Easton + Combs are currently getting ready for their CHANGING ROOM exhibition at the Extension gallery for architecture in Chicago and have set up a kickstarter project to help assist w/ the photography documentation and archiving. With each contribution you will receive some form of limited edition prints. After seeing some of the prototype pieces we are sure that this is going to be an amazing show and if you are in the Chicago area it is a must see. You can find more information below and if you have the means please help support the project at any level that you can.
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LEPER CREATIVITY: THE FIRST INTERNATIONAL CYCLONOPEDIA SYMPOSIUM
March 11, 10AM – 6.30PM
Hailed by novelists, philosophers, artists, and cinematographers, Reza Negarestani’s Cyclonopedia: Complicity with Anonymous Materials is a key work in an emerging continental movement in philosophy, “speculative realism.” Cyclonopedia has attracted a wide-ranging and interdisciplinary audience, provoking a vital debate around the relationship between philosophy, geopolitics, geophysics, and the art world. read more
HAESLEY NINE BRIDGE CLUB HOUSE
Yeoju, South Korea
Architects: KyeongSik Yoon (KACI International) and Shigeru Ban Architects
Client: Haesley Nine Bridges
Contractor: C.J. Engineering & Construction
Photographers: JongOh Kim
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Toilet Paper Magazine, a Recent collaboration between artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrariis, is a “new generation” magazine that combines commercial photography, twisted narratives and surrealistic imaginary to create a series of powerful visual tableaux. Maurizio Cattelan, a strong and provocatory artist, is challenging again the limits of contemporary value system of which he is part. This time he teases the ambitious world of magazine publishers and serious art critics. He is not afraid to build a bridge between the commercial photography and art. The photographs visualize the ideas of the artist and are created in collaboration with a well known Italian photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari. In an interview for the Italian edition of Vogue Ferrari comments on the new magazine : “The magazine springs from a passion/ obsession that Maurizio and I have in common. Each picture springs from an idea, even a simple one, and then becomes a complex orchestration of people who build tableaux vivants. This project is also a sort of mental outburst.” via designboom and Toilet Paper Magazine
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Recompose is a new system for manipulation of an actuated surface. By collectively utilizing the body as a tool for direct manipulation alongside gestural input for functional manipulation, they show how a user is afforded unprecedented control over an actuated surface. It was developed by Matt Blackshaw, David Lákatos, Anthony Devincenzi, Daniel Leithinger, Hiroshi Ishii from MIT Media Lab’s Tangible Media Group. They describe a number of interaction techniques exploring the shared space of direct and gestural input, demonstrating how their combined use can greatly enhance creation and manipulation beyond unaided human capability. Check out the video below. via media.mit.edu/recompose
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