Semiconductor

'20hz' - Data from a geo-magnetic storm in the Earth’s upper atmosphere, captured by the CARISMA radio array, generating sound and moving images

Brilliant Noise from Semiconductor on Vimeo.

‘Brilliant Noise’ - (2006), grainy black and white images of the sun, using raw satellite data captured by the Soho satellite

Semiconductor is artist duo Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt. Through moving image works they explore the material nature of our world and how we experience it, questioning our place in the physical universe. Their unique approach has won them many awards and prestigious fellowships such as the Gulbenkian Galapagos, Smithsonian Artists Research and the NASA Space Sciences. Their work is part of several international public collections and has been exhibited globally including Venice Bienniale, The Royal Academy, Hirshhorn Museum, BBC, ICA and the Exploratorium.

http://www.semiconductorfilms.com/

Project: Philanthropy

1st project of MA Design Interactions @ RCA

http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/philanthropy/

Brief here - http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/philanthropy/?page_id=2

Also, included talks / presentations from -

Public Works

We Made That

Lucy Kimbell

Utopia London Film

Visited: Locked Room Scenario @ Londonewcastle Depot

Frustrating / funny.

Text - "This place is everything... This place's everything... Rose"

Here.

Review.

Another.

Ryan Gander: Locked Room Scenario from Artangel on Vimeo.

Passing Cloud

Predominant winds would determine the routes and speed of the hovering cloud, which would move from place to place without any fixed destinations.

Passing Cloud by
Tiago Barros

michael-smith-tour-olympic-park

"London's a roll call of yesterdays utopias over lapping in space and time, yesterdays hopes and dreams poking through history into the present"

http://www.floatingcinema.info/films/michael-smith-tour-olympic-park-23-july

by Floating Cinema.

Seen: Utopia London @ RCA

At college they had a screening of this film and Q&A with it's director, Tom Cordell, as part of the project we are currently working on.

Utopia London documentary trailer from utopialondon on Vimeo.

It featured Alexandra Road Estate, NW8. (Also above)

I also enjoyed the drawings by George Finch which featured in the film.

http://www.utopialondon.com/

http://we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2010/12/utopia-london.php

http://www.iconeye.com/news/review-utopia-london

Christoph Büchel’s “Piccadilly Community Centre”

This was back in July but I only just found out about it. I saw his 'Simply Botiful' exhibition on Brick Lane a few years ago and that was amazing.

"Something uncanny this way comes at Hauser and Wirth London: for Christoph Büchel’s latest feat in politically-charged trompe l’oeil, the Swiss artist dropped a well-used community center straight onto Piccadilly. Though it only opened a couple weeks ago, the gallery’s usual parquet is covered by worn linoleum, and each successive room is perfectly decorated and organized for dance lessons, art therapy, and other various classes in full swing—the space even smells authentic. Though upon looking further, a curious eye will detect a few uncanny moments pointing to the artist’s critical engagement in creating such a space: a reproduced Rothko hangs in the prayer room, seemingly announcing and deflecting its transcendental nature; and upstairs the Geranium Shop for the Blind is situated next to a outpost for the Conservative Party Archive—a potent juxtaposition beckoning a consideration of Big Society politics."

Read full review here - http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/christoph-buchel’s-“piccadilly-community-centre”/

Droog Open House Project

WELCOME TO A FUTURE SUBURBIA

Washing machines sit idle most of the time. Homes offer views that mostly go unnoticed. At the same time, housing foreclosures are on the rise and ready-made jobs are not easy to find. Inspired by the service-oriented mentality of New York, Open house by Droog in collaboration with Diller Scofidio + Renfro is a movement in which suburban homeowners supplement their income and develop a new vocation by offering home-made services and facilities to the public.

Open house encourages self-inventiveness, offers ideas, and proposes new models for suburban housing, striking a new balance between the private and public realm. Starting with an economic argument for the struggling middle class, the proposal also addresses the challenges posed by urban sprawl and single–owner consumption. The new residential marketplace not only brings more capital and density to the neighborhood, it also increases social cohesion through service exchange.

http://openhouse2011.com/

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/06/suburbia-what-a-concept/

Quayola

http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/en-uk/creators/quayola#ooid=loaHRjMjr91mD7eFnLTY3YE5igXGgaTX