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| REVIEW. DESIGN FICTIONS All MADE UP and no where to go - Archinect Posted: REVIEW. MADE UP: DESIGN FICTIONS eric chavkin All MADE UP and no where to go MADE UP: DESIGN FICTIONS is Art Center's new group exhibit surveying recent boundary bending design projects. The common link among the three dozen or so speculative works is an awareness of, and reaction to, 'the accelerating developments in technology'. Before I arrived I was expecting some pretentious art scene mostly because the exhibit categories seemed half-organized in hyped hipster-speak: GET REAL, FAKING IT, AS IF: MADE BELIEF; IN YOUR DREAMS. LIES. Instead there was music to listen to and not talk. Always the outsider I instinctively pulled back from jumping in and listened first to the ambient sounds , later to passerby talk. The space was brightly lit, and I got to watch the gallery goers. Drone…. …Drrrrooooonnnne…. Drrrrronnnnnne….Dddddrroonnnnne…. waves of sound to be with yourself. The high brisk sky was pricked with stars. Drrrrrrone…. drrrroooonnne ….. The colder court space was more what I was into at the moment. Drrrrroooonnnnn as in moan. My spell was broken when curator Tim Durfee spotted my friend and enthusiastically described his installation. I backed off and listened. "This is a giant interactive scanner" I summarize: … embedded on the suspended frame are an array of 24 mini-cameras recording and transmitting multi-image projecting of the opening event in real time. There are outputs for printing, plotting and online. This I gathered is what it was all about. Drone. From the distance I was at the installation looked good. The always positive Craig Hodgetts congratulated Durfee. I said from outside the work looked looked 'elegant'. Silence. Wrong comment. Duct tape is never elegant. The large suspended installation by Durfee centers the exhibition space out-doing most all of the other art. At almost thirty-feet (unfolded) the folded vertical frame of woven tubing is a half-open (or half-closed) book. It successfully fills a very tall and awkward space. The rough and ready installation design is all off-the–shelf fasteners, tubing, and duct tape. As my friend says, tubing is the new 2x4. This was the most impressive part of the exhibit. The new technologies that are not specifically mentioned are present as variations and permutations of software-based and miniaturized design. Some projects speculate on the possibilities and all are described as fictions. So every picture tells story as Rod Stewart sings so if you seen it before pass on to the next. There were a lot of 'I seen THAT before' comments. I was hoping for some arty interactive video linked with the scan, something like face recognition linked to Facebook profiles or DMV records or something equally intrusive.. That would be something. But I was disappointed. It was like getting all dressed up and nowhere to go. I think the idea was better than the outcome and this is a work in progress. This was more like a contemporary overview and for me there was not much in ground-breaking design or mind-bending concepts. Highlights for me were Perry Kulper's works and Benjamin Bratton's word vortex Plastic Futures Markets. It was good to see a few of Coy Howard's hand-to-mouse renderings exhibited again and kids liked playing with the Macs that were there for the software based projects. As I mentioned the suspended installation by Tim Durfee was the best piece. The exhibit is on until March 20. Wind Tunnel Gallery Janurary 29 – March 20, 2011 This entry passed through the Full-Text RSS service — if this is your content and you're reading it on someone else's site, please read our FAQ page at fivefilters.org/content-only/faq.php |
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