Media Facades. When Buildings Start To Twitter
The analysis depicts international media facades with their different artistic, social or brand messages up to interfaces like iPhone Apps or brain sensors for public participation.... READ MORE...
Architecture
Susa Pop: Connecting Cities. New Formats Of Urban Communication
In September and October 2010 the first edition of MFFE (Media Facade Festival) began, a European pilot project featuring the participation of different digital artists and designers. The festival is organised by the Berlin Public Art Lab, in collaboration with the artistic centers of other six European cities: Liverpool, Brussels, Helsinki, Linz, Madrid and Budapest.... READ MORE...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Hypersurface And Mediafacade. Urban Screen And Nu Former
Lev Manovich once said that the deep change which is affecting culture in the era of computerized media revolution also concerns space and its representation and organization systems. Space becomes a media itself: Just like all other media - audio, video, images and text - nowadays space can be transmitted, stored and recovered in a snapshot. Space can be squeezed, re-formatted, changed into a flow, filtered, computerized, programmed and interactively managed (L. Manovich, Il linguaggio dei nuovi media)... READ MORE...
Fluid Architectures
The exhibition Fluid Architectures gathers spaces of flow and immateriality created by artists in response to these contemporary notions the city. These fictional spaces made of light, moving image, and other media extend the idea of physical architecture to the construction of dynamic and seemingly infinite spaces enabling a sensory experience... READ MORE...
Interspatiality & Dystopia
The growth of non object-centred thinking, the cosmological understanding of space as an uncontrollably changing informational substance and the expanded use of virtual environments, necessitate new strategies for developing spatial research in order to advance art and architecture.... READ MORE...
Air Xy: Dall’immateriale Al Rimateriale
Ha aperto i battenti lo scorso 14 Settembre 2008 l'11ima Mostra Internazionale di Architettura dal titolo Out There: Architecture Beyond Building, nelle sedi espositive dei Giardini e dell'Arsenale a Venezia.... READ MORE...
Come Generare Un’atmosfera
L'esperienza multisensoriale della realt socio-urbana stata la questione cardine affrontata nel simposio internazionale 'Faire une ambiance' tenutosi dal 10 al 12 settembre a Grenoble. Simposio curato da Jean-François Augoyard (filosofo, urbanista e musicologo) e da Cresson (Centre de Reches sur l'Espace Sonore et l'Environment Urbain), che da pi di vent'anni si occupano dell'ambiente sensibile con un approccio interdisciplinare, integrando la percezione dello spazio pubblico con il contesto socio-culturale.... READ MORE...
Lights And Sounds At Sonarama 2008
The history of sound-light relationship is almost three centuries old, a complex and labyrinthine path, full of key characters and moments for the history of audiovisual art as we now know it.... READ MORE...
Tuned City: The Space Acoustic
From 1st to 5th July, the first Tuned City festival is taking place in Berlin; it is one of the most important festivals dealing with the relationship between sound and space.... READ MORE...
Marcos Novak: Il Futuro E’
Marcos Novak conosciuto come architetto, musicista, artista digitale, ma prima di tutto questo, Marcus Novak un poeta visionario. é una di quelle menti eccezionali in grado di confezionare mondi alternativi, in grado di spostare, sfidando il paradosso, i limiti della percezione abituale rendendo praticabile l'impossibile.... READ MORE...
Aether Architecture: Real Spaces, Virtual Spaces
Aether Architecture is a design and architecture studio based in Budapest, Hungary , that is known at an international level for its innovative and conceptual approach to media architecture.... READ MORE...
Dna: Dust Eye / Dust Architecture
Architecture and technology, design and digital media: a more and more daring connection that may seem outrageous because of its hybrid and audacious nature. After the two episodes dedicated to Lab(au) and Limitezero on the last issues of DIgimag, another piece has been added to this complicated mosaic, which is still far from being completed.... READ MORE...
Performing Space
Trampoline's theme for this year is entitled "Performing Space", a research workshop looking at the transformation our understanding of space is undergoing with the ubiquity of computer technology... READ MORE...