new york NEW YORK

Flash:Light: 2011
Festival of Ideas for the New City

SOFTlab produced a hanging installation for the entrance to School Nite, an exhibition of site-specific installations, performances, and discussions. The installation was curated by Nuit Blanche New York as part of Flash:Light 2011 along with the Festival of Ideas for the New City sponsored by the New Museum. 

The installation was in the entrance of St. Patrick’s Catholic School at the corner of Prince and Mott Streets in NYC.

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katowice POLAND

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

maciej hajnrich VALP: Balancing between real and magic where ideas and inspiration makes pure graphic illusion.

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paris FRANCE

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

jorge AYALA: Skin is an organic self-structure, an artificial corpus overlapping meshing systems and subsystems, inhabiting space and challenging its perception. Skin was conceived as a computational design, based on emerging logics of construction and manufacturing. Large Scale CNC along with high tech matters and other techniques will be employed to rapid prototype and assemble this processual design.

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southfield MICHIGAN

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

benjamin BERR+natalie HADDAD+brent DEKRYGER:
The Initial design approach was to find an architectural solution utilizing multiple methods of digital fabrication to create a performative product.

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vienna AUSTRIA

IoA Sliver Lecture
May 26, 2011,7pm

Through the work of FreelandBuck, ‘Eine heiße Viertelstunde’ will document an architectural formalism that combines the complex continuity of topological surfaces and the articulation of tectonics. Enabled by the precise modulation of computation, the firm’s work at the scales of installations, interiors, buildings and infrastructure aims to catalyze a contemporary yet multiplicitous mode of formal continuity: pattern.

vienna AUSTRIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

TANG fei: I experimented with form production at the Excessive Studio II, Urban Strategies, Die Angewandte Vienna in Austria to produce an Opera Theater or a Concert Hall in the Karmelitermarket.

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JAPAN

Psychedelic and freaked out, Nabuhiko Obayashi’s surreal classic features a house that slowly devours a group of girls. With plenty of kung fu, a terrifying kitty, and a splash of blood, House combines a barrage of experimental techniques and collaged mediums to create an unforgettable assault on the senses.

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augsburg GERMANY

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

sebastian ONUFSZAK: A lot of my projects are a mixed-media-development. Usually I start to scribble some rough sketches on a memo. Then I use a huge sheet of paper, on which I illustrate the outlines with a black pen. In the next step I scan and digitalize the artwork and colorize it in Adobe Illustrator. There I try different color combinations and refine everything in Photoshop. After printing the illustration on canvas, I rework some details with color pens, creating graphical patterns or intensify the outlines.

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novi sad SERBIA

suckerPUNCH: describe your project.

ModelArt studio: Origami Forum is a utilitarian space installation, intended to be used both outdoors and indoors. It is a multifunctional street furniture for sitting, lying, friendship, which can accommodate multiple users simultaneously, alone or in groups.

[DIGITAL FABRICATION/INSTALLATION DISCUSSION]

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columbus OHIO

On TNV’s fifth album, Dancer Equired, the trio continues their progress and unbeatable track record. Standout tracks include the laid back California Roll, the shimmering Don’t Go To Liverpool, the bouncing Fuck Her Tears, and the achingly beautiful No Room to Live. Catch them this Friday in Brooklyn!


[SUMMER MUSIC DISCUSSION]