Artist Nick Relph is turning New York’s development boom into digital art ‘scans’

2021-11-20T09:00:00-05:00

Relph’s collection might be described as the first post-internet expression of the genre. The images mostly show buildings that are, in one sense, real or in the process of becoming so. But the rendering posters, created by design firms and developers, are also highly fictive, cinematic branding documents created to comply with a city law requiring public images of buildings under construction.

The arch flaneur Nick Relph has been documenting the city’s whirlwind transformation since the Gulliani administration and, for the past seven years, incorporating a VuPoint digital scanner into his work to produce a physical record of the changes that first made its debut in 2015 in MoMA PS1’s Greater New York survey.

Relph’s new book, called Eclipse Body & Soul Syntax, hit the shelves this month from publisher Pre-Echo.

“It was really about just having the scanner with me in my bag when I was walking around,” the 42-year-old Relph told the Times’ Randy Kennedy. “I’m a walker. That’s how I make work, generally speaking. I just couldn’t ignore these posters, these very stark images. I pay attention to images. And the purpose of these is in one sense clearly defined and in another not at all.”

Image courtesy Pre-Echo Press

Notre Dame Cathedral's restoration is imagined through digital scans by architectural historian Andrew Tallon

2019-04-17T13:12:00-04:00

Many are still regrouping after the devastating news of the Notre Dame Cathedral fire that took place on Monday, April 15th. With cathedral updates made by our Archinect team member Justine Testado, plans for restoring the historic building is underway. Since yesterday France's president Emmanuel Macron has helped lead a significant fundraising effort towards Notre Dame's restoration. With hundreds of millions of euros having already been pledged many are curious as to how the restoration will pan out.

French Firefighters stand near the cathedral assessing the next steps during yesterday's blaze. Image courtesy of cnn.com

After a hard day of strategically planning how to contain the blaze without causing more damage to the structure firefighters were able to put out the fire and assess the damages. During the assessment, the cathedral's spire was severely affected by the fire and collapsed during the blaze. Extensive damage was done to the cathedral's roof which had to be completely ...

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Artist Nick Relph is turning New York’s development boom into digital art ‘scans’

Notre Dame Cathedral's restoration is imagined through digital scans by architectural historian Andrew Tallon