London Design Festival 19 > 26.09.11
Tetsuro Nagata
TAKTAL at TESTBED – 21.05.11
Fabrizio Corneli
Chuck Hoberman
Remote Release
Eric Fischer
Cornelius Cardew
Michael Wesely
David Wilson
City Night After Party – 10.06.10
Andy Gilmore
Alex Maclean
Phil Ascroft
Candy Family
James Stevens – Puddle Play
Drawing in the Dark
UV Ping Pong Tournament– 20.05.10
Land Of Kings – 23.04.10
GSA End of Term Event – 19.03.10
Suppose Design Office
GSA End of Term Event – 11.12.09
Zaha Hadid
Urbanscreen
Loop.ph
Edward Burtynsky – Quarries
Junkyard
Shock of Time
Building Machines
Scenario Licht
Slow House
Double TentLondon Design Festival 19 > 26.09.11Tetsuro NagataTAKTAL at TESTBED – 21.05.11Fabrizio CorneliChuck HobermanRemote ReleaseEric FischerCornelius CardewMichael WeselyDavid WilsonCity Night After Party – 10.06.10Andy GilmoreAlex MacleanPhil AscroftCandy FamilyJames Stevens – Puddle PlayDrawing in the DarkUV Ping Pong Tournament– 20.05.10Land Of Kings – 23.04.10GSA End of Term Event – 19.03.10Suppose Design OfficeGSA End of Term Event – 11.12.09Zaha HadidUrbanscreenLoop.phEdward Burtynsky – QuarriesJunkyardShock of TimeBuilding MachinesScenario LichtSlow HouseDouble Tent
Tetsuro graduated from the Bartlett, UCL in 2009, and has carried out related research projects since, whilst working as an architectural assistant in a practice in Dalston. He enjoys hearing people’s thoughts on his work. The following pieces were exhibited at TAKTAL at TESTBED1, London 21.05.11. You can see further examples of his work here.
Peter Pan’s Shadow 2 – Interactive Projection
“I wasn’t crying about mothers,” he said rather indignantly.
“I was crying because I can’t get my shadow to stick on. Besides, I wasn’t crying.”
“It has come off?”
“Yes.”
Then Wendy saw the shadow on the floor, looking so draggled, and she was frightfully sorry for Peter. “How awful!” she said, but she could not help smiling when she saw that he had been trying to stick it on with soap. How exactly like a boy.
De Selby’s Parallel Mirrors – Interactive Installation
In the book The Third Policeman by Flann O’Brien, a philosopher describes the arrangement of parallel mirrors. His madcap theory goes that, if you get a couple of mirrors, the cleanest and most reflective you can find, then as you look towards the end of the reflected concentric mirrors, you should be able to see yourself younger – because light takes time to travel when bouncing off the mirrors!
PLEASE NOTE: EXHIBITION TIMES HAVE CHANGED FROM THAT LISTED
EVENT RUNS: 2PM to 9PM
Shadow Puppet Performance 7.3 – 8
Free Admission
TAKTAL invites the people of Wandsworth to visit and engage with the experimental art space Testbed1 as part of the Wandsworth Arts Festival 2011.. The ex dairy warehouse complex is a stunning sequence of spaces beside Ransomes Dockwhich is largely unknown. Through the construction of a series of large scale interactive installations we propose to transform Testbed1 into a space of visual splendor. A combination of Architecture and Visual Arts each installation will play with and manipulate with the spatial qualities within the Testbed1 complex enticing users to engage with the space and have fun. The exhibition will be a collaboration between ex-students from the Bartlett School of Architecture, Westminster School of Architecture and the Glasgow School of Art.
The doodle bar will be open in the courtyard all day so come down and enjoy the view by the Dock.
T E S T B E D M A I N S P A C E
RELAY – Architectural Light Installation
Kite and Laslett – Westminister School of Architecture
http://www.kiteandlaslett.com/
http://vimeo.com/17562263
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C O U R T Y A R D
TWO WAY – Interactive Projection
Tetsuro Nagata – Bartlett School of Architecture
http://tetsuronagata.co.uk/pitzhanger.html
I HAVE THESE TWO FACES – Interactive Installation
David Di Duca – Bartlett School of Architecture
http://vimeo.com/13348533
http://vimeo.com/22594024
NECKS OF THE WOODS – Musical Shadow Puppet Performance 7.30pm – 8pm
Puppets and Visuals by PLANFLASHTIC – SeePlats, – Glasgow School of Art
http://www.seeplats.com/
Music by Lime Headed Dog
http://www.limeheadeddog.com/
WARMBABY – Architectural Installation
Sample section of their installation which they are constructing at The Burning Man.
http://warmbaby.tumblr.com/
ROYAL REFORMATION – Animation
Paul Nicholls – Bartlett School of Architecture
ECO COMMUNE – Animation
Richard Hardy – Bartlett School of Architecture
THE ELEPHANT SUBWAY (KALEIDOSCOPE EDIT) – Shortl Film
Jonathan Gales – Bartlett School of Architecture
LE GARE – Short Film
Frank Hanna – Greenwich School of Art
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P E R F O R M A N C E S
Film Screenings
Courtyard
2:30pm, 4:30pm, 5:30pm
Interactive performance in with RELAY installation
Main Space 3pm, 5pm
Shadow Puppet Performance
Courtyard 7:30pm
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Augenblick (Moment)
Koln, 1997
Corneli, is an artist who uses light and shadow as a medium for drawing. This pieces is aluminium, painted iron pieces which pick up the evening sun. His website is here
Hoberman Associates specialize in transformable design — the development of products, structures, and environments that change their size and shape. Website here.
Apaptive Fritting
Harvard School of Design, 2009
‘Built on the practice of standard fritting with the addition of real-time dynamic motion via motorized control. While conventional fritting relies on a fixed pattern, Adaptive Fritting can control its transparency and modulate between opaque and transparent states. This performance is achieved by shifting a series of fritted glass layers so that the graphic pattern alternately aligns and diverges.
The installation at Gund Hall consists of six motorized panels comprising a 24-foot by 4-foot window, housed within a curved wall. These panels are programmed to form a dynamic field where light transmission, views, and enclosure continuously adapt and change. As the panels transform, the visual effect is of sparse dots blossoming into an opaque surface’.
Expanding Sphere
Expanding Geodesic Dome
Coachella Timelapse
2009
3 day festival recording using time lapse cinematography technique whereby each film frame is captured at a rate much slower than it will be played back. When replayed at normal speed, time appears to be moving faster.
Geotaggers World Atlas
May 2010
These maps are derived from photos taken within each city plotting the city in terms of places interest. The following description is taken from his Flickr page.
“I took photo locations from the Flickr and Picasa search APIs. The base maps that they are plotted on top of are from OpenStreetMap. I wrote some perl scripts to identify and plot the clusters of locations. The scripts generate PostScript which I then converted to JPEGs using Ghostscript.
The maps are ordered by the number of pictures taken in the central cluster of each one. The central cluster of each map is not necessarily in the center of each image, because the image bounds are chosen to include as many geotagged locations as possible near the central cluster. All the maps are to the same scale (a square measuring 15 miles on each side), chosen to be just large enough for the central New York cluster to fit. The photo locations come from the public Flickr and Picasa search APIs”.
Treatise, 1963-67
Treatise is a musical composition by British composer Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981). Treatise is a graphic musical score comprising 193 pages of lines, symbols, and various geometric or abstract shapes that eschew conventional musical notation. Implicit in the title is a reference to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein, which was of particular inspiration to Cardew in composing the work. The score neither contains nor is accompanied by any explicit instruction to the performers in how to perform the work. Cardew worked on the composition from 1963 to 1967. Source – Wikipedia.
Long Exposure: The destruction and re-building of the MoMa, 2004.
In 2001 Michael was invited by the Museum of Modern Art in New York to record the re-development of their building on one exposure. He set up eight cameras in four different corners and photographed the destruction and re-building of the MoMa until 2004. Using large format cameras (4×5 inches) he captured the light of his objects for up to 3 years in monochrome or colour.
Website here
Video for ‘We Got Time’, Moray McLaren
Using both praxinoscopes and the technique of matching up the frame rate of the spinning record to that of the camera, no computer super-imposing was used; what you see is what rolled off the camera. The transitions between each section of animation was created by simply cutting or wiping between the bits of footage.
All the animations were created, drawn and coloured by the director David Wilson
Making of video here.
Produced by Blinkink
http://www.blinkink.co.uk
Blog A/Pixels #46
New York, 2010
Andy is a designer, draftsman, and musician based in Rochester, NY. his work was exhibited at the Pick Me Up art fair in Somerset house in May 2010.
His website is here
Blog A/Pixels #46, New York, 2010
Pens set 2010
‘ Sun City, Arizona’
from ‘OVER: The American Landscape at the Tipping Point’
Abrams; 1 edition, 2008
Alex also co-produced the book ‘Taking Measures Across an Amercian Landscape’ with James Corner.
His website is here
Jakob Lund, Architect – April 2010
James Stevens, Architect - April 2010
A site specific installation conceived and constructed in one week
Mimicking the original but now defunct electrical circuits of the space, a steel electrical conduit droops down from the blackness of the ceiling, emitting a focused beam of light onto the wet floor. As the apparatus occilates through a slow curve, the light is reflected from the water onto the walls, to form a changing pitted circle, rising and falling like a moon, whose face is blurred as drips brake the surface of the water.
The abundance of dampness and darkness found in this subterranean space are used as the substance of the work and by the installation of this kinetic light source, the bunker itself is exposed as a found object. Texture, element, movement and volume are explored through a simple yet controlled use of light, reflection and shadow play; highlighting the found condition by transforming its qualities into something new.
Taktal-10.05.18 TOURNAMENT POSTER
“Dungeon of Discoveries” - In a bunker below Dalston’s main artery, festival-goers will explore a sprawling candelit exhibition space of interconnecting rooms to experience multiple performances and sensory-based interactive installations curated by Cleo Roberts and Taktal
Land of Kings here
Exhibition Entrance
#1_Candy Family, Jakob Lund
Visual Projection
#2_Drawing in the Dark, Brian Macken, Joshua Scott, Tamsin Hanke, 2010
Interactive Lighting Installation
This project was designed as installation within a WW2 Bunker in North East London as part of The Land Of Kings Music Festival 2010. As the occupant’s eyes adjust to the darkness, they gain an understanding of the different annexes of this abandoned concrete structure. During the event each room hosted a variety of spatial art installations. Our brief was to design and encourage a playful interaction between the isolated spaces. We became interested in using light as a tool to record the events occupancy. Phosphorescent surfaces were used to react to a light source actuated by a remote trigger situated in a secondary space (within the bunker). The light charges the paint creating a temporary memory of inhabitation; this is controlled and subverted by other users. The project was designed and fabricated within one week.
#3 UV Ping-Pong, Rob Morrison, Duncan Ibbit, Ali Frazer
Interactive Installation
James Stevens, Architect - April 2010
A site specific installation conceived and constructed in one week
Mimicking the original but now defunct electrical circuits of the space, a steel electrical conduit droops down from the blackness of the ceiling, emitting a focused beam of light onto the wet floor. As the apparatus occilates through a slow curve, the light is reflected from the water onto the walls, to form a changing pitted circle, rising and falling like a moon, whose face is blurred as drips brake the surface of the water.
The abundance of dampness and darkness found in this subterranean space are used as the substance of the work and by the installation of this kinetic light source, the bunker itself is exposed as a found object. Texture, element, movement and volume are explored through a simple yet controlled use of light, reflection and shadow play; highlighting the found condition by transforming its qualities into something new.
19.03.10
Soundhaus
11-late
full line-up to be released Monday 15th.
Tickets go on sale on Wednesday 10th March.
N.B. The last party sold out within a couple of days so if you would like to attend please buy your tickets EARLY to avoid disappointment.
This is not a fundraiser and not for profit, all the money from ticket sales will go towards making this night an audio/ visual spectacular – interactive U.V. games, dream machines, visuals, projections, lighting installations…
This is a Japanese architecture practice established by Makoto Tanijiri, professor at Anabuki Design College.I really liked these images of a hair salon the did in Hiroshima. It doesnt seem like a hair salon, yet does at the same time.
Website is here
Warehouse Party
Video:
Edited by Acid Raft
Press:
The Skinny Magazine, Dec. 2009. Club Preview
With special thanks to:
Visuals:
Acid Raft
Music:
Jackmaster
KONX-OM-PAX
Kwami
The Body
Projections:
Pointless Creations
Emilie Lundstrom
Installation:
Carrie Skinner
Domumentation:
Josh Loftin
Romini Dear
Poster:
Rob Morrison
Bradley Davies
‘The Dead Zone’, London, 1988 is a abstract proposal reuniting Berlin after the fall of the wall. 2m x 2m
From ‘Zaha Hadid: The complete buildings and projects, 1998
Another concept proposal for Singapore ishere
I saw this last week and thought it was mint. It could alter the combination of architecture and facade design with art or advertising
Website here
This is a photo from ‘The Rock of Ages’, granite quarry in Vermont. I love Burtysnksy’s photos of industrial landscapes, the scale is so immense they look surreal.
Edward Burtynsky 2000
Alex Maclean, Ayer Michigan, 2008
Sun Xun, 2009
Exhibiting at the Drawing Centre, New York
Hangzhou-based artist, Sun Xun uses thousands of illustrations on old Communist publications to construct animated timelines.
Iako Chernikhov, 1923
Extract from Phamplet Architecture 12, (Robert, ed. McCarter) Princeton Architectural Press 1987.
Its interesting that these images were retrospective in 1987. 90 years from they’re inception these images are still referred to by architectural students.
Tobias Link, Oliver Jene: Nova Eventis 2006
This is a photograph from a 12m globe light reactive installation outside the Nova Eventis Centre, Gunthersdorf, Germany.
Extract from Bright: Architectural Illumination and Light Installations
Diller + Scofidio, 1991
