Today was the official opening of “Terre Natale” for the Cartier Foundation in Paris, a project to which I devoted the past two months. The architecture agency Diller Scofidio + Renfro was asked to realize philosopher Paul Virilio’s perspective on changing conditions around the world.
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Terre Natale
Juncture LA
Juncture Website
“Juncture is a participatory, public space, media environment about historical memory, cultural identity, and collective recognition in Los Angeles. The core content component of the environment is the Remapping-LA interpretive media database, containing thousands of historical images, videos, and sounds enriched by layers of metadata including temporal and geographical information, descriptive texts, and extensive tagging…”
“Junction is a colaboration between REMAP/UCLA, California State Parks, Walt Disney Imagineering, and CENS/UCLA.”
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Monumento 872
What began as a simple end of the year party ended in a culmination of art, music, community, history, technology, and last but not least—tacos. UCLA’s TFT course in Interactive Multimedia teamed with REMAP to explore the history of Los Angeles through the integration of cutting edge Nokia N83 mobile devises and Cisco Systems WiFi grid. We used these devises to map Los Angeles in innovative ways using GPS and REMAP’s massive image database. (more…)
Germs Burn for Darby Crash
This piece was presented as part of the Visual Music Concert performed by UCLA Design | Media Arts students under the direction of Casey Reas. Each student chose from a list of experimental sound pieces. We then used Processing to create our representation of this piece through animate visuals. My visuals are an abstraction of Matmos’ piece “Germs Burn For Darby Crash”. It was originally intended as a performance, as the visuals were 50% controlled by myself and 50% by the sound itself.
Caracas, Venezuela
The first stop on my SAS voyage around the world. Though I felt a bit unsafe at times, the people were wonderful and were ready to debate the current political situation at a flip of the hat. Don’t miss out on the “Cachapas” or their signature dish “Pabellon Criollo”.