subtle technologies 2006 notes
(i still need to transcribe the notes taken during the conference, and will expand where relevant –Nik Gaffney)
threads
- strucutre & flexibility
- architectural → biological
- how to deal with flexible, fluid structures
- biologically static → dead
- parameterisabilty generalisabilty * biological influences on design (arch/product/procedural) * biomimetics as possible meeting point for bioogists, desingers, engineers. * buckminster fuller * tensegrity a framework for org. of multiple independent units * tensegrity everywhere synergetics everywhere
- objects vs. dynamics
- determinism
- in arch. and genetics/morphology
- complexity
- function of simple behaviour over complex landscape
- unpredictable iteraction/development of simple parts
- contingency, deferral and traps
- changes in perception & understanding due to instrumentation
- cf. parametric design, and headphones
- attempts ot making explicit, the implicit assumptions in various fields (?)
- translation & reinterpretation
soundtrack
- nww - ciconia - automating vol. one
- coil - 5meo-dmt - timemachines
- urawa - taking my VCR away - the most boring… .
- sluta leta - smakfull basmusik - semi peterson (edit)
- autechre - augmatic disport - untilted
- Track1.mp3 22.13“
- iancu dumitrescu - pierres sacrees 1991 - edition modern 1003 (edit)
- phoenecia - ruff harmonizer, eyebrow - brownout
- aube - calx - metal de metal
- otto van schirach - elastic parnormalities - 8000 bc (edit)
- loopspool - wohnzimmer.. - one word one sound [compilation]
- negativland - one more for the rodeo - death sentences of the polished.. ..
- col de vence - une topographie sonore - zyklop comp. (edit)