How do artists reflect on modern politics, commerce and technology, at a time when Britain is planning to leave the EU, immigration remains a major world issue and the 2016 US presidential election, which may have been influenced by Russia’s infiltration of email accounts, resulted in President who uses twitter relentlessly? The third of four […]
How is social media taking over our lives? In the VW Forum in Berlin, Datenmarkt (an art project by Florian Dohmann, Maximilian Hoch and Manuel Urbanke) has a video of their project for the first supermarket in which people pay for their groceries with their Facebook account. There is, however, a sinister side to social […]
It looks like leather, but is actually drawn in pencil; it looks like a drawing of shapes and lines but actually it’s a photograph; it looks like a typical photograph of a school class, but actually is a pencil drawing; it’s called a drawing but is created using projectors and lights. The boundaries between media are […]
Coloured lines move and pulsate across the computer screens, drawn by invisible hands. Manfred Mohr’s early career was as a jazz musician and an “action painter”, both of which allow free expression and breaking of established rules, though he became more interested in logical sequences and algorithms in his art and it therefore seemed a natural progression […]
"The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul."
(Thomas Moore)
To be an architect means having a wide range of interests - architecture, art and creativity in all its variety of forms, sustainability, science and innovation. The greatest interest is often where these different worlds overlap and collide - that is when something imaginative often occurs that pushes us all forward to another place
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