Future

Hopefully we have deepened our knowledge of the past to better our decisions of the future.

Predict the future through patterns of the past: Design motif

"The Best way to predict the future is to invent it"

Allen Key

Robotics:

Took decades of engineering to create a robot that could move on two legs. Word Origin:

1920's Factory that produced artificial people, called robbots.
"Robot" in Chekoslavakian means to force labour.
Leonado De Vinci - First robots: He was the first to contemplate the idea of the robot.

MIT's 2007 annual robotics engineering competition.

"Suvival Research Labs"

SLR Art proformances by robots, industrial robot fights. They have been made ledgenary by such free invitation proformances, as in if you invite SLR they will come and preform for free. Over the years their proformances have grown more violent as the robots have gotten more sophisticated.

Robotlab

Jukebot

- They study the relationsip between robots and people. More common robots are the industrial robots, of which there are literally millions, however they are rarely found in public spaces, usally only foound in industrial places.

They Argue that because of this, people have not assesed their own relationship with robots and they want more robots in public spaces.

"bios [Bible]"

2007

- A robot wrote out the entire bible by hand in ink pen, uninterupted. - High precision of text! Script writting.

Stalrac

"Third Arm"

1981 We never had a mind of our own, our bodies are manipulators.

The Tissue Culture as Art project. "dissembodied Cusine" www.tca .uwa.edu.au. Frog steak, Do we need to kill animales to eat them?

Seems like science teachers trying to pass off math as art when art is the emotional side, they just can't mix!

Eduardo Kac - "Alba"

Flourescent Bunny, now that we can create life like this, how will we deal with it?

Maray Shelly (Frankenstein 1818)

Jules Verne (journey to the centre of the earth 1864)

H G Wells (War of the Worlds 1898)

Issac Asimoue (I, Robot 1950)

2001 A Space Odessey (1968)

- Robots taking over, Turning Evil and killing. Popular Idea up to the 1980's; Yet now robots are smarter, instead of simply killing people, they infiltrait them, with the goal of genocide of the entire human race, Battle Star Galactica.

Star Trek, We copy ideas from it (Palm sized communicators ...)

"Any sufficiently sophisticated technology is indistinguishable from magic"

Authur C. Clark

Ecology of the Artificial

The moral responsibility of the designer; "There are few professions as harmful as Industrial design"

Ecolologically sustainable design

• The Ecosphere [earth]
• Atmostphere [Air]
• Biosphere [Life] } A Limited Evironment
• Lithosphere [Rock]
• Hydrosphere [Water]

Easter Island Example

Stone Statues on the coast.

Europeons arrived and found barren wasteland

The inhabitants chopped down all the palms to make ropes and transport the newly created statues to the coast. The last statue was erected and the last palm cut down. But the main source of food was fish, but without the wood to make canoes there was no more fishing, so soon the inhabitants decended into chaos. Civil war erupted and the natives turned to canabilism. 90 percent of the population was killed off.

This storey shows how a comparitivily primitive peoples with primitive technology was able to destroy themselves.

As designers this raises te question of "What was the persons thoughts as he cut down the last Palm Tree?" did he think somehow more would appear?

Redistribution of materials, taking more from the biosphere and dumping it back into the earth. Product Life Cycle: -> Design Concept -> Materials and Manufature -> Packaging and Transport -> Consumer Marketing -> Consumer Use -> End Of Life ->

The transition from 'Green Design' to an ecological model of the artificial.

Deconstructivist Architecture.

• Frank Gehry - Gehry House
• Our world has changed - So our architecture should reflect that.

Green Design

Ethics. eg Energy saving 'sleep' function. We added on an energy sleep mode to the computer, which is a plus, but then we feel ok about leaving the computer on the whole time.

Ecologically Sustainable Design

Instead of throwing away computers for a faster one, just replace the part you need. An extreme example for this is a tyre puncture, don't throw away the tyre, just repair the puncture.

Lecture on Technolgy

• Consumerism as a weapon against Communism.
• Consumerism as a distraction.
• Aluminium the material of the war. Houses were built more like military houses.

We can change and rearrange the house as a plaything.

The Push Button House [It starts off as an ordinary shipping container, but throw a switch and ninety seconds later the Illy Push Button House has magically expanded into a five-room abode. Architect and designer Adam Kalkin created this jack-in-the-box-like dwelling, whose sections are unfolded by powerful hydraulic cylinders controlled by a computer in the kitchen section. The house is made out of recycled materials, and has a dining area in the centre, surrounded by a bedroom, living room, library and kitchen. This mechanized hydraulic contraption is on display now at New York's Time Warner Centre until December 29th, in hopes of demonstrating how prefabricated houses can be placed in, say, a disaster area and quickly assembled in a matter of seconds. Now if Kalkin could just figure out how to include a roof in this design, we think he might be onto something.]
A house made from a shipping container. The Wife can control the house at the push of a button from the kitchen.

Objects produced that we don't actually need, i.e. Fluoride in water, do we actually need it? Or an electric tooth brush as opposed to a normal one?

The Car is like a moving home, treating it like a living space.
TV screen as our Window into the World, but it isn't because its actually artificial, and yet people treat it as such.
Drive Throughs.
Americas strength is compared to how many appliances they have, not how many Nucleor Weapons they have.

DIY multi talent embrace of technology.

Graphic Digital Artist; Romoki
People need to get away from buying completely useless stuff.
- “Why do we need to mess with electronic devices and call it art?”
Romoki designed objects that have no use and provide minimal entertainment.
Taking consumer products and presenting them as art in a different context, i.e. Cell phone converted into a toy racing car. Taking old consumer products people put too much emphasis into and turn it into art.

Open sourced software.
- Human readable code is distributed freely to anyone who wants to modify it

Criticality of Art Design

Ren Koolhaus

"Peirecing analogues apparently incongrous ideas and creating something industrial"

Richard hamilton, Marcel Duchamp - Representing ideas as art. presenting something in a different way i.e.

Andy Warhole - Campell Soup

Frank Gehry

Drooy Design

Salvador Dali

Sex Pistols - Punk

Gorden Matta-Clark - Creating Voids through the buildings, making cuts in the unodorned buildings to show beauty.

Networks

About horozontal, charcterised by flat space, or infinite space. British group of Paper Architects [Paper Architects produce work that is not built but more a political proposal] called Archigram; 1960's


-Their ideas included plug in cities that were mobile, and entire cities that were moveable as if they walked, a city that was more like a network of connections. it was more like utopian idea.






New Babelon; 1969














Archizoom; 1969 - Non stop city ( A plan that looks like a circuit board).

When the city becomes a circuit, a moving network. Users contribute to the design, many people adding a small peice, adds to the whole project.





Superstudio; 1969
- Architectural model for urbanisation




Wikipedia
- Open sourced network.

Binary Opposition

Post modernism, opposition of made form. Post modernism made awareness of 'other' disabled access. To design in the 1950's: Richard Hamilton: Just what is it that makes today’s houses so different; 1956 Pop art; Art is for the masses! "Magnifying glass" 1962 1970: Abstract Expressionism; painting about how one felt at the time he painted it. Hippy movement, design, music, clothing. In the 60's society stopped needing and started wanting. Needs vs. Wants. Explosion of mass consumerism.

Moon landing, Sparked allot of 'moon design' i.e. TV’s shaped like helmets, futuristic "space looking design"

Ettore Sottsass, Started Memphis movement, highly post modernism. No innovation in time at crisis

No innovation in a time of crisis as there is any money to buy. [1971 Nixon suspended conversion of U.S dollar into gold]

Paris [1968] - Student uprising, the students did not like what they were being taught and by who, so they started protest which led to riots and many arrest but finally they were able to choose their lecturers


Post Modernity Building


X Y Z Buildings, Alienating with its mirror glass "Curtain" Walls which don't allow passer bys to look in yet they don't know if they are being watched...

Robert Taylor Homes
Chicago Housing Authority 1964, His buildings turned into slums, housing drug addicts and crime, which eventually turned into murder...
Therefore his buildings were demolished.


Le Corbusier wanted streets within the levels of the buildings, yet on hindsight we can see this created slums as these streets could not possibly police all the streets.

The Architects' dream 2001, Collage, VSBA Rutter Thomas Cole, demonstrates principals from Learning Las Vegas, Learn from what is on the highway. A building with a sign sells what the sign says, it doesn't matter what the building looks like. Poetics of space

Structuralism

- Levi strauss. Foucault Lucan, Bathes

Word is meaningless, it is just association, and post modernism is only significant.

Design and Postmodernity

Post Modernity - is everywhere, from literature, design and philosophy.

Modernity - Renaissance, Modernity because it is now.

Modernism was all about meaning, it had a value system.

- ities: Describe the whole system, that ideology.
- ism: Are the qualities associated with these ideals

Post modernity: State or ideology of being postmodern, 1950 - 1960's, late modernism (or early Post Modernism)
Max Buildit, director of HFG School of design. 1955 -1968. Post modern design is innovated into the lessons.
America - post war 1940 - Ideas for modern buildings, Bauhaus moves to America to modernism is accepted.

Levithown House, 1955, was built. 17400 houses all identical were built, urban district where nature was suppressed. Women were also suppressed.
Post modernism was about choice; Feminism too, is about choice.

Lecture Two 10th March

Computing and media art

Search for the philosophical language

Serve as an international auxiliary language enabling people with different native languages to communicate with each other.

As a scientific language providing a simplified system of symbolism for the exact expression of all actual and possible scientific knowledge.

John Wilkins (1614-1672): Wrote a key text for philosophical language universal language, Charles BabbageAlan.
M Piell for Apple; First commercial computer

1963 Ivan Sutherland published sketchpad
changed the way people interact with computers
Douglas Englebart's NLS demo 1968 (On-line system)"The Mother of all Demos" 1990s.
Apple Power Macintosh
microsoft windows 95world wide web

History of Media Art. Multimedia art. New media.digital art. Art and technology1834. Zoe trope 1831. Phenakisto scope Eadweard Muybridge 1878
Motion picture "the Horse in Motion"
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy-first electronic artistNam Jun Paik 1958 First video artistJohn Whitney-father of computer animation

Idea to re-build the world after WWI, 29th cont...

Modernism History [continued from last two post]

Industrialization
Machine is a key part to this movement

• Remake peoples values
• Design could educate people

Modernism started to move widespread, and modernist architects became city planners, who were now in a position to express this "new architecture" a new spirit, movement toward: "the new"

Bauhaus: New movement took practical form

• Work
• Creativity
• Value

Breakdown of art and workmanship
Art was not just for the rich, everyone should have access to good design.
Value: Art was not just for museums, it seperates its aesthetic value from everyday life
Bauhaus wanted to integrate these three principals, and integrate them into everyday life and society.
Form Follows Function
Design language ie; Handles, different fuctions (kettle, door) Different forms.

Nazi's closed Bauhaus as a purge of modernism, in generally moved to the United States

Searching For a Utopia: 29th Continued...

Modernism History [continued from last post]

WWI was seen as a loss of rationalization, they believed: "If they become more rational with their design, it would create a more rational society" they wanted to create art into life

Russian Constructivism

Due to the Russian Revolution led by Lenin and the murder of the last Tsar; Nicolai Romonov II and his family as the only hiers to the thrown, this brought about an age of re-construction for Russia, an age of building where they were no longer held back by the restrictions of the Tsar

1919 El Lissitzky. "Beat the Whites with the red wedge" Graphic art using very basic geometric shapes.
1925 El Lissitzky. "The Constructer" A self portrait of Lissitzky, the hand of god across his face but not his eye.
Structure is expressed
Reduce everything down to the barest geometric shapes, 1920 Aleksandro Rodchenko's Spiral construction no 20.
Tatlins Tower, monument to the third international 1920, lage dynamic form, basic geometric shape, no ornamentation.
Katazyna Kobra, "Art was not something to be viewed at from a distance" you should walk through it, experiencing a sculpture

Italian futurism
they were intoxicated by the possibilities of the machine, imangined a world shaped by technology, even poetry was delivered in way to express a machine like quality in the readers voice.
Umberto Boccioni - 1913 sculpture of a man running, space and form become one, no seperation.

Modernism: Designing new Worlds - 29th

Modernism History

Modernism Came about after the World War. Architects and Designers dreamed of a world free of war or class, They believed design and technology could shape society.

Baroque Period 1600 - 1700

Ornamation in design, a more expressive style of design wich showd faith power and pristigue. ie Château de Versailles.

Industrialisation
James Watt's: Watt Steam Engine 1775 still retained classical elements in its design ie; the columns. The machine still didn't have a style yet and was still influenced by decorations such as from the Baroque Period.

Joeseph Paxton Crystal palace 1851
A modern glass and steel building used in an exhibition showing highly decorated objects inside, Design style was still: "What sort of ornament should we apply here"

William Morris was the founder of Modern Design, defending simplicity in a time when design was ornamated and full of eclectism. He was said to have been influenced by Gothic designer Pugin Augustus. Radical stripped back chairs, Sussex Rush-seated chairs (consided bare of ornamentaion) Morrisbelieved he could change society for the better through his designs, he made wallpaper designs which were flowy and were mostly designs of flowers.

There was a stripping back of materiality; Otto Wagner, Adolf Loos, Joseph Hoffman (Sitting machine 1908). The Deutscher Werkbund - Henery Van der Veld and their theory of rationalization

Then came the World War