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.
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
Art & Crisis. A Polyphonic Research on the Contemporary | Donatella Bernardi (ed.)
CHF 28.00
Polyphonic research into contemporary, Art & Crisis» is the first volume of a new series aiming to explore the state of the world and cultural theories as seen through the lens of contemporary artistic practices and educational tools. Stemming from the Master Fine Arts at the Zurich University of the Arts, and edited by MFA director Donatella Bernardi, the series’ ambition is to replace the traditional “degree show” catalogue with a theoretical publication showing the path followed by the students-turned-artists over the course of the year, and to explore how an educational institution based in Zurich can locate itself within the global (art) world.
320 pages, jrp|Ringier, 2018
ISBN 978-3-03764-525-3
Where does the wind go when it is not blowing? With The Wind Tunnel Model, artist and scientist Florian Dombois proposes new forms of interaction between art and science. Key to this project is Dombois’s wind tunnel laboratory at Zurich University of the Arts. With an empty test platform, the laboratory is a compelling example of architecture that turns its back on its occupants, forming an invisible, yet disturbingly concrete, secondary model.
208 pages, Scheidegger & Spiess, 2017
ISBN 978-3-85881-792-1
