lawrence KANSAS
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Melissa ANDERSON: This project attempts to make people become more empathetic by relating environmental issues to the human body by pairing portraits with unadulterated photographs of a local stream. By doing this, I encourage the viewer to question our relationship with nature.
art, body, Melissa ANDERSON, nature, nature patterns & textures, photography
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san francisco CALIFORNIA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
Jennifer GEORGESCU: It seems that while that we can recognize that we are a part of nature, there is evidence of a disconnect taking place. We have no solid definition of what it is that we claim to be a part of, and rationality is privileged over wildness and chaos. We set aside small areas of land for enjoyment, we pay to see caged animals; we want to “dabble” in nature so that we can feel closer to it. Sand, Stones, Dead Leaves & Bone examines our relationship to nature and the anxiety that comes from our lack of contact with it.
art, body, Jennifer GEORGESCU, nature, nature patterns & textures
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bologna & modena ITALY
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
DO THE MUTATION (Filippo NASSETTI & Alessandro ZOMPARELLI): COLLAGENE is a software written to create adaptive and customizable masks.
This project, developed by DO THE MUTATION, explores the border between physical and virtual, connecting computer code’s abstractions with the intimate, visceral dimension of body alteration brought by the mask theme. The topographic anatomy of the face acts as input for algorithms that generate the fibers that form the object, creating a material formation that after 3-D printing perfectly fits its territory, people’s faces.
3-D printing, alessandro ZOMPARELLI, algorithmic design, body, CRP, DO THE MUTATION, filippo NASSETTI, Windform
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vienna AUSTRIA
suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.
daniel MAYER & chris PRECHT: HUGO stands for human grown organism and is literally organic architecture. Having the current state of biology and science in mind with reconstructing and cloning body parts, generating second devices your body can connect with, or manipulating stem cells, lets one imagine how it could be influencial for architecture one day.
