This is a reminder that the 54th International Design Conference in Aspen, LA satellite event, will be taking place tonight at the M&A Gallery in Silverlake at 7:30 PM. This event is co-sponsored by Archinect and will be worth checking out.
Speakers include:
Benjamin H. Bratton, SCI_Arc, UCLA, IDCA
We propose for consideration an image of the world as an interface,
and of all design as interface design. Not only does computation change how design works,
more importantly it changes how design thinks. Computation transforms one practice into another:
cinema into architecture, product design into philosophy, urban planning into advertising.
Design is an expertise in points of contact, in the interfaces between people, systems
and effects. In our network culture, contact is condensed into buttons and icons, menus a
nd dashboards, and into familiar pathways and fast surfaces, diagrams and directions.
Interfaces are nodes along lines of urban flow: terminals, spectacles, ports and stations.
Interfaces link and partition society itself, as belief systems, ballots and borders.
Such points of contact, everywhere and nowhere at once, connect each of us to the
operating systems of interdependency, power, and opportunity. They are not just our
interfaces to the world, but also the world's channels to us.
David Erdman, SERVO
I will speak on what servo considers to be at stake in understanding
architectural design as a mode of interface design. In particular, I
will use our Lattice Archipelogics project to speculate on the fusion of
an ideology of objects (a more common territory for architecture) and an
ideology of communication (a more common territory in
computational/interface design).
Adam Eeuwens, “False Flatâ€
In August "False Flat, Why Dutch Design is so Good" will be published
by Phaidon Press. Adam Eeuwens is co-author with Aaron Betsky of the
book, while renown graphic artist Irma Boom designed the book. In its
400 pages and 1000 pictures False Flat gives a historic, economic,
social and cultural explanation of why Dutch design is what it is. Adam
Eeuwens will explain how the strength of their design finds its origin
in their innate ability to add abstract value to a transaction (and
scrape a wealthy living out of this). He will talk about the Dutch
being middlemen by nature, unwilling to take on the risk of production
and consumption, but perfectly willing to mediate between the two. They
are ambivalent interfaces. In addition, Adam Eeuwens will show that
Dutch design is not so much about a nationality, but about an attitude,
that can give all involved with design a new horizon.
Richard Metzger, Disinformation
Richard Metzger, co-founder of The Disinformation Company Ltd, a New York
and Los Angeles based multi-media publishing company will offer short
remarks on visionary artist/inventor/architect Paul Laffoley before showing
a 10 minute long video profile of Laffoley that originally ran on Metzger's
Channel 4 (UK) television series "Disinformation."
Peter Lunenfeld, Art Center
I will talk about my concept of visual intellectuality and
relate it to the ambient interface theme, I'll use the Mediawork pamphlet
series, and even more website as my demo, and I can do the west coast
premiere of Hypnotext, Peter Halley's Webtake (realized by Casey Reas) for
Dj spooky's Rhythm Science.
Marcelo Spina, SCI_Arc and Patterns
"Meeting people is easy"
Sensitive Proximity at SCI_Arc
Through the recent SCI_Arc Café Project, the lecture will discuss the social
and atmospheric implications of an architecture that operates in sensitive
proximity with the systems and forces that shape, inform and rhythm everyday
material life.
Natalie Jeremijenko, UCSD and Yale
Like a traditional zoo, Ooz is a series of sites where animals and humans interact.
Unlike the traditional zoo, this is place where the animals remain by choice: a zoo without
cages. What's more, the human-animal interactions at an OOZ site are significantly
different from that of a Zoo, comprised of two components: 1) an architecture of reciprocity, i.e.
any action the person can direct at the animal, they can direct at the person; and
2) an information architecture of collective observation and interpretation.
Daniel Sauter, UCLA
Light Attack installation.
The piece consists of a virtual character projected on the cityscape of Los Angeles who
explores three places "to go" and three places "not to go" from the Lonely Planet's travel guide.
As a public art project and social experiment, Light Attack elaborates the concept of the "moving moving"
image in the stereotyped neighborhoods of Hollywood, Beverly Hills, Santa Monica, Downtown,
Watts and Compton.
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