The idea behind the Anteroom series is so brilliant and simple. Vancouver-based artist James Nizam projects a big size pinhole experience into rooms of abandoned, soon-to-be-demolished…
One of these days Soundpiece will be installed in downtown Rotterdam. Soundpiece is a major permanent open air sound installation, meant to transform the Schouwburgplein into a permanent…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged audio, city, culture, experience, festivals, program, public space, rotterdam, sound, soundscape |
Come along on Wednesday night at Mediamatic for the 12th edition of our Pecha Kucha Night Amsterdam. Show and tell, get inspired and have a great night out loaded…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged 20x20, amsterdam, Architecture, design, event, landscaping, lectures, mediamatic, network, new media, pecha kucha, photography, presentations, science, Technology, Theory |
As an ultimate expression of consumerism, the Swiss and Danish artist duo Katja Kublitz and Ronnie Yarisal came up with their so-called Anger Release Machine. It’s…
In case all dogs will extinguish, interaction designers Karolina Sobecka and Jim George have a solution. They’ve created Sniff, a brilliant lifelike projection of a dog…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged behavior, design, digital, dog, emotion, installation, interactive, projection, public space, social, Technology |
Last week I came across designer Justus Bruns who told me about his ambitious idea to temporarily transform New York’s Times Square into Art Square. ”Times Square…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged amsterdam, film, la, los angeles, manhattan, new york, nyc, pecha kucha, public space, rembrandtplein, screens, times square, video |
Before, we already introduced the Nike Chalkbot used to add supporting and commercial texts to the streets during the Tour de France. Here’s a new public domain printing installation,…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged achitecture, berlin, communication, guerrilla, marketing, paintball, printer, public space, robot, street art |
Helsinki-based photographer Nurri Kim recently released the first Do Projects book ‘Tokyo Blues’ in collaboration with former Tokyo-resident Adam Greenfield. The publication,…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged blue, city, construction, guerrilla, helsinki, interventions, japan, photography, public space, tarp, tokyo |
In The Netherlands we don’t have callable phone booths, so as a youngster I was fascinated by American thrillers in which someone passed a public telephone that suddenly got called.…
By Jesse Jorg | Published:
Thursday December 10, 2009
If you were to go to the Red Light District in Amsterdam, for a long time it was obvious what you would get to see. Since a few years however,…
Amsterdam-based interaction designers Theodore Watson and Emily Gobeille created this stunning interactive installation back in 2008, but it’s still worth posting it.
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged amsterdam, cool, design, digital, experience, installation, interaction, landscape, nature, public space, sound, soundscapes, Technology, urbanism |
The French artist Sébastien Preschoux has come up with a beautiful collection of spanned string projects in all sorts of dreamy spatial situations. We found out…
Yesterday, I discussed the emerging social unrest in Hamburg caused by the current neoliberal city-branding campaign and the ongoing policy focus on the creative class instead taking…
Posted in Headline, International Practices, Theory | Also tagged activism, consumerism, creative class, design, guerrilla, hamburg, ikea, marketing, policy, workplace |
It’s called a “celebration of technology” by Paola Antonelli, senior curator of architecture and design at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Recently an impressive international team of…
Posted in Headline, International Practices | Also tagged cloud, data, design, flow, information, london, olympic games, sky, Technology, visualization |
Activism Doubt is a vibrant new book by Dutch Artists Harmen de Hoop and Jonas Staal. The book published by Onomatopee is the result…
