gray matter(s)

leeland mcphail — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 02:49:40 +0000

Recent Graduate to Show at YAF Summer Salon 8/24/2010

may — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 23:52:54 +0000

Recent SoA Graduate, Arseni Zaitsev, and Jonathan Henry, Sci-arch Graduate, are exhibiting their new installation ALEXANDRIA this weekend at YAF’s Summer Salon at SPSU.

ANONYMOUS STUDIO proposes a light 1000 sf canopy for the SPSU Gallery, the purpose of which is to engage students as they come to start a new year.After its initial installation as a plain canvas, students are encouraged to change the tiles in the installation by replacing elements with those of information. This proposal is to celebrate materiality and an adjunct to the new material library.

ALEXANDRIA seeks to employ digital fabrication techniques and responsive conditions to create a physically and discursively interactive installation. ALEXANDRIA utilizes a simple conical figure emphasizing its place in the room and transitioning from a canopy system into an object in the space. Hovering inches from the floor, ALEXANDRIA suspends itself in the space and refuse to acknowledge its relationship with the ground. The symbolic disillusionment with the political datum of the ground relinquishes ALEXANDRIA from prescriptive idealizations. ALEXANDRIA will not be tainted by agendas but will be appropriated but those who are most likely to contribute to it.

ALEXANRIA is a recursive element meant to become a repository of current work occurring at SPSU. Each panel of the surface is intentionally documented and easily producible in order to allow the students to participate in the layering of their projects onto the frame of ALEXANDRIA. It will be a place of storing and retrieving the ongoing studio work that occurs concurrent with its lifespan.

Upon entering into the space, the surface is fully opaque. This lends itself to the presentation of student work. As you transition to the far side of the piece, the work of the student fades and the work of the artist appears. The increased opacity, thinner panel coverage, allows the viewer to see the paneled surface behind the students work and creates two surfaces, the surface of the exterior screen element and the reverse surface of the opaque presentation area. This internal/external dilemma is produced with its internality prohibited from occupation, creating an imagined space of occupation surrounded by the amassed knowledge of the higher education system.

Date: Friday, August 27th, 2010

Time: 7-9pm

Location: Southern Polytechnic State University (From I-75 North, take exit 263 (Southern Poly/Roswell). Follow the ramp towards Southern Poly. Merge onto South Marietta Parkway. Go through three traffic lights. Take the East Main Entrance on the left which leads onto campus.)

signing_off [ Passing the torch ] _ leeland mchpahil

leeland mcphail — Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:31:31 +0000

leeland mcphail passes the torch to a new group of thinkers/makers with an open question having to do with our visuality.

a night’s walk from graymatters on Vimeo.

The image is taken from a piece leeland made in the class visual practice with senior instructor- fred pearsall. Click on: “Read more” to see complete video installation.

Somewhere down the line we, as a society, have come to know everything through vision. An easy example of this is the passing of a family that listens to the baseball game on the radio, to watching it. In this video, the sound sometimes matches with the visual artifacts, but at what times, and what are we even looking at?

How might we come to know something by the way it sounds, when our vision does not give us enough information?

As a way of interrogating our visual tendencies, i made this video using processing 1.0, adobe after affects (twice), and a digital slr.

Haiti 2010: Debris Issues

wade cotton — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 17:22:10 +0000

Melissa Estacio, 4th year ID student, compiled and designed this video taking the viewer on a photo journey of some Georgia Tech professors and grad students’ trip to Haiti where they examined the ongoing issue of debris removal.

Haiti 2010: Debris Issues

signing_off | ali karimi + vincent yee

Ali Karimi — Thu, 06 May 2010 23:34:11 +0000

reflections on learning – 3rd year spring studio

peace,

Vinny and Ali

PS. reflections on learning
PPS To create a learning center in which the light becomes another element of the
learning process.
PPPS An interpretation of learning built around a literal and figurative exploration of
‘reflecting’. Light as a practical and phenomenological element of a design.
PPPPS The scheme draws on monasteries as a typology,and the relationship between
cloisters and a courtyard. The result is a combination of the two : a building
made up of a monastery and a plaza clad in glass. These two parts are connected
by an atrium.
PPPPPS The atrium acts as both lightwell and gathering space. The light is a phenomenological
metaphor for the relationship between individual and collective
thought. Tesselated cloisters reflect light into the interior, and the reflecting
pool allows for the resulting caustic optics to fill the space with light. Below
the pool is a computer lab/group study area which recieves the reflected light
without causing glare.The amount of direct light in the atrium is carefully manipulated
so as not to overheat the space.

signing off | may

may — Wed, 05 May 2010 23:56:34 +0000

options II studio

tristan al-haddad

staging performance

program driven apertures frame elevated public performance space with screened hotel backdrop.

signing_off | gavin johns

gavin johns — Tue, 04 May 2010 12:44:57 +0000

Simplistic beauty has been the goal from the start. Beauty that comes from a modest operation and becomes delightfully absurd. The field of steel columns with operable planter boxes defines a new datum with which the topography plays. Entering the site, the avenues cut into the field to allow movement and gathering spaces. As you move up the hill, you slowly rise out of the forest and see a field of living and dying plants that stretch out over the site and crawl up the hotel.

The vegetal tone of the project channels through millennia of leisure theory: hanging gardens of Babylon, Eden, Summer of ’68 and the Situationists, O.M.A.’s La Villette, and Constant’s New Babylon. Guiding inspiration from each of these projects and writings, Hotel Luden is a place designed for true leisure – liberation. The design problem of creating place that reiterates spontaneity requires much more than the shallow understanding of how we interact. “The liberation of behavior requires a social space that is labyrinthine, but at the same time continually subject to modification.” – Libero Andreotti

signing_off | james murray

james murray — Tue, 04 May 2010 01:11:40 +0000

JFM. ARCH 2012. TIM FRANK. DP_1.

signin_off | hamza

Hamza — Mon, 03 May 2010 23:16:14 +0000

Design Problem 1 from Arch Design Studio 2 dealt with the nine-square problem, in which students were asked to design a pavilion for the College of Architecture. While its programmatic requirements were minimal, the problem asked students to rethink how materials were used and create some performative aspects of building.

Media: Photography, Photoshop

Model Media: Basswood, chipboard, acrylic paints

Design Problem 1: The Nine-Square

ARCH 2012

Course Coordinator: Mark Cottle

Instructor: Tim Frank

and this one is for James

signing off | hrach | Urban Design Studio

Hrach — Mon, 03 May 2010 18:43:14 +0000