FABRIC Project by Stéphanie Baechler

FABRIC Project by Stéphanie Baechler_

"Starting point for my project are formations, shapes and material combinations that result from the rather accidental than conscious every day actions of human life. I was inspired by curtains, fabric pleats, plastic bags, fabrics that happened to be spread on the floor, wrapped objects and creased blankets. The sheer fascination that fabric drapery can evoke! I was equally absorbed by mass production of clothes, their usage (consumption) and wastage." See more;

"Realising this project I am interested in various approaches: Paper or fabric installations in 3D, the processing into a two dimensional pieces of fabric and the creation of a textile object that turns into a symbiosis of 3D and 2D.

First I produced installations using plain coloured fabrics. The guidelines for my formations were the above mentioned pleats and colour moods (ranges). I printed these onto fabric. This lead to a new perception (point of view) of the different composed pieces of fabric.

Working on these installations an idea struck me. To new shapes, away from rolls of fabric! The fashion designer receives fabric objects and not just rolled up fabric! No yard goods! The designer’s challenge is to use these new conditions to create something new." - Stéphanie Baechler.

A pair of scissors and a model show a possible realisation of that idea;

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Yuan Xiaofang

"Yuan Xiaofang was born in Wuhan , China , 1961. Yuan graduated from Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in 1986, and currently teaches at the institute. Yuan cleverly transfers abstract culture into sensible and concrete images, along with combining psychological statement that is much subtle and complex. Elements in the painting come from objects in our real life, but its painting method and expression tone is light and fascinating. By tempting viewers with material satisfaction, Yuan constructs his acknowledgment on culture’s deficiencies." See more;

"In 1986 Yuan Xiaofang graduated from the Hubei Institute of Fine Arts in Wuhan. In the early 1990s, he began to use pop art when he was working on his series Flying Pan (the paintings published in this post are from the series called "New World", which were made in 2007-2008 using oil on canvas. The vertical formats are around 150 x 200 cm). These paintings show bombers on orange or yellow skies flying above green mountains and waters. In the historical context, the green mountains and waters have become a sign of the Chinese, traditional culture. The bombers painted by Yuan Xiaofang are a symbol for the western, modern culture that is committing aggression and expansion to the Chinese tradition and culture.

Glass flower in blossom is another famous series of the artist. The pinkish paintings show landscapes, bodies or commercial objects in a digital three dimentional, glossy optic. The painted objects and actors seem to be made of glass and therefore evoke a cold atmosphere. Yuan Xiaofang refers to the public view and ideology of fast capitalist consumption." - ArtMuseum

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catwithstring.info by Alejandro Crawford

catwithstring.info is a piece created by poet and video artist Alejandro Crawford. I really like the color palette and the glitchy aesthetics he got using hacked kinect + computer + max/msp/jitter, from a cat playing with string. See more;

See full video at catwithstring.info

Idan Hayosh

Loving these symmetrical installations by Idan Hayosh. See more;

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Just Chairs by Michael Kluver

Just Chairs is the name of the latest work of Michael Kluver. It is an altered chair series from modernist design classics. All pushed back into the simple archetypal form, all of them now are dominated by simple ergonomic dimensions. Same seating height, seating width, seating depth, overall height, and angle of the backrest. See more;

"Do we need to produce more new stuff every year? Isn't it time to slow down and look for quality and context again? A chair is for sitting. It sounds simple enough right? The original designers of these morphed chairs searched for a way of living and had an overall vision of how life should be. Over the years their designs however were ripped completely out of context and became expensive designer objects. Let us restore context again. Let them be just chairs again." - Michael Kluver

 In the following order; Eames, Rietveld and Breuer.

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Senseless Drawing Bot

Senseless Drawing Bot is a collaboration project + installation created by So Kanno and Takahiro Yamaguchi. Metal Works Supported by Hitto Asai. 

"This work takes advantage of the chaotic motion of the double pendulum, drawing an abstract and dynamically line in real time using a spray. It is a self-generated drawing machine. Consisting in a double pendulum, a motorized skateboard modified to determine the orientation of the pendulum by the rotary encoder attached to the fulcrum of the pendulum. Its operation is simple. In this work, has been recognized worldwide as an expression of modern "graffiti" in the act of graffiti called to eliminate the claims and the human body, by extracting the dynamism dwells in the rendering process to mimic the act. And improvisational, may sign, by presenting only the aspect of elements such as vandalism, explores the nature of this act where it is integrated, tries to connect to a new interpretation." - So Kanno. See more;

More photos about the exhibition here, about the making of here.

A device for "Graffiti"

I also liked this another previous similar work by Takahiro Yamaguchi which took place last April at Tokyo Wonder Site Hongo as part of the exhibition "Tokyo Story".

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Sustained Contemplation Offset

"Sustained Contemplation Offset" by maya.rouvelle_
"It is a floor piece made of two LCD monitors [one mounted vertically, and one mounted horizontally - the horizontal monitor was rescued and brought back to use by us for the show], a PTZ (pan-tilt-zoom) security camera, two mac minis, and custom software. In this work, the vertical monitor is displaying a screen saver called flurry, which we made some subtle changes to. a PTZ security camera is positioned in front of the vertical LCD monitor and programed to track the movement of flurry on the screen. The PTZ is focused tightly on the screen saver. The live feed from the camera is fed into custom software that filters the incoming stream and shows the images that it selects in a varying rhythm on the recycled/specially adapted horizontal lcd." see more;

About maya.rouvelle_ 

"We are Lili Maya and James Rouvelle. Our projects combine robotics, custom optics, sound, the handmade, and the digitally programmed into site conditioned systems that take in sensor data and respond to the surrounding environment by generating sonic and/or visual art.

We are interested in presenting the subtle yet substantial way in which environmental phenomena actively shape and influence experience. Our process is guided by concepts of experimentation, discovery and improvisation that allow for unique, dynamic, feedback based systems to emerge as we work closely within environmental conditions on site"

Trombe

Trombe is a collaboration project of Patrick Saint-Denis and Patrick Beaulieu. 

"Trombe is part of a suite of pieces for solo instrument and automated objects. These works are about developing a relationship between an object from the real world (a bird feather, a signal lamp, etc.) and a solo instrument using different technological tools ranging from live video and audio processing to simple robotics. The interactions between the objects and the instruments are oriented in order to have the multiple significations of the objects “transfer” themselves on the music. In this work, a special attention is given to the spatial qualities of the video projection by integrating the performer inside of it. Finally, a trombe in French is a very active storm carrying large amount of water." See more;

Performer, Geneviève Deraspe

Entity by Killian Loddo

Entity by Killian Loddo_ 

"From Identity to Entity is an autonomous publication following resulting from of a serie of photos. This publication blurs limits between commercial display, fashion photoshoot and art installation. The book is positionned as an inbetween object, playing around with the possibilities of the display of scarves and material all coming from inside rietveld academie. The book is edited on the thread of a love story, staged and verry directed but partly unfinished, a love for composition, manipulation of shapes, objects, visuals and a physical retained tension with the model. It is the expression of momentary passions and, the assertion of interests staged in a glass case, and the begining of an identity and landscape for my collections of scarves." - Killian Loddo. See more;

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Photographs by Killian Loddo and Cem Demirci.

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