through the presentation of twelve projects about 'The future of the city'.... READ MORE...
Heatherwick Studio: UK Pavillion Expo 2010
In September 2007, Heatherwick Studio led the winning team in the competition to design the UK Pavilion for the Shanghai 2010 Expo. The event is set to be the largest Expo ever with two hundred countries taking part and over 70 million visitors expected.... READ MORE...
The Softspace Of Usman Haque. Choreographies Of Sensations
Architecture, according to Vitruvius, is the sum of three factors: utilitas, venustas and firmitas. Usefulness and beauty are for sure features that cannot be renounced in order not to cross the border into sculpture or into the simple and unfortunately rampant building industry. But what about permanence? Is it truly something that cannot be renounced ? Is it truly a must that an architectural work has necessarily to be solid and lasting over time ? When, on the contrary, a work is ephemeral, short-lived , transient cannot belong anymore to the domain of architecture ? And if the term 'ephemeral' rather than bearing the negative connotation of something fragile and subject to speculation, could instead carry a different meaning?... READ MORE...
The Art Of Stealing Art. Interview To Jiacong “jay” Yan
Jay Yan is a young artist based in Los Angeles who, after graduating from the UCLA's Design | Media Art department, in few years managed to have a discreet international reputation and impress one of the most influential chinese contemporary art collector in the world.... READ MORE...
green island: the urban orchid
As part of the Fuori Salone 2010 (14th-19th April), aMAZElab presents the eighth edition of the GREEN ISLAND event, dedicated to urban green spaces, territory and biodiversity.... READ MORE...
ralf baecker: the conversation
The Conversation is an autonomous apparatus that incorporates an analogous and a digital part.... READ MORE...
Annunce of winning project Sea Contest “The Gate of Milan”
La Porta di Milano, the contest launched last June by the SEA the company that manages the airports of Milan comes to an end. The competition, aimed at involving the international community of architecture and design in the realization of the "twelfth gate of Milan", got a great success.... READ MORE...
Medi/action And Mediam(bi)ent. The Nuformer Digital Media Method
Projectable surfaces in metropolis have become big buildings' facades. We already wrote on this subject in the previous Digimag issue and this time we are putting forward our interview with Rob Delfgaauw from NuFormer, a Dutch firm which has diffused worldwide the sensationalist technique of mapping and screening 3d videos on edifices thus precisely reflecting existing volumes and altering in the public the way of perceiving the static object. Performances, advertising campaigns, big public events. Their promotional video, Projections on Buildings, a video-live performance in which buildings seem to be flaking off in front of spectators or else to be filled up with colorful small balls, was everywhere on the web. NuFormer style gets popular and turns into an example for many... READ MORE...
Biomimethic Prized By Science. Scientific Imaging As Art
A team of researchers from the Seconda Universit of Naples formed by Professor Mario De Stefano from Environmental Sciences Department, Pharmaceutical Science for Environment and Health Section, myself from the History and Environment Industrial Design Department, Luigi Vanvitelli School of Architecture and by recently graduated at this same school, Doctor Antonia Auletta, awarded with honorable mention during the 2009 edition of International Science and Engineering Visualization Challenge, the prestigious international competition of scientific photography organized by National Science Foundation and by Science magazine.... READ MORE...
digital zoetrope by troika
Troika was commissioned by onedotzero to create a custom installation and visual identity around the theme of this year's festival 'Citystates'.... READ MORE...
tomas saraceno
Bonniers Konsthall is proud to present the first major presentation of the renowned artist Tomás Saraceno's work in Europe. Specifically for the exhibition at Bonniers Konsthall Saraceno has enlisted the aid of spider researchers, astrophysicists, architects and engineers to create an enormous model the first in its kind of the web of the poisonous Black Widow spider. This new installation, 14 Billions (Working Title), will be shown together with 15 of Saraceno's earlier works.... READ MORE...
Kinetica Art Fair 2010. Invisible Immersion Into Kinetik Art
Kinetic, a word that derives from the Greek word kinetikos, from kinetos, stands for movement or motion. In an ample sense the word concerns all that regards or is produced by movement. Kinetic art therefore is relative to all those works of art that foresee movements of parts, or depend on motion for their execution.... READ MORE...
Art And Architecture: Investigation At The Boundaries Of Space
Our changing understanding of reality has inspired the invention of new concepts of space and strategies for spatial research and practice across disciplines. There have been several radical changes in cosmology, science, art, design and philosophy, concerning the ways in which reality and our experience of it may be understood. As can be seen in recent studies by scientists, artists, designers and thinkers, such changes have encouraged the development of new philosophies and theories on space, new types of spatial perception, interaction etc... READ MORE...
Mindful Technologies. Aware Objects And Eco-visualizations
Visual voltage is the travelling exhibition promoted by the Swedish Institute and the Interactive Institute whose Berlin version Visual Voltage Amplified had its opening on January 7th at the Felleshuset, one of the buildings of Scandinavian Embassies complex in Berlin.. The exhibition, supervised by Susanne Jaschko shows projects, concepts, and experimental works from artists and designers who critically deal with of energy production and consumption in an age of global sensibility to the environmental issues.... READ MORE...