The KAM workshop of 2015 focuses on nature and Modernity, critiques on the borders between the natural and the human-made; video game environments experienced through avatars, techniques of reproduction, copying and synthesizing, assembling...

The KAM workshop of 2015 focuses on nature and Modernity, critiques on the borders between the natural and the human-made; video game environments experienced through avatars, techniques of reproduction, copying and synthesizing, assembling artificial natures for material or digital environments; fake mountains, rocks, trees, vegetation, lakes and gardens. With contributions and desk crits by Aristide Antonas, Mona Mahall, Heike Schuppelius, Asli Serbest, Stavros Vergopoulos, Ian Warner and more guests. Organized by the Architecture Syndicate.

Apply at kamworkshops.com.

Shapereader comprises a series of graphic patterns attempting to encode words and meanings into tactile formations. Arctic Circle, the first narrative work to use the Shapereader repertoire is a 57-page original graphic novel relating the story of two climatologists digging in the North Pole searching for patterns of climatic change inscribed on ice columns. Two versions of the story are available, in English and in Finnish. It consists of:

  • 57 wooden plates (50cm x 35cm x 0.6cm)
  • 6 communication boards (50cm x 35cm x 0.6cm)
  • 210 patterns from the Shapereader tactile repertoire and more than 6000 patterns for the entirety of the story
  • weights a total of 95 kg.

Shapereader is developed by Ilan Manouach. More info about the project and Shapereader Community Workshop can be found at shapereader.org. Website by Lamb and Lamp.

yerdarlingdaily: “ Silver Apples live in Los Angeles, 1968. Simeon Coxe III: “In this shot you can see I have the oscillators mounted horizontally in plywood along with echo units, wah pedal, and so on. Here I am playing the ‘lead’ oscillator with my...

yerdarlingdaily:

Silver Apples live in Los Angeles, 1968.

Simeon Coxe III: “In this shot you can see I have the oscillators mounted horizontally in plywood along with echo units, wah pedal, and so on. Here I am playing the ‘lead’ oscillator with my right hand, keying in rhythm oscillators with my elbow on the telegraph keys, changing the volume on an amp with my left hand, and singing. This was typical.”

… via an interview with Simeon at SoundOnSound.

Mappings of the OCTO-APPS distribution system that was installed and activated in the 4-storey building of Praxitelous 33, Athens.