'Imagining Environments' Lecture by Prof. Dean Hawkes 21st February in the Robin Evans Room

The room has now been changed to Evans (M416)

ABSENT installation at Shoreditch Town Hall

"A young woman enters a hotel. She is magnetic and compelling, yet strangely detached, as if in a dream; she knows everyone, yet is utterly alone; she has many lovers, but loves no one; she is 18 years old 

- or is she 80?" 

—
ABSENT

A dreamlike installation 

Commissioned by
SHOREDITCH TOWN HALL,
LIFT and LEFTCOAST

SHOREDITCH TOWN HALL
Monday 24 August - Sunday 25 October

Mon - Fri from 6pm | Sat & Sun from 12pm

Tickets

and more about 'ambulatory theater-as-installation' here.

'Corporeality, objects, and other stuff' at Fold Gallery 5th June-11th July

"FOLD is pleased to present Corporeality, Objects and Other Stuff a group show consisting of painting and sculpture. Each artist in this show approaches the material and physical matter of their work using a combination of sophisticated visual playfulness, and a range of carefully considered responses to modernism and abstraction."

FOLD is within walking distance of the studio:

158 New Cavendish St

London W1W 6YW

Click here for a map

more here.

Lucy McRae Lecture- 26 Nov 2014

"In this lecture, body architect Lucy McRae tiptoes on the edge between imagination and innovation.

Lucy McRae is a body architect exploring the relationship between the body, technology and the grey areas of synthetic and organic materials. She invents playful, imaginary worlds underpinned by the tools of science fiction and technology, to create portals of possibility that provoke the way people embody the future.

Trained in classical ballet and interior design, Lucy staked her claim as the world’s premier body architect during her formative years at Philips Design. Working in the far future design research lab she developed stretchable electronics, an electronic tattoo and a range of emotional sensing dresses awarded Time Magazine's Best Fashion Invention in 2007."

Wednesday 26 Nov 2014
6.30pm – 8pm
No booking required / first come, first seated
Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL

'Shooting Thoughts' by Filipe Vilas-Boas

"This past week, experience designer Filipe Vilas-Boas launched his latest public project, Shooting Thoughts, in the stunning French Gothic church of Saint-Eustache, Paris. Co-commissioned by Art, Culture et Foi and Nuit Blanche Paris, Shooting Thoughts is an interactive installation project that uses projection mapping to create a “constellation of stars.”

Shooting Thoughts  uses "text messaged thoughts" to create catalysts "for laser beams that travel up the pathways defined by the building's architecture. The project description explains,“The pillars are used as launch stations that carry the star to its final destination on the ceiling of the church via the arches and vaults. Like all of us, each star finds its place at its own speed with its individual trajectory.”

from the Creator's project.

I-LANDS Installation

I-Lands is an interactive installation that incorporates sound, water, wax, and temperature to explore the chaotic and random individual influences constantly present in climate and landscape formations. Composed and generated by individual visitors that engage with strategically placed 'activators', it is a generator of topographies.  The work acknowledges that individual actions can generate unpredictable processes.

Part of Ines Dantas's *Emospheric Arch-I-pelagos series, it was performed in June 2012 at the Institute for Experimental Architecture, in Innsbruck, Austria.

'Sensing Spaces: Architecture Reimagined' at the Royal Academy

Concept image of environment by Li Xiaodong (detail), commissioned by the Royal Academy of Arts, London. © Li Xiaodong.

25 January — 6 April 2014
In the Main Galleries

Some of the most creative architectural minds from around the world are coming to the RA – and together they will give you an unforgettable experience. Read more

the Royal Academy is located at: Burlington House, Piccadilly London W1J 0BD

'Thinking With the Body' at the Wellcome Collection. Until October 27th.

Wayne McGregor is well known for his physically testing choreography and ground-breaking collaborations across dance, film, music, visual art, technology and science. In 2000, he and his company Wayne McGregor | Random Dance embarked on a series of projects investigating aspects of creativity in dance with researchers from other fields such as cognitive and social science.

This exhibition, staged during the run-up to the first performances of his new work for Wayne McGregor | Random Dance, 'Atomos' at Sadler's Wells, offers a glimpse into this interdisciplinary research process and the impact it has in the rehearsal studio. Find out more about the process of choreography and how mind, body and movement interact in each of us.

From Saturday 28 September to Sunday 13 October there will be opportunities to meet dancers who have experience of working with the ideas discussed in the exhibition. The dancers will offer a unique insight into and practical demonstration of physical thinking techniques. Sessions will run on Thursdays 18.00-21.00, Saturdays and Sundays 14.00-17.00.

Admission to Wellcome Collection is free

Wellcome Collection
183 Euston Road
London NW1 2BE

'Universal Everything & You' at the Media Space, September 21st 2013 - February 7th 2014

Universal Everything & You is a new digital installation of two artworks by art and design collective Universal Everything specially commissioned for the Virgin Media Studio.

The first work, 1000 Hands is created by contributions from the public through a smart phone app. In the gallery space it takes the form of a circular projection onto multiple screens, with each one showing an individual artwork generated by app users.

Presence, the second work, is a collaboration with the LA Dance Project and has been created by using motion captured performances of dancers which will be played back with evolving digital ‘costumes’.

Universal Everything, founded in 2004 by Matt Pyke (b.1975) are a UK based digital art and design collective who work with a global network of designers, artists, musicians, producers and programmers. For Universal Everything & You Matt Pyke has collaborated with composer Simon Pyke, Benjamin Millepied’s LA Dance Project and architect Irene Shamma.

Opening 21 September 2013 at the Media Space at the Science Museum, Exhibition Road, South Kensington, London, SW7 2DD

Open seven days a week, 10.00-19.00 during the school holidays. Entry to the Museum is free.

Turning Weapons Into Instruments: Pedro Reyes “Disarm”

Artist Pedro Reyes, and new media studio Cocolab, are turning dismantled weapons into mechanized musical instruments.


more and a video at BOOOOOOM.

University of Westminster: PG 2013

THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE INVITES YOU TO PG2013:

An exhibition of thesis projects from the MA Architecture; MA Architecture and Digital Media; MA Cultural Identity and Globalisation and MA Interior Design

PREVIEW
Friday 13 September
6 – 9pm
UNIVERSITY OF WESTMINSTER
35 Marylebone Road
London
NW1 5LS

EXHIBITION CONTINUES DAILY

Saturday 14 September
to Saturday 21 September
9am – 9pm

westminster.ac.uk/abe
openstudiowestminster.org

Friday at Tate Britain: Performing Architecture

Alex Schweder and Ward Shelly, Stability, Seattle, 2009 Photos 
© Scott Lawrimore, edited by Ward Shelly & author.

What does performance have to do with architecture? 
How can a building perform, and how can we perform a building?

Come on a playful journey through the gallery in its current phase of spatial and structural transformation, taking a look at architectural and art practices that explore how our physical bodies interact with built form.

With talks, performance, a workshop, and sound and film from Alex Schwederand Lamis Bayar, Kreider + O’Leary, Effie Coe, Emptyset and The Architecture Foundation. 

*Late at Tate Britain: February 2013
Performing Architecture*
Friday 1 February, 18:00 - 22:00
Tate Britain

more details here.

Nendo Mimicry Chairs, London Design Festival 2012

This year as part of London Design Festival’s Landmark Projects Japanese design studioNendo have installed Mimicry Chairs, a series of sporadically placed chairs, in the Victoria and Albert Museum. Rising stars of Japanese design, Nendo have already exhibited in Madrid, Milan, Paris, Tokyo and New York. 

More about Nendo here.

Philip Beesley's Hylozoic Series

Hylozoic Ground, by Philip Beesley

This work is a growing, touring artwork that suggests a new kind of responsive architecture.
It can now be found at the Sydney Biennale (september 2012).

The Hylozoic environment can be described as a suspended geotextile that gradually accumulates hybrid soil from ingredients drawn from its surroundings. Akin to the functions of a living system, embedded machine intelligence allows human interaction to trigger breathing, caressing, and swallowing motions and hybrid metabolic exchanges. These empathic motions ripple out from hives of kinetic valves and pores in peristaltic waves, creating a diffuse pumping that pulls air, moisture and stray organic matter through the filtering Hylozoic membranes. 'Living' chemical exchanges are conceived as the first stages of self-renewing functions that might take root within this architecture.

(Excerpt from the press release for his installation at the Canadian Pavilion at Architecture Biennale Venice 2010 ).

See http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v86B9Nz_LVU
for an excellent explanation of its layers by its designer, Philip Beesley.

burble: haque design and research

burble in Singapore: Haque design and research

The first Burble ever, launched at the open ceremonies of the Singapore Biennale 2006, was known as Open Burble and consisted of a 15 storey structure designed, assembled and controlled by members of the public. The purpose of the project was to explore how people could design and contribute to their urban environment at a massive scale, albeit just for one night.

Haque design and research are well known for creating the Burble, but are responsible for many other interactive works. They can be found at http://www.haque.co.uk.

factory fifteen

Factory Fifteen is a new animation company formed by architecture graduates (yes, from Nic Clear's Unit at the Bartlett) which generates imaginative and fantastical imagery. Find it at http://www.factoryfifteen.com