Augmented Reality: Peeling Layers of Recent Press

Sep 2, ’11 5:28 PM

WSJ images of the Libeskind AR, as well as AOmi's Kathleen Triem and Peter Franck

We are happy to see that this week the Wall Street Journal ran a piece on AOmi’s summer exhibition, Augmented Reality: Peeling Layers of Space Out of Thin Air, and Artinfo posted on AR and the artworld, with sp

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Desire Landscapes

Aug 6, ’11 5:48 PM

Charles Simonds, People Who Live in a Circle (1972); Michael Ashkin, Prison No. 5 (2010)

In his seminal book, The Shape of Time, the scholar of Pre-Columbian art History, George Kubler, began with a simple observation:

Let us suppose that the idea of art can be expanded to embrace the whole range of man-made things, including all tools and writing in addition to the useless, beautiful, and poetic things of the world. By this view the universe of man-made things simply coincides with the history of art. It then becomes urgent to devise better ways to devise better ways of considering everything men have made. This we may achieve sooner by proceeding from art rather than from use, for if we depart from use alone, all useless things are overlooked, but if we take the desirableness of things as our point of departure, then useful objects are properly seen as things we value more or less dearly.

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The Intersection of Architecture, Art and Landscape

Apr 10, ’11 9:12 PM

Rotating hotel corridor set, Inception (2010); Tiger Woods Golf Course Dubai (NYT 04/02/11)

Welcome to AO:B. For the next few months we will be experimenting with the shape of this blog. The hope is that it can be a stand alone site, over lapping with the activities and aims of Architecture Omi; a place to visit and enjoy thinking about architecture’s place in the world right now. The aim will be to offer a look at architecture in it’s broadest sense – stretching the term to include the nominally invisible utilitarian man made environments of our infrastructure (what Stewart Brand describes as “something grey, behind a chain-link fence.”), to environments of desire created by filmmakers and video game designers. Landscape and art will be given an equally broad frame.

We are open to contributions from the AO:B community, and hope to become a resource from them in turn.

Robert Smithson, Discrete Stage Site (1967); Clement Valla, Postcards From Google Earth, Bridges (2010)

 

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