Hellicar & Lewis

Not really the kind of work I'm interested in but what they say about it is curious.

We make systems not narratives. Through systems combined the public, stories are generated. Making experiences that create memories. Show our perception of the world to other people.

Another video - http://www.thecreatorsproject.com/en-uk/creators/hellicar-lewis

http://www.hellicarandlewis.com/

Danae Diaz

http://danaediaz.com/

Skeuomorph

A skeuomorph /ˈskjuːəmɔrf/ skew-ə-morf, or skeuomorphism (Greek: skeuos—vessel or tool, morphe—shape),^[1] is a derivative object that retains ornamental design cues to a structure that was necessary in the original.^[2] Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make the new look comfortably old and familiar,^[3] such as copper cladding on zinc pennies or computer printed postage with a circular town name and cancellation lines.

An alternative definition is "an element of design or structure that serves little or no purpose in the artifact fashioned from the new material but was essential to the object made from the original material".^[4] This definition is narrower in scope and ties skeuomorphs to changes in materials.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skeuomorph

Visited: Red Tape - Imagining the Future @ RCA

RED TAPE  06

Imagining the Future

6:00 pm Thursday 28h June 2012
Hockney Gallery Stevens Building Kensington Gore SW7 2EU

How do the intersections between art and science create new visions of society and of our environment? The pictorial turn in the sciences has gone far beyond a means of documentation, but has developed new visualisation strategies such as simulations, models, and visual representations that allow artifacts to be given a life-like appearance – how does this affect popular imagination? This discussion through exploring the merging fields of art, deScience fiction writers created visualizations of ideas for alternate worlds and realities – forcing us to look at our own anew. How does our imagining of the future effect our reality today and our future realities? With the massive technological leaps that surround our daily lives, is the future predictable or in fact unimaginable due to the infinite created choices that lay before us. sign, technology and science aims to look back at looking forward, as well as exploring art that critically and experimentally engages with science, posing questions of what we as visual communicators could do to spark conversations about our changing world.

Stelarc
Nicola Triscott
Revital Cohen
Luke Robert Mason

Pre-reader - http://redtape.rca.ac.uk/img/prereader/prereader2012/prereader_2012_06.pdf
http://redtape.rca.ac.uk/

Julian Bleecker "Design fiction"

The Migration of Mel and Judith by Thomas Hillier

Architect Thomas Hillier has created a model of a miniature world based on a story about the journey of a fictional couple through Europe in a caravan made of bread.

The rest of the story unfolds in a lampshade.

http://www.thomashillier.co.uk/

http://www.dezeen.com/2010/11/04/the-migration-of-mel-and-judith-by-thomas-hillier/

http://bldgblog.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/migration-of-mel-and-judith.html

Visited: Vertical Flâneur - A Journey Through Non-Linear Space and Time with Pedro Lasch @ Haywood Gallery

"Held on board of a capsule of the EDF Energy London Eye, this workshop on non-linear space and time combines live aerial views from the EDF Energy London Eye with the use of optical and perceptual devices designed by Pedro Lasch.


The artist will discuss London's historical role - as the heart of a naval empire, and the place that set the global clock by Greenwich Mean Time - as the leading manufacturer and exporter of rational, linear time. As this workshop unfolds during the London Eye's ascent and descent, consideration of key London landmarks in the history of time are contrasted with a collective experiment against the temporal linearity they have instilled. 
Participants use mirror masks - 8inch x 11inch mirrors with holes for eyes and mouth - designed by Lasch to intervene in individual, social and historical habits of perception and thought.
" - http://www.wideopenschool.com

Flaneur - detached observer. The arcades project - Walter Benjamin. Philosophical tool / toy.