Filed under: ****GO*******, architecture, film & video, talk/ lecture, urbanism
Architecture on Film
In The Pit (En El Hoyo)
28 September 2009 6.30pm 
In The Pit (En El Hoyo)
Winner of Best International Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival, this intimate and affecting look at the construction crew behind Mexico City’s Periferico Freeway charts the social reality at the core of over 10 miles of soaring reinforced concrete. Through objectively compassionate portaits of a miscellaeny of characters such as the wolf-whistling El Voyeur and the brusquely realist El Grande, the film charts the coarse life and camaraderie of the workers involved in the creation of a huge slab of the city, both floating in the air and submerged in the pit. The private life of urban infrastructure envisioned through a uniquely personal take on direct cinema, full of humour and grace.
Mexico 2006, Dir Juan Carlos Rulfo, 84 min
Trailer:
This screening will be introduced by Gareth Jones, Senior Lecturer at the London School of Economics and an Associate Fellow at the Institute for the Study of the Americas.
Tickets
£7.50 online
(£9.50 full price)
AF Members
£6.50 online
(£7.50 full price)
Concessions £7.50
Telephone
020 7638 8891
(9am-8.00pm)
Venue
Filed under: ****GO*******, architecture, art, book/ magazine, design, exhibition, symposium, talk/ lecture, urbanism
Conrad Shawcross
Space Trumpet, 2005
Birch ply, copper brackets, rivets washers , varnish
8.5 m x 5m x 5m
from: http://www.bartlett.ucl.ac.uk/architecture/events/lectures/lectures.htm
6.30pm Wednesday 16 January 2008
Darwin Lecture Theatre, UCL
Gower Street
London WC1
CONRAD SHAWCROSS
Selected for the annual New Contemporaries show while barely out of college, Conrad Shawcross is in the vanguard of British art. His sculptures are Heath Robinson machines, large, complex structures that fuse science with art. With his early work snapped up by the Saatchi Gallery, international shows and public commissions are lining up well into the future.
Often using subjects which lie on the border of science and philosophy, Conrad Shawcross’s structural and often mechanical sculptures, question empirical, ontological and philosophical systems ubiquitious within our lives. While at first appearing rational and functional, his often complex mechanised systems in the end deny all rational function and so the viewer is forced down philosophical and metaphysical avenues to deduce a ‘rasion d’etre’. From early works such as The Nervous System, 2002 – a monumental spinning machine that endlessly weaves a length of coloured rope into the form of a double helix, the shape of DNA – to his recent giant spiral work Continuum, 2004, the artist has attempted to visualize, among other things, the incomprehensible of human concerns, time.
Conrad Shawcross
Binary Star, 2006
mixed media
dimensions variable
Video from the conference is now online http://www.youtube.com/profile?user=UrbanAge
Filed under: architecture, book/ magazine, education, film & video, talk/ lecture, urbanism
lecture by MIT’s..
William J. Mitchell
Alexander W. Dreyfoos Professor of Architecture and Media Arts and Sciences
Director, Smart Cities research group, MIT Media Lab
Mitchell talks about his book covering topics such as ‘the death of particular architectures’ (phone boxes) due to new wireless technologies..
http://mitworld.mit.edu/video/170/
also….
iTunes have quietly launched iTunes U in the U.S. where you can access free lectures from American Universities, including David Lynch’s ‘Consciousness, Creativity and the Brain’.
Should be interesting!
Details below from the ICA’s website: www.ica.org.uk
Cult of the Amateur, Andrew Keen
25 June 2007
Andrew Keen, Silicon Valley pioneer turned Web 2.0 contrarian, comes to The Club at the ICA to argue that the Web 2.0 revolution is killing our culture and undermining our economy. His controversial book, The Cult of the Amateur, seeks to expose the economic, ethical and social dangers of a digital culture where author and audience are one and the same – a culture, Keen argues, where genuine talent and expert opinion is lost in the glut of “user generated nonsense”. Is Britannica indeed superior to Wikipedia? Is it that YouTube and Myspace contain few gleaming gems in a deluge of junk composed by no more than cynical PR firms and shameless self-promoters? Where plagiarism and piracy are rife, is our creative culture really at risk?
He will be in conversation with Bryan Appleyard, special feature writer for The Sunday Times, and author of The Culture Club: Crisis in the Arts, amongst others.
The talk will be followed by a drinks receptions and book-signing by the author.
£10 / £8 ICA Members / Free to ICA Club Members
RSVP essential for Club Members: sionparkinson@ica.org.uk
Filed under: education, talk/ lecture, wanted to go but didn't.. (or couldn't!)
Discovering the Bartlett’s Architecture listing was a memorable moment.. You choose to subscribe to a monthly or weekly newsletter which will keep you posted on their events, some of which are free! Unfortunately, I’m going to be away for this one, so would be very interested to hear from anybody who was able to attend…
6.30 – 8.00pm Thursday 24 May 2007
Reynolds Room, Royal Academy, W1
The Royal Academy of Arts Architecture Programme: RA Forum
Anxious Landscapes: Spaces of Abandonment and Decay
Speakers examine “anxious landscapes” which represent a new kind of urban form in the post-industrial city. It explores how and why formerly productive spaces associated with the industrial metropolis have faded from collective consciousness and are no longer an integral part of the “social imaginary” of the contemporary city. How are we to make sense of these wastelands and urban arcadias? Do we need to expand our concept of landscape to encompass these spaces? London based American artist, Ian Monroe, Ben Campkin, Lecturer in Architectural History and Theory at the Bartlett School of Architecture, and Vittoria Di Palma, Assistant Professor in Modern European architectural history, are the confirmed speakers. Matthew Gandy, co-ordinator of the UCL Urban Laboratory will chair the event.
£7/£4 students (incl. drink). To book tickets call 020 7300 5839.
The Bartlett Architecture Listing is an informal round-up of information relating to architecture in general and architectural history and theory in particular. The listing is issued in two formats:
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If you wish to be added to the mailing list, please send an email with “subscribe architecture” in the subject heading to: archlist@ucl.ac.uk
Filed under: design, education, festival/feria, talk/ lecture, wanted to go but didn't.. (or couldn't!)
The School of Art and Design Kassel had an impressive array of work at Milan, one of my favourite pieces was the ‘Grat, foldable loungechair’ although I overheard designer, Arne Amtsfeld commenting that you could ’store it, hanging up on the wall’ I think I would have preferred to see the chair as adaptable floor tiles which could be randomly resurrected… Practical? Possibly not.
JOACHIM SCHMID – SELECTED PHOTOWORKS 1982 – 2007
at The Photographer’s Gallery until 17th June
http://www.photonet.org.uk
Photogenetic Draft #32, 1991
Part of the curious FOUND exhibitions currently at the Photographer’s Gallery. Have a look at Schmid’s blog which includes what looks like most of his collection if you can’t make it to the exhibition.. http://schmid.wordpress.com
Dazed digital have an interview with Schmid at the gallery, just click on the link http://www.dazeddigital.com/broadcast/
If you’d rather meet him in the flesh, The Photographer’s Gallery are putting on an event – ‘Joachim Schmid in conversation with Steven Bull’ on Wed, 16th May @ 1900. Admission £5.00/£3.50 concs
FOUND, SHARED: THE MAGAZINE PHOTOWORK
Until 17th June.
Includes displays from Ohio Magazine (www.ohiomagazine.de) and Found Magazine (www.foundmagazine.com). Look out for the books near the entrance, particularly the family dalmatian, and non-identical twin copies.
Fax your own ‘found’ images to +44 (20) 7836 9704 to be added to the gallery exhibition!
Future exhibition related free events:
Wed 23rd May, 1900 – Fash ‘n’ Riot magazine ‘Making issue #4′ Participate in an on-site production line.
Thurs 24th May, 1900 – Discussion with Reza Aramesh, curator of the Centrefold magazine project.
Wed 6th June, 1900 – Guerilla Show: Screening of new video works by contributors to Next Level magazine. http://www.nextleveluk.com/
Monday 11th June, 1900 – ‘Peeling Onions’ with Implicasphere magazine, a discussion and invitation to contribute to their new issue.
