Friday, April 20, 2012
Thursday, April 19, 2012
Seen: Man on Wire
Amazing story, performer and performance.
But also a shame to think that nothing like this would ever happen again.
Tuesday, April 17, 2012
Move: Choreographing You
I didn't see it. But i read the exhibition book!
Christian Jankowski - Rooftop Routine
Janine Antoni's Yours truly, 2010
Artist Janine Antoni conceived a performative project titled Yours truly for the exhibition Move: Choreographing You, at the Hayward Gallery in London. The piece consisted of a work of art writing passionately to a visitor. The love letter was printed on an artfully torn page from the exhibition space's map handout.
Sunday, April 15, 2012
Audio Forensics
How to use variations in the frequency of the electrical grid to date audio
recordings. The graph at top shows the Electric Network Frequency (ENF)
extracted from a one-hour (3,600-second) recording to be used as evidence.
The middle graph depicts the computer-determined correlation between
the variations of the evidentiary ENF (red) and the ENF variations for the USA
West grid for the twenty-four hours of 14 February 2011 (86,400 seconds)
as archived by the National Center for Media Forensics (black). The bottom
graph shows an enlarged view of the matching portion of the middle graph
(the red line should lie precisely on the black line, but has been shifted here
for the sake of visual clarity). The recording is thus dated to the second on
the day in question. Courtesy Catalin Grigoras.
From
THE FREEDOM OF SPEECH ITSELF
LAWRENCE ABU HAMDAN
Cabinet Magazine: Forensics.
http://www.forensic-architecture.org/docs/cabinet_43_the_freedom_of_speech_itself_0.pf
Friday, April 13, 2012
Thursday, April 12, 2012
Seen: Jaywick Escapes @ RCA
"The government recently named Jaywick the most deprived place in England, yet this decaying seaside resort casts a powerful spell over its inhabitants, drifters whose reasons to escape here are revealed across a year beside the sea."
- A film by Somewhere: Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
See a penny pick it up
then all day you'll have good luck.
It exists as metal, paper, plastic or sometimes just a number. It determines where you live. Influences who you socialise with. Gets you up for work in the morning and preoccupies thoughts as you fall asleep. Sometimes it has come and gone before you even notice. Money is stitched into the fabric of almost every aspect of our lives.
This penny is intended to be given away rather than spent. Making people consider where it has come from, where it will go and question our current relationship and behaviours with money. It is to encourage pleasure in giving and distract from habitual spending.
Developed from our project on philanthropy. Being exhibited at RCA Paradise Exhibition in Milan.
Monday, April 9, 2012
RCA Paradise Exhibition @ Milan Salone 2012
At this year's Salone Internazionale del Mobile the Royal College of Art will present Paradise, an exhibition organised by the Design Products programme including for the first time, work by students from across the College's art and design disciplines.
Paradise contemplates the discovery of something or somewhere wondrous. Rallied by the desire for change and compelled by dissatisfaction with the present, RCA students will author their own atlases of paradise, landscaped by different paths in the quest for a better future. The work exhibited will address three subjects: the exploration of personal dreams and desires; questioning the fabric of the everyday; and speculation on the direction of our future. Product and furniture design will be evident as well as conceptual pieces in a variety of media. The exhibition content has been selected by Professor Tord Boontje, Head of Design Products at the RCA and curated by designer and RCA tutor Onkar Kular.
Paradise will be located in the heart of the Ventura Lambrate district with students taking over the classrooms of a former school building. The exhibition is part of the College's 175th anniversary celebrations and will show an international audience the breadth of creativity coming from the world's most influential postgraduate university of art and design.
"The Design Products programme has been exhibiting successfully at the Milan Salone for several years," commented Dr Paul Thompson, Rector of the RCA. "The opportunity to show a wider selection of student work to an international audience will be a great way to commemorate the College's 175th birthday. Paradise will be a celebration of creativity from across the College, it will reflect the importance of creative thinking and the ways it can alter the world we live in."
RSA Choice
the problems with having too much choice but really about capitalism creating the illusion of actual choice and power
Sunday, April 8, 2012
Seen: The Code: Prediction, BBC
The wisdom of crowds.
Crowd behaviour.
Chaos theory.
Humans are very predicable.
Google can predict flu outbreaks.
Butterfly effect.
Physicist Geoffrey West collecting data on cities - 1.15 increase every time a city doubles in size.
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Friday, April 6, 2012
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Greece on the breadline: cashless currency takes off
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/mar/16/greece-on-breadline-cashless-currency?fb=native&CMP=FBCNETTXT9038
"No one may hold more than 1,200 tems in the account "so people don't start hoarding; once you reach the top limit you have to start using them."
And no one may owe more than 300, so people "can't get into debt, and have to start offering something"."Monday, April 2, 2012
Sunday, April 1, 2012
Hitoshi Nomura
Hitoshi Nomura made ‘Moon Scores’ between 1975 and 1979, the project consisted to take photographs from the lunar body moving across the night sky. Nomura marked the film with five lines, turning the photographs series into an item of musical notation. Transferring the notes to staff paper, he then had the chance compositions performed by a chorus and a string quartet. Later Nomura made a similar series called "birds" photographing just birds.
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