Friday 23 November 2012

THE FUTURE OF PLAY



A free exhbiition featuring everything from work by world-renowned game designers such as Eric Zimmerman and architect Nathalie Pozzi to hacks on old favourites like Lunar Trails by Seb Lee-Delisle. GAME offers you the chance to get directly involved in the world's most compelling game play.

http://sciencegallery.com/game

Europa Film Treasures

LE BAQUET DE MESMER What a strange washtub... when Méliès the magician takes himself for Mesmer the doctor, eccentric statues come to life and give us a cabaret worthy of the Moulin rouge! A Mesmerian Experiment Georges MELIES -1904 Národní filmový archiv an interesting archive... Europa Film Treasures

ANTI-VITRUV & SUPER-BRUNELLESCHI


An amazing online "taxonomical archive" under-construction I found today: ANTI-VITRUV & SUPER-BRUNELLESCHI under-construction taxonomical archive of experimental utopianism and paper architectures http://relationalthought.wordpress.com/experimental-utopianism-theory/ THEORY One Comment anti-vitruv and super brunelleschi is a relational study and frequently updated archive of experimental utopianism and paper architectures. in deleuzean understanding, architectural concept can be taxonomised according to ways of expression and becoming: in his book on cinema, gilles deleuze, commenting on the philosophy of henri bergson, dismisses the conception of cinema as a succession of still photographs. instead he develops a cinematic taxonomy which emerges on matter and memory, bergson’s thesis of an enmeshed human body in the world of matter. deleuze argues that cinema immediately gives us movement-image. figures are not described in motion. rather, the continuity of movement describes the figure (p5). in this respect, cinema embodies a modern conception of movement, “capable of thinking the production of the new” (p7), as opposed to the ancient conception of movement as a succession of separate elements. the collected images from more or less well known architects and artists will be taxonomised for further analysis. paralleling the cinema-books different ways of spatial montage will create different transversal relational connections in architectural history. this study here, will focus on the evident problem of (p)representation, the reduction of four-dimensional ideas in two-dimensional visual renderings of unbuilt projects. preliminary we might relate anti-vitruviusm, super-brunelleschi // perception image computational figures and neo-narcism // affection image new relationships and machinic desires // impulse image architecture parlante and pomo-ducks // action image the modernist and the broken mirror // reflexion image collage archipelago and false folds // relation image post-architectural and counter-contemporary // mental image