The vernissage of Daka’s master class expo was yesterday evening. Pics are here!
Exposer des projets de diplômes d’élèves est un exercice original et complexe, car il s’agit de présenter, au public, des travaux et des démarches en devenir.
Ces projets sont l’aboutissement d’une confrontation, souvent animée, passionnée, musclée mais toujours constructive, entre des créateurs enseignants et des élèves (graphistes, architectes, plasticiens, ou designers confirmés venus du monde entier).
Sans jamais renier leur identité culturelle ni leur culture de métier, les 15 élèves de cette promotion ont su intégrer les technologies du numérique dans leur démarche et créer des propositions qui questionnent notre rapport à l’image, à l’espace et à l’objet. C’est cette originalité que le jury de diplôme a souhaité valoriser en délivrant félicitations et mentions à la majorité des projets.
Inaugurée le 9 novembre à 18 heures, l’exposition ouvre ses portes au public, du 10 au 30 novembre 2006, de 10h à 18h, dans le hall d’accueil de l’Ensci, 48 rue Saint-Sabin, 75011 Paris.
If you’ll be in Paris somewhere between 9. and 30. november, stop by on ENSCI and check the expo of my Master class of New Media Design 2005/2006.
See you there then!
Line rider is a toy created by a slovene design student which is getting huge coverage on the web right now. Just type “line rider” in youtube and you’ll unterstand. Careful this stuff is addictive. Nice way to test build your kickers for this winter!
I was listening to Radio Nova on the way to the job, an acoustic performance of Creep from Radiohead was playing. Max spoke about a really cool animation clip made using this acoustic version. I found it on youtube (rich bast*rds), it’s great work and here it is :
Daka’s presenting her master’s diploma next week!
Emmanuel FESSY, Directeur de l’Ensci/Les Ateliers et l’équipe pédagogique du Mastère création en nouveaux médias vous invitent à la soutenance des diplômes des
élèves de la promotion 2005/2006 sous la présidence de Annie GENTÈS, du 4 au 6 octobre 2006.
Jeudi 5 octobre, 11h30 – Darja Gartner
Etude : Représentation de la vie dans l’architecture
Projet : Darja Gartner – MyWay
Directeur de projet : Jean Detrez
The future of automobile might just well pop straight out of the Silicon Valley.
Backed up by investors like big shots from Pay Pal or Apple, Tesla motor (cool name too! reminds you of anyone?) founded by an ex-electrical engineer from Apple, expert in rechargeable battery, has launched the first 100% green dream car!
Built in England by Lotus, the Tesla Roadster will be powered by 6,831 rechargeable lithium-ion batteries – the same cells that run a laptop computer. Range: 250 miles. Fuel efficiency: 1 to 2 cents per mile. Top speed: more than 130 mph.
If this can create some kind of rupture in the automotive market, it could accelerate the generalisation of true eco-friendly cars!
Read the full story in last month Wired magasine!
These days i have some hard time finding “Z” rhythm. My head seems to be just too packed with all kind of things…at the moment I’m hoping for some positive answers concerning my collaboration with Fondation Cartier and AteliersJeanNouvel, preparing stuff for the monday meeting with Anabole developer Sylvie Tissot, shaping the diploma concept, creating graphics… and what else? Wondering if i’m doing it right.
And “swooooosh” here comes the hint [french: "zeu int"] – I found it in Attik’s NoiseFour book.
What else do i need? … hmmmm maybe some fresh air in the flat – our neighbour is renewing his parquet :/.
p.s.
“Zeu Int” will soon become my official desktop.
The Musée du Quai Branly also known as the museum of “art and civilisation of Africa, Asia, Oceania and the Americas” just opened last week. It’s really close to our place next to the Eiffel Tower. We tried to go there this week-end as it was opened to the public for free for 3 days but this also meant queueing for 3 hours so we are going to wait a bit longer.
Anyway, the site and the building are amazing. The project was made by Jean Nouvel, famous french architect also known for his previous work like the Fondation Cartier of contemporary art.
This museum is in fact the legagy of the current french president, Jacques Chirac. It has become some kind of a tradition for each president to leave his architectural imprint on the Paris skyline. Georges Pompidou had his Pompidou Centre, completed after his death. François Mitterrand a pyramid in the courtyard of the Louvre, the Bastille opera house, the grand arch of la Défense and a national library.
You can check out a few of our pics here!
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We were sort of 'dreaming' about it. WordPress made it possible : custom headers!
This means that we can choose the picture we want to have on our blog. It's cool for the creative aspects.
So the first picture we chose was taken by Daka from the plane somewhere above Asia during our return journey from our last trip to Thailand.
We will be changing the header picture frequently according to our mood or what's going on. If you have nice, funny pictures you would like to see up there just send them to us! We'll be happy to put them on this space!
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If you remember this previous post about the cool “Street Art” expo which was held in Ljubljana’s International Centre of Graphic Arts in april – may, we were saying that Ljubljana would soon get “space invaded”!
Well it’s done and we tried to hunt some space invaders out last WE. There are 20 spread all over Ljubljana and we only managed to spot 6!!! You can get a hint here and try to keep your eyes opened! Space invaders hunting is fun!
The Palais de Tokyo is the contemporary creation museum of Paris. We enjoy going there because the space is great and the expos are always interesting with huge installations. Plus it’s a well known skateboard spot. We went there today to check out the current expos : “Notre Histoire…”, showcasing the best of the upmerging french artistic scene, and “Ultra peau”, all you want to discover about your skin. Here you can find some of our pics from today’s visit but also some older pics from previous visits in Palais de Tokyo.
While doing a major research for my master thesis from interactive architecture i found this cool idea from electrical engineering students at the Delft University of Technology. They have build an interactive 3D-display called MatriXX with 8000(!) ping pong balls equipped with red LED lights. At the moment this is the biggest 3D-display on the world having 8 metres in width, 4 metres in height and 2 metres in depth. It plays your favourite games like snake, pong, duckhunt and it can also display SMS messages, simple animations, movies – all that with freaky 3rd dimension. Go for it ppl!
P.S.
For this installation 3.2 km of wire was used.
WHY?
Short answer (1): Because the ETV (association for electrical engineering students at the TU Delft, The Netherlands) celebrates her 100th birthday this year.
Short answer (2): Because we can.
Long answer:
Part of the centennial celebration is this 'lustrumstunt', which is performed every 5 years. The MatriXX is based on an idea by James Clarr. The ETV is an association with a rich history. For over a hundred years, she has organized many study related activities for the electrical engineering students in Delft. These activities include lectures, excursions, symposia and study trips. In 1930 the ETV was the first association for students to travel to the United States of America. During the sixties she founded two other associations for electrical engineering students at other universities. Beside that she helped to start the European association for electrical engineering students. The ETV is not unknown in the media. Ten years ago the ETV wrote history with the largest Tetris-game in the world, projected on the building of the faculty. Five years later the same idea was used, but now to send sms-messages to the building. For that stunt 300 lamps, 3 kilometres of cable and 1500 metres of paper were used. The current stunt will exceed these numbers.
There is a swiss cultural center in Paris. It's quiet active and nicely located in the 3rd arrondissement, hidden in a small medieval street. Definitly worth a visit because swiss art rocks! hop. (picture above by daka)
It's not every day that you have an opportunity to see an exhibition like that. I wish Ljubljana could see the architecture giant as Morphosis agency is. But anyway, Morphosis are now in Paris – Centre Pompidou, until 17 July 2006. If you are in the neighbourhood and you would like to see how some guys are pushing the borders in architecture don't miss this expo!
A 250m2 showcase, resembling a kind of transparent horizontal Hollywood screen, reveals at our feet a view of 24 recent projects by Morphosis, the LA architecture agency founded by Thom Mayne in 1972. The exhibition, designed by the agency, takes us back to contemporary myths of LA as illustrated by its cinematographic and photographic images or by its central position in our perception of the large contemporary metropolis. The proposed structures are hybrids, perfused with symbolic, political and material complexity of the continually changing urban situations. Our eyes plunge through this glass screen – a sort of oversized computer chip that muddles up the scale – and dive into the intricacies of the communication networks that permanently distill information from all kinds of sources and with no sense of hierarchy. Relations and connections grow between the elements presented, offering direct access to the language of the architect more than to the shape of the constructed object. Moving away from the traditional disciplines of architecture and town planning, Morphosis puts the question again pd relationships between body, space and territory. the designers reaffirm the capacity of architecture to invent its own controls and organisational models following examples provided by biology and computing.
A "not to be missed" exposition (with photography, film, paintings, installations and more) on the emergence of the artistic scene from Los Angeles, is the main event in the Centre Pompidou in the heart of Paris until july 17th.
The many-sided history of a peculiar scene, from its emergence at the beginning of the 1960s up until 1985. Over sixty artists, on a path which deals with topics such as the search involved in the art of assemblage, Pop art, Californian minimalism, conceptual art, performance, installations, video and experimental film.
There is allready a post about what Daka is doing in Paris.
But while she studies for her master, she is still active designing web sites as a freelance.
Here is the latest site she did : ringaraja. It's a website for mums and kids which is getting quiet big in Slovenia and will soon expand to Croatia. In fact there are 4 themes in this site as the design changes with the seasons.
Other sites, she designed in the last year(s) :
- Nancy beachwear – my favorite
- Celica – the best youth hostel in Ljubljana (Metelkova)
- Axe – get the effect
Check them out!
We were in Ljubljana this week-end, so we went to check out the “Street Art: Stencils, Posters and Stickers / a Low-Tech Re-action!” exposition in Ljubljana’s International Centre of Graphic Arts right in the heart of the Tivoli park.
This expo which will go on until may 14th showcases the work of international street artists as well as slovene. If you are in LJ or planning to go there, it’s definitly a nice expo to attend.
This internationally conceived exhibition presents stencils, posters, stickers, and other strategies for presenting such forms of visual intervention in the public space. Space Invader from France, Flying Fortress from Germany, M-city from Poland, and The London Police from the Netherlands are among the most admired and influential creators of this kind of work abroad; they are joined in the exhibition by the Croatian artists Filjio & Kenova and the Slovene artists Lele, Rone84, Ioke42, Sektion 1.3, Tacek, Zek Advance, Skrana, Ratt One and Ash.
I took some pictures of the expo and you can check them out here. Moreover I uploaded all my collection of pics from Ljubljana street art that I collected during my stay between 2003 and 2005. Maybe living across the street from Metelkova mesto inspired me. Oh and beware! Ljubljana will soon be space invaded!
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Robots are sooo hot right now!
SCOTY – the Smart Companion Operating Technology – from WowWee is an intelligent media hub. It will greet you, read your e-mail aloud, watch your home, and even play your music.
Then there is “nuvo?, the first-home-use-type humanoid robot in the world, which means “the humanoid robot for everyone?.
But the hottest news concerns LEGO. Yes that’s right! Remember those little colored plastic blocks we all played with when we were kids? Well LEGO is not just about that. A few year ago they conquered the wired world with a robot kit called Mindstorms. Now they are finalising the first upgrade and tackled the project the right way : involving passionate fans from scratch to get the most innovative and awaited product.
No wonder Mindstorm NXT is getting coverage all over the place. In fact I first read about it in last month WIRED magazine as it was their cover story.
I guess the best place to follow all the events before release planned in august is here.
On the down side, QRIO, the cute robot from Sony, which was feature in a few video clips, including Beck’s Hell yes – amazing stuff, check it out in the video section – is going to retire.
Joshua Davis rocked the world of design/art once again.
Check out his latest project: BMW Z4 by JD print.
Artists love to venture along and even beyond the ragged edge, pushing the envelope as they work and progressively redefining what is possible. Just a few years ago, the design of the new BMW Z4 Coupé, for example, would have been considered impossible to build – the lines too extravagant, the panels too complex to manufacture. For New York-based designer Joshua Davis, feasibility problems are familiar ground: His works originate on the computer, and to date, they have been considered too complex to print. This common ground recently triggered a spell of close collaboration between Davis and BMW – giving rise to a limited edition of unique prints inspired by the new Z4 Coupé.
Thousands of layers in each image.
34-year-old Davis is a pioneer of algorithmic graphic design. The prestigious locations where his works have been exhibited include the Tate Modern (London), the Centre Pompidou (Paris), and P.S.1 MoMA (New York). In the runup to the launch of the BMW Z4 Coupé in mid-2006, Davis will be producing three limited series of large-format, high-end color prints for BMW which, from today, can be ordered on a dedicated website. The pioneering aspect here is that each signed and numbered print has its own individual design – so each one is entirely unique.
Joshua Davis writes computer programs that deconstruct a defined reality and reconstruct it at random. Since 1995, his regenerative mode of composition has been giving rise to pictorial worlds never previously explored; worlds so complex that a human painter would need weeks, if not months, to create a single motif by hand. Even sophisticated hi-tech print shops will often throw in the towel faced with Davis’s designs: “With up to 120,000 layers and 50,000 vectors, my artwork freaks printers out,? confirms the artist and stresses that it’s only with the help of complex post-editing techniques that actual prints can be produced.
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Since last october, Daka is studying a master degree in “New Media Design” (cool uhu?).
So right now while we are in Leysin with Martina, Medo and Rémi, shredding the powpow which is NOT stopping from falling down – around 50 cm of freshy every day – Daka is at home in Paris, studying. Life’s a b*tch…
But it’s worth it coz she’s really happy about all the new stuff she’s discovering and all the interesting people she’s meeting!
So if you want to know more about her school “Les Ateliers“, visit this page.
And if you want to see what it’s all about and check out the projects Daka’s been working on, just check out her brand new portfolio!
Here is a short movie I put together with some bits and pieces I filmed during screenings of the onedotzero festival.
The quality is pretty poor and does not show the high quality of the ‘true’ digital movies, animations, and documentaries we saw. But ok, I had fun doing it.
Tags: digital movies, onedotzero film festival
Posted later : check out some of my pics here
