One of one hundred cities made in metal I have just exhibited them as part of Camberwell Arts Week London. Based on simple code but made by hand.
One Hundred Cities.
Archive for June, 2010
city of processed codes
June 19th, 2010
RESPONSIVE ARCHITECURE FACADE
June 18th, 2010
This proposal has won the Nova Folkets Hus facade international juried competition and is now in development. This AOF Nova facade utilizes, electronic art, new digital media, interactive technology, dynamic real time solutions, and networked space to create responsive architecture that reflects the emotional real time state of the city of Trondheim by UK artist Stanza.
The facade becomes a live dynamic interface, an artwork that changes its behavior as a result of the changing condition in the environment. This works by sensing the city and the environment to make art. The results become representations of the real time spaces and environment of Trondheim.
Environmental data is collected across the urban and environment infrastructure to make the artwork; using custom made sensors in the building and around the city. (30 custom environmental sensors units measure, light, noise, sound, humidity, and temperature). This data is turned into a online real time visualization of the space. The sensors interpret the micro-data of the interactive city. The output from the sensors display the real time environmental and emotional state of the city online in real time and the information will be used on the façade and online interface to control it.
My environmental sensors are scattered all over the building and city; this means I am literally painting with live data.
Beautiful Maps
June 18th, 2010
This is a map I painted in 1988 now in a private collection. One of a series of beautiful maps. Oil on canvas. Thought I would post it up as I am off to the British Library maps exhibition. Maps, as this show makes plain, are art works. Maps as works of art, propaganda pieces, expressions of local pride, tools of indoctrination… Magnificent Maps brings together 80 of the largest, most impressive and beautiful maps ever made, from 200 AD to the present day. http://www.bl.uk/magnificentmaps/
Residency at Lanternhouse
June 18th, 2010
Residency– A City of Dreams.
Dates – 21 July until 1 September 2010
This project will take place in the Barn at Lanternhouse, as Stanza creates cityscapes in an Open Studio process. During the creation process, Stanza will reveal the architecture of creation. He will reveal the actual process; lay bare the reality of the work, physically by showing the machinery of the piece in progress and theoretically with a series of show-and-tell invitations to the public. This is also a new way of using the Barn as a studio and the project will help Lanternhouse make sense of the actual building and how spaces are utilised. In this way, the “open studio” mirrors the process of the project, with material and philosophical process being available to witness throughout.
Stanza will document his work and it will be available online for audience and participants to follow. The Barn will be an Open Studio, a public domain space possibly with a live CCTV link available online at www.Stanza.co.uk for a public online audience to follow the process. This is not the creation of a visual exhibition; this is open process and development / production of work.
Participation
A City of Dreams is process as exhibition, with opportunities for participants and audience to see the artwork unfold and then to see the final piece during the last week of September. Participants will have the chance to talk with the artist at intervals through the six week period, as the work develops. They can engage with the development as there will be the chance to be involved practically in building the city. Stanza will create this work/s and be available to participants during the day as agreed as an “open studio”. The aim is to allow people to engage in making the work.
The artists website www.stanza.co.uk will be used as a showing space for the final piece and documentation and selected documentation will also be made available for Lanternhouse website.
Key themes: Networked, real time, responsive, mediated, online, dataspace, city, artwork.
Lanternhouse, The Ellers, Ulverston, Cumbria, LA12 0AA, United Kingdom
