About Ruairi Glynn
Digital Architecture London Conference 2009
August 16, 2009 | Ruairi GlynnI’ve been busy over the past couple of weeks putting the final touches to the first Digital Architecture London conference and I’m pleased to say that I’ve got everyone I really wanted to speak at the event to agree … Read More
555 KUBIK
August 8, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | 4 CommentsI particularily like the use of sound in this architecture augmented by projection. Daniel Rossa worked with Urbanscreen to create the 555 kubik facade video projection at the kunsthalle in hamburg (germany). giant hands appear to manipulate the surface … Read More
Panopticons – Singing-Ringing Tree
August 6, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | 3 CommentsAt Crown Point high above Burnley town UK the ‘Singing-Ringing Tree’ — a unique musical sculpture in the form of a tree appears to bend against the endless winds that pass over the hills. Designed by award-winning architects Tonkin-Liu. … Read More
Robo-Bricky
July 30, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentIn Fläsch, the winegrowers Martha and Daniel Gantenbein took advantage of the success of their Pinot Noir to replace their steel containers with oak barrels. They commissioned the architects Bearth & Deplazes with the design and construction of a … Read More
Situated Technologies Pamphlet 4
July 18, 2009 | Ruairi GlynnThe new Situated Technologies Pamphlet is out featuring a conversation between leading interactive architects Philip Beesley & Omar Khan. The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series, published by the Architectural League, explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. … Read More
ResoNet
July 17, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentDesigned by Mark Francis Tynan & William Hailiang Chen, ResoNet visualises the resonant frequencies inherent in the natural environment, via the interaction of the public and surrounding elements detected by a LED net. By using Low-Fi techniques ResoNet creates … Read More
Computing an Identity – Tetsuro Nagata
July 15, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | 2 CommentsTetsuro Nagata, a recent graduate of the Bartlett’s Interactive Architecture Workshop, has created a series of pedagogic installations Inspired by Frances Yates’ “Art of Memory”, exploring physical manifestation of various concepts of memory. The final installation “Computing an Identity” … Read More
Art and Code
July 14, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentGolan Levin has announced that many of the talks at Art & Code are available online to watch here. Below is a video of Ben Fry and Casey Reas talking about Processing and above Golan himself talking. Make sure … Read More
Declan Shaw – Waiting and the Reconstruction of Imagination
July 3, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | 2 CommentsDeclan Shaw’s of Interactive Installation, Bird Soundscapes incorporate a dynamic three dimensional acoustic environment of birdsong which perform accelerated diurnal cycles. Individual ‘birds’ occupy positions in space, which move about in birdlike patterns and also reacting to the movement … Read More
Tom Foulsham
June 30, 2009 | Ruairi GlynnThe Royal College of Art Show opened last week with some excellent work which no doubt wmmna will cover in depth. One project I particularly enjoyed was Tom Foulsham, an ex-Bartlett graduate and now graduate of the RCA’s Design … Read More