Monday, December 3, 2007
Future Cities Lab: Faculty Work on Exhibit in Chicago
Three recent design proposals and an installation from FUTURE CITIES LAB, the architectural design practice of Assistant Professors of Architecture Jason Johnson and Nataly Gattegno, are on display at the Extension Gallery for Architecture in Chicago.
The installation, "vivisys," is an experimental double-curved acrylic lattice vault that plays host to an extraordinary cluster of rapidly prototyped metallic barnacles. A robotic soundscape and networked auroras of electron emitting cold cathode tubes respond to interactions from their environment. "Vivisys" synthesizes patterns of the organic and the manufactured into a new creative paradigm for energy, form and matter.
The "vivisys" installation was produced in collaboration with the composer/sound artist/instrument designer Troy Rogers. Rogers is a PhD. candidate in UVa’s Music Department Composition and Computing Technologies Program. The Tektonics Design Group of Richmond also collaborated on the project and sponsored all of the CNC fabrication work.
For more information and a full listing of project credits, please see: http://www.future-cities-lab.net/vivisys/
In addition to "vivisys," the exhibition includes drawings and models from the following projects: Super Galaxy II (NYC, NY), Urban Archipelagos (Hong Kong), and the Seoul Energy Farm (Korea).
The exhibition will run through January 20, 2008.
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