Production of Architecture

Visitors from virtual space are hacked into a surveillance photo art installation at the Royal Institute of Technology School of Architecture in Stockholm.

Your friends at studio un/real
/Mr Kobayashi & Mr Matern

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Second Life Modern Dance Theatre, founded by a group of architecture students from the Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden in collaboration with The Stockholm Modern Dance Theatre are proud to present a performance and installation. The Office SL-url.

Technology not only surrounds us but has also become incorprated in our everyday lives, working as extensions of ourselves, shaping our experiences and our methods for creative production. This seminar takes its starting point in some classical texts in the field of new media theory. We will discuss how the formation of space, image, identity and language have been informed by the development of ever more sophisticated technologies.

Here are all the presentations for the reviews in the course unreal central perspective. The presentations took place at The Royal Institute of Technology, February 22nd and March 16th 2007. Each project is presented with a short text and images. Guest critics was Ana Valdés and
Annika Olofsdotter Bergström

Rocky Horror Picture Show - Second Life-A-Long 1st of March at The Office/Second Life 12 PM SLT or Stora Gasquen, KTH, Stockholm 21:00 (doors open 19:30) in collaboration with the Pirate Cinema "What happens when Second Life meets the actual physical world?" Rocky Horror Picture Show - Second Life-A-Long is an experiment where an interactive screening of a film simultaneously happens in Second Life and in the physical world. During two hours the virtual world gets the opportunity to create a place in the physical world. How that place will be experienced depends on who and what is in Second Life at that specific moment. The qualities of the virtual world such as its ability of constant change and of surprise are taken advantage of in order to create two hours of architecture. The Office SLurl.

Various fears and threats of reproduction have been announced since at least the beginning of industrialism. Cheap products will conquer the world and leave true quality as a vague memory of times, long gone. At the same time reproduction have also been seen as the modern light, pushing the shadows of the murky past aside. Adorno and Horkheimer warned about the consequences from the cultural mass industry, whereas Benjamin saw possibilities in reproduction that also bear political promises.

unreal central perspective starts January 22th 1 PM at the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm. The Office SLurl."Talking about the new is just so last Friday. On the other hand, by saying the same we always create something new. In this work we are using all kinds of different strategies and different materials, connecting and re-connecting things and contexts. Instead of thinking that changing something means doing the opposite, which means simply reversing the image in the mirror and continuing doing the same, this work is all about changing the way things change. Or as Nike put it in a recent ad: "On our way to innovation we passed something beautiful."

Liquid Architecture in the MAKING

Follow the building process here. During the final week of the project cities are made of this we realized two projects in Tensta, Tensta Green Guerilla and Tile my Afrodite.
Come and join us for the Grand Opening on December 21st at Tensta konsthall.view SLIDESHOW here