Electronest just released a new website: Seascape, for Susan Collins. Website has been built and designed in collaboration with OK-RM, and commisioned by Film and Video Umbrella.
* The show will open on the 4th of April at De La Warr pavillion in Bexhill-on-Sea. More info on the website.
March 29, 2009
Categories: art, designing, electronest, electronic presence, internal, memory, web design, website
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On tuesday, I’ve been invited by Maki and Kajsa to introduce my work to their Art & Communication design students at Royal College of Art. The idea of this talk/presentation was to introduce them to as many as possible of the topics that are thrilling me at the moment; giving them an idea and some keys to understand and interact with the digital landscape that surrounds their practice as designers.
To do so, and preserve the coherence of the whole speech without getting to much into details, i decided to consider this talk as a live reblogging experimentation – and produced R-Echos issue 3: Live reblogging. I had a couple of bookmarks ready to be loaded in the browser, I also took with me a box with some nice things inside and a couple of books.
* please use the comments for details and further reference.
March 19, 2009
Categories: designing, event, r-echos, republishing, talk
Tags: electronest, live, performance, r-echos issue 3, reblog, reblogging, republishing, talk
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February 02, 2009
Categories: clothes, drawing
Tags: drawing, handmade, pattern
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January 22, 2009
Categories: art
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i really liked those 2 pictures frome fredrick evensen; i feel also obviously quite close.
January 16, 2009
Categories: art
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- went to Photographers’ Gallery (Soho archives, and Dryden Goodwin who remided me a lot of facial recognition graphs) and the Saatchi Exhibition (Revolution Continues – a very figurative selection of chinese artists – the piece in the “cellar” was the most exciting). Later in the day: went to the opening of the Royal Academy exhibition; saw (mainly and amongst other things) agrifashionista.tv and Urbania’s installation: a red room reporting on their various experiments about communal life and projects.
- went to the Friday’s DotDotDot lecture at Somerset House; link: DDD17 / talk.
- thought about making a website which like Dog Eared Books would list the films i like, quoting them; a sort of personnal memory. It comes from the fact that this year we have been increasingly watching more and more films every week (Amandine being back at university, we have access to the LCC’s library and their DVDs – just great!)
- watched (amongst other DVDs) ‘A Pervert Guide to Cinema’ – an interresting documentary on perversion trough a couple of selected movies; more specially: this documentary is a very nice Republishing piece along with commentaries: trying to organise the Tlktlk discussion on the topic of republishing and to set a list of guests.
- discovered about Edgser Dijkstra self re publication and Piet Schreuders’ Furore via Pierre.
- went yesterday to the Social Pasta: Maki, Kajsa, Alex (the rich one), Bearen and Momoko were cooking while we watched 2 films: one 20 minutes documentary by les Blanks ‘Werner Herzog eats his shoes’ (YouTube 1, 2) and Errol Morris’ film: Gates of Heaven. Amazing combination and the food as usual was incredible!. And they all had really nice shoes…
* the documentary is a beautiful support and encouragement at self initiated projects.
- Werner Herzog: “I am more and more convinced that the only alternative to film making is cooking. Maybe there’s another alternative which is walking”.
He also said “I don’t believe you have the guts (to make your film), but if you do it, I come to brooklyn eat my shoes when you show the film”.
November 08, 2008
Categories: event, exhibition, notes, republishing, talk, thinking loud
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Yesterday, invited by Maki from Åbäke, we went to the guided tour of the Somerset House’s exhibition: Wouldn’t it be nice? / Wishful thinking in art and design which present a selection of work by Ryan Gander, Jurgen Bey, Dunne & Raby with Michael Anastassiades, Bless, Dexter Sinister, Alicia Framis, Martino Gamper, Marti Guixe, Tobias Rehberger, Superflex and Chosil Kil.
The tour was guided by Kevin Flude ◊ and was a reflexion on what a guided tour is; from the beginning the main idea was to introduce the interaction with the audience. I was asked to act/play the designer of the guide: i had to choose a concept and design our guide accordingly; this bit was a bit unexpected and it was a rather confusing experience. After this introduction outside of the building, we started the tour and followed the exhibition’s succesion of projects. Kevin introduced us to a whole range of projects, but exhibited at another exhibition which itself too was exploring what Design is trough a specific angle, the purpose: On-Purpose ◊◊
The experiment was really nice and completely resulting of the delightful improvisation of our wonderful guide. He is going to post a few reflexion on his own blog, following this post in which he is coming back from the tour.
It’s nice to see design reflections can also have their echoes in various other fields like organsiing tour (which is, after all, about presenting informations).
◊ Kevin Flude is a guide with a blog: And Did Those Feet; Kevin is also closely related with a history museum: The Old Operating Theatre Museum, as well as teaching at St Martins.
◊◊ This exhibition is taking place at Arnolfini in Bristol
◊◊◊ I’m part of the show at Arnolfini — so, there is a due disclosure: Electronest has been commissioned to make an intervention on internet for the exhibition – sadly Kevin forgot to mention the project during the tour and i missed my few seconds of fame :)
November 02, 2008
Categories: art, culture, exhibition, london, offline
Tags: concept, design, distance, exhibition, guide, reflection, tour
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A little while ago, Pierre sent me an image of a project he thought about for quite sometimes. The idea complements the republishing process of R-Echos and is based on sharing quotes from the books we read.
http://dogeared-books.electronest.com/
the rule is quite simple:
for each quote we like, we make a corner in the book; after a few pages, at the end of the capter, when we finish the book, or stop reading it – we scan the pages and retype the quote (ideally we would use OCR)
After a while we will end up with a very nice collections of cornered pages, and also a database of our favourites bits and pieces from the books we read and which have no search functionality – it is a kind of personal Google Books as well.
* You will notice there are Amazon ads – for a reason: ideally, i would like this experiment to be self sustainable, and the sharing of books could pay for buying the next ones. So if you enjoy the project and find a few books you would like to buy – please use our links, we asked Amazon to pay us in books :)
October 26, 2008
Categories: book, bookmark, newly released, website
Tags: archive, books, ocr, republishing, scan
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This morning discussing with Amandine and Anna we came across a couple of buildings which had a mini version of them beforhand their construction – either trough a natural research process or simply because investors were too scared of the novelty the building could represent and the consequent impact on the landscape…
The Barbican, by suburbanslice
the Golden Lane estate, by stevecadman
Barbican & the Golden Lane estate
Barbican is a well known huge and massive architecture programme in the center of London; after World War 2, a large bombed area has been converted into this utopian project which was reconsidering the needs of modern humans in a urban environnement. Both Barbican and Golden Lane Estate were designed by architects Chamberlin, Powell and Bon, with obvious Corbusian influences. Golden Lane is of course the mini version (somehow) of the Barbican and came earlier (1957, 1969).
Trevelyan by Jamie Barras
Keeling house by joseph beuys hat
Keeling House & Trevelyan House
Denys Lasdun designed both of them; they were built between 1957 and 1959. Keeling house is a 4 blocks of maisonettes arranged around a central service tower. In 1952, a rougher similar construction has been built, apparently more dedicated to the working class.
Balfron Tower, by Richard Parmiter
Trellick Tower, by Cristiano Betta
Trellick Tower & Balfron Tower
I’ve been introduced to those two by Ryan Gander trough his amazing loose association lectures series. When confronted with the volume of the tower designed by Ernõ Goldfinger, investors were scared this would be like a scar in the landscape (London does not have a lot of skyscraper, especially atthat time). They managed to get a smaller version built in East London, to get an impression of how it would be build.
* Process wise:
This pre production makes me think that for each of the website i am delivering there would be one, officially working, to test case the pertinence of the design and concpets as well as the solidity of the code.
* More information on the building:
Balfron Tower
Trelick Tower
Keeling House
Golden Lane Estate
Barbican Estate
October 07, 2008
Categories: collection, culture, designing, london, offline
Tags: architecture, process, research, try out
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The kind of ‘formal’ language interogations that makes a lot of sense to me or at least it draws my attention a lot lately – like how do you spell/capitalise/prefix the word internet:
the internet
internet
Internet
the Internet
now i will wonder about two more parameters: in or on.
* Via
“i work in ubiquitous computing”
Often bemused by the “on the internet” versus “in the internet” debate, it’s intriguing that the only person we can find who refers to “i work in ubiquitous computing” was late Mark Weiser (see on his website).
** Christophe Guignard from Fabric.ch during a talk by Eric Sadin (Times of the Signs) once noted the different spelling of connection (physically attached) and connexion (close but not touching eachother) in french and english.
October 05, 2008
Categories: language, thinking loud
Tags: curiosity, language, meaning, translation, words
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September 20, 2008
Categories: movie, typography
Tags: 3d, block, font, title, type
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Just watched the ghostbuster series. Far less exciting than when i was kid but still nice wiht a certain retro charm; i really like the car with that steampunk feel.
Later I googled for one of the actor, Bill Murray (Peter Venkman) and found out about this behaviour that reminded me of Richad Stallman’s web to email:
Being very detached from the Hollywood scene, Murray does not have an agent or manager and reportedly only fields offers for scripts and roles using a personal telephone number with a voice mailbox that he checks infrequently. This practice has the downside of sometimes preventing him from taking parts that he had auditioned for and was interested in, such as that of Sulley in Monsters, Inc, Bernard Berkman in The Squid and the Whale, Frank Ginsburg in Little Miss Sunshine and Willy Wonka in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
* Bill Murray – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
** Richard Stallman’s web to email: it is also linked to the electronic presence concept
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September 16, 2008
Categories: movie, offline
Tags: business, distant, electronic presence, telephone
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On Purpose: Design Concepts Exhibitions Sat 13 Sep – Sun 9 Nov, 10am – 6pm (Except Mondays) Free Åbäke, Droog Design, Daniel Eatock, Electronest, Ann-Sofie Back, Will Holder, Peter Jensen, Onkar Kular & Noam Toran, Metahaven, Alex Rich, Savage, Yuri Suzuki On Purpose: Design Concepts looks at conceptual design practices, the emergence of ‘meta design’, and the question of who or what can define something as design. The exhibition will present interventions and work by a selection of the most interesting and ‘speculative’ designers today. In recent years, the field of design has evolved significantly having embraced conceptualism and technology, and is now offering advanced parallel theoretical practices to contemporary art. Yet the renowned principle that has been given to design in order to differentiate it from contemporary art is still a point of contention – that it should have specific purpose. On Purpose looks to investigate this tension around the definition of design, questioning whether ‘purpose’ is actually its ultimate constraint. Focussing predominantly on interventions within Arnolfini, some of which may become semi-permanent, On Purpose will also be used as an opportunity for designers to offer proposals to reshape the existing infrastructure of Arnolfini. It will look at every public facet of the institution – physical and virtual – and will aim to rethink it afresh. On Purpose is the second in the Concept Store series of projects at Arnolfini, exploring the realms of marketing, design and experience economy.
Arnolfini | On Purpose: Design Concepts
September 01, 2008
Categories: designing, electronest, exhibition
Tags: art, conceptual, meta design, reflection
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We launched a new website: Tlk Tlk – this is a project in which we would like to share the events we are attending, to promote nice things we come across in real life where friends are organising, or just giving a hand, or sometimes events organised by complete stranger but we like what they do…
The idea is a continuous curration of things we are interrested in, a littl ebit like R-Echos but for cultural events.
August 29, 2008
Categories: event, exhibition, experiments, memory, newly released, notes, offline, project, talk
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LIP logo reminded me the MIT Press logotype; we are speaking about it in R-Echos issue 1
I saw this logotype in Godard’s “Ici et ailleurs” (here and elsewhere). LIP factory was an experiment in the self management of a factory in the 70’s in France (read more about LIP factory).
August 19, 2008
Categories: designing, movie, politic
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This is a poster and a text: an analog R-Echos
Would you be interested in investing in the tangible production of this work?
1. You can download the digital archive
and decide wether or not you’re interested in particpating in this project.
2. Each participant donate a minimum of £8
3. The publication is produced
4. We share the publications
which means each participant own a fair amount of publications and participants decide (collectively or individually) what to do with it.
July 24, 2008
Categories: collection, designing, electronest, experiments, medias, newly released, project, r-echos, tangible, typography
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* in fact it is out ‘already’: R-Echos issue 1
July 22, 2008
Categories: book, bookmark, collection, designing, electronest, memory, next things, offline, open source, thinking loud, typography
Tags: objects, r-echos, republish
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July 15, 2008
Categories: cinemas, typography
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July 15, 2008
Categories: designing, exhibition
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July 09, 2008
Categories: cinemas, found image
Tags: movie, photography
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