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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

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Evoke – Usman Haque

November 1, 2007 | | 2 Comments

Evoke by Architect & Artist Usman Haque is a massive animated 80,000 lumen projection, that lights up the facade of York Minster. The facade is brought to life by members of the public, who use their own voices to "evoke" … Read More

Image Radio

October 23, 2007 | | 2 Comments

PixFlow #2 – LAb [au]

From November 2 – 4, 2007, Image Radio is being held in Eindhoven, NL. The festival will be presenting a series of interactive installations that investigate the phenomenon of ‘Urban Screens’: Looking at how moving … Read More

Roots – Roman Kirschner

October 22, 2007 | | 3 Comments

My recent work has been influenced a great deal by the work of Cybernetican Gordon Pask (1928-1996)  from his interactive installations to his work with Architects Cedric Price, John Fazer and Media Lab co-founder Nicholas Negroponte. Its always interesting … Read More

Performative Ecologies nominated for Europrix Top Talent Award

October 19, 2007 | | 7 Comments

I’m excited to hear that my most recent interactive installation Performative Ecologies has been nominated for the Europrix Top Talent Awards with the exhibition being held at the Kunsthaus Graz. on the 23rd and 24th of November. This of … Read More

Emotional Architecture?

October 18, 2007 | | 4 Comments

2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)

So what does the future hold for us? And what will technology enable us or indeed disable us from achieving. Futuristic visions from science fiction cinema borrow much from the leading technology of their time, … Read More

Seagulls

October 16, 2007 |

Here’s an interesting use of aluminium louvers and LED technology recently installed at Moorfields Eye Hospital in London. The new building, designed by architects Penoyre & Prasad, is illuminated on the south side using RGB color changing … Read More

Light-Emitting Roof Tiles

October 15, 2007 | | 5 Comments

The roof has historically focused on one primary function: keeping out the elements. New technologies, as present in Light-Emitting Roof Tiles, allow the integration of additional functions within roof surfaces. Manufactured by Lambert Kamps, the transparent roof tiles are … Read More

Kengo Kuma – Weak Architecture

October 9, 2007 | | 5 Comments

 

In search of flexible buildings – Kengo Kuma uses the term “weak architecture”. His teahouse does not rise up from the ground as a fixed wooden construction, but unfolds as an airborne ephemeral structure. When … Read More

Seduced by Light

September 29, 2007 | | 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, … Read More

Peter Cook – Lecture – London

September 28, 2007 |

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 … Read More