los angeles CALIFORNIA

Joe DAY on his recent teaching, precedent as pretext, “entropy” as opiate, the cross-pollination of academia and practice, and much more.

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lexington KENTUCKY

Beaux Arts Ball is an overlapping manifestation of pleasure and design. It is a charitable event with its heels buried in a 19th century desire to transcend the scope of tamed human imagination; a testimony to the feverish cerebral discipline of the original students of the Ecole des Beaux Arts.

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

The LADG (Andrew HOLDER, Claus Benjamin FREYINGER, & James CHESTNUT): Consider, as a problem of material and form, a litter of piglets suckling at the teats of a plump sow. The language of formal analysis is not readily equipped to describe this situation. The disposition of one pig against another does not appear to be regulated by clear systems of repetition and adjacency. The pig bodies themselves resist decomposition as assemblages of skin and structure; they are too fat—all fat, in fact. What formal analysis struggles to rationalize, the languages of character and posture easily accommodate: the piglets nestle and suckle; the sow sprawls; obese bodies squeeze and abut one another.

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2013

For Alain Badiou, films think, and it is the task of the philosopher to transcribe that thinking. What is the subject to which the film gives expressive form? This is the question that lies at the heart of Badiou’s account of cinema. He contends that cinema is an art form that bears witness to the Other and renders human presence visible, thus testifying to the universal value of human existence and human freedom. . . .

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san francisco CALIFORNIA

“Before the term spline came to refer to a mathematical function producing smoothness (and subsequently, in design software, to a smooth curve with control points) it was once an actual physical drafting tool, a flexible metal or wood strip with weights used to hold the spline in place. This tool developed out of necessity to design smooth, aerodynamic forms and leveraged specific material properties . . .”

*All images courtesy the author. PATH, “(re)STOCK.” Intersecting hand and machine, digital and analog. (Physical, hand craft) Welding joints provides a strong and permanent assembly. Oxides from the welding process leave a rich coloration and evidence of the manual TIG welding process (joints are welded on the backside with ERCuSi-A Silicon Bronze filler rod).

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los angeles CALIFORNIA

UCLA A.UD
Technology Seminar, Spring 2013
“ADD OPPORTUNITY: Additive Manufacturing & New Business Models”
critic: Kivi SOTAMAA

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Nicholas SOLAKIAN, Derek BUELL, & Peter NGUYEN: International Aid organizations ship billions of dollars of aid and relief supplies to people in need around the world. One such organizations is Direct Relief International, based out of Santa Barbara, CA. Our research looks at the possible demand for 3-D printed, on-demand products in such disaster zones.

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mallorca SPAIN

Pushing the limitations of geometry and materials, Katya Larina and Sergey Mishin together with Arup construction and lighting design teams have created a unique three dimensional and perforated copper staircase, specifically designed as the central staircase of “Villa Mallorca” project.

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Created to complete “Villa Mallorca,” a building project located in the south of Spain, the state of the art structure consists of an illuminated sculpture made out of perforated continuous folded copper with no visible fixings.

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2013

Composed in a series of scenes, Aisthesis—Rancière’s definitive statement on the aesthetic—takes its reader from Dresden in 1764 to New York in 1941. Along the way, we view the Belvedere Torso with Winckelmann, accompany Hegel to the museum and Mallarmé to the Folies-Bergère, attend a lecture by Emerson, visit exhibitions in Paris and New York, factories in Berlin, and film sets in Moscow and Hollywood.

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new haven CONNECTICUT

Reframing Frank Lloyd Wright’s famous statement “Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles,” a new exhibition opening at the Yale School of Architecture on Aug. 28 demonstrates the connections between architecture and other visual arts in Los Angeles during the 1970s.

exhibition: “Everything Loose Will Land: 1970s Art and Architecture in Los Angeles,” curated by Sylvia LAVIN
08/28–11/09
Paul Rudolph Hall Exhibition Gallery
Yale SOA
180 York St.
New Haven, CT 06517

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melbourne AUSTRALIA

RMIT University
critic: Vivian MITSOGIANNI

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

Cameron NEWNHAM: This project explores hypothetical and speculative learning environments—specifically a design campus for RMIT University, although the ideas are universal. It is a given that there may be a necessary leap of faith in understanding the project(s), but they display in a physical manner what has recently been theorised, and extend upon many of the ideas. It is intended that through these works the ideas are pushed to the extreme—to understand the potential—even if a lesser variant may be more functional.

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