“Journey of the Universe”
Film Screening of Journey to the Universe (directed by David Kennard and Patsy Northcutt) with special guest Mary Evelyn Tucker (Divinity, Environmental Studies, Yale, writer of Journey of the Universe). Thursday, February 29, 2015 / 7:00 PM, UCSB Pollock Theater, Admission $10 general / $5 students.
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“Journey of the Universe”
Film Screening of Journey to the Universe (directed by David Kennard and Patsy Northcutt) with special guest Mary Evelyn Tucker (Divinity, Environmental Studies, Yale, writer of Journey of the Universe). Thursday, February 29, 2015 / 7:00 PM, UCSB Pollock Theater, Admission $10 general / $5 students.
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Federico Winer zooms around the world through the elevated eye of Google Earth’s satellite camera. With the click of his mouse, Winer captures Earth’s chromatic quirks and psychedelic geometric patterns in his photographic series, Ultradistancia. From his virtual vantage point, Winer adjusts the satellite image’s zoom until the world transforms into a series of abstract forms and characters. After manipulating color, brightness, and focus, the earthly appearance of his subjects falls away. What replaces it is a secret life of architecture and topography seen only from afar. (source).
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The Hudson River Park Trust has announced a project to install a lush public green space hovering over the Hudson river off of New York’s Lower West Side. Known as Pier 55, the space’s platform would sit on top of the deteriorated Pier 54 supported by a forest of 300 blossoming pillars of varying heights. The two-and-a-half acre park would rise as much as 186 feet above the river’s surface and contain three performance venues, as well as provide a breathtaking view of the city skyline. The design is a collaboration between Thomas Heatherwick and Mathews Neilsen. (source).
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Designer and architect Margot Krasojević recently revealed designs for this futuristic home concept, called the Hydroelectric Tidal House, in which tidal wave power is harnessed to generate energy. The idea proposes the construction of a structure with an outer and inner shell, providing for a two-part turbine system. The concrete outer shell anchors the house to the beach and uses solar cells to provide an electrical supply to the living area. The inner shell, made from aluminum, is more fluid, rising and falling with the changing of the tide. Krasojević explains, “Tides are more predictable than solar and wind energy making it simpler to find an appropriate location to harness this renewable energy source.” (source).
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Buenos Aires, Argentina-based designer Santiago Muros Cortés recently unveiled the Solar Hourglass, a proposal for an enormous, hourglass-shaped structure that will use solar energy to produce enough electricity for up to 860 homes. Constructed from primarily recycled steel and aluminum, the impressive structure uses “heliostat” mirrors to reflect solar heat down the neck of the installation, where it will be stored as concentrated energy. Cortés’ design has been named the winner of the 2014 Land Art Generator Initiative, aims to oversee the design and construction of public art installations that are not only aesthetically striking, but that also generate clean and renewable energy to provide power to thousands of homes around the world. (source).
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UK-based artist Tom Hare created the Cherry Tree House, a large-scale structure woven from thin boughs of wood into a beautifully spherical shape. At nighttime, illuminated with lights that reveal the intricate form and texture, the Cherry Tree House truly comes to life, taking on the appearance of a magical home for creatures like fairies high in the treetops. According to the artist, his medium of choice is willow for its many special properties. “There’s something about willow that’s evocative. The smell, the texture, the way it moves,” he says. “The connection with nature, through coppicing and transferring observations into design, can be a humbling experience, and a physical one too.” (source).
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“The Penumbra Falls: Thinking about the Potential Near-future of the Anthropocene”
Erik M. Conway (Historian, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) to give IHC lecture. Thursday, February 12, 2015 / 4:00 PM, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB.
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Scenocosme (Gregory Lasserre & Anais met den Ancxt), ‘Akousmaflore’, Interactive installation, Sensitive and interactive musical plants. ‘Akousmaflore’ is an interactive installation, a small garden composed of living musical plants, which react to human gestures and to gentle contact. Each plant reacts in a different way to contact or warmth by producing a specific sound. The plant “language” or song occurs through touch and the close proximity of the spectator. Our invisible electrical aura acts on the plant branches and encourages them to react. The plants sing when the audience is touching or stroking lightly them. A plant concert is created. (source).
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Michael Anderson’s wood carvings are about as far from old-timey whittling as it gets. By programming a specialized computer numerical control machine (CNC), he cuts incredibly intricate geometric patterns into pieces of plywood. The process itself is reminiscent of early, subtractive versions of 3D printing, which carved desired objects out of blocks of wood. “Each material expresses itself in a unique way,” Anderson explains of his newest efforts, which involve making sculptures from plaster and resin, as well as with a three-sided flip mill. “Experimenting with different materials allows me to understand the limitations of not only the hardware, but the material itself.” As a result, he’s been able to transform his relatively flat wood-patterned carvings into elegant 3D cubes. (source).
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Nick Zinner (of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs) is a musician who ceaselessly surprises us with his versatility. He blew us away when he led an orchestral ensemble of 41 strings in an originally composed performance celebrating the 41st anniversary of Earth Day. Organic clothing company Loomstate put on the event, where Zinner conducted and played with an impressive lineup of violins, violas, cellos, electric and acoustic guitars, upright bass, electric bass (and some drums and synths thrown in for good measure). “Writing this piece has been different than anything I’ve ever done,” Zinner says in the behind-the scenes-video (above), “I just want to make something that’s good and has some sort of emotional resonance, something that’s easy to connect with.” (source).
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