Category: Art

Light Showers, Jill Anholt, 2011,Toronto

http://www.jillanholt.ca/projects/light-showers

Light Showers
Jill Anholt


A series of iconic sculptures integrated into a new park along Toronto’s waterfront visibly express the surrounding community’s aspirations to sustainability. Nine meter tall art elements display and celebrate collected and purified community storm water , lifting it from the ground to the sky where it falls as a textured veil of water into a channel that returns it to Lake Ontario. As people meander over bridges between the elements, integrated motion sensors trigger shifting light patterns in the water curtains, emphasizing the connection between local actions and distant effects.

Location: Sherbourne Park, Toronto ON
Status: Completed Summer 2011

http://dirt.asla.org/2011/08/17/the-future-is-here-sherbourne-common/

WHERE DOES THE DUST ITSELF COLLECT?, Xu Bing, 2011

WHERE DOES THE DUST ITSELF COLLECT?, Xu Bing, 2011

at Museum of Chinese American, NY http://www.mocanyc.org/

and Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY http://www.lmcc.net/

http://insite.lmcc.net/projects-home/?id=15

The first American installation of a project by renowned Chinese artist Xu Bing, originally created in 2004 in Cardiff, Wales utilizing the dust that the artist collected from the streets of Lower Manhattan in the aftermath of 9/11. Recreating a field of dust across a floor surface, punctuated by the outline of a Zen Buddhist poem, the work explores the relationship between the material and the spiritual world, and the complicated circumstances created by different world perspectives.

Xu Bing (1955- ) was born in Chongqing, China but grew up in Beijing. He was sent to the countryside to perform farm labor as an “educated youth” during the final years of the Cultural Revolution and then entered The Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in 1977, where he studied and taught in the printmaking department, receiving both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees there. In 1990 Xu moved to the United States, eventually relocating to New York in 1992. His work has been the subject of numerous solo and group exhibitions at museums spanning the globe and he has been the recipient of awards and honors including a 1999 MacArthur Fellowship and an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Columbia University in 2010. He currently works out of his studios in Beijing and Brooklyn, and since January 2008 has served as vice president of CAFA, his alma mater.

This exhibit is made possible by support from the Ford Foundation.

The exhibition space in The Spinning Wheel Building has been donated by the
Greystone Management Corporation.

Image: Xu Bing, courtesy of the artist.

‘7000 Oaks’ 1982-87, Joseph Beuys

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7000 Oaks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7000_Oaks

Joseph Beuys

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Beuys

Social Sculpture

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_sculpture

In 1973, Beuys wrote:

“Only on condition of a radical widening of definitions will it be possible for art and activities related to art [to] provide evidence that art is now the only evolutionary-revolutionary power. Only art is capable of dismantling the repressive effects of a senile social system that continues to totter along the deathline: to dismantle in order to build ‘A SOCIAL ORGANISM AS A WORK OF ART’… EVERY HUMAN BEING IS AN ARTIST who – from his state of freedom – the position of freedom that he experiences at first-hand – learns to determine the other positions of the TOTAL ART WORK OF THE FUTURE SOCIAL ORDER.” [1]

*^ Beuys statement dated 1973, first published in English in Caroline Tisdall: Art into Society, Society into Art (ICA, London, 1974), p.48. Capitals in original.

Prefab Coat, Takehiko Sanada, 2004

個人と社会の界面である衣服を個人の空間象徴として扱い、
かつそれに他者との接続、展開性をもたせたデザインを施すことで、個人の解放を示唆している。
クリティカルデザイン？デザインを用いたアート？（Aug２０１１）

http://www.takehiko-sanada.com/prefab/index.html

プレファブ・コート─開いて繋がる衣服

社会とは多くの個としての私から成り立っている。そして、その社会を形成する多くの個を突き動かしているものは、私たちの身体の内にある「心」である。 しかし、現実に身体を解き、本来的な私を放つことは難しい。唯一可能なことは、各個人が持つ「心」を解き放ち、個としての私を開放することである。
そして、それができたとき、解き放たれた多くの「心」により、私たちを包む環境も、私たち自身も、新たな場を獲得すると考える。多様な環境に対する問題は、私という個を開放することから始まる。 本来的な私が解放されたとき、物質的な制約から解放される。そして、生物としての個という自我から解き放たれたとき、他者との優位性を獲得する必要性も消滅する。私は環境になり、環境は私となる。

Susane Seitinger’s research

  • The researcher’s main page
  • LightBridge, May 2011
    • (in Video(youtube), around 4min, she describes the system and mentioned opensource SW to support media facade programming)
  • Liberated pixels :alternative narratives for lighting future cities, 2010
    • PhD Dissertation
    • Light Bodies
      • Susane Seitingerの博士での研究のプロジェクト３つのうちの一つが、ランタン（日本でいえば、夜間の外出時にもちあるいた手持ち提灯）の歴史をふまえた個人用の、センサーによって与えられた刺激に反応する光のオブジェクトでした。クラシックのコンサートやジャズバーで複数を置いて場所の演出に利用した例が論文で示されています。Seitingerの研究のポイントの一つが、既存のインフラから光を自由にするための技術なのですが、ガス灯という形で社会インフラになる前の、個人が小型のランタンを持ち、または玄関前に自分で設置し、管理していた光の集合しかなかった時代の光のありかた
  • Urban Pixels
    • Here (MIT Labcast)she explains basic concept of ‘Urban Pixels’ together with her adviser William Michael
  • Light Body
    • in Shigeru Kobayashi’s ‘Prototyping Lab’, pp20
      • we asked how we might engage people in more actively shaping the lightscapes which surround them.

Project Cabrini Green

Cabrini-Green’s last high-rise, 1230 N. Burling, is being demolished, starting on March 30, 2011. Project Cabrini Green is a public art installation created with the community in response to this event. Click on the apartments above to explore the audio/texts created by youth who attended the project workshops. Texts are available on both sides of the building.

http://www.projectcabrinigreen.org/index.php

Ed Bennet of School of Art Institute of Chicago

 

http://www.saic.edu/

Sentient City, Mark Shepard(ed), 2011

Definition of Sentient City by Mark Shepard

“dataclouds of 21st century urban space” that shape the experience of those in it.

Book

  • Introduction: Mark Shepard
  • Toward the sentient city: Mark Shepard
  • Systems, Objectified: Hadas Steiner
  • Case Studies
    • New Interaction Partners for environmental governance:
      • Amphibious Architecture:
        • David Benjamin and Soo-in Yang (The Living) and Natalie Jaremijenko (xDesign Environmental Health Clinic)
    • Structuring Participation for an Energy Commons
      • Natural Fuse:
        • Usman Haque, Nitipak ‘Dot’ Samsen, Ai Hasegawa (Haque Design+Research)
    • Urban Digestive Systems
      • Trash Track:
        • MIT SENSEable City Lab
    • An International Failure for the Near Future
      • Too Smart City:
        • David Jimison and JooYoun Paek
    • Situating Knowledge Work in Contemporary Public Spaces
      • Breakout!: Escape from the Office:
        • Anthony Townsend, Antonina Simeti, Dana Spiegal, Laura Forlano, and Tony Bacigalupo
  • Essays
    • The Action is the Form: Keller Eastering
    • Interaction Anxieties: Omar Kahn
    • New Spatial Intelligence, or the Tree allowed to grow freely, but to man’s pattern: Dan Hill
    • Boxes Towards Bananas: Dispersal, Intelligence and Animal Structures: Matthew Fuller
    • Unsettling Topographic Representation: Saskia Sassen
    • The Urban Culture of Sentient Cities: From an Internet of Things to a Public Sphere of Things: Martijn de Waal
      • http://www.smartplanet.com/blog/smart-takes/in-a-sentient-city-what-is-public-or-private/16343
    • Space, Finance, and New Technologies: Kazys Varnelis
    • Your Mobility for Sale: Trebor Scholz
    • Comforts, Crisis, and the Rise of DIY Urbanism: Mimi Zeiger
    • Toward the Sentient City: Expecting the Extensible and Transmissible City: Anne Galloway
    • Postscript: Notes on Survival in the Sentient City: Mark Shepard

Exhibition

 

Blog article

http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2009/10/toward-the-sentient-city.html