The Holy Mountain
September 24, 2010 at 7:00 pm
- directed, palyed by Alejandro Jodorowsky
http://madmuseum.org/DO/Calendar/201009/holy_mountain.aspx
The Holy Mountain
http://madmuseum.org/DO/Calendar/201009/holy_mountain.aspx
A Bendable Heart Sensor
A Bendable Heart Sensor
"A new flexible and biocompatible electronic device can produce a more detailed picture of the electrical activity of a beating heart. This high-resolution electrical map could help improve the diagnosis and treatment of heart abnormalities by pinpointing areas of damage or misfiring circuitry.
...The flexible device can be used to attach multiple sensors to the wall of a beating heart, measuring electrical activity at multiple sites despite the heart's movement. The electronics needed to record this activity are also built into the device, meaning more data can be collected. The new device is 25 microns thick and covers 1.5 square centimeters. It contains over 2,000 transistors sealed within a flexible coating and is covered with 288 sensor electrodes. So far the device has been tested successfully in pigs."
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/24889/?a=f
New flexible electronics can better chart the heart's electrical activity.
By Duncan Graham-Row March 29, 2010 |
"A new flexible and biocompatible electronic device can produce a more detailed picture of the electrical activity of a beating heart. This high-resolution electrical map could help improve the diagnosis and treatment of heart abnormalities by pinpointing areas of damage or misfiring circuitry.
...The flexible device can be used to attach multiple sensors to the wall of a beating heart, measuring electrical activity at multiple sites despite the heart's movement. The electronics needed to record this activity are also built into the device, meaning more data can be collected. The new device is 25 microns thick and covers 1.5 square centimeters. It contains over 2,000 transistors sealed within a flexible coating and is covered with 288 sensor electrodes. So far the device has been tested successfully in pigs."
Beat box: This implantable medical device bends and twists, thanks to transistors made of ultrathin ribbons of silicon. The electrode array shown here has 288 electrodes that can maintain contact with a heart even as it beats.
Credit: Science/AAAS
http://www.technologyreview.com/biomedicine/24889/?a=f
Alain de Botton
STATUS ANXIETY
This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we're judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser. This is a book about status anxiety.
We care about our status for a simple reason: because most people tend to be nice to us according to the amount of status we have (it is no coincidence that the first question we tend to be asked by new acquaintances is ‘ What do you do?’). With the help of philosophers, artists and writers, the book examines the origins of status anxiety (ranging from the consequences of the French Revolution to our secret dismay at the success of our friends), before revealing ingenious ways in which people have learnt to overcome their worries in their search for happiness. It aims not only to be entertaining, but wise and helpful as well.
ESSAYS IN LOVE
Essays in Love is a novel about two young people, who meet on an airplane between London and Paris and rapidly fall in love. The structure of the story isn’t unusual, but what lends the book its interest is the extraordinary depth with which the emotions involved in the relationship are analysed. Love comes under the philosophical microscope. An entire chapter is devoted to the nuances and subtexts of an initial date. Another chapter mulls over the question of how and when to say ‘I love you’. There’s an essay on how uncomfortable it can be to disagree with a lover’s taste in shoes and a lengthy discussion about the role of guilt in love.
The book is an intriguing blend of novel and non-fiction. As in a novel, there are characters and realistic settings, but these are blended in with a host of more abstract ideas. The book has attracted a particular following among those who have recently fallen in love - or come out of a relationship.
http://www.alaindebotton.com/
This is a book about an almost universal anxiety that rarely gets mentioned directly: an anxiety about what others think of us; about whether we're judged a success or a failure, a winner or a loser. This is a book about status anxiety.
We care about our status for a simple reason: because most people tend to be nice to us according to the amount of status we have (it is no coincidence that the first question we tend to be asked by new acquaintances is ‘ What do you do?’). With the help of philosophers, artists and writers, the book examines the origins of status anxiety (ranging from the consequences of the French Revolution to our secret dismay at the success of our friends), before revealing ingenious ways in which people have learnt to overcome their worries in their search for happiness. It aims not only to be entertaining, but wise and helpful as well.
ESSAYS IN LOVE
Essays in Love is a novel about two young people, who meet on an airplane between London and Paris and rapidly fall in love. The structure of the story isn’t unusual, but what lends the book its interest is the extraordinary depth with which the emotions involved in the relationship are analysed. Love comes under the philosophical microscope. An entire chapter is devoted to the nuances and subtexts of an initial date. Another chapter mulls over the question of how and when to say ‘I love you’. There’s an essay on how uncomfortable it can be to disagree with a lover’s taste in shoes and a lengthy discussion about the role of guilt in love.
The book is an intriguing blend of novel and non-fiction. As in a novel, there are characters and realistic settings, but these are blended in with a host of more abstract ideas. The book has attracted a particular following among those who have recently fallen in love - or come out of a relationship.
http://www.alaindebotton.com/
El Topo
El Topo
September 23, 2010 at 7:00 pm
September 23, 2010 at 7:00 pm
"El Topo is Jodorowsky’s head-bending “Acid Western” that first drew attention to the director’s hallucinatory vision and ability as a filmmaker. With some of the most radical imagery committed to film, cult-cinema enthusiasts filled theaters on its release and a new culture of midnight screenings was born. The movie opens with the solitary black-clad figure El Topo (played by Jodorowsky himself) riding through a remote village to find its streets soaked in blood and residents massacred. The figure in black vows to avenge the slaughter and sets off to kill those responsible. In a freewheeling sequence of events the man meets and frees a captive woman, and then undertakes a series of contests with four gun masters, defeating each one. The second half of the film picks up some years later, El Topo now living among a community of cripples who have been sealed in a mountain by the townspeople who regard them as derelict and deformed. The gunfighter leads the effort to tunnel out, before meeting a dramatic end."
http://madmuseum.org/DO/Calendar/201009/el_topo.aspx
Jodorowsky has said several times that he does not care about political revolution (e.g. compared to Godard’s counter-cinema), but rather about spiritual revolution on a personal level. “We can only change our oppressors. It is impossible for people to liberate themselves from oppressors”, Jodorowsky says. “People have to change themselves.”
[- Jodorowsky in Demby. In El Topo, for example, the eponymous mole metaphor entails an upward search for “the blinding light” of spiritual enlightenment. This can be taken either negatively (i.e. “when you find your ideas, your life is over”) or positively (i.e. becoming blind means no longer needing to see the light, thus collapsing the duality), according to Jodorowsky in El Topo: The Book of the Film, pp. 110–11.]
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2007/great-directors/jodorowsky/#24
Jodorowsky has said several times that he does not care about political revolution (e.g. compared to Godard’s counter-cinema), but rather about spiritual revolution on a personal level. “We can only change our oppressors. It is impossible for people to liberate themselves from oppressors”, Jodorowsky says. “People have to change themselves.”
[- Jodorowsky in Demby. In El Topo, for example, the eponymous mole metaphor entails an upward search for “the blinding light” of spiritual enlightenment. This can be taken either negatively (i.e. “when you find your ideas, your life is over”) or positively (i.e. becoming blind means no longer needing to see the light, thus collapsing the duality), according to Jodorowsky in El Topo: The Book of the Film, pp. 110–11.]
http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2007/great-directors/jodorowsky/#24
Eureka Night: Fashion Innovation
The Design Museum is one of the world’s leading museums devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture to graphics, and architecture to industrial design.
http://vodpod.com/watch/4344826-eureka-night-fashion-innovation-simon-gargette
http://studiobanana.tv/2010/08/31/eureka-night-fashion-innovation-simon-gargette/
Bart Hess
Bart Hess is exploring several fields that straddle material, animation and photography, these fall
within the commercial and art world.
Bart works in primitive and infinite ways. He works with his instinct and starts by using a material on the body, exploring volumes and ways of re-shaping the human silhouette. In fast speed, expelling all his creative energy.
He is creating imagery that capture future human shapes and new body form’s. Bart is discovering a low-tech prosthetic way for human enhancement.
Hunt for High-tech :
With a Hunt for Hightech Bart Hess made a collection of fake fur that touches on elements of fetishism, human instinct and new animal archetypes. With that collection he did not try to mimic real animal kingdoms but create a fantasy world of his own. The way this started was through the process of imagining fantasy animals; animals that could be genetically manipulated, part robot, part organic, how they would move in their environment and what they felt like to touch.
Dutch Design Week - Eindhoven
Launch of 'Field Essays' from Sophie Krier,
a collaboration between LucyandBart
within the commercial and art world.
Bart works in primitive and infinite ways. He works with his instinct and starts by using a material on the body, exploring volumes and ways of re-shaping the human silhouette. In fast speed, expelling all his creative energy.
He is creating imagery that capture future human shapes and new body form’s. Bart is discovering a low-tech prosthetic way for human enhancement.
Hunt for High-tech :
With a Hunt for Hightech Bart Hess made a collection of fake fur that touches on elements of fetishism, human instinct and new animal archetypes. With that collection he did not try to mimic real animal kingdoms but create a fantasy world of his own. The way this started was through the process of imagining fantasy animals; animals that could be genetically manipulated, part robot, part organic, how they would move in their environment and what they felt like to touch.
18/10/2010
Onomatopee
UPCOMINGDutch Design Week - Eindhoven
Launch of 'Field Essays' from Sophie Krier,
a collaboration between LucyandBart
Bart Hess
Stabalise Motion : Motion means a change in the location of a body. In this animation Bart uses the human body in a research of movement in material
Stabalise Motion, The nude edit from bart hess on Vimeo.
Stabalise Motion from bart hess on Vimeo.
Evolutionary Process :
LucyandBart :
Lucyandbart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess. In it they imagine human bodies and faces physically altered with a shocking but artistic realism. #BR Globules of foam, asymmetric spines fascinating and repugnant simultaneously, the pictures become even more disturbing because they don't hint at the emotional state of the subject. Each transformed human looks blankly back at you, neither horrified or surprised or excited about their change of form, but merely present and allowing it to be shown to you. It's that sort of lucid acceptance, clearly not hiding the kind of imperfections and oddities that society mostly trains us to be ashamed of, that make staring at these 'mutants' even more unnerving.
Stabalise Motion, The nude edit from bart hess on Vimeo.
Stabalise Motion from bart hess on Vimeo.
Evolutionary Process :The gradual progressive development of living organisms adds up to form 'the evolutionary process'. The growth of organism is the result of factors such as natural selection. The debate about accelerating the evolutionary process has been going for a while. Are people allowed to interfere or not? Bart Hess interferes with nature in a unique way. Lending evolution a helping hand.
LucyandBart :
Lucyandbart is a collaboration between Lucy McRae and Bart Hess. In it they imagine human bodies and faces physically altered with a shocking but artistic realism. #BR Globules of foam, asymmetric spines fascinating and repugnant simultaneously, the pictures become even more disturbing because they don't hint at the emotional state of the subject. Each transformed human looks blankly back at you, neither horrified or surprised or excited about their change of form, but merely present and allowing it to be shown to you. It's that sort of lucid acceptance, clearly not hiding the kind of imperfections and oddities that society mostly trains us to be ashamed of, that make staring at these 'mutants' even more unnerving.
Creative Heritage - Bodies Beautiful
Florence Edmond, Martinique
Simone Brewster, United Kingdom
Augustin Daboné, Burkina Faso
Simone Brewster, United Kingdom
Augustin Daboné, Burkina Faso
It is therefore not a question of the inherent material value of the object of adornment. Instead size, décor and positioning of the piece on the body give an indication of its importance for the wearer vis-à-vis his own physical persona and which part of the body he or she perceive to be most suitable for beautification or visual recognition.
All three artists in the present exhibition come from different social and intellectual backgrounds. Two have gone through Western World higher academic education, one in the English and one in the French system, but in different parts of the world and outside their own cultural heritage and identies. The third has learned his skill from the age of thirteen in a tiny, dusty workshop in Africa, without access to any refined tooling or challenging and inspiring new materials or processes.
Yet there is a common visual narrative in their choice and appreciation of the beauty and ‘honesty’ of materials, which are a natural part of their immediate environment and therefore in the total absence of overriding decoration. There is a common boldness in the use of shape irrespective of its intended application, whether this concerns a ring, a necklace or a head-, arm-or leg-piece, a very personal communication that speaks, however, not only to the wearer but also to the world at large."
<http://www.aacdd.org/event/events/creative-heritage-bodies-beautiful.html>
is a young British designer who explores the relationship between the human body & objects.
http://www.simonebrewster.com/
The London Design Festival
Beyond The Valley:
Beyond the Valley, the fashion store is right now doing a London Design Festival exhibition.
It features 3D illustrations, fashion and an animation movie.
You get to wear one of those red/green googles to see it in full effect.
Go there, it's great and really vibrant.
Guest blogger Reinhard Schmidt is a volunteer at the London Design Festival.
<http://www.londondesignfestival.com/blog/get-beyond-valley-3d-animation-exhibition>
http://www.beyondthevalley.com/
OUTRACE / TAKE OVER
OUTRACE empowers the general public to take control of eight industrial robots on loan from Audi's production line.
OUTRACE from CHBP on Vimeo.
http://www.outrace.org/messages
http://www.outrace.org/live_stream
nike78 at london design festival 2010
UK designer nicola ryan's 'the takeover' features a skin that breaths, absorbs, stretches and ages. like organic matter, its existence is a fine balance between life and decay.
NIKE78 - Nicola Ryan | ‘The Takeover’ from NIKE78 on Vimeo.
'nike free your mind MK 1' by UK global agency wieden + kennedy london started from
the concept of athletes who trained barefoot in order to make their feet stronger. upon playing with the model they received, the studio soon noticed that the hyper-extended sole took on the
appearance of grey matter, each section of the sole resembling the lobes of a human brain.
they knew from this point that they wanted to create something that was centered around
the human brain and sport.
part of their intention was to take this as far as possible and subvert it to the ridiculous.
they wanted audiences to ask themselves if a healthy brain was more important than a healthy body? and if there was a point of a healthy body without a healthy brain?
this piece seeks to get people thinking about the power and importance of sport in
making humans feel good.
pawel althamer at gwangju art biennale 2010
contingency of the body--often his own--within the wider sphere of social and political contexts. he has often
submitted his body to extreme states, either physically or psychologically. in one earlier performance work,
althamer sealed himself inside a body-sized plastic bag that slowly filled with cold water ('water, space, time',
1991), and in another, with the help of hypnosis and hallucinogenic drugs, he explored the inner landscape of his mind ('the so called waves and other phenomena of the mind', 2003-2004).
his sculptures engage with the body less directly, often through the logic of substitution. his human-scale
sculptures, representing himself or members of his family, are constructed from hair, straw, intestine,
and cloth-visceral, rough-hewn materials that seem poised on the threshold between embodiment and decay.
for this year's gwanju art biennale, althamer has created a new version of auguste rodin's the burghers of calais,
entitled 'brodno people' made with the help of people from a working class neighborhood of warsaw.
rodin's sculpture tells the story of six leading citizens of the town of calais, france, who, in 1347, volunteered
themselves as hostages to king edward III of england in exchange for lifting an eleven-month siege on their
city during the hundred years war. althamer's version emphasizes the social and political circumstances of
the work's production by foregrounding collective practice over individual authorship.
like totems or idols from a personal religion, his figures appear almost as placeholders for the artist's body
and those of his loved ones, as if their presence might somehow ward off the inevitable decay of the flesh."
<http://www.designboom.com/weblog/cat/10/view/11459/pawel-althamer-at-gwangju-art-biennale-2010.html>
Hussein Chalayan
Hussein Chalayan talks with Greg Hilty, Curatorial Director, at the opening of his new exhibition “I Am Sad Leyla (Üzgünüm Leyla)” at the Lisson Gallery:
Hussein Chalayan talks with Greg Hilty at the Lisson Gallery 7 September 2010 from Lisson Gallery on Vimeo.
hussein chalayanwas born in nicosia, cyprus in 1970.
chalayan is an internationally regarded fashion designer who is renowned for his innovative use of materials,
meticulous pattern cutting and progressive attitude to new technology. he was educated both in cyprus and england, at london's strict highgate boarding school in 1993. he graduated from london's central st martins college of art and design. he caused a sensation with his graduate collection - decomposed silk dresses he had buried and exhumed. since then he has produced more than 20 collections and twice been crowned british designer of the year (1999, 2000). chalayan is inspired by architectural theories, science
and technology. he famously produced a collection which included chairs and tables that became garments.
he has been involved in numerous international exhibitions, including ‘radical fashion’ at the V&A victoria & albert museum in london (1997), ‘fashion’ at the kyoto costume institute in japan (1999), ‘airmail clothing’ at the musée de la mode palais du louvre in paris (1999), the istanbul biennial (2001) and 'godess: the classical mode' at the museum of modern art in new york (2003). chalayan has also designed costumes for opera and dance performances. hussein chalayan represented turkey at the 51st art biennale in venice (2005). he was awarded the M.B.E. (member of the order of the british empire) in the 2006 queen's birthday honours list for his services to the fashion Industry.
Hussein Chalayan talks with Greg Hilty at the Lisson Gallery 7 September 2010 from Lisson Gallery on Vimeo.
hussein chalayanwas born in nicosia, cyprus in 1970.
chalayan is an internationally regarded fashion designer who is renowned for his innovative use of materials,
meticulous pattern cutting and progressive attitude to new technology. he was educated both in cyprus and england, at london's strict highgate boarding school in 1993. he graduated from london's central st martins college of art and design. he caused a sensation with his graduate collection - decomposed silk dresses he had buried and exhumed. since then he has produced more than 20 collections and twice been crowned british designer of the year (1999, 2000). chalayan is inspired by architectural theories, science
and technology. he famously produced a collection which included chairs and tables that became garments.
he has been involved in numerous international exhibitions, including ‘radical fashion’ at the V&A victoria & albert museum in london (1997), ‘fashion’ at the kyoto costume institute in japan (1999), ‘airmail clothing’ at the musée de la mode palais du louvre in paris (1999), the istanbul biennial (2001) and 'godess: the classical mode' at the museum of modern art in new york (2003). chalayan has also designed costumes for opera and dance performances. hussein chalayan represented turkey at the 51st art biennale in venice (2005). he was awarded the M.B.E. (member of the order of the british empire) in the 2006 queen's birthday honours list for his services to the fashion Industry.
Skintile: Electronic Sensing Jewelry
Electronic Sensing Jewelry has been conceived alongside a European project, STELLA, (http://www.stella-project.de/) developing stretchable, flexible electronic substrates that integrate energy supply, sensors, actuators, and display.
Skintile the Electronic Sensing Jewelry further explores emotional and physiological sensing. It is a new genre of product; a generation of wireless, stick-on body sensors that re-define traditional body adornment.
It explores a range of functionalities in new product forms that are playful, sensual, mood affected, bio activity stimulated, and arousal enhancing. It is a semi disposable, bio compatible, non-allergenic, breathable, mass customizable, self contained body worn accessory.
Skintile the Electronic Sensing Jewelry further explores emotional and physiological sensing. It is a new genre of product; a generation of wireless, stick-on body sensors that re-define traditional body adornment.
It explores a range of functionalities in new product forms that are playful, sensual, mood affected, bio activity stimulated, and arousal enhancing. It is a semi disposable, bio compatible, non-allergenic, breathable, mass customizable, self contained body worn accessory.
SKIN: Tattoo
"Tattoos and physical mutilation are amongst the oldest forms of personal expression and identity. Subcultures have used tattoos as a form of self representation; a visual language communicating personality and status. Philips Design examined the growing trend of extreme body adornment like tattoos, piercing, implants and scarring.
The Electronics Tattoo film expresses the visual power of sensitive technology applied to the human body. The film subtly leads the viewer through the simultaneous emotional and aesthetic transformations between two lovers."
The Electronics Tattoo film expresses the visual power of sensitive technology applied to the human body. The film subtly leads the viewer through the simultaneous emotional and aesthetic transformations between two lovers."
Fractal: Living and Sensing Jewelry
<http://www.design.philips.com/sites/philipsdesign/probes/projects/fractal/index.page>
Digital Skins Body Atmospheres
"A Fashion Futures Film set in 2050. Couture becomes a biological experience, gowns are assembled by gas and nano-electronic-particles, where tailoring and cosmetics are constructed by 3D liquid formations, including swallowable technologies exciting the mind, body and soul through physical expression. It is a time when couture will be cultured and farmed as fashion facets of human flesh. A Fashion Futures Film to provoke...
This Film encompasses the work of Interdisciplinary Fashion Designer Nancy Tilbury and Visual Artists 125 Creative. It's narrative is formed in partnership with Philips Design, Probes Director Clive van Heerden as well as specialist concepts in the area of Living Skins with the Design for Need Expert Amanda Sleet.
The Digital Skins Team also included, Alice Moore - Make Up & Prosthetics, Mr. Murdoch - Graphic Designer, Matt Owen - Editor FMG."
Nancy Tilbury
Used in the sense to denote a general tone or mood, the term ‘atmosphere’ can be perceived as abstract and intangible, yet multi‐layered experiences of spaces, situations and interactions have a very tangible effect on our quality of life. We use all of our senses to look for meaning in relations, representation, environments and emotions, all of which are woven into our own personal narrative. This individual record isn’t always consistent with the rest of the world and we are always struggling to place ourselves against a coherent background of culture, location and time. This notion is central to the work of London‐based fashion designer Nancy Tilbury. With a discerning eye for emerging societal trends and lifestyles, Nancy uses fashion design in a broad sense to explore technological atmospheres in and around the body. She deliberately blurs the boundaries between the separate areas in traditional design by devising new concepts that takes a fresh and open‐minded look at fashion design that always connects back to the human body.
<http://digitalskinsbodyatmospheres.blogspot.com/2009/10/digital-skin.html>
Digital Skins Body Atmospheres from Nancy Tilbury on Vimeo.
SKIN: Dresses
"One of this year’s Probe project areas is SKIN, which examines the future integration of sensitive materials in the area of emotional sensing – the shift from ‘ intelligent’ to ‘sensitive’ products and technologies.
As part of SKIN, we have developed two ‘Soft Technology’ outfits to identify the future for high tech materials and Electronic Textile Development in the area’s of skin and emotional sensing.
The dresses show emotive technology and how the body and the near environment can use pattern and color change to interact and predict the emotional state."
<http://www.design.philips.com/probes/projects/dresses/index.page>
As part of SKIN, we have developed two ‘Soft Technology’ outfits to identify the future for high tech materials and Electronic Textile Development in the area’s of skin and emotional sensing.
The dresses show emotive technology and how the body and the near environment can use pattern and color change to interact and predict the emotional state."
<http://www.design.philips.com/probes/projects/dresses/index.page>
Sun Yuan and Peng Yu
"Sun Yuan and Peng Yu are two of China's most controversial artists, renown for working with extreme materials such as human fat tissue, live animals, and baby cadavers to deal with issues of perception, death, and the human condition. In Old Person's Home Sun & Peng present a shocking scene of an even more grotesque kind. Hilariously wicked, their satirical models of decrepit OAPS look suspiciously familiar to world leaders, long crippled and impotent, left to battle it out in true geriatric style. Placed in electric wheelchairs, the withered, toothless, senile, and drooling, are set on a collision course for harmless ‘skirmish' as they roll about the gallery at snail's pace, crashing into each other at random in a grizzly parody of the U.N.dead."
Saatchi Gallery wheelchair exhibit :
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