Studio research blog 2012/13

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Exhibition 2012

The Idea of a Tree - Mischer'Traxler

The Idea of a Tree - Mischer'Traxler

Summary:


Viennese designers Mischer’Traxler have created a solar-powered machine that makes furniture, with the shape and colour of each product determined by the amount of sunlight available during manufacture.

Reversed Volumes by Mischer’Traxler

Called Reversed Volumes, the vessels are made by packing ceramic powder around vegetables where it hardens without firing, leaving a detailed imprint inside each container.

Would be great to do this with a Romanesque broccolli.

Fibonnacci number

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/FibonacciNumber.html

Display ideas

Display stands and boxes

Locking stand-offs

Storage and display for Rocks, Fossils and Minerals

shelving:

Slide developing and mounting

Gepe website - for slide mounts

Lisa Tan

Lisa Tan's website

http://spacecollective.org/Beatrix

Tony Orrico

Tony Orrico is a visual artist, performer, and choreographer. His Penwald Drawings are a series of bilateral drawings in which he explores the use of his body as a tool of measurement to inscribe geometries through movement and course. The master of each drawing is a conceptual score of Orrico's efficacious techniques, imposed variables, and specified durations and/or objectives. He explores the limitation of (or the spontaneous navigation within) the sphere of his outstretched arms, considering themes of repetition, locomotion, refraction, and eventual exhaustion. He performs his ideas live as a shared process that yields a unique impression or print of the original concept.

Tony Orrico's website

 

 

 

 

Ana England

Net (2002)

As a connecting element to the building, motifs on interior walls celebrate the interconnectedness of the various disciplines within science and mathematics. Designed by Ana England of the Department of Visual Arts, the representations are at one level realistic, depicting forms in nature such as strata of rock, cells, wings, seeds, molecules, and geometric shapes, and at another level highly symbolic representing interdependency, the life cycle, inquiry and research, numeric systems, learning, and transformation. [As described by the Natural Science Center website:  http://campusplan.nku.edu/academic_buildings/science.php]
[Abstract from artist statement Ana England, A celebration of interconnections] “Net” is shorthand for network, a system or group of interconnected individuals….England derives the literal image of Net from the algae net that lies on top of still water, whose structural forms are visible under a microscope. Microscopic plants like algae exist in colonies; each plant is dependent on and linked to the others.

Melanie K: The Fibonacci Sequence: Mathematics, Nature & Art

Melanie K: The Fibonacci Sequence: Mathematics, Nature & Art

Kelly Deakin

Kelly Deakin's blog

Claire Scully

Tree Trunk

Alan Bur Johnson

Alan Bur Johnson website

Kate MccGwire

Brood (2008)

Wanting (2006)

Feather sculptures/installations


Lour, feathers on board, 11" x 42", 28 x 107 cm, 2007

Dwell II

Dwell III (2011)

Vex (2008)

Host (2008)

Host (2010)

‘FUME’ (2007). Handmade book, burnt. Dimensions 38 x 80 x 13 cm. “In ‘FUME’, Kate literally and metaphorically plays with fire; a hole burnt into the pages of a hand-made book resembles an inverted flower. The unexpected beauty and fragility of the incinerated pages, however, is subverted by the heresy of the action.”

Seethe, handsewn book from Seawhite paper, 3.5" x 15" x 15", 9 x 38 x 38 cm, 2007

Waste (2007)

‘STIGMA’ (2011). Mixed media with Lead and Pigeon tail feathers, framed. Dimensions 48 x 48 x 7 cm.

Snare (2009)