‘Identity Crisis’ is an upcoming exhibition at the Barras Centre. There are a lot of interesting angles to this, and some difficult questions embodied in the project. Some of that can be accessed via here.
Monthly Archive for August, 2010
Via Department 21, (An experimental interdisciplinary workspace at the Royal College of Art), we’ve come across this intriguing one-day free conference on Art School Alternatives, co-ordinated by Derek Horton, and taking place at Liverpool John Moores University on the 7th October. It may be that I’m just pro-actively looking for these things, but between this, the parallel school and the ‘educational turn‘ currently being debated, there seems to be a groundswell of interesting activities around informal, augmented, and creative educational experiences.
Warning: quasi techy post. Learn what it is. Check if your browser is ready and what browsers are currently best. Glad to see a way of embedding video sans Flash…
The Carrotworkers Collective are currently gathering quite a bit of an audience for the issue of unpaid internships. A hardy perennial of the design and art ‘industry’, this topic is also covered in an interview on Central Station. I’m interested in what people think about this. For an incisive and perceptive analysis of the bigger picture of the ‘creative industries’, this compendium by Geert Lovink is a good place to start.
The Wellcome Trust are undertaking a project to digitise the works of James Watson and Francis Crick, two cambridge scientists who discovered the double-helical structure of DNA. An audio slideshow can be accessed here.
This post on manystuff.org — a research project of the Jan Van Eyck Academie — seemed like good cover to link a couple of other recent finds regarding type, the city and the citizen.
The film above by Chris Marker, could be taken as an interesting design research proposition, and way of visualising scenarios. ‘Future Artifacts’ (to which this film could possibly tenuously be said to belong) are a useful way of trying to ‘evidence’ the impact of design decisions, particularly across larger and more complex projects that involve networks, services and interactions.
Marker himself is a very interesting filmmaker and visualiser, a leading exponent of the ‘compilation’ or ‘essay’ film. ‘Notes from the era of imperfect memory‘ is a blog dedicated to him and his work.
Thanks to Gordon Hush for the link.
iPhones can now play Flash content via Frash app that works within Safari browser. Currently only works on phones that have been Jailbroken. Now legal in USA but still resisted by Apple who say it voids your warranty. Maybe this will weaken their resolve to work with Adobe on Flash support.
Sure you have all seen homestarrunner by the Chapman brothers that the demo uses to display flash based content.
This playful installation by Troika, based on the Alan Fletcher original, (and which creates a mechanical palindrome of sorts), provides the perfect excuse to reveal my two favourite palindromes, which I imagine readers will be desperate to know. They are;
Satan oscillate my metallic sonatas
and
ABBA.
Image: Another Shadow Fight — David Osbaldeston (2008).
Digital prints in Vorticist mannerism originated from woodcuts based on
Sidney Noland’s Ned Kelly series (1946-7). Newspaper kiosk design by Herbert Bayer, 1924 (unrealised). Variable dimensions. 3rd installation
If you’re in Edinburgh or the general Scottish environs on monday ‘Investigating Premodern Futures’™ : 9th August 2010 will investigate the following questions:
Is Edinburgh a ghost city? What future awaits its ‘new‘ quarters (Quartermile, Fountainbridge, Edinburgh Waterfront) areas that have no past and that are yet to be occupied? What fate awaits older buildings that have fallen empty? An Unco Site! is focused on the way in which a fantastic neomedieval ‘history’ is routinely injected into Edinburgh’s Old Town (e.g. Auld Jock’s Pie Shoppe, Frankenstein’s, Armstrongs, etc.) Is there a space for the ‘new’ in Edinburgh? As the future shuts down does the past become all that’s left to sell? ‘Zombie capitalism’ and hauntology are key themes that our panel of experts will explore here.
Part of the ongoing works of the Confraternity of Neoflagellants.
If you’re in Glasgow over the summer, you might be interested in Futureproof at Streetlevel. It’d also be worth taking in Fields, Factories and Workshops by Simon Yuill at the CCA and other venues. Lucy Duncombe (grad vis com 2010) will be performing as part of a sound/music event on the 16th September, alongside a whole range of interesting discussions, film showings and other cultural and political events. In a slightly tangentially linked article (space, politics, sustainability, urbanism etc), other vis com person Alec Farmer and his ‘Nomadic Redux‘ were featured recently in treehugger.
FontShop, while obviously having a keen eye on the benefits of engaging an audience of informed type users, produces some useful basic resources, such as this Education page, featuring amongst other things a handy reference of typographic terms.
John Underkoffler speaks effortlessly on UI (User Interface) for computation. He believes advances in UI have been neglected in the quest for bigger memory and faster processing. Watch out Wii.
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