Archive for the ‘arts’ Category
Experimental Dialogues: Sex Machines
Tuesday, August 31, 2010 17:32 1 CommentCorrado Curti interviews Bryan Cantley, Professor of Design Theory at CSUF and owner of Form:uLA. Editorial coordination, Donatella Cusmà.
Looking at the works and drawings by L.A. based architect, professor and spatial orchestrator Bryan Cantley almost gives you the impression that you’re peeping through the keyhole of the architectural mise-en-scène of Jean Tardieu’s La serrure: right [...]
The role of art in placemaking
Thursday, August 26, 2010 16:50 3 CommentsIn a review of Urban Interventions - Personal Projects in Public Spaces, Regine Debatty of We Make Money Not Art writes that as well as being “surprising, fun and delightful” the publication also reveals how artists play an important role in placemaking. By bringing places alive the artwork featured in the book compels us [...]
The ‘Atlas of Rome’: gathering and sharing visions on cities
Tuesday, July 6, 2010 16:44 No CommentsThe ‘Atlas of Rome’, La Pelanda exhibition space Rome. Image vi Flickr
The Atlas of Rome is a 35mt long interactive video wall that visualizes life-size city data to the public. The project, developed by FakePress and curated by Paolo Valente, was launched by Art is Open Source at the exhibition space of La Pelanda [...]
‘Jardin Mandala’ by Gilles Clément: giving cities back to nature
Friday, June 4, 2010 17:08 3 CommentsMarcia Caines
JARDIN MANDALA, Gilles Clément, environmental art, PAV 2010, photo Mattia Boero
The Earth’s carrying capacity is finite, which means that in order to avoid an ecological overshoot society needs to create new social, economical and political models. Our current models are limited because they require the consumption of ever more resources to grow, while the [...]
Astoria Scum River Bridge: Geurrilla Urban Planning
Thursday, May 6, 2010 13:40 No CommentsThe Astoria Scum River Bridge created by urban artists Jason Eppink and Posterchild is an exemplary unauthorized city intervention.
The problem, Astoria Scum River, was a pool of filthy stagnant water, caused by a leaky pipe, which had been submerging a busy city pavement for over twenty years causing a hazard to pedestrians. Jason Eppink and [...]














