r-echos http://r-echos.net is an experimental online magazine dedicated to republication Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:32:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 en hourly 1 R-echoshttp://feedburner.google.comSubscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with Pageflakes BBC - Earth News - Ant mega-colony takes over world http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/R-echos/~3/jRAhA6TJ3FQ/ http://r-echos.net/2009/07/02/bbc-earth-news-ant-mega-colony-takes-over-world/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2009 08:31:02 +0000 j http://r-echos.net/?p=12938 While ants are usually highly territorial, those living within each super-colony are tolerant of one another, even if they live tens or hundreds of kilometres apart. Each super-colony, however, was thought to be quite distinct. But it now appears that billions of Argentine ants around the world all actually belong to one single global mega-colony. via BBC [...]

While ants are usually highly territorial, those living within each super-colony are tolerant of one another, even if they live tens or hundreds of kilometres apart. Each super-colony, however, was thought to be quite distinct.

But it now appears that billions of Argentine ants around the world all actually belong to one single global mega-colony.

via BBC - Earth News - Ant mega-colony takes over world.

Via Bruce Sterling

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“As soon as the sun disappears, we think that the day is over,” Haw said. “But the day is just starting in other places in the world. It’s continuously rising as we get further into twilight.”

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Atmos have been selected as one of the international artists for Smart Light Sydney, opening 26th may; 300,000 visitors are expected. http://www.weatherprojection.co.uk.

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* ALSO Alex is calling for participation with footage of the sun rising across the world at the moment it sets in Sydney.
They would love you to contribute a sequence of time-lapse photography showing the transition of daylight over the early hours of sunrise. We’re looking for beautiful examples of sequential interval photography - large numbers of well-composed still frames adequate to assemble into movies. They can send a detailed specification if you’re interested to get involved and join the community of solar chronographers.
http://www.weatherprojection.co.uk
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=88687060881&ref=mf

The installation is one of the major international projects for Smart Light Sydney. Smart Light Sydney is a celebration of innovation through light art, music and ideas events, happening across Sydney 26 May – 14 June. Smart Light Sydney is part of Vivid Sydney - the biggest international music and light festival in the Southern Hemisphere.
The project had a generous preview as the main representative of the festival in a large spread on page 3 of the Sydney Morning Herald, one of the major national newspapers. The initial media launch was extensively covered in the media. New Tang Dynasty TV broadcast their coverage to the entire world via 4 satellites, as well as to Sydney through free to air channel 31(TVS). The organisers anticipate 300,000 visitors – not counting any online presence.

The installation occupies the bandstand pavilion (100 years old this year) high up on Sydney’s Observatory Hill, adjacent to the Sydney Observatory. It has great views of the magnificent harbour and the Sydney Opera House below, of the stream of adjacent traffic flowing North over the Harbour Bridge - and of the sun, rising continually in the East, but originating, as image, in the West.
The project echoes the central historical role in both astronomy and meteorology once played by the adjacent observatory. It was made world-famous in the 1880s for its astronomical photographs, involved Sydney in one of the greatest international astronomy projects ever undertaken. It is now a working museum where evening visitors can observe the stars and planets through a modern 40 cm Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope and a historic 29cm refractor telescope built in 1874, the oldest telescope in Australia in regular use.

4 linked wide-angle projectors cast an ever-shifting series of melodious time-lapse movies showing the precise atmospheric phenomenon of the sun’s majestic rise, varying with every location and day. The central computer draws down distributed feeds from an ftp server and continuously fetches live satellite imagery. The individual instances of time-lapse photography are supplemented by high-res live cloud data of the Western Hemisphere drawn down at quarterly intervals from NASA satellites – a cloudy blanket momentarily interrupting and obscuring the sunlight. Real-time graphics offer an overlaid 5-handed polar clock displaying 6,12 and 24 hr hands sweeping across the entire image, fading momentarily into view as each new location is scanned and activated.

Each new solar projection is triggered at precisely the moment that the sun is rising – changing each day - in the location of its source footage. A timeline, generated each day anew from fluctuating solar data, intersperses time-lapse footage with satellite imagery, explanatory animations with chronological updates. A webcam sends it all back out to the world from which it came.
As Smart Light Sydney begins, the sun first hits landmass in remote north-eastern Canada and the eastern shores of Brazil, slowly sweeping across the Americas until its sole terrestrial glint is seen at the western tips of Alaska and a few sparse Pacific islands. This sparsity is infilled by a review of the evening – a final rapid uber-time-lapse playing back the whole evening’s activity, crescendoing at midnight.

The Sydney Morning Herald previewed the project on p.3, 6.5.09 as “Eternal sunshine of an artist’s creative mind”: http://www.smh.com.au/national/eternal-sunshine-of-an-artists-creative-mind-20090506-aveb.html

alex will be giving one of the keynote speeches:
http://vividsydney.com/smart-light-symposia/

http://www.weatherprojection.co.uk
http://vimeo.com/4725226
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bShTRErjRw&fmt=18

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Fageta is a graphic design studio based in Fribourg, Switzerland. Fageta works across various media: from books, posters, typefaces, identities and stationeries to signages and websites.

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Ratcatchers in Berkshire and Hampshire were the first to report that their poisons were no longer effective, which experts put down to increased immunity among the pests.

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TextFields is an investigation into the metaphysical worlds between text and space.

We are interested in the possible forces that text can generate within a spatial and formal context.

Exploring the sensual energy of unfocused and charged textual forms, we want to understand where do fonts and space lose their limits, where do they become forces and vectors in a field, and where this field is perceived as a field for the unfamiliar; a field without a perceived centre, a field where the inherent qualities of both are dismantled, where the reader, the voyeur and the visitor are intertwined, and where in this lies the emergence of a field of text.

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The Incidental.

a daily paper and new media experiment designed to make navigating and surviving the Milan Furniture Fair that little bit easier.

The Incidental will provide daily reviews and comments on what’s worth seeing plus the previous day’s highlights and we’re inviting everyone to contribute. Join our online groups and upload events, pictures and observations at Flickr, Twitter and Upcoming. Technophobes can submit personal highlights to the team by scribbling on anything to hand or by text and email.  The best snaps, sketches, views and observations will be selected to print each day for the duration of the Fair.

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吉行良平と仕事 | Ryohei Yoshiyuki to job.

These are levels live in your life.
In Japan, we live with this stool. Dining, garden, school…it is ubiquitous. I remember my grandmother used it at her sewing machine. For us, it is more than an ordinary stool.
“your level stool” is born from this fact of our life.
I sit on it.
Sometimes it is a small table for my coffee. Sometimes my little cat sleeps on it in the sun.
Then level comes back again.
They are all in different levels, but they are all your Levels.

Via Amandine / Perm;as. / Design Boom

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Title: Figures of Speech (Formation of a Crystal) by Falke Pisano
Location: Hollybush Gardens - London E2 9QP: www.hollybushgardens.co.uk

Description: Figures of Speech (Formation of a Crystal) by Falke Pisano

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Exhibition 22 April - 7 June

Private View 21 April 7 - 9 pm. There will be a performance during the
opening at 7.45 pm.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-04-21

Falke Pisano is immersed in both the written and spoken word. In her practice ideas and concepts, proposed through language, are juxtaposed with abstract objects. A dialogue of affect and effect is initiated between object and concept - one affecting the other - forming the potential of a third proposition, in a continuous process of production. Pisano’s works can be perceived as bringing together concerns of abstract modernism and conceptual art. Figures of Speech is an umbrella title that refers not only to this exhibition but to a larger body of works that includes Pisano’s recent and forthcoming oeuvre. Like a series of proposals, the scheme for this show is set out in diagrammatic drawings that show four ‘speaking’ positions. It’s core consists of the text-based performance Figures of Speech 1, 2008, which originates from three earlier works; The Complex Object, Object and Disintegration: The Object of Three and O Eu e O Tu / The I and the You. Here Pisano considers different possibilities for agency within an artistic practice, questioning how agency can be structurally transferred from the artist and into the artwork. The performance will take place during the exhibition opening. In material terms the ‘speaking’ positions will become hanging wall based works - part costume, part wall sculpture and part collected sculptural elements. By referring to these sculptures as ‘them’ and ‘what they can do’ Pisano suggests we perceive these sculptures as acting subjects and authors of meaning. The structure of the hanging sculptures/costumes will be flexible so that they can be expanded/taken apart and constructed into one sculpture or be worn and de-constructed. These works are in a constant state of potential, where they may evolve into or be used to form a performance situation, which would also involve the central table piece in the show. Each of the positions emerge from previous works within the Figures of Speech series. Interested in how meaning is produced and to what extent it is ‘contained’ within the artwork, Pisano experiments with placing works in different contexts and relational compositions. Suggesting that mean- ing is not fixed Pisano often returns to older works to re-consider them, testing whether they can pose new questions in different situations. One concept can be used to give form to multiple objects. ‘Old’ forms can re-appear in new contexts - as if time and experience had given these objects self-awareness, they appear to be questioning their own meaning. The hanging sculptures are held in a tension between their past existence and their potential future. The imagination of - or the actual activation - of these sculptures opens up a situation of interaction in which these ‘speaking’ positions meet on equal terms. This method of engaging and activating old forms breaks a sense of linear progress. Rather than critiquing the old in search of the new Pisano suggests a different approach to criticality. Pisano’s works can be seen as constantly becoming - holding the potential of proposing new voices when activated in new relational situations. Falke Pisano (B.1978, The Netherlands) lives and works in Berlin. Forthcoming exhibitions include: Talkshow, ICA, London, May, Making Worlds curated by Daniel Birnbaum for the 53rd Venice Biennale, Modernologies and The Malady of Writing, both at MACBA, Barcelona September and October. Previous Exhibitions include: Organon on The Wave, with Benoît Maire, at Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, 2009, Show me, don’t tell me, Brussels Biennale, Brussels, 2008, Time Crevasse, Yokohama Triennale, Japan, 2008, Principle of Hope / Matter of Fact, Manifesta 7, Italy, 2008.

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Barcode Forever

Recently Christophe showed me this article (in German). It explains why certain products, especially in the wholefood business, either have a thin line crossing out the bars or a infinity symbol (a rotated 8) printed underneath the barcode. It all has to do with the myth that the barcode contains the evil number 666 and thus the food could be contaminated by the negative vibes… or something.

That reminded me off a bunch of fun, clever, non-standard barcode designs I’ve collected in the last years. Here’s a best-of (may take a while to load):

Creative barcodes

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On tuesday, I’ve been invited by Maki and Kajsa to introduce my work to their Art & Communication design students at Royal College of Art. The idea of this talk/presentation was to introduce them to as many as possible of the topics that are thrilling me at the moment; giving them an idea and some keys to understand and interact with the digital landscape that surrounds their practice as designers.

To do so, and preserve the coherence of the whole speech without getting to much into details, i decided to consider this talk as a live reblogging experimentation - and produced R-Echos issue 3: Live reblogging. I had a couple of bookmarks ready to be loaded in the browser, I also took with me a box with some nice things inside and a couple of books.

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