[NetBehaviour] V&A Digital Programmes | Architecting ‘On The Fly’

[Irini-Mirena Papadimitriou]

Hello all
The next Digital Futures session at the V&A is taking place on Tuesday 12th November and we are presenting Architecting ‘On The Fly’ with the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture, Teletopia by Artemis Papageorgiou and Stratos Bichakis and an installation by Jeni Maleshkova.Also, on Saturday 16th November, the pop up Digital Design Drop-in is back with Rachel Harding's extraordinary 3D printed vases. Hope to see you there.Best wishesIrini
Digital FuturesTuesday 12 November, 11.00-16.00 Digital Studio, Sackler CentreFree, Drop-in, no booking required
Digital Futures is an open studio showcase presenting groundbreaking new work and offering a space for students and other participants to share work and ideas, but also a platform to network and nurture discussion and future collaborations. In this session we will be presenting Architecting ‘On The Fly’ with the Architectural Association (AA) School of Architecture, as well as Teletopia by Artemis Papageorgiou and Stratos Bichakis and an installation by Jeni Maleshkova.
Architecting ‘On The Fly’ is a collection of recent and ongoing students’ works done at the AA’s Undergraduate School Media Studies (AAMS) and the Graduate School Interprofessional Studio (AAIS), both which have consistently been experimenting with real-time interactive and performative technologies/materials, as a means to speculate other forms of architectural design processes and productions. Visitors are invited to watch/play with these ‘architectural apparatus’ and speak to the participating AA tutors/students during the open studio showcase. 
The AA Media Studies (AAMS) helps students to develop skills in traditional forms of architectural representation as well as today’s most experimental forms of information and communication technology. These selected work-in-progress projects derived solely from the computer-vision based courses run by Immanuel Koh. Projects featured here include real-time creation/manipulation of 3d-printable architectural geometries with gesture tracking using X-Box Kinect & LeapMotion Sensors, distortions of architectural perspective projections with Face-Tracking algorithms using OpenCV, combinatorial permutation of architectural exteriority/interiority with Augmented Reality (AR) using Webcam and paper AR markers, synchronizing spatial orientation and sound composition with custom-designed Mobile App using smartphones, as well as, many many other projects.  All projects are developed using open-source creative coding platform such as Processing (Java) and openFrameworks (C++).
The AA Interprofessional Studio (AAIS), run by Theo Lorenz and Tanja Siems, is a post-professional course leading to a Post-Graduate Diploma in Spatial Performance and Design. Functioning as a creative office, the course explores alternative forms of collaboration between the multiple creative professions through the research, conception, design and implementation/production of a series of genre-defying spatial performances and constructions.
Participating Current AA Tutors: Immanuel Koh (AAIS & AAMS), Theo Lorenz (AAIS)
Participating Current AA Students: Krists Ernstsons, Daria Igorevna Gavrilova, Isotta Cornacchia Biasion, Hye Rim Lee, Alessandro Magliani, Yibin Shen, William Wong, Jing Liang, Lubna Fakhry Castillo, Sylwia Niegodzisz, Motti Rauchwerger, Hadar Menkes.
Teletopia - Artemis Papageorgiou & Stratos BichakisDuring the session, Artemis Papageorgiou, will be running Teletopia, an experimental project about telecommunications and their ability to mediate landscape by exploring the archaeology of telecommunications and a futuristic scenario. In a surveilled world where communities need to encrypt information and pass it quickly to their community Teletopia allows to reach large groups of people by sending text messages through to light beacons installed on high-rise buildings or mountain slopes. At the V&A Digital Futures we will learn about and play with the software and hardware of Teletopia and will play a mini-game of encrypting and reading light messages.http://artemispapageorgiou.com/Tele-topia Artemis Papageorgiou is a multimedia artist and educator, working with open source technologies. Her practice explores the potential in simulation, systems thinking and interactivity within spatial experience, as well as the formation of landscapes. Her work spans from large-scale immersive environments to enhanced objects, with a focus in user-participation. Stratos Bichakis is a Greek new media artist using sound and light in his performances and installations. He has a scientific and artistic interest in data visualisation and sonification. His work explores the boundaries of artistic expression through cognitive perception.
Jeni MaleshkovaModern technology has changed art praxis through the last decades. As a result, the innovation potential in the context of media presentation and exhibition spaces design is very high. We believe that artworks should be displayed in a way that engages the viewer and gives him/her impulses to reflect on a certain topic. Furthermore, our intention is to focus on the advantages that virtual reality offers for viewing and exploring paintings in a 3D space, rather than recreating a completely realistic environment, as we know it from common exhibition spaces.Jeni’s interactive application is built around five images of classical paintings that are all inspired by each other and are pieces of a story that the user is about to discover. You are enabled to navigate through a 3D scene, to explore various observation angles and to look from the artist’s perspective. In particular, you are challenged to find the exact viewpoint in the virtual space where the painter was positioned while painting. This project was developed in the scope of a placement project at the BBC Research and Development, Production Magic Section. Jeni Maleshkova is a PhD student at the Media and Arts Technology Programme at Queen Mary University of London. Her research path is strongly interdisciplinary, combining the fields of visual arts, design and media technology. Jeni holds a Bachelor Degree from the University of Karlsruhe, Germany in the field of History of Art and Multimedia. There she focused not only on classic and contemporary art, but also on media and the possibilities and opportunities that new technologies offer for art in general. She was involved in several projects organised by the Karlsruhe University of Arts and Design at the Centre of Art and Media Karlsruhe (ZKM). Jeni graduated with an M.A. (Hons) in Media Economics from the Stuttgart Media University (HdM). Her M.A. thesis concerned real and virtual presentation forms of visual artworks.
Digital Design Drop In: Rachel HardingSaturday 16 November, 13.00 – 16.00Sculpture gallery 21aFree, drop - in, no booking requiredFamily VasesChinese vases are famous for their distinctive colours. These vases are digital copies of Chinese antiques. Each 3D printed vase was created by taking the exact colour percentages from an original traditional vase. These colours were then converted into a gradient and colour 3D printed to form a new design.Vases created for Studio Droog 2013.Rachel Harding is a British designer working in London and Amsterdam. After graduating from the Royal College of Art, Rachel moved to the Netherlands to be an in-house designer at Droog. Rachel marries a realistic approach to product design with a fascination in technology and global systems. Combining research and observation, she produces conceptual designs with a strong sense of materiality and form. Rachel holds a bachelor’s degree from Cambridge University and a Master’sfrom the Royal College of Art. She currently has a studio in London, she runs a platform at the RCA, and she is developing products with multiple clients. Rachel has exhibited her independent work in the UK and internationally, and with Droog in London, Milan, Moscow and Guanzhou.www.rachelharding.co.uk, www.eatyellowcake.comnext session: Saturday 7 December: Immanuel Koh 		 	   		  
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