OPEN ARCHITECTURE DESIGN COMPETITION

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

OPEN ARCHITECTURE DESIGN COMPETITION

ARCTIC PERSPECTIVE INITIATIVE

“MOBILE MEDIA-CENTRIC HABITATION AND WORK UNIT”

First Prize: 5000 EUR
Second Prize: 2500 EUR
Third Prize: 1500 EUR

DEADLINE: 23:59:59 UTC, JULY 1, 2009

The ARCTIC PERSPECTIVE INITIATIVE “MOBILE MEDIA-CENTRIC HABITATION AND WORK UNIT” open architecture design competition is aimed at the submission of proposals for the design of a mobile media-centric facility, life support habitation and work module with renewable energy supply, waste recycling, and communications systems. We invite
proposals from architects, designers, engineers, artists, students, and engineering teams.

The design should be an open source mobile architecture/system/machine capable of functioning in extreme as well as temperate climates and containing mass/industrial and amateur production/ manufacturing potential. The unit is to serve as a model for mobile research within extreme cold environments, with the ability to incorporate high tech solutions while utilizing sustainable resources.

Jury decisions to be published by October 1, 2009.

All winners and honorable mentions will be published in the API Cahier #2 “Architecture”, which will be edited in the Fall/Winter 2009. All winners and honorable mentions will be, among others, also included in exhibitions and presentations in the framework of European Capital of Culture RUHR.2010 as well as the international media-art conference ISEA 2010 RUHR.

Full information and rules and regulations are at: http:// www.arcticperspective.org

For questions please email: design2009@arcticperspective.org

Media Facades Festival Berlin 2008

Myths and Potentials of Media Architecture and Urban Screens

Artist Workshop: 2.-4. July 2008
Testscreening: 30. August, Lange Nacht der Museen

Exhibition: October 16 - December 12 2008
Conference: October 17 - 18, 2008
Urban Screenings: 17. October - 3. November 2008

Urban Screen Melbourne 08

Urban Screens Melbourne 08 is hosted by Fed Square Pty Ltd, and is the third international conference and multimedia exhibition in a series of worldwide Urban Screens events. It will also mark the official launch of the International Urban Screens Association, taking place 3-8 October at Federation Square, Melbourne.


Conference: Mobile Publics 3-5 October 2008 Full Program

What caught me are the case studies from Manray Hsu :

2008 Taipei Biennial - A case study

Urban screens have become a kind of meta-architecture. Through their ubiquity and fluidity, these screens, especially the large ones, constantly redefine the spatial relationships of the urban environment. They are new defining architectures of architecture. The 2008 Taipei Biennial utilized some of these screens as part of its venue for showing video-based works. On the one hand, this presents both an opportunity for more unpredictable encounters between art and urban space users, and offers challenges for the recontextualization of these works. On the other, it also poses the question of whether art is able to destabilize a public space generated and maintained by these meta-architectures, to add ambiguities to the certainty of information, of the social dream of the capitalist society. Aside from these curatorial and artistic aspects, my presentation will also touch on practical and technical aspects such as the technology of display, timing and encountering.

and also from Andreas Broeckmann

'Intimate Publics. Memory, Performance, and Spectacle in Urban Environments'
Cities are sites of spectacle. We walk around, looking into faces, checking out shop windows, posters, screens and facades, scanning for the new, the unexpected, the beautiful, and the wicked. The 'screen' of the city is cluttered with surfaces and items, vying for attention. A barely distinguishable mix of mediated messages we either look for - whether as street signs, clues we want to find again, or maybe as oversized TV screens during a popular sports event - while other items we barely notice, or learn to ignore. What does it mean to 'look' in public space? Are we being cheated, or caressed, by the empty billboards whose surface time no advertiser has rented? Do the large video screens testify to the triumph of a post-urban anonymity, or are they mere signs of a failed attempt at competing with the intimate media that vibrate in back pockets, and that cocoon the gaze and the listening mind? What does Josef Robakowski's 1978 video, From My Window, tell us about the multiple layers of public and private observations, about the interlacing of personal curiosity, voyeurism, and state surveillance? Who are the subjects of viewing in public space? And what does it mean to perform the city space, furrowed with surveillance technology, like those people in Noise (1998) who left their anonymous video messages to the recording box that Zoran Todorovic placed in the streets of Belgrade? The view from the window of Berlin's Staatsbibliothek cafeteria in 1998, out onto the wasteland of Potsdamer Platz, before the fall of the Wall, an age before the construction of the Sony Center: a personal memory, shared by many, a lost image reflected in Wim Wenders' movie, Wings of Desire (1987), that has Curt Bois stumbling across what used to be Potsdamer Platz, unable to find a real equivalent for his half-century old memories of the city's face. Each city, wherever people live, is rife with such imaginations, a cultural stage, and a container of mediated memories.

The Urban screen community is the development of Mirjam Struppek whose blog has been inspiring for almost a decade.

Chinese Farmers Build Birds Nest Stadium Out of Bamboo [DIY]

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via gizmodo

Another good show in Art Statement

Tomorrow, The HK & Shenzhen Bi-city Biennial of Urbanism/ Architecture will be the last day. While you are in Central, you can also visit Art Statements to see the show.

CHANEL CONTEMPORARY ART CONTAINER BY ZAHA HADID

One of the most enjoyable part of being a curator for me is the design of the space and the walk through experience. I am so amazed that there will be a soundwalk in this much anticipating monumental art project. Although I had a similar idea before but it was banned due to infringing other exhibited space.

MOBILE ART is a traveling exhibition devised as a three-dimensional film and presented in a futuristic pavilion specially created by the architect Zaha Hadid.

The creative concept of MOBILE ART is the result of an aesthetic experiment conducted over the last two years in which the values and visual language of CHANEL confronted those of some twenty contemporary artists from all geographic and generational origins.

Invited to visit Mademoiselle Chanel's Parisian apartment, rue Cambon, and the workshops where the CHANEL handbags are made, these artists were given complete freedom to create artworks inspired by the elements that create the identity of CHANEL's emblematic accessory, the quilted bag.

All means of expression currently being used in contemporary art will be represented: installation, sculpture, photography, video, sound etc...

MOBILE ART is not so much an exhibition to be visited as a landscape to wander through in a completely new way: to experience the artists' installations, visitors equipped with a MP3 player must let themselves be guided mentally and physically by a soundtrack created by the label "Soundwalk" in collaboration with each of the artists. This soundtrack mixes the original music of a diverse range of artists with voice and ambient sound effects.

MOBILE ART is above all a new form of artistic expression, an unique experience, combining architecture, art, sound creation and fashion.

For more information, please visit www.chanel-mobileart.com

VENUE:
Star Ferry Car Park – Central, Hong Kong

EXHIBITION PERIOD:
27 February – 5 April, 2008

Situated Technologies Pamphlet 3: Situated Advocacy

CALL FOR PROPOSALS

Situated Technologies Pamphlet 3: Situated Advocacy
http://situatedtechnologies.net/?q=node/76

Deadline for abstracts: February 15, 2008

The Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series invites submissions for its
upcoming volume on "Situated Advocacy."

Advocacy is the act of arguing on behalf of a particular issue, idea or person, and addresses issues including self-advocacy, environmental protection, the rights of women, youth and minorities, social justice, the re-structured digital divide and political reform. How might Situated Technologies be mobilized toward changing and/or influencing social or political policies, practices, and beliefs? What new forms of advocacy are enabled by contemporary location-based or context-aware media and information systems? How might they lend tactical support to the process of managing
information flows and disseminating strategic knowledge that influences individual behavior or opinion, corporate conduct or public policy and law?

+ Submission details:
We are seeking submissions from pairs of authors, in keeping with the format of a "conversation" between two individuals or groups. Please submit a 500 word abstract and short bio for each author (150 words max) in Rich Text Format (RTF) by February 15, 2008 to editors@situatedtechnologies.net. We expect final manuscripts will range from 7500-10,000 words and will be due by May 16, 2008. Please contact us if you have questions about potential essays or the Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series in general. More information is available at http://www.situatedtechnologies.net.

+ About the Series:
The Situated Technologies Pamphlet Series consists of nine short pamphlets to be published over the next three years, exploring the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism:how our experience of space and the choices we make within it are affected by a range of mobile, pervasive, embedded or otherwise "situated" technologies. The series, published via print-on-demand(POD), consists of a succession of "conversations" between researchers, writers and other practitioners from architecture, art, science and technology studies, comparative media study, performance studies, and engineering.

+ Series Editors:
Omar Khan, Trebor Scholz, Mark Shepard

+ Advisory Committee:
Keller Easterling, Anne Galloway, Malcolm McCullough, Howard Rheingold

+ Publisher:
The Architectural League of New York
http://www.archleague.org

Recommended :"TIMES OF THE SIGNS" by ERIC SADDIN

The book just launched. It is a visual account of examples of Urban Space as a laboratory for observing and experiencing the density of signs and their multiple frameworks : Signage, Giant Screens, signboards,Flags, Poster Displays, Architectural advertisements, surveillance Technologies, Tracking Devices etc.

Masterclass Live A/V

Cimatics is looking for 10 'stateoftheart' participants for a masterclass Live A/V.

Teachers are:
Marius Watz, (from Generator X) Billy Roisz, Mark Amerika, VJ Theory, Jerry Galle, Boris Debackere, Eavesdropper, LAb[au] and Floris Van Hoof.

Each participant get's a working-budget of 1000 €.

Visit the Masterclass-blog for all information.

The World is My Imagination

Runs: 07.09.2007 to 03.11.2007
Curator: Andrea Zapp

The World is My Imagination.

Media-Model-Miniature

International Media Art Exhibition at CUBE(Manchester)

Nine artists and collectives are exploring the miniscule as an artistic interface in video, networked and interactive installations, digital sound sculptures and photography, found objects and custom built environments.

Striking and picturesque model worlds replicate real and imaginary spaces while reflecting existences and habitats, personal memories and longing – the shift in scale ultimately commenting on our surroundings within social and cultural and technological changes.

Participating Artists:

Nick Hardy, UK

h.o Media Group, Japan

Hilary Jack, UK

Jennifer and Kevin McCoy, USA

Marcus Kison, Germany

Amanda Oliphant, UK

Mark Pilkington, UK

Joel Porter, UK

Andrea Zapp, Germany/UK

7th September – 3rd November 2007

Opening Times: 12.00pm – 5.30pm Monday – Saturday

Preview: Thursday 6th September 6.00pm-9.00pm

必看“美丽新世界 ：日本之当代文化”北京+廣州

“美丽新世界 ：日本之当代文化”将分3个部分展出：1.“美丽的真实世界”，2.“新环境”和 3.“终极世界及未来世界”。这些分支展将透过 ‘美丽’和‘新世界’深层审视国际间的艺术价值体系及创造力。由于这次展览将设在北京并由多个会场组成，多个分支展览的体系及（或）设计将共同促成统一的视觉及空间的完整性。展期间，一些在户外公共空间展出的装置作品也将做为整体战略的分支并以此支持整体计划。

展览地点和时间

北京 2007年9月25日 —— 2007年10月22日（嘉宾前展：2007年9月24日下午5点）

广州 2007年12月25日 —— 2008年1月20日

展览会场

北京 长征空间，东京画廊

中央美术学院（做为研讨会场等）

广州 广东美术馆

广州美术学院（做为研讨会场等）

参展艺术家（未定）

1. 美丽的真实世界 ［北京：长征空间］

这个部分的展览将重新审视“美丽”和“真实”的定义，同时深入观察和研究源于和逐渐背离这两个概念的表达方式。对于“美丽”的定义，展览作品将展示女性时尚当中美的价值观，同时思考不断转变的价值观和从属与美学的感知能力，以及多种多样的甚至相互矛盾的观点。这个部分的展览将同时思考日本传统技艺中的美学在当代艺术作品中的运用。

对于这个系列作品的选择，主办方将基于考察被刻画在日本漫画和动画中的，由性别区分下形成的男孩儿和女孩儿的不同世界、日本独特的“可爱”（kawaii)文化，以及由这些文化促成的高度私人化空间和高度聚焦的个人世界。

[艺术家・作品例]

八谷和彦 Hachiya Kazuhiko ……….jetboard

小谷元彦 Odani Motohiko ……….Wood-curving sculpture / Rompers (video)

会田? Aida Makoto ……….Painting

やなぎみわ Yanagi Miwa ……….Phograph

渡辺豪 Watanabe Go ……….Emo (animation)

小沢剛 Ozawa Tsuyoshi ……….[new commission]

金氏徹平 Kaneuji Teppei ……….[new commission]

島袋道浩 Shimabuku ……….[new commission]

パラモデル Paramodel ……….Installation

田中功起 Tanaka Koki ……….Video installation

エキソニモ exonimo ……….Disorder / tank (installation)

山本高之 Yamamoto Takayuki ……….spoon bending (new lesson)

さわひらき Sawa Hiraki ……….Video

村山留里子 Murayama Ruriko ……….Sculpture/installation

鴻池朋子 Konoike Tomoko ……….Painting

西山美な子 Nishimaya Minako ……….Painting/installation

岡崎京子 Okazaki Kyoko ……….Comic

横山裕一 Yokoyama Yuichi ……….Animation

宇治野宗輝 Ujino Muneteru ……….Rotators (sound installation/performance)

2. 新环境：［北京： Inter Arts Center］

[艺术家・作品例]

池田亮司 Ikeda Ryoji ……….Datamatics (sound /video installation + live)

市川創太 Ichikawa Sota ……….Corpora (architectural space with GPS)

藤幡正樹 Fujihata Masaki ……….off-sense (installation) & workshop

山中俊治 Yamanaka Toshiharu ……….robots

アトリエ・ワン Atelier Bow-wow ……….Manga Pod (installation/furniture)

藤浩志 Fuji Hiroshi ……….Workshop

坂茂 Ban Shigeru ……….Pavilion or extension

3. 终极世界和未来世界 [北京：B.T.A.P]

这一部分的展览作品将体现由社会和城市中的不稳定因素引起的系列问题，例如自然灾害以及一系列对死亡的恐惧。这一切都影射着人类对未来城市空间的启示与抱负，这也根深蒂固于日本的社会与文化。参展作品中还蕴涵着永久和持续的观念。与此同时，这些作品也将透过对建筑和时尚中的生态学观念和对环保的实施的调查，以此来检验人类与城市环境和自然之间的关系。一个视觉感极强的终极世界（世界末日）景观，将由漫画作品被放大后像壁纸一样覆盖在墙壁上来展示。

[艺术家・作品例]

奈良美智＋graf Nara Yoshitomo + graf ……….[new commission]

宮本隆司 Miyamoto Ryuji ……….Kau Lun Shing Chai (photograph)

ヤノベケンジ Yanobe Kenji ……….Atom suits / Viva Riva Project - New Deme-

畠山直哉 Hatakeyama Naoya ……….Zeche Westfahlen I/II (installation)

米田知子 Yoneda Tomoko ……….scene series (photograph)

大友克洋 Otomo Katsuhiro ……….Akira (comic)

富野由悠季 Tomino Yoshiyuki ……….Gundam (comic/animation)

押井守 Oshii Mamoru ……….Tokyo Scanner

大巻伸嗣 Omaki Shinji ……….[new commission]

宮島達男 Miyajima Tatsuo ……….Installation

FINAL HOME FINAL HOME ……….Sculpture/fashion design

户外展览（的可能性）

由于这次展览将由北京的多个会场组成，多个分支展览的体系及（或）设计将共同促成统一的视觉及空间的完整性。想法之一是邀请建筑师坂茂（ Ban Shigeru) 为这三个会厂的正面建造伸展区，以统一展览的主旨。举办方也希望通过这个想法来展现展览第三部分的概念：生态与环保。

另外，在798艺术区的整体布展和对户外公共空间的整体利用，将使由感性划分开来的区域拥有概念上的一致性。

草間弥生 Kusama Yayoi ……….气球

杉本博司 Sugimoto Hiroshi ……….户外大型招贴广告牌

组织体制

主办： 独立行政法人国际交流基金

策展人： 片岡真実（森美术馆资深策展人，日本）

住友文彦（东京现代美术馆策展人，日本）

Kim Sunjung(独立策展人，韩国)

中方展览组织负责人： 李振华（独立策展人，北京）

中方合作方： 各个展览和活动会场

办公室 ：独立行政法人国际交流基金 艺术交流部造型美术科

负责人： 古市保子

Open City with Eyebeam

Looking at the Open City site, I surprisingly realised that graffitti with light (laser) can caused acqusation of vandalism...

Graffiti writer, artist, and friend of the G.R.L. AVONE has recently been incarcerated on charges of vandalism. We haven’t used this site as platform to raise money in the past but if we can gather $2,000 bail ASAP then we can keep our friend from having to spend the next 3 weeks in jail. If found guilty he faces a sentence of at least 9 months.....

design HKU Map by vote

design HKU Map by vote is a work in this New work Map From Phoebe Man "I have started a new series of work "Maps". This is inspired by Guy Debord's
theory of Psychogeography. I based on the poll of public or my personal
experience to transform maps."

Very much inspired from Psychogeorgraphy and Gestalt psychology.

Interface journal in France

Intimacy: Representations in literature and the visual arts
An INTERFACES Word and Image Conference

To be held at the University of Paris 7 Denis-Diderot, France, June 28-30, 2007

http://college.holycross.edu/interfaces/

Reversible Destiny Lofts

Avant-garde architects Shusaku Arakawa (an artist) and Madeline Gins (a poet) have recently unveiled a childishly wacky/cool apartment complex in the Tokyo suburb of Mitaka. Curiously, the nine apartments in it are meant to be uncomfortable. "People, particularly old people, shouldn't relax and sit back to help them decline," Arakawa told Newsweek International. What that means is the nine apartments are shiny and plastic-like with big geometric shapes -- like a McDonalds Playland laid out after a little too much peyote. From Newsweek:

Inside, each apartment features a dining room with a grainy, surfaced floor that slopes erratically, a sunken kitchen and a study with a concave floor. Electric switches are located in unexpected places on the walls so you have to feel around for the right one. A glass door to the veranda is so small you have to bend to crawl out.

And they cost $750,000, at least double what other places in the same nabe go for. Now that's uncomfortable.

Why again copycat from Hong Kong ?

Plenty of gadgets have borrowed from the iPod's design, so why shouldn't buildings get in on this action, too? The iPad (how original) will be a 23-storey residential tower with a look inspired by the Apple iPod. Crazy as that already sounds, here's the really good part: a "docking station" is part of the design! Designed by James Law Cybertecture International in Hong Kong, the $800 million tower will be built by Omniyat Properties, a Dubai-based developer.

Never mind that the iPod family will be in its Nth generation by the time this modern monolith is finished — can you imagine living in the iPad for years after that? What about when all our media fits in a memory wafer the size of your fingernail and the iPod is completely obsolete? Where will you live then, cool guy? Stop trying to live out Tron! It's a movie… it's make-believe. — Peter Pachal