Too Big to Scale. On Scaling Space, Number, Time and Energy | Florain Dombois, Julie Harboe (eds.)
CHF 29.00
The result of a 2015 symposium at Zurich University of the Arts, Too Big To Scale brings together essays by a diverse interdisciplinary group of artists, designers, engineers, and scholars who explore the significance of scale within their respective disciplines. The contributions take as their point of departure the camera, which combines three pathways for scaling—film speed, lens size and speed, and frame rates for fast and slow motion. The possibility of copying images adds a fourth variable, replication. The camera, as the contributors show, does not merely depict our world but can also be seen as actively producing our thoughts and imagination.
208 pages, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2017
ISBN 978-3-85881-793-8
The twenty-first century has been marked by our almost boundless ability to imagine things at a larger, or smaller, size; at a faster speed; capable of solving complex problems using less energy. Our imagination on the topic of scale has driven technological progress, but it has also long inspired the creation of art. With the onset of industrialization in the nineteenth century, experimentation with scale across almost all disciplines accelerated to an entirely different dimension.
With contributions by Haseeb Ahmed, Olivier Chazot, Florian Dombois, Andrew Fisher, Simon Grand, Julie Harboe, Juliet Koss, Adrien Lucca, Frank Schweitzer, Mirjam Steiner, Helmut Völter, Sarine Waltenspül, Christoph Weckerle, and Reinhard Wendler.
Was wäre das 21. Jahrhundert ohne eine Vergangenheit massloser Skalierung? Der technologische Fortschritt lebt wesentlich von der gedanklichen Fähigkeit des Menschen, sich Dinge grösser oder kleiner vorzustellen, Prozesse schneller oder langsamer zu imaginieren oder Energien in der Vorstellung zu verstärken oder zu reduzieren. Diese Fähigkeit begleitet den Menschen zwar seit den Anfängen der Kunst und ihrer Repräsentation, nahm aber seit der Industrialisierung nochmals ganz andere Dimensionen an.
Dieses Buch versammelt Beiträge von 14 Vertreterinnen und Vertretern aus Kunst, Kunstgeschichte, Systemdesign, Kulturanalyse und Aerodynamik, die sich an der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste ZHdK zur Diskussion der Bedeutung des Skalierens in ihren jeweiligen Disziplinen getroffen haben. Ausgangspunkt war dabei die Kamera, die mit Linse, Zeitlupe/Zeitraffer, Filmempfindlichkeit bereits drei Dimensionen des Skalierens in ihrem Apparat vereint. Die Vervielfältigung als vierte Dimension lässt den vermeintlichen Abbildungsapparat zur Denk- und Vorstellungsmaschine avancieren.
Texturing Space. Towards an Exponential Cartography | Amélie Brisson-Darveau, Christoph Brunner (eds.)
CHF 25.90
Texture weaves and relates. It moves through things, holding them together, providing contours, shaping forms. This publication is an experimental and collaborative exploration of texture from an artistic, design and conceptual angle. Based on a year-long research process between Zürich and Hong Kong the book seeks to give an account of processes of texturing as practice and material effect in urban environments.
Breathtaking Greenhouse Parastructures | Luis Berríos-Negrón [E-Book PDF]
A supplement to the Arcades Project from a Caribbean Perspective [and a call for a careful practice of epistemológica].
Doctoral Thesis in Art Technology Design
This is not a Gardening Book | Wander M. van Baalen, Jana Thierfelder, Patrick Müller (eds.) [E-Book PDF]
The cultivation of transdisciplinary practices. A work by many
This is not a Gardening Book collects essays and glossary entries that open new pathways for doing more-than-disciplinary educational work. The contributors to this volume – students, scholars, and artists from a diverse range of intellectual and disciplinary backgrounds – explore the transformative potential of education that does not stop at disciplinary and institutional borders. The book is meant to be taken up as a “tool to think with”. May it serve as a catalyst for thinking about and experimenting with new modalities of transdisciplinary teaching and learning.
204 pages, ZHdK and other universities, 2023
ISBN 978-3-003-09678-3