Thursday, November 12, 2015, posted by kvr.
Also tonight is the book launch of Parallel Lines Cross at Infinity at our friends at Do You Read Me?! – the first comprehensive catalogue of sorts of the work of Carsten Nicolai, our very first cover star. Covering the last decade plus, it offers a detailed and encompassing overview of Nicolai’s continued interest in the meeting points between fine art, sound and science. Needless to say, it’s utterly beautiful.
Carsten Nicolai: parallel lines cross at infinity
12. November 2015 / 18 Uhr
do you read me?!
Auguststrasse 28
10117 Berlin (Mitte)
Thursday, November 12, 2015, posted by tw.
Today, 12.11.2015, 19 h:
ARCH+ FEATURES 42: OPEN FORM
Lecture and film screening
With Axel Wieder and Florian Zeyfang
KW Institute for Contemporary Art
Auguststrasse 69, 10117 Berlin
The concept of the “Open Form”, initially formulated by Polish architect Oskar Hansen (1922–2005) at the XI. CIAM congress in Otterlo, NL, became hugely influential as an early example of participatory and indeterminate thinking. Through Hansen’s work as a professor at the Warsaw Academy of Fine Arts, it transgressed the limits of architecture and was further developed by young artists and experimental filmmakers in Poland in the 1970s. On the occasion of the publication Open Form – Space, Interaction, and the Tradition of Oskar Hansen (Sternberg Press), Axel Wieder and Florian Zeyfang will introduce the history of the Open Form and show a selection of films from Hansen’s former students that focus on spatial pedagogies.
Photo: Oskar Hansen at the AICA congress in Wroclaw, 1975, photo: S. Stepniewski, courtesy of Igor Hansen
Tuesday, November 10, 2015, posted by kvr.
Last weekend, the New York Times Magazine, ever worth watching and recently in the hands of art director Matt Willey – who also designed our issue with Chris Ware – forayed into new territories of virtual reality. The issue came with Google’s cardboard VR viewer that you can slide your smartphone into to access a virtual reality animation leading you into the world of three refugee children, whose biographies form the content of the magazine. A feature that works surprisingly well according to magCulture – or see for yourself. Gimmick or the future of print? Time will tell, but for now an interesting experiment with expanding the borders of print reportage.
Monday, November 9, 2015, posted by kvr.
Feeling in a Grizzly Bearish mood today. Where is that new album?
Friday, November 6, 2015, posted by gk.
From bio art to experimental music SPEKTRUM is covering a range of different ideas. On Friday November 6th, the space will be hosting musician, sound artist Ame Zek and composer, musician Brendan Dougherty. Dougherty, who has been collaborating with influential names in Berlin contemporarty dance scene such as Meg Stuart, will perform a solo from his upcoming LP ‘Sensate’ on Entr’Acte records. Get ready for nerdy music talks about ‘analog synthesis, digital sequencing / manipulation and traditional instruments’ or ’sound waves and LFO modulator’…
AME ZEK & BRENDAN DOUGHERTY #63
06.11.2015
Doors: 19.00 // Concert: 20.00
SPEKTRUM art_technology_community
Bürknerstr. 12
12047 Berlin
Wednesday, November 4, 2015, posted by kvr.
Dutch design company senz° have reinvented the umbrella as we know it: redesigning its basic shape along the the laws of aerodynamics and refining countless little details, senz° umbrellas are storm-proof and strikingly handsome.
For its new and fashionable offspin senz6, mono.studio revised the brand’s approach to their image campaign and lookbook. We developed a contemporary language for the product images by merging urban landscapes and fashion imagery into dizzying photocollages.
Art Direction / mono.studio
Creative Direction / Yosuke Nishiumi
Photography / Kai von Rabenau
Styling / Kamilla Richter
Tuesday, November 3, 2015, posted by kvr.
‘Planet Books is your local cult and culture book shop,’ it reads on their website where they emphasise their categories for Humour, Science Fiction and Tattoo. Indeed, the bookstore at the end of the world, namely Perth, Western Australia, looks like one of those jumbled, chaotic little treasure troves stacked to the ceiling with rare and odd books about motorbikes or fetish erotica. On the other hand, it’s in those places where you find the best surprises, such as lovely mono.kultur – Planet Books were the first to introduce Australia to the pleasures of our little adventure in print, back in the days.
Planet Books
638 Beaufort Street
Mount Lawley, 6050
Perth
Australia
Sunday, November 1, 2015, posted by sr.
Recently transplanted to London from their native Sydney, Fjura has taken residency at The Garden Edit and are providing their unique style of floral gestures for delivery within London.
Wednesday, October 28, 2015, posted by gk.
Trick or treat? Better be a shaman for this year’s Halloween party as it is a pagan tradition. Well, say, checking the last runway show of Rick Owens might help as well!
Wednesday, October 28, 2015, posted by kvr.
Back in 2012, we hosted a public viewing when Germany gloriously defeated Greece during the European Football Cup, aided among others by our friend Kohei Ito, who supplied some visuals relating soccer to graphic design. At the time, he already had plans to launch a magazine dedicated to football aesthetics, and three years later, we hold in our hands Shukyu.
Aptly launching on the theme of ‘roots’, the first issue of Shukyu is a visually immaculate collection of photographs, stories, graphics and ephemera around football culture. Leaving aside the usual blurb on athletes and personalities, it features beautiful photo essays on the architecture of football stadiums, a story on the origins of the Japanese Football Journal or Juergen Teller’s self-documentation of his football fandom. Unfortunately, it is entirely in Japanese, but then again, images speak for themselves and visually already it is such a treat. Congratulations!
