ALO | Architecture | Research | Education Fashion & Luxury Events » Comptoir des Cotonniers FW 10-11 Founder & Artistic Director Working with one of the most elusive and often under-appreciated elements in creating unique atmospheres,Thierry Dreyfus has been deemed as "[the man] who is making the City of Light live up to its name. The designer is the master of the soft glow, bright beams and laser lines" by Suzy Menkes of the International Herald Tribune. Art director and artist since 1985, Thierry Dreyfus got his first taste of lighting in theater and opera, and since gone on to develop his own artistic mise en scène. As Artistic Director of Eyesight Fashion and Luxury, Thierry expands the boundaries of runway modernity through custom design light-scenography. Conception lumière architecturale - concepteur lumière
Marc Roig Blesa — home 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.” Winner, Animated Architecture: Energy Tower Facade Lighting / Erick van Egeraat Winner, Spatial Media Art: Light Barrier / Kimchi and Chips Winner, Participatory Architecture: DigitalMatatus
SHoPdoes Blog Photo: Resonate The 3 days in Belgrade that are the Resonate Festival are perhaps the most intensely packed and compressed segments of time imaginable. They seem in the moment to flash by in an epic and chaotic blast of inspiration and then to linger for days, weeks and it now seems likely, months after-the-fact as its implications are processed and absorbed. For those who are not familiar with this relatively new festival, Resonate's mission statement is "Bringing together artists to drive a forward-looking debate on the position of technology in art and culture" and that the festival is a "platform for networking, information, knowledge sharing and education. It brings together distinguished, world class artists with an opportunity of participating in a forward-looking debate on the position of technology in art and culture." And all of this takes place in many languages in an environment completely lacking in artifice, conservatism and/or corporate over/undertones. Photos: Resonate
PIXINESS - Oeuvre d’art lumineuse, numérique et interactive à échelle urbaine par Axel Morgenthaler Gamper Martino 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.
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