What Would It Be Like to Walk Through the Mind? Why is it so hard to accept, intuitively, that life and mind can emerge from matter?
A big part of the answer, I think, is that we have little or no immediate experience of how physical systems represent information. Computers, we know, store and manipulate information in enormous patterns of 0s and 1s. But those patterns are based on arrangements of electrons, microscopically small and deeply hidden from the user interface. Our brains store and manipulate information in patterns of electrical activation. Most neurobiologists accept that those patterns are the physical embodiment of mind—but they are encased in our skulls, buried in gelatinous brain tissue. One evening last month I had an extraordinary experience at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, where I viewed an installation called “Fields of Light” by Bruce Munro.
Metaphors connecting light to thought abound. That night, for me, all those analogies and metaphors came together. Mr. Vietnamese Food Pavilion by Mia Design Studio. A space which is conceptualized by MIA Design Studio, bases on Vietnamese traditional folk house to replicate its proportions and dimensions, is transparent and interactive with its surrounding environment.
“It is open but close, close but open” Vietnam is always proud of its cuisine diversity across 3 regions. The display counter is formed base on Vietnam geographical shape (S-shape) presenting traditional dishes from 3 regions with benches, standing tables representing Paracel Islands and Spratly Islands. This symbolizes Vietnam asserting its territorial sovereignty to the world.Source by MIA Design Studio Location: 298 Kim Ma, Ba Dinh District, Ha Noi, VietnamArchitects: MIA Design StudioPrincipal Architect: Nguyen Hoang Manh Project Team: Nguyen Hoang Manh, Nguyen Quoc Long, Luu Hoang Kiem, Tran Quang TuyenArea: 72 sqm (12m x 6m)Height: 4.8 mYear: 2015Photographs: Quang Dam, Courtesy of vietnvie.
Vietnamese Food Pavilion by Mia Design Studio. Wave is my nature Kinetic installation by vtol... Wave is my nature Kinetic installation by vtol... Loop.pH. Máquina Virtual - erivasruzafa - Gmail. Five Projects Awarded Prizes at the 2014 Media Architecture Biennale. The 2014 Media Architecture Biennale has drawn to a close in Aarhus, Denmark, and with it five projects have been awarded for “outstanding accomplishments in the intersection between architecture and technology.”
Representing five different categories (Animated Architecture, Spatial Media Art, Money Architecture, Participatory Architecture, and Trends & Prototypes), these five projects are the ones that most represent the Media Architecture Biennale’s goal to advance the understanding and capabilities of media architecture. The winners include a power plant with a shimmering chimney tower, an installation that creates “phantoms” with light, an interactive LED facade, a crowdsourced mapping system for transit in the developing world, and a kinetic “selfie facade.”
See videos of all five winners after the break. Winner, Animated Architecture: Energy Tower Facade Lighting / Erick van Egeraat Winner, Spatial Media Art: Light Barrier / Kimchi and Chips. LIGHTALLIANCE. Janet Echelman Portfolio - Janet Echelman. Rafael Lozano-Hemmer - Projects. "Pan-Anthem" is an interactive sound installation where the national anthem of every country in the World plays back on a movable speaker that is magnetically attached to a large wall.
The speakers are precisely arranged to visualize national statistics: population, GDP, area, number of women in parliament, GINI, year of independence, HDI and so on. For example, when the work is configured to show military spending per capita, on the far left of the wall the public can hear the anthems of countries without military forces like Costa Rica, Iceland and Andorra while at the far right they can hear Saudi Arabia, Israel and the United States, which spend more than $2,000 per person per year.
If no one is in the exhibition room all the speakers are silent, but as a visitor approaches a particular set of speakers these start playing automatically, creating a positional panoramic playback of anthems associated to similar statistics. View Details. Immaterials: Light painting WiFi. BlackOut Design. 90th ANNIVERSARY OF PREMIER TECH 2013 15th ANNIVERSARY OF QUEBEC CITY CONVENTION CENTRE 2011.
Glass installations, sculptures and design lighting. Bruce Munro.