CRAF
CRAF is a mobile agency that promotes dialog through the performance of projectile catalysts. With the contemporary breakdown of cultural expectations and expressions of dissent, CRAF investigates the methods for constructing a communication platform to encourage social exchange.
The project looks at how machines can be deployed to organize spectacles and engage people into performances. It proposes the use of social communication systems and ubiquitous computing as tools to collectively utilize online information and facilitate individual’s freedom of speech. Online information from social media is physicalized and represented as messages printed onto paper planes. In order to understand machine and public performances, we examine the process of production, dissemination and display. The performance process are portrayed as mechanisms of paper folding and physical projectiles whereas the display is explored in the methodologies of mobilization and street performances.
Principle Researchers: Eizo Ishikawa, Tamon Sawangdee
Supervisors: Ruairi Glynn and Dr Christopher Leung with William Bondin
CRAF by Eizo Ishikawa & Tamon Sawangdee of the Interactive Architecture Lab
Paper Plane Manufacturing Line Embedded into Aluminium Folded Plane Structure
Example of Print Out Invitations to be folded by the machine
View from CRAF looking down over a London Park
Examples of different themed projectiles
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Memory Cloud Trafalgar Square (Minimaforms 2008).
Open Burble (Usman Haque 2006).
Requiem pour une feuille morte (1967) by Jean Tinguely, Pompidou Centre
“The writer” automata was built in Switzerland by watchmaker Pierre Jaquet-Droz
Cyclograveur (1959) by Jean Tinguely, Museum Tinguely Basel.
Mengele-Totentanz (1986) by Jean Tinguely, Museum Tinguely Basel
Fabricating Performance
Performance is presented as a process of fabrication. Reciprocally, fabrication is presented as a process of performance. A circularity of human body-gesture and computer machine-gesture leads to the ...
