Filed under: ****GO*******, architecture, art, exhibition, ideas, performance, technology, temporary, urbanism
It’s back! Info from Artangel below..
Photo: Courtesy Corvi-Mora, London
SEIZURE, sculptor Roger Hiorns’s brilliant blue crystal cave within a low-rise modernist development re-opens this summer on a housing estate near the Elephant & Castle. Over the course of several weeks, Hiorns encouraged the total crystal takeover of a one bedroom council flat. Blue copper sulphate crystals have grown over every surface of the space – walls, ceilings, floor and bath – to create a strange and compelling new world. SEIZURE, Hiorns’ first major sculptural project in an urban site, has earned him a nomination for this year’s Turner Prize.
Thursday – Saturday 11am – 7pm
Sundays 11am – 5pm
Closed Monday – Wednesday
FREE ADMISSION
For further information see artangel.org.uk SEIZURE is commissioned by Artangel and the Jerwood Charitable Foundation
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
Having read, and loved, his book ‘ The Laws of Simplicity’ (MIT Press, 2006), I’m looking forward to learning more truths from ‘the first spaceman in cyberspace’ in Maeda’s first UK exhibition… More info at www.riflemaker.org/s-Riflemaker%20becomes%20Indica and www.maedastudio.com
10:00am – 6:00pm (closed on Sundays)
Riflemaker, 9 Beak Street, London, W1F
Between the hours of 4pm and 6pm John Maeda provides his Infinity Wi-Fi (TM) for your exclusive use at Riflemaker. Take a seat in the sunshine on our window bench, bring your laptops and log on. Maeda’s IWF is karmic. It’s an emulsive, benign, green-digital, triple-Alpha signal and ’simple’ to use. Connection is automatic and free. Password: ‘Telstar’.
After talking our way in to UNESCO, without having booked an appointment 3 months in advance, we practically had free reign in the organsation’s Parisienne headquarters. The retro internal telephone booths and tight security in this impressive interior felt like a 1960’s time capsule and we were lucky enough to come across this loom brought over from China by the Nanjing Yunjin (Brocade) Research Institute. Other discoveries included Picasso’s abandoned mural, and Moore’s reclining figure sculpture seemingly forgotten amongst temporary looking offices constructed on top of and around the work.
More info on Nanjing Yunjin (Brocade) Research Institute at their website www.njyunjin.com
‘..a very complicated technology, actually a creative designing process of stored pattern programs with silk thread as basic material. The designer is required not only to display the delicate pattern changes on each thread according to fabrics specification requirements and calculated results of detailed dimensions in inch, centimeter, millimeter, etc., but also to unify the miscellaneous colors to the maximum, so as to compile a program file that the weavers can read and work on the looms.’
More info on UNESCO at www.unesco.org
