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11.22.2005
International Festival / England
The Media Center / Huddersfield
Ultrasound 05 is an International Festival that present during 5 days Lives, Performances, Installations, Lectures and a Workshop. Ultrasound is an Interdisciplinary Event dedicated to Digital and New Medias.
The Curator is Juha Huuskonen, the Finish Media Artist and soft Designer. Artists as Pan Sonic, OwlProject, NullPointer, etc will perform during the Festival but also Installations from Jan Robert leegte, Perttu Hamalainen, Mikko Lindholm, Ari Nykanen.
Creative Lab: TileToy – A Modular Electronic Game PrototypeLed by Tuomo Tammenpaa & Daniel Blackburn
Habbo Hotel-Online Project 
Kick Ass kung Fu-Perttu Hamalainen, Mikko Lindholm, Ari Nykanen0 comments
11.21.2005
TSANG Kin-Wah / Pattern Series
Tsang Kin-Wah is a Chinese Artist born in Guangdong and based in Hong-Kong.
Since 2003 he has developped an impressive personnal work that combine language and floral icons that produce new monochrom Patterns.
The Dynamic combination between text and image is developped as an All Over in spaces to produce a very emotional and sensitive relation to it.
His work has been exhibited in several galleries and museums.
Chinese! It's Chinese, Eindhoven, the Netherlands, 2005
Untitled - Hong Kong, Shanghai, 2003-04Photos Copyrights Tsang Kin-Wah
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11.16.2005
Re_Reading / Books
Three Writers to re_think : fRom Object to Networks, fRom consumption to Culture.
Neil Gaiman, Bruce Sterling & William Gibson have developped in their last Books a visionnary anticipation paradoxically registered in the present.
With Pattern Recognition, William Gibson developped a critical vision of our object world in a thriller that enclosed Cayce Pollard in an investigation. Networks, Hacking, videos, subculture are the elements of a new mapping of our real world in real virtualities.
With American Gods, Neil Gaiman (Sandman) has created a new spatio-temporal critical fiction.
With Shaping Things, Bruce sterling proposes to 'tear into the world of artifice… revolutionize the interplay of human and object…rip root and branch into the previous industrial base and re-invent it, re-build it'
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11.15.2005
Exhibition / Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain / ParisJohn Maeda : Nature
November 19 005 _ February 19 006
The Graphic and Digital Designer John Maeda, also Professor at the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)and founder of the Lab design-oriented Physical Language Workshop has an exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l'Art Contemporain. For this Exhibition he has designed seven Digital Landscapes.
He has also developped an E.Card related to the exhibition and available on his site.
John Maeda has published several books like the Reactive Books, Creative Code: Aesthetics + Computation, Maeda@Media.
Goto the website of Maeda (http://www.maedastudio.com/index.php) and play on the Interactive Interfaces he has created.
For sure John Maeda is still one of the most creative Digital Designer.
copyrights John Maeda
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11.14.2005
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ADDRESS / PARIS Lieu Commun
Lieu Commun has been created by the Designer Matali Crasset, the Independant label Label F communications and the Fashion Designer Ron Orb. Lieu Commun proposes Objects, Clothes and Projects of these 3 creators.
The Shop is located 5 rue des Filles du Calvaire
F-75003Paris.
The Shop is located 5 rue des Filles du Calvaire
F-75003Paris.
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ADDRESS / PUBLICATIONSOFR System
OFR System is based in Paris and London.
Their Bookshops are open 7/7 and there you can find 200 magazines but also books, dvds, clothes...
Everything about Art ARchitecture FAshion Design Graphics is there.
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11.12.2005
Exhibition / NY_Pittsburg / USAWhat Sound Does A Color Make ?
November 4 – December 31, 2005
Wood Street GalleriesPittsburgh, Pennsylvania
After NY, the exhibition What Sound Does a Color Make ? curated by Kathleen Forde (also curator at EMPAC Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center), is now moving to Pittsburg.
The exhibition reveal the interest of multimedia artist to experiment the sensitive field of a haptical synesthesia.
The exhibition does not focuse on the recent production but also on the premisses of the introduction of digital media in art practicing.
It's a sensitive and psychological experimentation.
Participating Artists:
Scott Arford
Jim Campbell
Robin Rimbaud (aka Scanner) in collaboration with D-Fuse
D-Fuse
Granular-Synthesis (Kurt Hentschlager & Ulf Langheinrich)
Thom Kubli
Fred Szymanski
Atau Tanaka
Steina Vasulka
Steina and Woody Vasulka
Stephen Vitiello
Nam June Paik and Jud Yalkut
Gary Hill
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Graphic Designer / ParisM/M
M/M is a studio graphic design based in Paris.They have been invited by the Palais de Tokyo [paris] last fall to create a new display with the collection of Dakis Joannou.
For the Exhibition'Translation', they have produce a new graphic context, a kind of big wallpaper that produce a new relation with the art works.
You can check all the posters on the website of M/M.
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11.11.2005
International Festival / Argentina404 Electronic Art Festival
November 29 005 _ December 2 005
WHAT IS THE 404 FESTIVAL?
"404" is a independent non profit project whose main goal is to promote and spread artistic productions around the world in field of Electronic Art, creating also a production enviroment in which authors can exhibit their works and interrelate.Starting from an anual international calling and the subsequent selection of works, "404" supports artists whose proposals are based on originality and research. In 2005, over 200 works have been selected over a total of 1200 works presented by authors from 46 countries in the following categories: net.art, still image, animation, video, audiovisual set, music, theory, instalations and performances, taking into account that new ways of productions and language constructions always exceed the number of categories."404" is an artistic event created by "Astas Romas" located in Rosario (ARG), which is an urban and cultural center with more than one millon inhabitants. This Festival, open to the public and free of charge, is endorsed by cultural organizations from Europe, North America and Latin America.
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11.10.2005
Exhibition / PARIS
L'homme pare
october 20 2005 _ April 30 2005
Les Arts Decoratifs
- musée de la Mode et du Textile
107 rue de Rivoli - 75001 Paris
The Exhibition l'Homme pare has been produce by the Fashion Museum of Paris.
Jean-Paul Leclercq, the curator of the exhibition, focused on the male ornament from the XVIIe century until today.
300 costumes and accessories and graphic documents from private and public collections are exhibited.
No less than 3 centuries of metamorphosis are shown in a chronological organization.
Spring-Summer collection 1996_Walter van Beirendoncq
Spring-Summer collection 2005_Alexander Mc Queen
Collection automne-hiver 2005, John Galliano / PhotosCredit Patrick Stable
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To Read
A Conversation About The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly
Read online the conversation on Wired Magazine beetween designer critics, historians, designers, architecture critic and writers.
Design roundtable: Paola Antonelli, Tim Parsey, Bran Ferren, Chee Pearlman, Bruce Sterling, Lee Green, Lorraine Wild, Don Norman, Ayse Birsel, Tucker Viemeister, David Kelley, Ted Selker, Ray Riley, Erik Adigard, Aaron Betsky, Robert Brunner, Trevor Creed, Gary Fisher, Andy Proehl, Ettore Sottsass, John Thackara, Rick Valicenti, Richard Saul Wurman, Susan Yelavich.
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EVENT
TOKYO DESIGNER'S WEEK 2005
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11.09.2005
IVREA / Interaction Design Institute / Italy
Project : Tune Me
Tune Me is an immersive conceptual radio based upon tactile features. The sound (as well as the visual) is triggered by a number of 'touchy' interfaces. The visitors enter the ellipse-shaped space, immersing themselves in a new world where to listen to the radio waves. In this extent Tune Me is a representation of the ambient radio of the near future. As well as the sound, each channel provides light features as well as vibrating and pulsing experience. When choosing the different FM stations, the overall space changes, defining different moods upon the nature of the different content.
Tune MeDesigners: Line Ulrika Christiansen, Stefano Mirti and Stefano Testa (with Daniele Mancini and Francesca Sassaroli)StudioApe: Gianluca Alessio and Francesco ZannierSoundscapes: Raphael MonziniElectronic consultant: Massimo Banzi
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11.08.2005
Architecture as Desire / Project in Paris
Nathalie Wolberg Architect
Nathalie Wolberg is an Architect and a Teacher based in Paris.
She has developped since many years a prospective in Architecture and Design related to the Desire.
The following project has been realized in Paris and is emblematic of her Research.
She redefined an existing place (an old Factory) with a conceptual approach related to the individual, the use, the relationship, a kind of erotic space.
After an Analysis of situations, she has develop a psycho-physical space with specifics ambients.
It's a GlobalSpace, a Parisian Loft where Architecture and Design interact to produce sensitives relations.
Normality is Elsewhere, the Individual is non-standard.
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ProteinProtein Calendar 2006 - Chromouflage Remix
"We have made them fully reversible this year so you can fit the flipside vertical version in that unused corner of your kitchen/office/studio. Not down with the Chromouflage?. All Protein Calendars are based on a 29½ day Lunar Chromo that gives every day a new colour depending on the phase of the moon. Measures 1200mm x 420mm with 4 colour digital print on 150 Micro acetate. Includes Velcro fasteners and dry wipe pen. Limited 500."
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Protein is Graphic website and a Netstore founded by William Rowe and based in UK.
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EXHIBITION / ULTRALABParis
Diorama III
La vie en temps de paix
November 5 2005 _ December 24 2005
Diorama III, a peaceful semi-urban zone in relation to the contemporary suburban trouble, suddenly upset by the mysterious crash landing of a flight without pilot who trails in his wake strapping the distressing spectra of violent and unknown wars...
Diorama III is a multi-media installation in fragments, through a monumental prototype, films, windows of drafts and an interactive virtual zone.
Ultralab is a collective and collaborative group of artists based in Paris.
Ultralab explores the borders beetwen the virtual and the Real. Ultralab builds little by little a whole of fictitious universes: Ultracity™, the pirate megalopolis or Gomipark®, the complex of processing toxic data...
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11.05.2005
Joe Colombo : Inventing the Future
Triennale di Milano
September 16 2005 _ December 18 2005
The exhibition is a co-production of the Vitra Design Museum and The Triennale di Milano in collaboration with the studio of Joe Colombo in Milano.
The Exhibition Joe Colombo: Inventing the future documents the entire work of Joe Columbo in a International Tour who will touch for before turns the more important museums. They will come exhibited not only the Originals models of his most important project but also plans, unknown Documents and Works, experimental models, designs and planimetry.
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daz_surfaceactive#0_globalflat_Paris
GlobalFlat has been realised in Paris and is one of the first experiment of [daz[ developped in a Typical Haussmanian Housing from the beginning of XXth Century.
GlobalFlat is based on the dematerialization of the existing typologies as a process to create new living Territories in relations to unstable surfaces that organised soundscapes, videoandmoviescapes, lightscapes with interactive parameters.
The traditional hierarchy has disappeared so the functions, the privacy and the relations between inhabitants are re-defined by the interaction of their movements.
The materials as Diffusing polycarbonate, Fluorescent movingtrackstable, integrated speakers, beamer, Internet connection increase the flowing spatiality that characterised GlobalFlat.
GlobalFlat developed new sensitive experiments in a loop strategy.
GlobalFlat is based on the dematerialization of the existing typologies as a process to create new living Territories in relations to unstable surfaces that organised soundscapes, videoandmoviescapes, lightscapes with interactive parameters.
The traditional hierarchy has disappeared so the functions, the privacy and the relations between inhabitants are re-defined by the interaction of their movements.
The materials as Diffusing polycarbonate, Fluorescent movingtrackstable, integrated speakers, beamer, Internet connection increase the flowing spatiality that characterised GlobalFlat.
GlobalFlat developed new sensitive experiments in a loop strategy.
[dAZ[ is a studio of Architecture & Design founded in 2000 by Nicola Borg-Pisani and Anne Wolff and based in Paris.
[dAZ[ explores and experiments the potentialities of Active Surfaces within the development of diagrammatic process.
The strategy that [dAZ[ develops is linked to the program, the economy, the site, the technologies and the client as parameters that can produce new Realities, new Relations and to generate new shape in a non-formal process.
So the Form is neither an a-priori nor an a-posteriori.
[dAZ[ try to produce new territories where the body and the matter are interfaced to create reactive, sensitive and intimate relations.
[daz[ has developed its practice in a multi-scale level as urban projects, Domestic landscapes, Exhibition Installations and furniture.
[dAZ[ explores and experiments the potentialities of Active Surfaces within the development of diagrammatic process.
The strategy that [dAZ[ develops is linked to the program, the economy, the site, the technologies and the client as parameters that can produce new Realities, new Relations and to generate new shape in a non-formal process.
So the Form is neither an a-priori nor an a-posteriori.
[dAZ[ try to produce new territories where the body and the matter are interfaced to create reactive, sensitive and intimate relations.
[daz[ has developed its practice in a multi-scale level as urban projects, Domestic landscapes, Exhibition Installations and furniture.
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