vintage science by Roy Gallant, wired November 2009. Exploring Mars, 1956 illustration Lowell Hess. Also see, dreams of space.
by Christiane Keller, diploma project, 2009. “dataMorphose is an interactive installation which projects data into real space and visualizes it three-dimensionally. Information is represented by spanned and moving sails directly in the room. Thus abstract and virtual data becomes real and tangible. As the user takes new positions and perspectives, he can experience a completely novel and sensual perception of data.” [video]
“Since 2006, NASA’s Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter (MRO) has been orbiting Mars, currently circling approximately 300 km (187 mi) above the Martian surface. On board the MRO is HiRISE, the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment camera, which has been photographing the planet for several years now at resolutions as fine as mere inches per pixel.” boston.com/bigpicture via flight404@twitter
“Astronaut Sam Bell has a quintessentially personal encounter toward the end of his three-year stint on the Moon, where he, working alongside his computer, GERTY, sends back to Earth parcels of a resource that has helped diminish our planet’s power problems.”
so slow, so deserted, so good. trailer
by Simone Decker, 2006. Isolation Tape.
reblog d3p
White Geology
Philippe Rahm designed a white landscape for La Force de l’Art 02, an art fair held at the Grand Palais, Paris, earlier this year.
by claire morgan, 2008. material: strings, feathers.
kinetic architecture by autoxic. “This building does not have a definite shape. It is always changed by the occupation of people. The lifted up ground creates interior space for conference, lecture hall, theater, etc. This building is a new type of the monument disigned by human activity.”
by Motoi Yamamoto, 2006. Salt installation works, details.
Felice Varini born 1952, Lorcano, Switzerland, “Varini is known for his geometric perspective-localized paintings of rooms and other spaces, using projector-stencil techniques. Felice paints on architectural and urban spaces, such as buildings, walls and streets. The paintings are characterized by one vantage point from which the viewer can see the complete painting (usually a simple geometric shape such as circle, square, line), while from other view points the viewer will see ‘broken’ fragmented shapes.” (wikipedia)
by Mathieu Lehanneur. “Labobrain is a workplace for Harvard science professor David Edwards, founder of Le Laboratoire. It also serves as a space for bringing together his creative team for meetings, vision quests and brainstorming sessions. Besides function, its design aims to stimulate thought and creativity in a spherical layout encapsulated like the two sides of the brain.”
via patrick kochlik
iCI Traveling Exhibition Experimental Geography
“Daniel Quiles: How did the idea for the Experimental Geography exhibition come about?
Nato Thompson: [..] Looking around the contemporary art world today, we find numerous practices interested in experimental methods for understanding space itself—from the important work of the Center for Land Use Interpretation in Culver City, California, to the experimental walking tours of Francis Alÿs in Mexico City, to poetic interpretations confounding body and place such as with artist Ilana Halperin. The practices are out there and it felt as though the often used lens of art history was simply clunky in interpreting this work. So the exhibition is an opportunity to construct a new lens from an emerging form.” (interview with nato thompson)
by carsten nicolai. “installation in lightproof auditorium, video projection (16:9 ratio), mist, sound, dimensions variable. fades is an installation for a specifically designed environment. A fine haze of mist is introduced into a space in which the white light of the projection manifests itself.”
nice rendering, nice to have in the real world. i like modular simplicity, or simple modularity?
