bucharest ROMANIA

suckerPUNCH:describe your project:

yuliyan m. MIKOV: …during walk along lipscani , ( a fable about the old merchants of the past centuries) my eyes are taken by huge piles of garbage where as if on a throne, stood empty plastic bottles. and then i saw the ghosts of the past, creeping out of their deformed mouths, rising slowly just like the ghost of the magic lamp. but they were many, the same number as the empty bottles, wearing clouds with their semitransparent bodies, as if embracing each other and rising towards the heavens. when the night attracts affection with her darkness, the ghosts shaking in the cold atmosphere gather closer to each other, lying in cluster and folding themselves, beginning to exchange ideas, furtively communicating in order to escape the fear of the normality, the habits, and the fear of becoming animals, casted in form, driven by reflexes.

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new york NEW YORK

honoring the best and the brightest for their contributions in the field of interior design, the interior design department at fit/suny is proud to announce this year’s honorees of the 2010 lawrence israel prize… LTL architects!
ltl… lewis.tsurumaki.lewis is an award-winning partnership founded in 1997 by paul LEWIS, marc TSURUMAKI and david j. LEWIS here in our beloved new york city.
we look forward to ltl’s lawrence j. israel prize lecture, titled “opportunistic play,” to be given on friday april 16th 2010 at 6:00 in the katie murphy auditorium of the fashion institute of technology. entry will be through the d building on the northwest corner of seventh avenue and 27 street. no reservations required, admission is free and open to the public.

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toronto CANADA

since 2004, toronto-based photographer eamon MAC MAHON has spent up to three months of each year working in the wilderness of northwestern canada and alaska. these slow journeys via bush plane have allowed him to intimately photograph remote landlocked communities, and the vast areas of uninhabited land surrounding them. his work has appeared in various publications including the walrus, national geographic, w and new york magazine, as well as exhibition spaces such as the power plant, the detroit institute of the arts, the griffin museum of photography in boston and higher pictures nyc. mac mahon’s photographs, on display for contact, 2008 at pearson international airport, were described as “magnificent and mysterious” by kate taylor for the globe and mail.

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san diego CALIFORNIA

lecture by kivi SOTAMAA
woodbury san diego
15 april - 6:30pm

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london ENGLAND

suckerPUNCH: describe your project:

metagardens : monstruosa (monster in spanish) is an extraterrestrial visitor, a predatory creature whose primary goal is to propagate its own species. to achieve this it uses the sophisticated biomorphology of carnivorous plants as living hosts. it colonises them, implanting its own offspring inside their tissues before erupting into a more powerful biomachine.

at the moment it remains dormant waiting for the perfect conditions in which to infiltrate and replicate itself across our environment.

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newark NEW JERSEY

15 april /// 630 pm /// new jersey school of architecture

bernard TSCHUMI, faia
bernard tschumi architects; new york and paris
lecture: concept-form
2010 aianj endowed lecture

london ENGLAND

after graduating from central saint martins with a degree in graphic design, yehrin TONG designed artwork for independent music labels, working with artists she met while regularly haunting the underground club scene of london.

her main interests lie in creating illusory, eye-boggling patterns and typographical illustration. work has encompassed billboards, taxi cabs, elaborate repeat patterns and embroidery prints for fashion, as well as typographic cover and editorial illustrations.

yehrin’s work is complex and intricate. simple and minimal rarely come into her vocabulary.

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vienna AUSTRIA

matias del CAMPO will give a lecture describing the design process and execution of the austrian pavilion for the shanghai expo 2010 by span & zeytinoglu.

topology is the main driving force of the design of the austrian pavilion, a major area of mathematics concerned with spatial properties that are preserved under continuous deformations of objects, for example deformations that involve stretching, but no tearing or gluing. it emerged through the development of concepts from geometry and set theory, such as space, dimension, and transformation.

tuesday, april 13, 2010
10:00am - 11:00am
tu-vienna, institut für kunstgeschichte, bauforschung und denkmalpflege

vancouver BRITISH COLUMBIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project:

kimiis: this installation was designed for the “bright ideas” exhibition by interaxon of toronto, ontario. Displayed at the ontario house at the vancouver 2010 winter olympics, participants were able to engage in the largest ever thought-controlled computing experience:controlling the lighting of three prominent ontario landmarks - the cn tower, niagara falls, and the parliament buildings in ottawa - using the power of thought.

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lexington KENTUCKY

04.13.10 6pm LOT gallery
please join local/international designers and thinkers at lexington’s land of tomorrow (LOT) gallery for a lecture by david ERDMAN followed by a discussion about contemporary architecture with jeffrey KIPNIS, marcelo SPINA, and michael SPEAKS.