Day out at South Bank and Roger Hiorns

Peter Funch

Danish photographer Peter Funch stakes New York City street corners out for two weeks at a time, taking pictures of passersby from the very same spot. For his “Babel Tales” photo series, Funch picked dozens of samey pedestrians — smokers, cell-phone gabbers, hospital-scrubs wearers, yawners — and Photoshopped them into the same frames in one photo.

Smokers smoking
Informing informers

Juvenile Bliss

Roger Hiorns

In his latest installation, “Seizure”, British artist Roger Hiorns has turned the idea of sculpture inside out. Rather than present a sculpture inside an architectural space, he’s turned every surface of the architectural space into sculpture. Mixing installation art and chemistry, he’s taken an entire abandoned apartment near London’s Elephant & Castle and transformed it into a gemstone. Covering the inside with blue copper sulphate crystals, he’s created an other-worldly, mineralized, glinting mirror of an everyday apartment. Jewels literally glowing from the ceiling and lining the floors.

Going to go and see it tomorrow so shall update with feedback.

Gordon Matta-Clark

Matta-Clark was interested in the idea of entropy, metamorphic gaps, and leftover/ambiguous space. Fake Estates was a project engaged with the issue of land ownership and the myth of the American dream - that everyone could become "landed gentry" by owning property. Matta-Clark "buys" into this dream by purchasing 15 leftover and unwanted properties in Manhattan for $25-$75 a plot. Ironically, these "estates" were unusable or unaccessible for development, and so his ability to capitalize on the land, and thus his ownership of them, existed virtually only on paper.

Daniel Rozin // Interactive wooden mirror

The 4 mechanical mirrors are made of various materials but share the same behavior and interaction; any person standing in front of one of these pieces is instantly reflected on its surface. The mechanical mirrors all have video cameras, motors and computers on board and produce a soothing sound as the viewer interacts with them. Amazing.

Fly on the wall

Fly on the wall is a style of documentary-making used in film and television. The name derived from the idea that events are seen candidly, as a fly on a wall might see them. In the purest form of fly-on-the-wall documentary-making, the camera crew works as unobtrusively as possible; however, it is also common for participants to be interviewed, often by an off-camera voice.

I am quite interested in looking at peoples behavior when they are either unaware of a camera's presence or of being watched and how this effects the way they act.

Interactive//video//projections

Chris O'Shea

The work encourages visitors to bore through the walls of the museum and engage in a ‘behind the scenes’ experience with an x-ray torch. This playful interaction encourages childlike curiosity in young and old alike, and opens up a portal into the Museum's forbidden spaces.

Out of Bounds from Chris O'Shea on Vimeo.

The wall piano

The Wall Piano is the work of Hon Lam Li (Patrick to his friends), who has just graduated from the London College of Communications' Interactive Design BA.

How does the Wall Piano work exactly?
There are two microphones attached on the wall surface. Those microphones are acting like human ears for the computer. Therefore, the computer is able to hear people who tap/bang on the wall. The program that I made could translate those hits into piano keys.

It all depends on how hard you hit the wall. The lower key will be produced when you hit it harder; and the higher key will be produced when you hit it softer. Just like every other modern piano, it has 88 keys.

VIDEO LINK

http://intranet.lcc.arts.ac.uk/hub/07hub/Resources/video/piano.mov

Apps Hyper Wall

At Apple's recent WWDC developer conference, 20,000 of the most popular iPhone apps were showcased on a pulsating wall of 30 Cinema Displays. Whenever someone downloaded a particular app, its icon pulsed light outwards creating a mesmerising display.

More....

Maya Hayak

Maya Hayak

www.hawaiidesign.co.uk

An interactive spinning wall of 900 table football players for Virgin Holidays first class lounge.

Reynauld Phillipe

‘Conception of a personal sign system for the school building at the ERBA of Valence. Our idea consisted in using the architecture of the school as a support, but also to make the user as an actor of the sign system. So, we imagine to draw an anamorphosis with chalks, directly on the black wall at the school’s entrance. ‘

www.molodesign.com

Visual References

Stephen Willats

Jenny Holzer

Lawrence Wiener

Summer 2009

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The Wall — a 3D Narrative 

Magazines, books, films are all forms of sequential media. They have linear systems and  

organisation with information gathered into sections. These sections are further divided into  

pages which are further divided into articles. 

BA (Hons) Graphic Design 

First Year | 

Summer Project 

Briefing Date: Wednesday | 24 | June | 2009 

Tutors: David Coventon / Jim Fielding

The Brief 

Select or construct six walls in an area of your  

choice and create a narrative. 

Each wall should act like the section of a magazine  

or a chapter of a book. 

Create the content for each section or chapter. 

Outcomes 

The material you generate for this project will form the basis of an exhibition in the second week  

of the Autumn term. You will exhibit your 3D narrative project in the Second Year studio on the first 

floor at Peckham Road. The walls you choose and the way you choose to reproduce your narrative 

for the exhibition should take this into account.