ACADIA 2008: Silicon + Skin

Juried exhibition, biological processes and computation. Image: Fiber Composite Structures: Growth under Stress, Christina Doumpioti, Architectural Association, Emergent Technologies + Design. “The core idea of this research, entitled “Fibre Composite Structures: Growth Under Stress”, is the incorporation of the morphogenetic principles found in natural systems in order to generate a fibre-composite structure. The aim is the integration of form, material, structure and program into a multi-performative system that will satisfy simultaneously several objectives.”

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nobel textiles

“Nobel Textiles is the result of a two year-long collaboration between Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design and the Medical Research Council which paired 5 Nobel Prize winning scientists with 5 designers.” projects include suicidal textiles by carole collet (image), self assembly by philippa brock, the fat map collection by shelley fox, now you see it now you don’t by rachel kelly, metabolic media by rachel wingfield. see the video.

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Tom Na H-iu

by Mariko Mori, 2007. New York. “The title of the exhibition draws its name from the monumental 4.5 meter sculpture, which will be exhibited along with two other large-scale sculptures, Flatstone and Roundstone. The works develop Mori’s continued interest in a fusion of art and technology, and the idea of universal spiritual consciousness.”

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Raycounting, Subterrain, Monocoque

by Neri Oxman presented at the “Design and the Elastic Mind”, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, NY, 2008. Materials used, Resin SLA, Nylon SLS, Laminated wood composites, liquid plastic.

“Raycounting is a method for originating form by registering the intensity and orientation of light rays. 3-D surfaces of double curvature are the result of assigning light parameters to flat planes. The algorithm calculates the intensity”

read more over at materialecology under design research.

tara donovan

styrofoam cups are not just made for drinking. dont miss tara donovan’s sculptures made out of fishing lines, drinking straws or glue

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