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"A Woman and Her Islands - Nova Jiang’s “Archipelagos” Project at the 01SJ Biennial" by Patrick Lydon via Artshift

“But the islands aren’t just a personal refuge for Jiang; they represent feelings that each of us have from time to time, and by the artist’s design, they call for us to address these issues with interaction. Each asymmetrically shaped mobile island is fitted with it’s very own sand dune, out of which stick pens, and corked glass bottles with empty papers inside.”

Nice article by Patrick Lydon on Nova Jiang’s Archipelago at the 01SJ Biennial.

via Artshift

Mobile Shadow Projection Theater gets mobile

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Follow the Mobile Shadow Projection Theater’s bike / performance to Duluth online.

“Mobile Shadow Projection (MSP) Theater’s balloon balloon balloon, balloon balloon follows the story of a single balloon released from a human hand. The aim of the project is to take a mobile theatre experience on a 2-week tour, across Minnesota, via bicycle. Following a route from Minneapolis to Duluth, MSP Theater will stop at several campgrounds, schools and recreational family sites in order to bring live, free, interactive puppetry theatre to children and families. This blog will chronicle the experience, set to take place August 8-20, 2010.”

“A new approach to urbanity”

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Snuggles

Snuggle - das mobile Hotel

raumlaborberlin has a solution for temporary festival housing.

“Snuggles was
designed by Berlin-based Raumlabor, which says that it is not an architecture firm, but rather an interdisciplinary team interested in urbanism, and the study of public and private space. The modular system was intended for use as comfortable, safe housing for travelers to festivals, workshops, or other artistic events. Each unit features a three-sided pod with a window and tunnel access to a central pod with sanitary facilities.”

via Inhabitat

According to their website, raumlaborberlin began working on the issues of contemporary architecture and urbanism in 1999m, and in various interdisciplinary working teams they investigate strategies for urban renewal.

Eichbaumoper

Eichbaumoper

Eichbaumoper is Raumlabor’s vision for the transformation of the Eichbaum underground station between Mülheim and Essen where a new type of opera will be created in an on-site opera site office.

Spacebuster

Spacebuster

Spacebuster opens urban space for temporary collective uses.

“The Spacebuster is build on the basis of a step van and a big inflatable space coming out of the back of the van fitting up to 80 persons in it. People enter the bubble through the passenger’s door of the van walking through to the back down a ramp right into the inflated space. The bubble is supported by air pressure generated by a fan underneath the ramp. The membrane of the bubble is translucent so people on the inside can see schematically what´s going on outside and vice versa. So the membrane acts as a semi permeable border between the public and the more private.”

Stick On City

Stick on city, an imaginary landscape through which visitors can take a tour, then add their own vision by drawing in and simply sticking it into the city, was presented at the 11th biennale of architecture, venice. In part it was a response to a visit to raumlabor by Archigramist Dennis Crompton, who talked about

“the scrapyard of visions, the city as responsive system, interactive buildings, good intentions, imaginary cities and the art of architecture that cannot fail.”

“A new approach to urbanity”

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Snuggles

Snuggle - das mobile Hotel

raumlaborberlin has a solution for temporary festival housing.

“Snuggles was
designed by Berlin-based Raumlabor, which says that it is not an architecture firm, but rather an interdisciplinary team interested in urbanism, and the study of public and private space. The modular system was intended for use as comfortable, safe housing for travelers to festivals, workshops, or other artistic events. Each unit features a three-sided pod with a window and tunnel access to a central pod with sanitary facilities.”

via Inhabitat

According to their website, raumlaborberlin began working on the issues of contemporary architecture and urbanism in 1999m, and in various interdisciplinary working teams they investigate strategies for urban renewal.

Eichbaumoper

Eichbaumoper

Eichbaumoper is Raumlabor’s vision for the transformation of the Eichbaum underground station between Mülheim and Essen where a new type of opera will be created in an on-site opera site office.

Spacebuster

Spacebuster

Spacebuster opens urban space for temporary collective uses.

“The Spacebuster is build on the basis of a step van and a big inflatable space coming out of the back of the van fitting up to 80 persons in it. People enter the bubble through the passenger’s door of the van walking through to the back down a ramp right into the inflated space. The bubble is supported by air pressure generated by a fan underneath the ramp. The membrane of the bubble is translucent so people on the inside can see schematically what´s going on outside and vice versa. So the membrane acts as a semi permeable border between the public and the more private.”

Stick On City

Stick on city, an imaginary landscape through which visitors can take a tour, then add their own vision by drawing in and simply sticking it into the city, was presented at the 11th biennale of architecture, venice. In part it was a response to a visit to raumlabor by Archigramist Dennis Crompton, who talked about

“the scrapyard of visions, the city as responsive system, interactive buildings, good intentions, imaginary cities and the art of architecture that cannot fail.”

iPhone app demoed at Art-A-Whirl

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[Recently Northern Lights and mnartists.org commissioned Abigail and Michael Mouw to produce an iPhone/iPod Touch application, which will allow anyone to present their views – visual and verbal – on art in the public sphere. We will blog more about this in the coming weeks, but in the meantime, Mike and Abby will be posting regular updates about their project.–mediachef]

Abigail + Michael Mouw (left) at Art-a-Whirl

Abigail + Michael Mouw (left) at Art-a-Whirl

We demonstrated ideas for our artists’ iPhone/iPod Touch app at Art-A-Whirl in Minneapolis, during the weekend of May 15-17. Approximately 35,000 artists and supporters attend this open studio event in the northeast warehouse district.

Artists iPhone app Goal

We are artists-in-virtual-residence at Northern Lights and mnartists.org, as both organizations are providing the virtual studio space that will allow us to create an iPhone/iPod Touch app. Our goal for the app is to connect artists and arts supporters in Minneapolis-St. Paul to public art in our area. We hope the app will allow users to identify their favorite public art, locate it on a map, and share thoughts and feelings with each other about the work. We hope to launch a free app through Apple’s iTunes store in spring 2010.

Feedback from Art-A-Whirl attendees

Art-A-Whirl was an excellent venue to discuss ideas around our app-in-progress. Our target audience of local artists and supporters were in attendance. They responded positively to the concept, and understood the wide appeal of an app that runs on the iPod Touch, which works on any wireless network, and doesn’t need a phone contract. The positive potential of the app for the local arts community was communicated through the informal front-end testing of our concept.