Processpatching

Processpatching, Defining New Methods in aRt&D

investigates how electronic art patches together processes and methods from the arts, engineering and computer science environments. This investigation is positioned in the electronic art laboratory where new alliances with other disciplines are established. It aims to improve collaboration by informing others about one’s artistic research and development approach. Processpatching, Defining New Methods in aRt&D, provides information about the practical and theoretical aspects of the research and development processes of artists.

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Philips Pavilion

The Philips Pavilion was a World’s Fair pavilion designed for Expo ’58 in Brussels by the office of Le Corbusier. Commissioned by Philips, an electronics company based in the Netherlands, the pavilion was designed to house a multimedia spectacle that celebrated postwar technological progress. Because Corbusier was busy with the planning of Chandigarh, much of the project management was assigned to Iannis Xenakis, who was also an experimental composer.

The pavilion is a cluster of nine hyperbolic paraboloids, composed asymmetrically to create dynamically-angled contours and constructed out of prestressed concrete. Steel tension cables on the exterior give the pavilion its signature reticulated appearance. According to Xenakis, the idea of using curved surfaces composed of straight lines was inspired by his composition Metastasis, premiered in 1955.

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Len Lye – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In Free Radicals he used black film stock and scratched designs into the emulsion. The result was a dancing pattern of flashing lines and marks, as dramatic as lightning in the night sky. In 2008, this film was added to the United States National Film Registry.[1]

Lye continued to experiment with the possibilities of direct film-making to the end of his life. In various films he used a range of dyes, stencils, air-brushes, felt tip pens, stamps, combs and surgical instruments, to create images and textures on celluloid. In Color Cry, he employed the “photogram” method combined with various stencils and fabrics to create abstract patterns. It is a 16mm direct film featuring a searing soundtrack by the blues singer Sonny Terry.

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Istanbul: A brief seismic history

 

 

A rather fanciful European engraving of an earthquake that took place in İstanbul on May 10th 1556. For an enlarged view of the image, click on it. People are running about in terror and the sea is surging violently. Notice the comet at the top center and the impending or recent eclipse of the sun or moon at the right. Right of center is a large domed structure that may be intended to represent Hagia Sophia.

via Istanbul: A brief seismic history.