Research
Emergence – Art and Artificial Life
December 21, 2009 | Ruairi GlynnI’ve just returned from California where I’ve installed Performative Ecologies at the Beall Center for Art + Technology for the Emergence Exhibition alongside the work of Marc Bohlen, Leo Nuñez, Karolina Sobecka and Jim George. Over a couple of posts … Read More
London Lecture – Passages Through Hinterlands
December 6, 2009 | Ruairi GlynnAs part of the Bartlett School of Architecture International Lecture Series there will be a FREE Digital Architecture Event this coming Wednesday in London. http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/events/lectures/lectures.htm#9
image credit: Shampoo, AA Design Research Laboratory
Date:Wednesday 9th December , 2009 from 6.30PM Open … Read More
Nicholas Szczepaniak – A Defensive Architecture
November 12, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | 5 CommentsNicholas Szczepaniak will recieve the RIBA Silver Medal next month for his extraordinary graduate project “A Defensive Architecture”. I am delighted to be the first person to be publishing his work in my recently release book “Digital Architecture: Passages … Read More
Digital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands
October 26, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | 8 CommentsDigital Architecture: Passages Through Hinterlands is a collection of provocative projects from a young generation of digitally enabled designers. This publication oscillates between the analog and the digital, from concept to realisation, mapping processes as it explores the diverse … Read More
Living Light
October 19, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | 4 CommentsLiving Light by David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang (aka “The Living“) is a permanent outdoor pavilion in the heart of Seoul with a dynamic skin that glows and blinks in response to both data about air quality and public … Read More
Towards a Sentient City
October 19, 2009 | Ruairi GlynnAn exhibition critically exploring the evolving relationship between ubiquitous computing, architecture, and urban space. Curated by Mark Shepard and organized by the Architectural League of New York
www.sentientcity.net
As computing leaves the desktop and spills out onto the sidewalks, … Read More
Hand from Above
October 13, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | 10 CommentsHand from Above from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.
By far one of the most interesting urban screens project I’ve seen to date, Chris O’Shea‘s describes his public art “Hand From Above” as encouraging “us to question our normal routine … Read More
f5x5x5 – Lab[au]
October 12, 2009 | Ruairi GlynnMade up of 700 meters of aluminium, 6750 LED’s and 5060 m of cables Lab[au]‘s Framework f5x5x5 is an interactive kinetic light sculpture, extending the bi-dimensional screen space, by transposition of its pixel resolution to the physical space. Conceived … Read More
Digital Hinterlands Exhibition
August 27, 2009 | Ruairi GlynnDigital Hinterlands features a diverse range of work by some of the best recent architecture graduates from London’s Architectural Association, Bartlett, Royal College of Art, and University of Westminster. Organised by Ruairi Glynn and curated in consultation with Arup, … Read More
Bartlett Digital Workshop
August 24, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | 4 CommentsLast minute places are still available for the Advanced CADCAM & Rapid Prototyping Training Course at the Bartlett School of Architecture in September.
The Bartlett School of Architecture has the most comprehensive digital fabrication suite dedicated to education … Read More
Digital Architecture London Conference 2009
August 16, 2009 | Ruairi GlynnI’ve been busy over the past couple of weeks putting the final touches to the first Digital Architecture London conference and I’m pleased to say that I’ve got everyone I really wanted to speak at the event to agree … Read More
555 KUBIK
August 8, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | 4 CommentsI particularily like the use of sound in this architecture augmented by projection. Daniel Rossa worked with Urbanscreen to create the 555 kubik facade video projection at the kunsthalle in hamburg (germany). giant hands appear to manipulate the surface … Read More
Panopticons – Singing-Ringing Tree
August 6, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | 3 CommentsAt Crown Point high above Burnley town UK the ‘Singing-Ringing Tree’ — a unique musical sculpture in the form of a tree appears to bend against the endless winds that pass over the hills. Designed by award-winning architects Tonkin-Liu. … Read More
Robo-Bricky
July 30, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentIn Fläsch, the winegrowers Martha and Daniel Gantenbein took advantage of the success of their Pinot Noir to replace their steel containers with oak barrels. They commissioned the architects Bearth & Deplazes with the design and construction of a … Read More
Situated Technologies Pamphlet 4
July 18, 2009 | Ruairi GlynnThe new Situated Technologies Pamphlet is out featuring a conversation between leading interactive architects Philip Beesley & Omar Khan. The Situated Technologies Pamphlets series, published by the Architectural League, explores the implications of ubiquitous computing for architecture and urbanism. … Read More
ResoNet
July 17, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentDesigned by Mark Francis Tynan & William Hailiang Chen, ResoNet visualises the resonant frequencies inherent in the natural environment, via the interaction of the public and surrounding elements detected by a LED net. By using Low-Fi techniques ResoNet creates … Read More
Computing an Identity – Tetsuro Nagata
July 15, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | 2 CommentsTetsuro Nagata, a recent graduate of the Bartlett’s Interactive Architecture Workshop, has created a series of pedagogic installations Inspired by Frances Yates’ “Art of Memory”, exploring physical manifestation of various concepts of memory. The final installation “Computing an Identity” … Read More
Art and Code
July 14, 2009 | Ruairi Glynn | One CommentGolan Levin has announced that many of the talks at Art & Code are available online to watch here. Below is a video of Ben Fry and Casey Reas talking about Processing and above Golan himself talking. Make sure … Read More