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About Ruairi Glynn

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Artist & Educator
Irish/UK

Ruairi Glynn

Practicing installation artist and Director of MArch Design for Performance & Interaction – Ruairi Glynn has exhibited internationally with recent shows at the Centre Pompidou Paris, the National Art Museum of China Beijing, Ars Electronica in Linz and the Tate Modern, London. He has worked with leading cultural and research institutions including the Royal Academy of Arts, the Medical Research Council and BBC and built public installations for commercial clients including Twitter, Nike, Arup, Buro Happold, and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He often works collaboratively with artists, architects, and choreographers including Shobana Jeyasingh Dance Company, New Movement Collective, onedotzero, Marshmallow Laser Feast, and Tellart

Projects By Ruairi Glynn

Posts By Ruairi Glynn

Electric Plaid – International Fashion Machines

August 3, 2006 |

IFM's Electric Plaid is a unique textile display technology and design material. It is used by IFM to create hand woven, sensuous individual artworks, interior design and architectural surfaces. Electric Plaid combines woven electronic circuits, color-change inks … Read More

Waves – Shannon McMullen and Fabian Winkler

August 1, 2006 | | One Comment

Waves is a sound installation that uses buoys to connect wading pools in two different locations and create sound compositions generated by the energy of waves in a wading pool. An accelerometer in each buoy measures the magnitude … Read More

The Office For Robotic Architectural Media & Bureau For Responsive Architecture

July 31, 2006 |

Filamentosa: An ultra-lightweigh skyscraper using an actuated tensegrity structure exo-skelital frame tethered internal core. (2004)

The Office For Robotic Architectural Media & The Bureau For Responsive Architecture (oframBFRA) is a small, award winning, architectural practice that designs buildings as … Read More

Utility Fog – John Storrs Hall

July 28, 2006 | | One Comment

Imagine it is the year 2100. The population of the Earth, doubling every 30 years or so, has reached nearly 50 billion souls. The price of a comfortable single-family house on one acre in New Jersey, doubling every 10 years … Read More

Some thoughts on Responsive Kinetic Architecture

July 27, 2006 | | 2 Comments

Institut du Monde Arabe

The idea of a responsive architecture is simply fascinating. The façade of Jean Nouvel’s Institut du Monde Arabe comes immediately to mind, especially the way its lenses respond to changing light levels; likewise, … Read More

Homographies – Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

July 26, 2006 | | One Comment

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I saw Rafaiel Lozano-Hemmer give a talk about his exciting work to the Bartlett School of Architecture earlier this year which included a short introduction to HOMOGRAPHIES while it was still in development. Now complete it is … Read More

Genetec – Stanza.

July 25, 2006 | | One Comment

I had the pleasure of meeting Stanza at 'Sum (1,4,6)' a few months ago when we were both involved in a night of audio visual performances as part of NodeLondon. It was there that I found out about his interest … Read More

Implant Matrix – Philip Beesley

July 24, 2006 |

Implant Matrix by Philip Beesley is an interactive geotextile that could be used for reinforcing landscapes and buildings of the future. The matrix is capable of mechanical empathy. A network of mechanisms react to human occupants … Read More

Achim Wollscheid

July 21, 2006 |

I encountered the work of Achim Wollscheid through the excellent We-Make-Money-Not-Art when Regine recently posted his recent Inlet/Outlet installation exhibited at Sonambiente in Berlin. 

It is a simple project where the movement of inhabitants in a … Read More

Miles Kemp – Meta Morphic “Living” Architecture

July 20, 2006 |

 

Miles Kemp explored the question ‘Why can't architecture grow with us?’ for his Masters Thesis at Southern California Institute of Architecture. Inspired by the actuation of miniature robotic modules like the “Self-replicating, Self-sustaining and Adaptive Machines ” … Read More