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Post Mc-Queen Embryos – AA School Paris

Rodrigo — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 05:27:17 +0000

Workshop 19-30 March 2012
Location: AA School Paris – Les Arts Décoratifs,
AGENDA
Post-9/11, Post-Tsunamis, Post-Earthquakes, Post-Olympics, Post-Hadid; Post- McQueen.

Alexander McQueen (1969-2010) was one of the most influential and provocative designers of his generation. His clothing challenged the generic and conventional parameters of fashion to express culture, politics, identity. McQueen saw beyond clothing design physical constraints its ideological and conceptual possibilities, addressing questions related to race, gender, religion, sexuality and environment. During AA School Paris Spring 2012, McQueen’s evolutionary design will act as prompts for embryos’ naissance within the [Fashion+Architecture] body of work.

Within a framework of 10 days-germination, AA school Paris participants will take part of a collective embryo-genesis engaging McQueen’s DNA and legacy onto a novel and crucial debate about fashion in the Post-McQueen Era.
Featuring the most iconic and radical designs of his prolific career, AA embryos will grow and develop a self-intelligent état d’âme informed by a set of social, contextual, operational and performative parameters, such as: mass production driven by advanced capitalism; temperature variations in the globe, clothes’ adaptability in urban milieus, among other.

Post-McQueen Embryos seeks to eradicate the non-responsiveness within clothing design by reviewing Alexander McQueen’s alienated proportions, aiming at busting fashion design out of its commercial destination. Intended to become a design research laboratory, AA School Paris ultimate target is to keep growing the potential for meshing both disciplines [Fashion+Architecture] onto a digital/ physical cross-over studio helping to reaffirm AA School Paris research material.

The Paris Experience
Discussions, debates and lectures will take place on site with expertise on a day to day basis. By placing fashion designers at the centre of the process, the workshop seeks to challenge much more than just clothing design. At the core of Spring 2012 our solely goal is of consolidating the AA emerging discipline: bodily-architecture.
The AA Paris Fashion School will take in an exclusive insightful retrospective at the Exhibition ‘MARC JACOBS- LOUIS VUITTON’, to be held at the Les Arts Décoratifs- AA Paris Headquarters.
Post Mc-Queen Embryos is strengthened by a large network of Parisian Patronage, from industrial, publishing and collaborative links, taking the form of sponsoring inputs to the course.
The workshop is open to current architecture and design students, PhD candidates and young professionals. All applicants should submit a CV and portfolio to Jorge Ayala at info@ayarchitecture.com

Links:
Website: http://aaschoolparis.tumblr.com/
AA School Microsite: http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/Paris-part2
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/AA-School-Paris/175947042439516

Applications Link:

https://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/ONLINEAPPLICATION/visitingApplication.php?schoolID=68

Faculty:
Jorge Ayala, Director and Founder at [Ay]Architects
Isaïe Bloch, Collaborator Designer at Iris Van Herpen
Riyad Joucka, AA MA Emergent Techonogies Graduate
Santosh Kumar, Architect, Hernan Diaz Alonso Studio EXCESSIVE, Die Angewandte University, Vienna
Kibwe Tavares, Director and Founder at FACTORYFIFTEEN
and more.

Off Book: Generative Art – Computers, Data, and Humanity

Rodrigo — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 01:26:41 +0000

Off Book: Generative Art – Computers, Data, and Humanity
An intriguing combination of programmers, artists, and philosophers, these creators embrace a process that delegates essential decisions to computers, data sets, or even random variables. This allows important metaphors to arise in their work, calling attention to the relationship between humans and the computers that surround us, the mountains of information we generate, and the powerful impact that technology has on our relationships with each other.

A FILM ABOUT HOPE, FEAR AND DIGITAL CULTURE.

Rodrigo — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 04:16:02 +0000

Hello everyone , its been a while since the last time I made a recommendation on my blog so I think this is great come back you should really check out this movie called PressPausePlay a film about hope, fear and digital culture.

SYNOPSIS
The digital revolution of the last decade has unleashed creativity and talent of people in an unprecedented way, unleashing unlimited creative opportunites.
But does democratized culture mean better art, film, music and literature or is true talent instead flooded and drowned in the vast digital ocean of mass culture? Is it cultural democracy or mediocrity?
This is the question addressed by PressPausePlay, a documentary film containing interviews with some of the world’s most
influential creators of the digital era.
The film was shot globally between August 2009 – January 2011, covering more than 150 hours of interview footage with international creatives and thinkers – representing the state of digitized culture today.

via @daniel_camiro

Hyphae – a new collection from Nervous System

Rodrigo — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 04:19:18 +0000

Hyphae is the new collection from Nervous Systsem a a design studio that works at the intersection of science, art, and technology. by using innovative process that employs computer simulation to generate designs and digital fabrication to realize products.
Hyphae is collection of 3D printed artifacts constructed of rhizome-like networks. Inspired by the vein structures that carry fluids through organisms from the leaves of plants to our own circulatory systems, we created a simulation which uses physical growth principles to build sculptural, organic structures. Starting from an initial seed and a surface, we grow a hierarchical network where nodes constantly branch and merge. The densely interconnected structure is at once airy and strong.
If your are interested in more technical processes of this project please visit this post

Hyphae – growth of the Hyphae Cuff from Nervous System on Vimeo.

Continuum by Mary Huang [processing]

Rodrigo — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 20:49:03 +0000

Continuum is the latest project of designer Mary Huang ,it is an interesting blend of rapid fabrication, interactive software, and the the use of web platforms, to let individuals participate directly in the design and production process of products .
Concept Idea
With computational design there is the opportunity to not only create beautifully intricate forms, but to define a design according to its governing processes and user interactions. This project sought to mediate between the avant-garde and ready-to-wear, between individual users and a designer’s vision. Could we use technology to democratize haute couture? Could we let people design their own dress, and still maintain a cohesive, recognizable design?

About the Process
The software application was created in Processing. The generated dress models can be exported as .obj files. While you could export the flat triangles directly from the application, for production it was not favorable to have hundreds of individual triangles that have to be cut and pieced together. The code could be optimized in a number of ways for better streamlining of digital production practice, but I prioritized refining interaction design and producing finished models over heavy immersion into computer science problems. Therefore, for the prototype pieces, I imported the .obj files into Blender, and then was able to fix stray triangles and export flat patterns using the UV unwrap.

Try it online at continuumfashion.com

VoltaDom by Skylar Tibbits

Rodrigo — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 06:54:09 +0000

VoltaDom Is an installation created by Skylar Tibbits for MIT’s 150th Anniversary Celebration & FAST Arts Festival (Festival of Arts, Science and Technology) , the installation populates the corridor spanning building 56 & 66 on MIT’s campus. This installation lines the concrete and glass hallway with hundreds of vaults, reminiscent of the great vaulted ceilings of historic cathedrals. The vaults provide a thickened surface articulation and a spectrum of oculi that penetrate the hallway and surrounding area with views and light.
VoltaDom attempts to expand the notion of the architectural “surface panel,” by intensifying the depth of a doubly-curved vaulted surface, while maintaining relative ease in assembly and fabrication. This is made possible by transforming complex curved vaults to developable strips, one that likens the assembly to that of simply rolling a strip of material.

F(AA)SHIONS , Marc Fornes Studio

Rodrigo — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 05:34:17 +0000

PARIS | F(AA)SHIONS | AA Visiting Workshop | 21-31st March 2011
Director: Jorge Ayala | Location: Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris
Marc Fornes has kindly been invited to run one of the studio at the f(AA)shions workshop / one of the visiting workshop of Architectural Association School that will be hosted at the Musee des Arts Decoratifs in Paris.
Paris AA Visiting School Website – link | Application: vistingschool@aaschool.ac.uk
Marc will propose to his group a special type of workshop in a two steps process:
# First to be part of the assembly process for an installation by THEVERYMANY™ for the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The piece will be assembled at the Centre** and will give a chance for the students to experience the process & logistic involved around the physical production of complex morphologies resulting from the development of highly custom protocols of descriptive geometry (written in Python / Rhcommon).
#Then will initiate the students to text based protocols/scripting (RhinoPython/Rhinoscript) – and investigate a similar design approach then the installation through applied exercises on the human morphology and study multiple ways to describe it…

Arduino- The Documentary

Rodrigo — Sat, 08 Jan 2011 02:12:23 +0000

Finally Arduino The Documemtary is out, thanks a lot to Rodrigo Calvo(twitter @rodhk) for making it available to everyone.
The documentary shows different interviews from the project creators and also interesting footage from different institutions and people doing awesome works with the Arduino platform like ITP, Parsons, Adafruit, Makerbot New York, Medialab Prado and Laboral Centro de Arte).

Arduino The Documentary (2010) English HD from gnd on Vimeo.

Topologies by Quayola

Rodrigo — Sat, 18 Dec 2010 02:26:36 +0000

(“all images from Quayola´s site“)
Topologies is the latest project of visual artist Quayola which is an instalment continuing the Strata Series. Differently from the previous Strata pieces, Topologies does not describe a process of transformation, rather it focuses into the observation of objects that are already fully transformed.

The subjects of these new pieces are two iconic paintings from the Prado Museum’s collection: “Las Meninas” of Velazquez and “L’ Immacolata Concezione” of Tiepolo. Following the rules behind their visual composition and colours, the two masterpieces have prescription online been transformed into digital fabrications through the use of a custom software. Topologies consist in the exploration of the digital objects created by this transformation process.

Topologies (Excerpt) – Velazquez from Quayola on Vimeo.

panGenerator @ Kultura 2.0 / Culture 2.0

Rodrigo — Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:01:27 +0000

(all images from Piotrek Barszczewski blog)

panGenerator was invited by Polish National Audiovisual Institute participate at Culture 2.0 event were they generated three installations using different analog and digital technologies the theme of the event was “Remix culture” so this seems to be a nice approach.

? panGenerator @ Kultura 2.0 / Culture 2.0 from panGenerator on Vimeo.

Chasing Cormorans 2.0
For this installation an old gramophone was used with specially engraved vinyl playing Piotr Szczepanik’s “Goni?c Kormorany” (chasing cormorans).
The whole installation constisted of an USB camera, a laptop and the old gramophone which was hacked by replacing the original engian to another one controlled with Arduino, then a special video tracking software was written in openframeworks which allowed to track persons moving around the gramophone and transpose their movements to speed/direction of the rotating vinyl plate, so visitors could “remix” the recording by just running around.

MOTION=COLOR
An installation exploring motion as a medium similar to traditional painting.Motion and sound alters the speed of color change so visitors could create on line pharmacies quite abstract compositions by just moving their body and making some noise. At the end users were able to upload their their created images to live flickr feed by just pressing a push-button on the black box attached to the wall.

Cathode Ray Tube Music
Smart physical installation of analog camera allows the user to control the feedback not only by obscuring the view but also by moving the leaver that controls rotation of the camera. Although the visual side is purely analog the sound is synthesized digitally thanks to video grabbing card and app written in Processing. The algorithm shapes the waveform according to average brightness levels of successive pixel columns.