Tuesday 31 January 2006
general
Noplace is an interactive installation and website that aggregates utopias into a shared vision of paradise. We are developing software that collects data, images, and texts via the web and uses these feeds to create virtual architectural structures. These structures expand as utopias are added to the project. In the final installation, projected shadows on the gallery walls represent the architecture that’s evolved from the data, creating a physical browser which viewers can manipulate and transform with a wave of their hands.
The proposal for Noplace is here
The process blog for the artwork is here
About these Tests
The purpose of these pages is to test some of the functions of our proposal for Noplace. Using Wordpress blog software as a testbed, there are dozens of features and addons for feeds that we can use for our purpose. We shall try them all!
We are holding monthly meetings that discuss the various categories of Noplace and look at ideas for the installation.
If you would like to participate or have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us!
Last summer I often wandered off into the woods to escape the artist residency I was attending and immerse myself in a world relatively untouched by humanity. The complex light coming through the trees knocked my socks off.
This is a photo of a mountain road that Kine’s father made. Her parent’s car began to overheat as we approached the top of the mountain but we did not care. I was leaning out the car window as this cloud emerged in front of us. At that moment my mind realized how far away from home I was. I like this feeling.
Sweden
When I was a little kid my middle brother spent a fortune on a wonderful HIFI system. Recently, I found his son using the amplifier as a workout-gear (it is heavy). This was odd and certainly a waste so I offered my brother to buy the lot. Together with the amp came two AR15 (Acoustic Research). These where ragged and worn and my efforts at fixing them never quite turned out. During the work I became more and more obsessed with the idea of restoring the sound as it once used to be when my brother blasted away the neighborhood with his Pink Floyd records. I started to look for a replacement pair of AR15´s on the web. It soon turned out to be impossible to get hold of the particular model. Instead I went through the AR4, 11 and finally 10pi until I was satisfied.
The Queen Machine is a high performance construct composed of several wafer scale processor arrays. A team of priests using consecrated CAD tools executes the design of each wafer. Each wafer contains a vast electrical circuit, which is etched onto multiple metal oxide layers using X-ray Lithography.
Pamplona is a fairly ordinary place during the rest of the year. During its famous Fiesta de San Fermin, it turns into the greatest place on earth.
These facilities exist, often inconspicuously, in disguise or nestled in shrouds of trees in every American community. While the image I have attached does not depict their location, it is representative of a typical structure. I have also included an idealized internet portrait of a “Country Cottage,” for which their A.L. facility is named.
