ART STUDENT WITH INSANITY

I'm an art student. I live in Sydney, this is a blog for my Design course. I'm an obsessor of coffee and cats. That is all.

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Ai Weiwei (1995) Dropping a Han Dynasty Urn

An astonishingly irreverent piece of work.  This triptych features the artist dropping a Han Dynasty (206 BC - 220 AD) in three photographs.  

When questioned about the work, he suggested that the piece was about industry: “[The urn] was industry then and is industry now.”  His statement, therefore, was that the urn was just a cheap pot two thousand years ago, and the reverence we feel toward it is artificial.  One critic wrote: “In other words, for all the aura of preciousness acquired by the accretion of time (and skillful marketing), this vessel is the Iron Age equivalent of a flower pot from K-Mart and if one were to smash the latter a few millennia from now, would it be an occasion for tears?”

However, the not-so-subtle political undertone is clear.  This piece was about destroying the notion that everything that is old is good… including the traditions and cultures of China.  For Ai Weiwei, this triptych represents a moment in which culture suddenly shifts (sometimes violently), shattering the old and outdated to make room for the new.  

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Gego (Gertrud Goldschmidt) Untitled (1966) Lithograph

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Pages from publication of images i got off the internet….

first page - Images from Nasa Space Website - free of copyright.

These images are of mars 

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA19960

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA19962

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA19961

Image of sky, rainforest and couch off creative commons website 

Kitchen and colour palettes of google images 

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T E X T U R E 

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Hito Steyerl - Liquidity Inc. - 2014

http://vanabbemuseum.nl/en/projects/hito-steyerl/

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Few ideas and references to these links

Micro Lattice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6N_4jGJADY

Robots helping with dairy farming

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XI4siKp-nU

Bolt threads and the innovations of new threads for various types of materials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKJ1gGXamm4

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MIT Tangible Group: Kinetic Blocks

Two years ago, the Tangible Media Group (MIT) presented the inForm display - a dynamic shape display - that can render 3D content physically using movable pins.

Last week, Philipp Schoessler, Daniel Windham, Daniel Leithinger, Sean Follmer and Hiroshi Ishii published a new paper called “Kinetic Blocks - Actuated Constructive Assembly for lnteraction and Display” and introduced a much more advanced sucessor: Kinetic Blocks.

Pin-based shape displays not only give physical form to digital information, they have the inherent ability to accurately move and manipulate objects placed on top of them. In this paper we focus on such object manipulation: we present ideas and techniques that use the underlying shape change to give kinetic ability to otherwise inanimate objects. First, we describe the shape display’s ability to assemble, disassemble, and reassemble structures from simple passive building blocks through stacking, scaffolding, and catapulting. A technical evaluation demonstrates the reliability of the presented techniques. Second, we introduce special kinematic blocks that are actuated and sensed through the underlying pins. These blocks translate vertical pin movements into other degrees of freedom like rotation or horizontal movement. This interplay of the shape display with objects on its surface allows us to render otherwise inaccessible forms, like overhangs, and enables richer input and output.

Still mindblowing. Can’t wait for the first consumer devices. See more of the kinetic blocks in the video below:

[Kinetic Blocks] [paper]

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Ideas for AEON. 

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This floating greenhouse may be the future of our food

Composed of a wood and plastic dome and a base of recycled plastic drums, the Jellyfish Barge is a floating greenhouse that desalinates seawater to irrigate and grow plants. Mimicking the natural phenomenon of the water cycle, one solar panel located by the base of the barge heats up the salted or polluted water and makes it evaporate, turning it into 150 liters per day of clean, fresh water. This water gets recycled over and over into a hydroponic system, which allows crops to grow in an inert bed of clay enriched by mineral nutrients.

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Ideas for the food section in the magazine AEON. 

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First two pages of our magazine!!! Photos by Laura and layout design by me

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More :^)

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First cover ideas for magazine, think it needs to be brighter in colour and very simple design…

(more to come…)

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Possible (?) Cover for our thingy

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Marco Fusinato

Image 1.

Bia, 2010 UV and indian ink on Fabriano Artistico 300gsm paper 232 × 324 cm (framed)

Image 2.

Escapism has its price The artist has his income, 2010 UV and indian ink on Fabriano Artistico 300gsm paper 232 × 324 cm (framed)

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Publication Concept

Rapidly advancing technology will continue ever more rapidly. According to Bill Mitchell, the late director of MIT’s Smart Cities research group, cities of the future won’t look like “some sort of science-fiction fantasy,” but it’s likely that"discreet, unobtrusive" technological advances and information overlays will change how we live in significant ways. Charles Ebinger, Director of the Energy Security Initiative at the Brookings Institution also thinks that by 2050 we will also have a so-called “smart grid” where all of our appliances are linked directly to energy distribution systems, allowing for real-time pricing based on supply and demand.

http://bigthink.com/the-voice-of-big-think/what-will-life-be-like-in-2050  

- retro future (neo-classicism) - neo marxism 

- simplistic of both built up and depletion of the environment and society

- form of trade between artists and others

- Material conditions - mass production (clothing)

4 artist written works

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Kristen Martincic 

Image 1 

skin suits monotype on matsuo kozo & inshu mitsumata, stitching, dimensions variable, 2012, photo: Tom Ferris

Image 2 

Yellow Shirt

Woodcut on Mulberry, stitching, 25x24x1/8, unfolded 2013

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Group Pic

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Marx's theory of history

The Marxist theory of historical materialism sees human society as fundamentally determined at any given time by the material conditions—in other words, the relationships which people have with each other in order to fulfil basic needs such as feeding, clothing, and housing themselves and their families.[1][need quotation to verify] Overall, Marx and Engels claimed to have identified five successive stages of the development of these material conditions in Western Europe.[citation needed] In contrast to many of his followers, Marx made no claim to have produced a master key to history, but rather considered his work a concrete study of the actual conditions that pertained in Europe. As he put it, historical materialism is not “an historico-philosophic theory of the marche generale imposed by fate upon every people, whatever the historic circumstances in which it finds itself.”[2]

Stages

Private property The stages of history Primitive communism Slave society Feudalism Capitalism Socialism Communism

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marx%27s_theory_of_history

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