[AP] The Architectural Association's lectures / LONDON

The Architectural Association's lectures
LONDON

Los espacios son multiples y las formas de construir nuestra cotidianidad tambien. Londres, Paris y Talca es un ejercicio necesario... la serie de lecturas y charlas de AA, es uno de estos recursos.

23 de Octubre
18:00hrs

Nicolas Bourriaud
The Show is not the Medium

Nicolas Bourriaud has been one of the most influential curators and art-critics of the past decade. Author of Relational Aesthetics and co-founder of Palais de Tokyo, Paris, Bourriaud will discuss his more recent existence as an independent, itinerant curator, against the backdrop of contemporary exhibitions in an age of super-shows and mega-biennales.

24 de Octubre
18:00hrs

Radim Pesko and James Goggin
Forms of Inquiry Talk

Forms of Inquiry contributors Radim Pesko and James Goggin will be in conversation with curator Zak Kyes about their recent projects such as the Sol typeface, based on Sol LeWitt’s ‘122 Variations on Incompleted Open Cubes’; Untitled, a mechanical flip-disc signage system and their ‘inquiries’ shown in the exhibition currently on show in the AA Gallery and the Front Members' Room.


26 de Octubre
17:00hrs

Mark Cousins
Open Lecture Series

This lecture course takes up the issue of the Nothing and the way it plays a productive role in different arenas of culture. It will consider the issues of negation in terms of propositions and the relation of negation to what the series will analyse as negative objects and negative spaces. It will then consider issues of nowhere, of nobody and of never.


26 de Octubre
18:00hrs

Paul Elliman
Voices Falling Through the Air

Paul Elliman will talk about voice, language and technology as forms of audio signage, and the use of recorded and programmed announcements for both public and private space, as a kind of typography of the air.


30 de Octubre
18:00hrs

Hal Foster
Chat Rooms, Archival Spaces & Other Conundra in Contemporary Art

Co-editor of October journal and critic Hal Foster will discuss some key themes and preoccupations found in recent ‘relational’ and ‘post-relational’ art practices. This lecture will follow on, in part, from the preceding week’s, by curator Nicholas Bourriaud.

link
architectural association inc.
www.aaschool.ac.uk

Jose Llano
Arquitecto, Diseñador de Delitos & Coreografo del Deseo
editor aparienciapublica
www.aparienciapublica.org
http://aparienciapublica.blogspot.com/

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[AP] MANIFIESTO / icon - magazine 2

JASPER MORRISON DESIGNER
MANIFIESTO #2

Design, which used to be almost unknown as a profession, has become a major source of pollution. Encouraged by glossy lifestyle magazines and marketing departments, it’s become a competition to make things as noticeable as possible by means of colour, shape and surprise. Its historic and idealistic purpose, to serve industry and the happy consuming masses at the same time, of conceiving things easier to make and better to live with, seems to have been side-tracked. The virus has already infected the everyday environment. The need for businesses to attract attention provides the perfect carrier for the disease.

Design makes things seem special, and who wants normal if they can have special? And that’s the problem.

What has grown naturally and unselfconsciously over the years cannot easily be replaced. Not that old things shouldn’t be replaced or that new things are bad, just that things that are designed to attract attention are usually unsatisfactory. There are better ways to design than putting a big effort into making something look special. Special is generally less useful than normal, and less rewarding in the long term. Special things demand attention for the wrong reasons, interrupting potentially good atmosphere with an awkward presence. Preserve Normal, resist Special!

link
icon-magazine
http://www.icon-magazine.co.uk/issues/050/manifestos/manifesto_01.html

jasper morrison
http://www.jaspermorrison.com/


Jose Llano
Arquitecto & Coreografo del Deseo
editor aparienciapublica
www.aparienciapublica.org
http://aparienciapublica.blogspot.com/
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AMERICA has a rest, where you want to be

[AP] conferencia sobre MEDIAARCHITECTURE / LONDON

The Impact of Large Scale Integrated Displays on Architecture and Urbanism

El dsarrollo de la nuevas tecnologias ha impactado no solo el sistema de notacion URBANA (cosa de recordar los software como googleearth o live earth), sino que a un tipo de arquitectura de la informacion que despla la tecnologia sobre la concepcion de diferntes tipos de estructura socio-cultural, por ejemplo la implicacion de las tecnologias da cuenta de un tipo de URBANISMO OPTICO, una manera de dar cuenta de materialismo social que dentro de las definiciones de espacios publicos se situan sobre las condiones de integracion y produccion de identidad de masas, sobre las conceptualizacion de la multitud, y sobre la integracion de las mismas estructuras de la obra de arquitectura que tienden a configurarse como "servorganismos", qu finalmente se diriguen a una lectura de lo ambiental y sustentable no en terminos medioambientales sino que operativos, es decir un tipo de tectonica que re-plantee ya no solo ladefinicion tecnica sino que la integracion de un desarrollo urbano renovable, y el acto de constrccion como una trascendencia de persusiva de las practicas tecno-sociales desde los nuevos escenarios de encuentro publico.

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Media Architecture Conference 2007

On 11th and 12th September Media Architecture 2007 will take place at Central Saint Martins Innovation in central London. Organised by Media Architecture Group in Vienna, the conference will bring together international speakers from the architecture, planning and media communities for the first time to address the increasing integration of new display technologies for building construction. The huge impact of this development for building design and the urban environment will be explored from both theoretical and practical implementation perspectives by leaders in the field. The conference takes place at the same and is co-organised with PLASA, the international lighting exhibition at Earls Court, London.

Speakers & curators include:
Joachim Sauter, Bart Lootsma, Ludger Hovestadt, Realities United, Andrew Shoben, Kari Jormakka, David Cunningham, Mark Dorrian, Hermann Eisenköck, Patricia Austin, Tim Pritlove, Peter Cornwell, Kathrin Kur, Andreas Rumpfhuber, Oliver Schürer, Mirjam Struppek, Jim Thrower, Gernot Tscherteu

Developments in display technology and building materials are leading to new forms of hybrid architecture that break away from existing conceptions of surface, structure, lighting and moving imagery. Light Emitting Diode (LED) displays integrated with the fabric of built structures allow prominent imagery to be integrated with the façade, even in direct sunlight. Although energy requirements are practical only when displays are used in less bright conditions, there remain significant consequences for the townscape and urban environment; cinematic topias as pervasive as Minority Report and Blade Runner have become technically feasible.

The MediaArchitecture2007 conference creates a new discourse among the latest theoretical and practical approaches. By reviewing outstanding projects and presenting the views of key architectural theorists, media activists, planners, advertisers and artists, the conference will provide the first-depth consideration of the intersection of media and architecture - the premise that architecture and media issues will increasingly be considered together, at the conceptual stages of building planning. Image has become an architectural element; media increasingly pervade the built environment introducing an important ontological element.

Altering the architectural relationship between image and structure has several significant implications – not only for visual encounter with the completed building, but in terms of planning and construction processes. The emergence of intelligent construction materials, which themselves incorporate display and data components, departs markedly from existing façade implementations in which lighting and display products have been applied in building projects where the underlying architecture is already advanced. The media façade becomes a data system to be specified and commissioned with the expectation of lifetime and maintenance commensurate with other structural elements. Content – the data and imagery that it will carry during that lifetime - is very different from both the rectangular clip material now common on LED billboards and from programmed lighting effects.

MediaArchitecture2007 will address these inversions in several respects:
– the impact on architectural theory of practical media façade systems – departure of imagery from the confines of the clip towards dynamic creative based on building management and external information – the practical challenges of large scale displays for urban planning; display viewing design in public spaces – sustainable display and image data systems that can be specified directly by architects and installed by the construction industry and which are maintainable over the lifetime of a media façade

The conference will be formed of four panels with leading speakers invited from the academic community as well as major
architectural practices and corporations providing and installing these new technologies

DINAMICA
Panel 1: New Technologies and New Materials / Oliver Schürer
Panel 2: Media Urbanism / Mirjam Struppek
Panel 3 - Media Architecture / Peter Cornwell
Panel 4: Image/Architecture / Kathrin Kur

PROGRAMA

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE
Tue 11-09-07
11.00 - 13.30	Registration, refreshments
13.30 - 14.00	Official Introduction/Welcome
14.00 - 16.15	New materials/New technolgies
	Host: Oliver Schuerer
	Ludger Hovestadt
	mediafacade.net
	Hermann Eisenköck
	Roger van der Heide, Arup: Galleria building (Seoul) project presentation
16.45 - 19.00	Urban Media
	Host: Mirjam Struppek
	Jochachim Sauter: New media in public space
	Malcolm McCullough
	Andrew Shoben
	Michael Batz: Planning and lighting concepts
Wed 12-09-07
10.00 - 12.15	Architectural Theory
	Host: Peter Cornwell
	Kari Jormakka
	Bart Lootsma
	David Cunningham
	Tim Edler/Realities United
12.15 -14.15	Lunch
14.15 - 16.30	Image/Architecture
	Host: Kathrin Kur
	Mark Dorrian: "Images in Space-- Google Earth"
	Tim Pritlove
	Labau: MetaDeSIGN
16.30 - 17.30	Final session/discussion

REGISTER
It is free
http://www.mediaarchitecture.org/conf/about/conf/registration/

ADDRESS
Central Saint Martins Innovation in central London 11th and 12th September
Organised by Media Architecture Group in Vienna



links
mediaarchitecture
http://www.mediaarchitecture.com/


Jose Llano
Arquitecto & Coreografo del Deseo
editor aparienciapublica
www.aparienciapublica.org
http://aparienciapublica.blogspot.com/
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AMERICA has a rest, where you want to be