Archive of January 2009
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Individuals with Agoraphobia have difficulty leaving their houses, and restrict themselves to a zone of safety that can range in scale from a few blocks to a bed. This spatial condition emerged during the birth of the modern city, and cannot be separated from the critique that modernist space is produced for and by men, a transparency that is fraught with exclusion and anxiety. Known as the “housewives disease” 75 to 95 percent of suffers are women. Ultimately, it is the delicate relationship between space and self - the fear of loosing control over one’s body and one’s place in the world - that forces individuals into hermetically sealed spaces. Agoraphobics retreat inside their homes because it is a space they can control. The home is repeatedly described as both a haven and prison. The home becomes a sculptural foundation, thus connecting with high art- challenging modernisms disavowal of the domestic and decorative. 2009/01/14 - 08:38 PM | Tags: home, architecture, modernism
Foam by Josef Trattner
On the scale of pure interactivity I have yet to see a better installation than this one. Imagine a classical museum space filled with life-size Lego blocks soft enough nobody can get hurt. People can't help it but bounce around, build structures, and mortal combat the shit out of each other.
Getting wonderfully close and missing the point
"The high quality of computer screens, and the facilities of computer-assisted visual rendering software, have made the computer screen a medium of choice for visual art. Most visual art is the result of a collaboration between human artists and their intelligent art software. Virtual paintings--high-resolution wall-hung displays--have become popular. Rather than always displaying the same work of art, as with a conventional painting or poster, these virtual paintings can change the displayed work at the user's verbal command, or can cycle through collections of art. The displayed artwork can be works by human artists or original art created in real time by cybernetic art software."
text by Raymond Kurzweil from The Age of Spiritual Machines (1999) as he gets out his crystal ball and makes predictions for 2009
image by Pixel-Pusher
2009/01/06 - 09:49 AM