Alias Arts

“How do you make things?
You could lay out the process as a line. You start at one end with a bundle of goals and plans. As you work hard—designing, writing, rehearsing, or doing whatever else is required—you progress along the line. At some point, you get to the end, with a product, a novel, a [...]

Declan Shaw’s of Interactive Installation, Bird Soundscapes incorporate a dynamic three dimensional acoustic environment of birdsong which perform accelerated diurnal cycles. Individual ‘birds’ occupy positions in space, which move about in birdlike patterns and also reacting to the movement of the inhabitants. This is accompanied by a coloured light cycle which denotes the times of [...]

The Royal College of Art Show opened last week with some excellent work which no doubt wmmna will cover in depth. One project I particularly enjoyed was Tom Foulsham, an ex-Bartlett graduate and now graduate of the RCA’s Design Products programme.

In some ways Tom’s work could be compared to Heath Robinson’s imagined machines and [...]

I first saw Jimenez Lai’s work when it was presented at Materials & Applications in LA. Finally he’s put together a website so I thought I’d cover 2 recent pieces of his work. Jimenez describes his work as an exploration of “hypothetical scenarios of experimental architecture. By pressing alternate conditions against our context, the projects [...]

It’s that time of the year and the Bartlett Summer Show begins today. Over 450 students are showing innovative drawings, models, devices, texts, animations and installations. I find it usually takes a few visits to absorb everything.
Location
Main Quadrangle and Slade Galleries of UCL, Gower St, London WC1
Official show opening by Massimiliano Fuksas
Friday 26 June, 19.00
Exhibition [...]

I just got back from Lisbon where I saw, amongst other things, the Gulbenkian Museum. Ok… it has very little to do with interactive architecture, but I was so inspired by it that I decided to write about it anyway.
The thing that really struck me walking through the museum was the balance throughout. I don’t mean in [...]

I don’t usually advertise jobs on the blog but this is an opportunity to work with the Bartlett Interactive Architecture Workshop! Its a 2 year position and available for the right candidate at £22K PA plus £4K benefits. You need to be an architecture or design engineering graduate, preferably with experience of detail design [...]

Scheduled to open October 2009, Asymptote Architecture’s YAS hotel in Abu Dhabi is currently nearing completion. Based in NYC, Asymptote are known for their work at the crossroads of Art and Architecture.
Yes, that’s a formula 1 racetrack you can see in front of the hotel in the image below.

The grid-shell encompassing the hotel complex consists [...]

“Body Paint” by Mehmet Akten made using openFrameworks.
InteractiveArchitecture.org is pleased to announce a free public OpenFrameworks Workshop on 13th – 14th June 2009 lead by Mehmet Akten, Marek Bereza and Joel Gethin Lewis and hosted by University College London’s MSc Adaptive Architecture & Computation Programme.

“Lights On” audio visual performance driven by openFrameworks created [...]