September 2007

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• Articles, Interactive, Lighting, Scuplture/Installation

  Seduced by Light

  09.29.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  Dazed Digital recently published a series of three exclusive documentaries on artists who work with light as their medium. Two of these in particular, Jason Bruges Studio and United Visual Artists are common sights on this blog, producing a number of impressive large scale interactive installations in galleries and exhibitions, as well as embedding responsive […]

• Architecture, Events

  Peter Cook - Lecture - London

  09.28.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  6.30pm Wednesday 3 October 2007
  Sir Peter Cook, The Bartlett Chair of Architecture from 1991-2005, returns to the Bartlett in 2007 to open the 2007/08 International Lecture Series with his talk titled "2 Years of Gossip and Some Stuff Going On". Its open to the public so get their early to avoid disappointment. It is being […]

• Events

  MediaArchitecture - Media Urbanism

  09.27.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Media Urbanism hosted by Mirjam Struppek was the second panel of the MediaArchitecture conference I recently attended. Mirjam began by highlighting the new challenges faced in urban design and planning caused by the use of media technologies, in particular, LED screens. The main focus was how these technologies have a social impact and how […]

• Furniture, Interactive, Visual

  Colour Responsive Chairs - Moritz Waldemeyer

  09.26.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  By Royal Appointment is a set of responsive chairs by Moritz Waldemeyer. As a person sits in the chair, an RGB colour sensor in the back reads the colour of their clothing. The colour LEDs on the back of the chair then gradually fade into the colour of the sitter. “This gives the individual sitting […]

• Events

  This Happened

  09.25.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Unfortunately I’m away in Canada at the ACADIA conference while  this event is being held but if your in London on the 2nd of October, check out This Happened organised by Chris O’Shea (Pixelsumo), Joel Gethin Lewis (United Visual Artists) and Andreas Muller (Nanika). This happened is a series of events focusing on the […]

• Events, Lighting, New Materials

  MediaArchitecture - New Technologies and New Materials

  09.25.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Here are some notes from the "New Technologies and New Materials" panel hosted by Peter Cornwell at last weeks Media Architecture Conference. As the opening panel it revealed the current technological developents in media-facade design and exposed the practical experiences of the speakers over a range of different approaches, programs and contexts. As the opening […]

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