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The goal of critical scholarship and artistic and scientific practices

“The goal of critical scholarship and artistic and scientific practices is to make media unstable. To turn not to solving problems, but to imagining new worlds exceeding the demands of war and consumption that kill signification, experience, and time itself.” … Continue reading

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Making process visible

“I saw scores as a way of describing all such processes in all the arts, of marking process visible and thereby designing with process through scores. I saw scores also as a way of communicating these processes over time and … Continue reading

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Serendipity, ubicomp, and “over-coded smart cities”: an interview with Mark Shepard, creator of Serendipitor

[intro]Mark Shepard is an artist, architect and researcher whose post-disciplinary practice addresses new social spaces and signifying structures of contemporary network cultures. His current research investigates the implications of mobile and pervasive media, communication and information technologies for architecture and … Continue reading

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Smart organic windows: MIT CROMA

MIT’s CROMA group brings together researchers from media arts, architecture, and chemical engineering. The group “aims at developing technologies and use case scenarios for building responsive, programmable, and energy-smart architectural components.” Their “smart organic window” project proposes the use of electrochromic organic polymers to enable touch- and motion-sensitive brise-soleil techniques. Continue reading

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Postopolis LA

Dan Hill at City of Sound recently announced the next iteration of Postopolis, which will run this Spring in Los Angeles. Viz: I’m hugely pleased to be able to announce another Postopolis, this time in Los Angeles, running from Tuesday, … Continue reading

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Location-Based Ambient Storytelling

A proposal for a directed research project that seeks to identify and implement a range of context and location-based storytelling techniques. Continue reading

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Architecture of Density

Hong Kong architectural photographs by Michael Wolf

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ryugyong.org

In June 2005 the prestigious international monthly architecture magazine Domus launched the Call for Ideas on architecture and geopolitics for the Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang (Boeri et al. 2005). This was the aftermath of Stefano Boeri, Armin Linke and Andrea … Continue reading

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Reyner Banham Loves Los Angeles

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Vertical Farms for NYC

New York magazine asked four architects to dream up proposals for a lot on Canal Street and Work AC came up with this. “We thought we’d bring the farm back to the city and stretch it vertically,” says Work AC … Continue reading

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