'Artist talk'
June 13th
Artist talk / Uptown underground and untitled times square intervention
- Abstract: This talk will address the potential for leveraging physical-digital technologies in public-realm interventions which help offer fuller engagements in our current realities. It will serve as a platform to present the project Uptown Underground, which uses projections and accelerometer data to bring urban context down into an underground subway ride, as well as an in-the-works intervention which uses photovoltaic cells tuned to LED screens and air cooling methods to critique mass energy waste in Times Square.
- Biography: Ian Callender is a New York City-based artist and designer exploring the intersection of the built environment and digital technologies. His work challenges traditional dialectical oppositions of structured / organic, form / un-form, and digital / literal. He holds a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and is currently pursuing a Master of Architecture at Columbia University GSAPP. His work has been recognized by the Media Architecture Institute, iF, and the Art Directors Club; covered by ArchDaily, Designboom, and Hyperallergic; and exhibited internationally.
Benjamin (Benjy) Akhavan is a multidisciplinary designer and educator based in New York. He is a principal at FOAWM, a nondescript Firm / Office / Atelier / Workshop / Milieu with polyvalent interests at the intersection of design and urban life. Benjy holds degrees in architecture from the Spitzer School of Architecture at the City College of New York and the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University. He teaches visualization and design at the New Jersey Institute of Technology and has exhibited design work in New York.
Venue
- MACBA - Convent dels Àngels
Plaça dels Àngels, 5, Barcelona
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