Saturday, April 5, 2008

Lecture: Open Source Design and Collective Invention

Networks
Archigram - Plug-In City. Living within the network. Node/Links. Total node network. Networks about horizontality - flat space, infinite surface.
Nework continous and extended. Building has become the planet. Superstudio.

Megastructures. Archizoom. Non-stop city. The prosthetic extension of the human body through electronics. GIANT ELECTRONIC BRAIN.

www.instructibles.com

RepRap(?): Opensource rapid prototyper

Mash-Up & Remix Culture. Danger Mouse, The Grey Album, 2004

Negativland

Culture Jamming
Adbusters
Will St Leger

Surveillance Camera Players
Upgrade and Repurpose

Jodi. Jodi.org. Joan Heemskerk (Bogotá) and Dirk Paesmans (Caracas)

Criticality in Art and Design
Combining things to make a new meaning. Usually more striking if both things seem unrelated at first glance. Idea of the ready made - dealing with the existing, working in context, re-examination.

William Burroughs - The Naked Lunch. Cut Up. Cut up filmstrips to create new associations.

Fluxus - John Cage, Tacit, 1960

Pop Art
Jasper Johns American Flag.
Andy Warhol, Cambells Tomato Soup

Punk - situationalist

Deconstructivisim Gordon Matt-Clark

Pomo Pastiche - Irony

Kitch - Jef Koons


Camp

Diane Arbus - margnal photographs.

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