Petar Kufner

Auditive copy of image / Void, and human experience - between auditory and visual domains

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 10:03:00 +0000

How we perceive sensorial information (sound, light) and it’s basis point i.e. the smallest part once those elements are decomposed led to this thesis, which is the similarity and relation between image and sound. As main concepts, the haptic quality of the image and immateriality of the sound will be analyzed. The certain type of connection could be found by analyzing internal structure of both elements of interest as a wave. But in this case image is intended as something framed, where the void of depth is flattened, while the sound tends to move through the space. The main interest will be focused on the void of the depth, and the human experience - extraordinary capacity of the ear to crave a volume into the void of the darkness (Pallasmaa, 1996). In order to understand the “void” we need to understand speed, as it plays an important role and the possibility to transmit spatial perspective into sound. If we treat vision - reaching, as directional and the sound - receiving, as omni-directional, something that incorporates, what happens with the depth of our perception? Is it possible by accelerating the “speed of capturing” to translate an image into sound? As a final result of the research, after series of experimental projects trying to show the connection between the image and the sound, one main project will be presented. An interactive installation entitled “Visual acoustics” will try to establish the union between auditory and visual domains. more info soon

point of view

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 06:54:00 +0000

L'ambiente come luogo della trasformazione

Communication Within Architectural Projects – Questions of Utopia

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:25:00 +0000

Analyses the communication processes of architectural projects – that is, image as a key element and direct expression of thought as form. Buildings are the synthesis and product of thought represented through symbolic forms, which in most cases recall images, thus they materialize what lives in the imagination. I wish to question the aesthetic concepts that often treat the communication aspect of the project as merely a kind of beautification, decoration or packaging of the final constructed product. The first part will study the rules of representation and its crisis. Here, the planning process will be analyzed, where the artifact - intended as image and produced form - is conditioned by technology. I will focus on the significant role of tecnoscienza and how this influences invention and creation, often neglecting aspects of the mental process of the planning stage. The second part of my research deals with the discourse of reality, which nowadays could be considered digital, simplifying virtual reality, or as Deleuze states – an extension of everything that is real. Even though it is hard to imagine a virtual architecture in terms of construction, architects use virtual technology as a tool for the creation of projects, and hence virtuality becomes a sort of extension through which architects view atrophic reality. The final part of my thesis attempts to illustrate an experimental scene, where the image of architecture and architecture of image are confronted through a process of analysis and elaboration using different tools of representation - digital, traditional and hybrid – in order to demonstrate that whoever deals with the communication aspect of an architectural project is the“director” of a complex process. The project will show examples of architecture, in particular Yona Friedman’s project for the Ville spatiale, which only exist in the virtual realm of imagination.

project description

The idea of realizing a utopia, in other terms, of trying to locate utopia and give it life, from Friedman’s book Utopies réalisables, 1974, according to which utopia is a place where it is possible to fully offer the distance between the project of one desired reality and its production, between desire and satisfaction. Yona Friedman, courtesy the artist

The elaboration of Ville spatiale applied onto the city of Venice, which Friedman have been working on for over fifty years, and which proposed as the theme of a workshop held in Venice in 2009, form the basis of my project developed from Friedman’s sketches, images and models.

My aim is to rebuild and animate the virtual model using 3D software. At this moment, the initial sketch will be compared with the virtual model in an attempt to represent the passage from idea to realization, via animation.

In 1958 Friedman stated that the Spatial City (Ville spatiale) is not a frozen form, but rather, in his drawings and models, is an instant image, which extends from a long and indeterminate process. I am impressed by his discovery of the enormous potentiality of presenting the idea of Spatial City through video. Thus, the final part of my project will be presented in the form of a video, using this means as a form of our physical existence. A montage of the virtual model and the video representing reality will create what Deleuze calls crystal-image, that is, the indivisible unity of the virtual image and the actual image.

The video explaining the project is divided in two parts. The first section shows the evolution of an idea toward an in situ project (footage along Ponte della Libertà), where the video is slowed down, thus images are captured in slow motion.

framing study

If imagination is something unperceived by the human eye, something that exists solely in our minds, a reproduction in slow motion shows us things that are hidden. The same thing occurs while looking at the visual spectrum in which our eyes are limited between infrared and ultraviolet. According to Ammar Eloueini, who considers this space as a sort of virtual space - a kind of prosthesis - which once applied may permit us to see what was previously unperceived. By seeing images again in slow motion, where one second can be extended over ten or fifteen minutes, the missing frames (skipped by the human eye) may also be considered as virtual spaces. In the second part of video, two different types of framing - one panoramic and another static – show the object inserted into the real situation, accompanied with the actual background sound and surroundings. Thus, hypothetically, utopia may take form and come to life.

wonderland

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 17:07:00 +0000

Type Design course held by professor Leonardo Sonnoli at IUAV university 2006 / typographic interpretation of Alice in Wonderland

wonderland specimen

wonderland regular
wonderland half/wide

variations of letters D/W

©
Arsenić Jelena
Kufner Petar
Zanotti Gloria

booklet

unfindable objects

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:21:00 +0000

features some strange designs

alphabet

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 18:40:00 +0000

exercises in style

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 20:57:00 +0000

graphic interpretation of Exercises in Style, written by Raymond Queneau

"il cinema di campagna"

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 20:32:00 +0000

site

day/night effect

concept

model sc 1:20

art gallery

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 11:30:00 +0000

click on image for more information

miabi

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:32:00 +0000

corporate identity project “miabi“ online fashion brand & store

corporate identity manual

plakat

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 11:05:00 +0000

42. Zagrebački salon

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 14:24:00 +0000

competition project / a new visual identity for 42."Zagrebački salon" of visual arts

material cooming soon

revitalization of the sea front

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 27 Apr 2009 10:55:00 +0000

The competition for ideas within the revitalization of the sea front of Poreč, Croatia, 2006 / project selected by the jury / idea for reorganization of green areas

The city of Porec is an ancient city where the strong roman axis are present; cardo and decumanum. It’s also called a city of mosaic, so the main concept is mosaic that later was convert into pixel. The cardo and decumanum are the guides for the position of pixels.

Pixels are used as a modules to organise the area; green areas, pedestrian areas. They are different sizes and interactive. They are also used as horizontal signals, so they can lead you to some monument or to square.

NJOA

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 14:58:00 +0000

nomadic journey of arts / corporate identity project for "olympic" art events

where P meets K

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:47:00 +0000

personal visual identity / Petar Kufner

wher P meets K

logo construction

positive / negative logo

apartment house

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Fri, 02 Jan 2009 21:30:00 +0000

sketch

site plan

facade study

types of floor plans

ground floor

typology

consuming sex

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:35:00 +0000

marghera

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:33:00 +0000

marghera / bw / 2005

marghera same spot / color / 2007

a house on the lido island

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:27:00 +0000

my first student project: a small house situated in Venetian Lagoon on the Lido island near Venice

concept

construction view

exterior model view

interior model view

plan / section

exit

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:09:00 +0000

newspaper layout

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 13 Oct 2008 22:30:00 +0000

grid
cover

snow in venice

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:03:00 +0000

teach me fast forward

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:59:00 +0000

5th edition of visual communication workshop 24 – 26/09/2008 Magazini Ligabue IUAV, Venice, Italy / photo gallery

CV

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 15 Sep 2008 16:05:00 +0000

Petar Kufner has graduated from the IUAV University of Venice (Italy) – undergraduate programme in Architecture: theories and technics and a Masters in Design, Visual Communication and Multimedia. His interests are focused on graphics, video and design in its broadest sense but always referable to architecture.
He has worked for different architectural studios in Italy and Croatia as well as at the Venice Biennale.
He is currently enrolled at the Postgraduate program in Transmedia, Arts, Media, and Design at the College of Art & Design, Sint-Lukas University, Brussels, Belgium, where his main focus of research will be directed to the examination of the connection between space and sound.
His interests in social aspects of architecture have brought him to establish collaboration with the research-based practice ‘Alive architecture’.

education and training:

2011 -
Postgraduate program in Transmedia / Arts + Media + Design
College of Art & Design, Sint-Lukas University - Brussels, Belgium

24 - 26 september 2008
TEACH ME fast forward
video workshop, I.U.A.V - Venice, Italy

8 - 12 september 2008
NewBasicDesign08: HYPERBASIC!
workshop of motion graphics in the space, I.U.A.V - Venice, Italy

2006 - 2009
Graduate program in Visual and Multimedia Design
Faculty of Design and Fine Arts, I.U.A.V - Venice, Italy

november 2006 - february 2007
course of photography and visual culture
European Social Fund (ESF) Certificate

june - july 2006
workshop of panoramic photography quick time and VR

2001 - 2006
Undergraduate program in Architectural Science
Faculty of Architecture, I.U.A.V - Venice, Italy

september - december 2005
course of technique of photography and visual culture
European Social Fund (ESF) Certificate

jannuary - march 2005
course of technique of photography
European Social Fund (ESF) Certificate

work experience:

1. june 2010 - 31. august 2011
ELIGIO LEGOVIC architectural studio / Massa Lombarda 1. Porec, Croatia
active participant to project

4. june 2009 - 22. november 2009
53rd International Art Exhibition, Australian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
vernissage, collaboration and surveillance of the pavilion

january 2009 - march 2009
informatics office - Magazzino 07 / Dorsoduro 1827. Venice, Italy
collaboration and surveillance of the informatic office

22 - 26 september 2008
TEACH ME fast forward / Dorsoduro 2206. Convento delle Terese Venice, Italy
official photographer

january 2008 - march 2008
informatics office - Magazzino 06 / Dorsoduro 1827. Venice, Italy
collaboration and surveillance of the informatic office

24. november 2007
11th edition of national food day collection
photo reportage

24 - 28 september 2007
TEACH ME some music / Dorsoduro 2206. Convento delle Terese Venice, Italy
official photographer

august 2007
ELIGIO LEGOVIC architectural studio / Massa Lombarda 1. Porec, Croatia
technical drawing

september - november 2006
BIENNALE DI VENEZIA - X. Mostra internazionale di architettura - Croatian Pavilion /Giardini della Biennale Venice, Italy
assistant, guide within the exhibition

july 2006
workshop of architecture
official photographer

april - august 2006
CALAFATI architectural studio / Santa Croce1853. Venice, Italy
collaboration on competition project

hyperbasic!

noreply@blogger.com (kufner) — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 21:04:00 +0000

workshop of new basic design 08 – 12/09/2008 ex convento delle Terese, Venice, Italy / photo gallery