hi all. rob here, for everyone's reference, literature that came up in our discussion on 14/09:
How Buildings Learn - Stewart Brand
Give me a Gun and I'll make all Buildings move - Bruno Latour & Albena Yaneva
The Secret Lives of Buildings - Edward Hollis
The form of time - Elliott Jacques
The Concept of time - Martin Heidegger
also pretty wicked...
video mapping on Prague Astronomical clock...
rsiii
Wednesday, 27 October 2010
Saturday, 16 October 2010
Architecture
on Film: Beijing/Midtown + Sarah Morris Q&A
http://www.architecturefoundation.org.uk/programme/2009/architecture-on-film/sarah-morris-beijingmidtown-qandaThurs 4 Nov 2010 6.15pm
The UK Premiere of Sarah Morris's latest urban portrait, Beijing, preceded by a screening of her very first film, Midtown. Accompanied by a Q+A with the artist.
Q+A chaired by Dr Andrea Phillips, Director of Research Programmes, Department of Art, Goldsmiths University.
Image: Sarah Morris, "Beijing," 2008, 35mm/HD. Courtesy the artist.
Beijing - UK PREMIERE
Celebrated artist Sarah Morris's latest film follows her earlier studies of Manhattan, Las Vegas, Miami, Washington and L.A with a glimpse of the Chinese centre of politics and culture at the time of its great global unveiling - the 2008 Olympic Games. Spectacularly seductive, the film operates as a feature length trailer for the megalopolis's ascension to the global stage, filtering the city's mass-televised self-portrait into a mesmeric tone-poem, in the style of Koyaanisqatsi.
Free of dialogue, an instrumental soundtrack pulses behind a rhythmic succession of images that level the Games' splendour alongside candid moments of a city in transition and its phantom players; from the President of China preparing for his Olympic address, to a channel-surfing architect Jacques Herzog, and workers packing sweets in a downtown store. Jackie Chan, Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster and Henry Kissinger also all make appearances.
Through a mise-en-scène of graphic moments and semiotic clues, Morris scripts the built environment in a contemporary update of the great 'city symphony' film. We are delighted to present the UK premiere of her latest work of art, and to host Morris in conversation following the screening.
USA 2008, Dir Sarah Morris, 86 min
Midtown
Establishing shots, cutaways, and architectonic form combine in a rhythmic collage of cinematic surveillance. Shot over a single day in New York, the film suggests a metropolis and its inhabitants on the perpetual brink of an event. A sunshine-noir urban document, playfully rendering New York's business district a site for abstracted and inferred narratives.
USA 1998, Dir Sarah Morris, 9 min
Architecture
on Film: Beijing/Midtown + Sarah Morris Q&A
http://www.architecturefoundation.org.uk/programme/2009/architecture-on-film/sarah-morris-beijingmidtown-qandaThurs 4 Nov 2010 6.15pm
The UK Premiere of Sarah Morris's latest urban portrait, Beijing, preceded by a screening of her very first film, Midtown. Accompanied by a Q+A with the artist.
Q+A chaired by Dr Andrea Phillips, Director of Research Programmes, Department of Art, Goldsmiths University.
Image: Sarah Morris, "Beijing," 2008, 35mm/HD. Courtesy the artist.
Beijing - UK PREMIERE
Celebrated artist Sarah Morris's latest film follows her earlier studies of Manhattan, Las Vegas, Miami, Washington and L.A with a glimpse of the Chinese centre of politics and culture at the time of its great global unveiling - the 2008 Olympic Games. Spectacularly seductive, the film operates as a feature length trailer for the megalopolis's ascension to the global stage, filtering the city's mass-televised self-portrait into a mesmeric tone-poem, in the style of Koyaanisqatsi.
Free of dialogue, an instrumental soundtrack pulses behind a rhythmic succession of images that level the Games' splendour alongside candid moments of a city in transition and its phantom players; from the President of China preparing for his Olympic address, to a channel-surfing architect Jacques Herzog, and workers packing sweets in a downtown store. Jackie Chan, Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster and Henry Kissinger also all make appearances.
Through a mise-en-scène of graphic moments and semiotic clues, Morris scripts the built environment in a contemporary update of the great 'city symphony' film. We are delighted to present the UK premiere of her latest work of art, and to host Morris in conversation following the screening.
USA 2008, Dir Sarah Morris, 86 min
Midtown
Establishing shots, cutaways, and architectonic form combine in a rhythmic collage of cinematic surveillance. Shot over a single day in New York, the film suggests a metropolis and its inhabitants on the perpetual brink of an event. A sunshine-noir urban document, playfully rendering New York's business district a site for abstracted and inferred narratives.
USA 1998, Dir Sarah Morris, 9 min
Tube map retraces London film location history
Alix
Thursday, 7 October 2010
Phil Coy - Facade
An exhibition at the Whitechapel this weekend.Phil Coy’s new work Façade constructs a journey through a topology of contemporary glass architecture. The film mixes tracking shots over the façades of buildings, with high definition architectural visualisations of the same.
Façade is a film of non-spaces and immateriality featuring the indiscernible surfaces of contemporary glass buildings, reception lobbies and glass lifts, a green screen television studio and high definition digital animations of architectural 'walkthroughs' and never-to-be-built glass buildings.
Partly referring to Sergei Eisenstein’s unmade film The Glass House, the work transfers some of the contradictions associated with Modernist architecture to the faux-modern living described by the architecture of today. The film’s opening shots, cut from archive film of 1920's plate glass manufacture, are permeated with the triumphant utilitarianism peculiar to that era. From the spirited hot house of these technological advancements in materials, and the architectural theory that developed in tandem, the film gives way to a more fantastical vision of contemporary glass architecture far removed from these egalitarian origins.
Working with a production film crew and TV news presenter Julia Somerville and collaborating with architectural visualisation specialists Miller Hare,Façade's production process implements the tools and hierarchical systems associated with corporate media production in order to break down the constituent parts of that system.
Façade is a single screen work commissioned by Arts Council England through Film London Artists' Moving Image Network, Whitstable Biennale and Futurecity, with co-support from the BFI National Archive, National Glass Centre, Miller Hare, Pilkington Group Ltd and Foggo Associates.
Coy is a Film London Artists’ Moving Image Network (FLAMIN) Productions Fund awardee 2009.
Phil Coy also presents a screening and talk at the Whitechapel Gallery on Thursday 30 September.
James
Friday, 1 October 2010
madrid experimental film festival
for the madrid experimental film festival
http://www.semanacineexperimentalmadrid.com/09/programacionysedes/portada.php
w
http://www.semanacineexperimentalmadrid.com/09/programacionysedes/portada.php
w
whiteread tate britain
if you are down near the tate britain check out the 'architectural' drawings of rachel whiteread
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/sep/12/art-exhibition#/?picture=366564555&index=9
william
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/sep/12/art-exhibition#/?picture=366564555&index=9
william
kapoor mirrors
for vision devices and mirrors in hyde park check out:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/sep/27/anish-kapoor-sky-mirror-sculptures
william
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/sep/27/anish-kapoor-sky-mirror-sculptures
william
time books
a couple of time books, well worth a read if not directly about architecture or film:
Time a Users Guide by Stefan Klein, pub penguin is very readable about different kinds of time, personal or objective. has also a good bibliography.
Time by Eva Hoffman, pub Profile Books, is more psychological and has chapters on time and the mind, time and the body etc. I found it fascinating but some of it is hard going - it is best to start with the chapter called time in our time, which is more general.
william
Time a Users Guide by Stefan Klein, pub penguin is very readable about different kinds of time, personal or objective. has also a good bibliography.
Time by Eva Hoffman, pub Profile Books, is more psychological and has chapters on time and the mind, time and the body etc. I found it fascinating but some of it is hard going - it is best to start with the chapter called time in our time, which is more general.
william
Monday, 15 February 2010
Saturday, 23 January 2010
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