The latest »design report« magazine, published by the German Design Council, focuses on design research and presents a variety of projects which share a common research related approach. One of the featured projects is »Objects made for dreams«, which engages oneself in the making of a tool that can be transferred from the real to the dream world. This gives one the ability to cope with a recurring situation in dreams.
Together with the Bauhaus University Weimar Frederic gave a workshop series on the topic of computational design at the Tongji University Shanghai and Tsinghua University Beijing. The aim was to give an introduction on the possibilities that Arduino and Processing offer for designers to build their own tools and prototypes.
The workshop introduced an exemplary process: each participant collected data from the physical world with a self build sensor box and afterwards translated these with an algorithm into a visual notation in the computer.
To underline the approach of using digital media as a tool within a process, even if the result is not necessarily digital itself, the resulting »notation sheets« were printed out and staged along the sensor box for the final presentation.Since the course level was intended for beginners, all parts were pre-build and easily configurable and the code snippets were also prepared in a modular structure.
We at FELD had the pleasure to work together with american singer, songwriter and composer Peter Broderick, on his new album »http://www.itstartshear.com«. He commissioned us as lead designers for this special piece of music.
Peter always felt a great satisfaction from having an image and some words by the artist to accompany and enhance the sounds. To take in the full picture as the artist intended and which in his mind includes all the liner notes and artwork together with the music.
So »http://www.itstartshear.com« was designed simply to be a place where all listeners, no matter what format they obtain the music in, can easily access all the lyrics and notes and visuals which are meant go along with the songs; and as a title, »http://www.itstartshear.com« serves the music well by automatically becoming a link, any time someone writes about the album. A link to the place where people can learn all about the album, directly from the source. A link that is the album.
The Architekturschaufenster Karlsruhe features "Extracts of Local Distance" in their upcoming exhibition. The show will take place from february, 8th until february, 24th and is concerned particularly with the work of architect Richard Meier.
While FELD designed the artwork for »FELT«, the latest album of Nils Frahm, by using a ROLAND DPX-3300 pen-plotter, the idea came up to directly use the plotter to draw a limited amount of posters with it. The posters are plotted with three colours on an A2 sheet of paper in a limited edition of 30 pieces. And yes, we know: Nils' album and our studio coincidentally have a very similar name...
The project "unter Strom" was part of the Ambience Conference and Exhibition 2011 in Boras, Sweden besides other works of international artists, architects, scientists and designers. The conference from the 28. until 30. November included discussion about specific technological inventions and the role of practices and critic in design and scientific processes. The work unter Strom showed people their electric potential by giving tiny electric shocks.
On October 28th, the Perpetual Storytelling and Reflection II apparatus will be exhibited in the exhibtion "Seeing/Knowing" at the brand new Graham Gund Gallery at Kenyon College, Ohio. The exhibition takes place from October 29, 2011 to March 5, 2012.
"Seeing/Knowing" features 15 internationally renowned award-winning artists working at the intersection of information and image exchange. Their provocative works vary from formal investigations to illustrations of data, expressed through a range of media, from painting to viewer-responsive interactive digital forms.
Artists: Diana Cooper, Andreas Nicolas Fischer & Benjamin Maus, Michael Joaquin Grey, Eduardo Kac, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Benjamin Maus & Julius von Bismarck, Emma McNally, Julie Mehretu, Nathalie Miebach, C.E.B. Reas, Matthew Ritchie, Camille Utterback, Jorinde Voigt, and Marius Watz.
The Berlin based company txtr.com asked us to redesign their corporate website. Together with handsupindustries we came up with a new appearance based on a flexible layout which works on different screen sizes and devices. 'txtr offers e-reading solutions and infrastructures for providers and publishers of digital books.
On Sunday there was the house-warming party of our new studio space in Neukölln! From now on you are welcome at our new office at Weichselplatz 3 which is next to the so called "Dreiländereck" - the intersection of the three districts Kreuzberg, Treptow and Neukölln.
Drop by if you are around: We love visitors!
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Clemens Winkler is going to show "Sense of Orientation" at the "Live Wire. Art and Electricity" exhibition in Zürich from 8th Oct to 18 Dec 2011 at the Shedhalle.
The show is an invitation to reconsider our attitude towards electricity and how we take it for granted, the exhibition tries to put electricity into a historical context and to provoke new sensual experiences.
"Extract of local distance" is going to be shown at F75 Photogallery in Stuttgart from 18th Oct to 11th Nov 2011.
The exhibition is curated by Daniel Fuchs from Artur Images and focuses on architecture of Richard Meier reinterpreted by the "Extracts of local distance" algorithms.
FELD designed the new Album of Hauschka & Hildur Guðnadóttir which consists of a handmade cardboard/textile vinyl and CD packaging. All embossed, numbered and as usual handmade with a printed innersleeve.
We are more than proud to see 4 of our projects featured in the Gestalten book "A Touch of Code". Besides the projects "Perpetual Storytelling Apparatus" and "Fühlometer" the book also features "Literally Speaking" a Twitter based installation and "The Digital Wind" an instrument which transforms wifi signals into sound.
Curious? Check out the book at Gestalten Verlag.
»This Happened...« is a series of events focusing on the stories behind interaction design. For the first time this event took place in Hamburg and we are pleased that Martin could talk about his project "Object made for Dreams". Further guests have been Dennis Paul, Moritz Stefaner, Andreas Koller and Christian Heidemann.
Provinz – eine Ausstellung im Sommer 2011 is a group exhibition taking place in the Southern German town of Lindau in August 2010. Featuring fourteen artists with an international background, the exhibition engages the arcadian island town located in the Lake of Constance, in a discourse about aspects of provinciality and periphery. Works by mostly young and emerging artists confront locals, visitors and tourists with changes in public space and thus present the town’s postcard aesthetics in new and unfamiliar contexts.
During the three weeks in August, large-scale installations and objects, light, video, painting, public readings, performances and temporary interventions can be seen all over the 2700-inhabitant island. The not-for-profit project PROVINZ is organized by a Berlin-based team consisting of Arne Fehmel, Korbinian Kainz and Felix Rundel.
For the DesignMai Berlin 2010 festival we developed an installation out of three stands with slides under magnifying glasses, through which the visitors could visually dive into the architectural collages from our »Extracts of local distance« project. By looking through these binoculars you could get a feel for the striking richness of detail in these images.
Martin got invited to present his data sculpture project »Rose of Jericho« on the SEE conference in Wiesbaden. The conference focuses on visualizing information using digital media and is a platform that brings together fields like design, art, architecture and new technologies.
While two of our members, Benjamin and Martin worked and studied in Tokyo, they took the chance to organize an exhibition in collaboration with the Media & Art course at the TAMA Art University Tokyo and the University of the Arts Berlin. This event was not just about displaying artwork, more it was meant to be a space to initiate new thoughts and catalyze new ideas between Germany and Japan.
For the 1UM1 festival in Lisboa on the theme »Landscape: Using Your Illusions« we got invited to exhibit prints from the »Extracts of local distance« series. 1UM1 showcases and presents international and experimental intermedia art practices with emphasis placed on how technology and digital craft mediates, reveals and extends our senses, emotions and perceptions. Thanks to Teresa Dillon for the invitation and hospitality.
Looking at the aesthetics and game-changing qualities of rapid manufacturing and the merging of digital and physical manufacturing processes and methods, we were invited to join 2009 Pixelache festival in Helsinki. The exhibition took place in the ground floor of the museum of modern art Kiasma in the centre of Helsiki.