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Jeff Watson is an artist, designer, and Assistant Professor of Interactive Media and Games at the University of Southern California School of Cinematic Arts.
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Tag Archives: architecture
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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Tagged architecture, immersion, interactive architecture, orit halpern
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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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Tagged architecture, lawrence halprin, participation, process architecture, process design, rsvp cycles, scores
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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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Tagged anne balsamo, architecture, croma, ctin-599, electrochromism, mit, responsive environments, windows
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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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Tagged architecture, conferences, dan hill, geoff manaugh, los angeles, postopolis, storefront, urban space
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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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Tagged architecture, arg, ctin-590, imap, mobile, participation, proposals, sca, storytelling
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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
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