Fast-UK

"Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders'is an exhibition of contemporary arts and design practice. It is especially concerned with object and spatially oriented disciplines, the use of digital technologies and the convergence of sculpture, product design and architecture.This exhibition will bring emerging and existing contemporary practitioners and technologies into the public arena and help to make cutting-edge developments in art and technology more accessible. 'Perimeters, Boundaries and Borders' will be held from 29 September - 21 October 2006 at venues across Lancaster city centre in the North West of England. The main exhibition space will be the new CityLab development in Dalton Square. The exhibition is open from 12 - 5 pm, Mon - Sat. The aim of this exhibition is to present the very latest examples of work that blur the conventional boundaries of arts and design practice through the use of technology. "

Check out the contributors at http://www.fastuk.org.uk/pbb.htm - Some intriguing intersections between product design and contemporary technology.

Sample Analysis Drawings

Here are some examples of analytical drawings for you reference.

http://www.tentwenty.net/pratt/degree-484p/samples/24-CU-Bow-Horn.jpg
These are student drawings from "Education of an Architect" where different instruments or equipments are analyze through the use of sectional drawings over time.

http://www.tentwenty.net/pratt/degree-484p/samples/04SP_DZO_ALIBERTI_D25.jpg
http://www.tentwenty.net/pratt/degree-484p/samples/04SP_DZO_EGGERS_D23.jpg
http://www.tentwenty.net/pratt/degree-484p/samples/05SP_DZO_MURPHY_D2.jpg
http://www.tentwenty.net/pratt/degree-484p/samples/05SP_DZO_MURPHY_D4.jpg
http://www.tentwenty.net/pratt/degree-484p/samples/05SP_DZO_MURPHY_D9.jpg
These are a series of student drawings from Pratt where they are asked to analyze specific sneakers. The indivdual shoes are examined through their physical attributes and their performative values and they are illustrated here in a series of analytical drawings and diagrams.

Luxury Items

Some of you might be interested in Wright 20th Century's Luxury Catalog.
http://wright20.com/wn/luxury/cata_luxury.html

Conflux 2006

You guys might be interested in checking out these events related to Conflux, an annual arts and urbanism festival with events centered in Brooklyn: http://www.confluxfestival.org/

See the description from Rhizome below:

Festival for Contemporary Psychogeography
CONFLUX 2006 begins this week, and we invite all of you to join us! This year's Conflux will take place September 14 - 17th, headquartered at the McCaig-Welles Gallery in Brooklyn. Over 80 artists from across the US and countries including Canada, UK, Spain, Germany, Finland, Sweden and Australia will come to Williamsburg to present projects including experimental walking, biking, boat and public-transport tours; street games and tech workshops; mobile broadcasts, performances and temporary installations. For more information, including a detailed schedule, project descriptions, and contributor bios, please check the Conflux website!

Luxury is...

Something that I wanted to comment on since we've received some preliminary statements: The goal of the "Luxury is..." statement is to identify on a highly specific level, a significant and perhaps essential attribute of luxury based on very precise and specific evidence from the case studies. I would encourage everyone to avoid thinking about this statement as a catch-all definition, but rather a key, but partial description of a dimension of luxury - "Luxury is the excess of geometry", "Luxury is many seemingly incongruous yet coincidental functions", etc. Use this as an opportunity to be descriptive and precise about a particular example, not luxury in general. Equally important is the notion that while these statements are speculations about what luxury is, their specificity will also automatically begin to exclude that which is luxury is not.

past/present "luxury"

So, as we talked in class;
Does it matter on which part of the timeline that we focus onto as to what is considered to be luxury?

Hi Everyone. The exhibition designed by Arup's Advanced Geometry Unit that I emailed about this week will be up until October 28. Artist Space, 38 Greene Street, 3rd Floor in SoHo. http://www.artistsspace.org/