Monday. 06 December 2010. 09:00 UTC
New York’s Museum of Modern Art (
MoMA) is planning a new exhibition for summer 2011 titled
Talk to Me which promises to be nerdtastic. The exhibition team, lead by senior curator,
Paola Antonelli, is sifting through an ever-mutating list of potential pieces for the show. This queue of artworks currently includes two Stewdio pieces: the collaborative
Exit (Terre Natale) data animation and our
Jed’s Other Poem music video for the band Grandaddy. Some friendly faces appear in the queue as well: studio mate
Jürg Lehni and recent studio guest
Jaakko Tuomivaara.
Wednesday. 15 December 2010. 11:30 UTC
A rather good day to pause and review. In November Robert Gerard Pietrusko and Stewart unveiled their latest collaboration, Under Vine, for the SFMOMA’s new exhibition How Wine Became Modern: Design + Wine 1976 to Now. Under Vine is a data animation describing a modernized view of wine production and export.
Last week Jürg Lehni and Stewart visited Sara De Bondt’s Design Without Labels class at the Royal College of Art to conduct a workshop. The two gave a “subjective and fragmented” history of programming (beginning with punch card looms and largely avoiding actual computer languages all together) and then delivered an assignment brief challenging the students to create their own language and example applications for the following week. More after the jump…
Friday. 03 December 2010. 16:00 UTC
Next Tuesday
Jürg Lehni and Stewart are conducting a workshop for
Sara De Bondt’s masters class at the
Royal College of Art in London. The pair will introduce themselves and talk a bit about their separate practices before giving a design brief to the students. The results of this brief will be examined the following Tuesday.
Tuesday. 01 February 2011. 15:00 UTC
Jürg Lehni and Stewart have been invited as tutors to a one month workshop at the
Royal College of Art organized by the
Helen Hamlyn Centre and sponsored by
Research in Motion. As part of the workshop proceedings Stewart will be speaking about his work at the
RCA tomorrow afternoon at 13:30 in the Performing Arts Lab (on the first floor of the Stevens Building). Jürg will do likewise the following Wednesday.
Tuesday. 15 February 2011. 15:00 UTC
Jürg Lehni has been featured in the relaunch issue of
Grafik Magazine (issue #188, pp.28–41). The profile includes photos and descriptions of Jürg’s work and interview snippets from Jürg, his collaborators, and his brother
Urs Lehni. Some projects highlighted in the profile include
Scriptographer,
Empty Words,
Hektor,
Rita,
Flood Fill, and the
Lineto type foundry website. You can read more about Jürg’s work on his website,
http://lehni.org and watch more video at
http://vimeo.com/lehni/videos. Also check out the brand new
Things to Say website, a curatorial collaboration between Jürg and
Alex Rich, at
http://thingstosay.org.
Thursday. 03 November 2011. 12:00 UTC
For a few months now we’ve been kicking around a hobby project called
Chatttr—located at
http://chatttr.com. It’s a free-for-all chat room that allows users to create and share simple line drawings. But that’s just the surface of Chatttr. From the foundation upward we built Chatttr as an experiment in anti-social networking. What happens if there are no accounts? No login? What if multiple people can have the same username? Or change their username between each post? What if there’s no permanent archive?
More after the jump…
Thursday. 22 December 2011. 18:00 UTC
The year is at its end—a moment to reflect upon twelve months of experiments, achievements, and blunders. 2011 opened with
multiple trips to Karlsruhe, Germany to collaborate with the
ZKM Center for Art and Media on a very early version of
trans_actions. In
February Stewart served on the judging panel for TED’s Ads Worth Spreading competition and tutoring a month long workshop at the
RCA with Jürg Lehni.
April was packed: More visits to
ZKM, the Creativity and Technology conference posted my
Code Play lecture video, Paola Antonelli wrote an article for Domus about data visualization that used
Exit as an example, and I posted some odd
X-Files triptychs.
More after the jump…