Gallery / Featured Work / Beyond Media
Martha Skinner and Doug Hecker were invited to bring the work of their students
to SCRIPT - SPOT ON SCHOOLS an international exhibition of new media in Florence
Italy. The event which included lectures, workshops, exhibits, debates, and
video presentations is part of the BEYOND MEDIA festival which is “devoted
to the most advanced visualizations in architecture and to the debate on the
relationships between the project and the media of communication.” The
events took place during December 1 – 11 at Ospedale degli Innocenti,
Salone Brunelleschiano and at Stazione Leopolda, Spazio Alcatraz.
Clemson was one of only 20 international schools of architecture invited to
participate. There were eight countries represented. Six students from Clemson
and an alumnus attended the event. Faculty and staff from our Genoa program
also attended. The students’ projects were published in the SCRIPT catalogue
published by Editrice Compositori. Two publications were also put together
by Skinner and Hecker representing the work of these courses - A/V Mappings
and Notations: Investigations in Motion, Time and Space and Southern Cities.
As part of the event, Skinner also presented a lecture entitled A Section
– Dissection of Time/Space: The study of One City.
Participation in this event was an opportunity for Clemson students to test
the ideas that were being explored in their studio at full scale. The work
presented included a collection of projects from the Southern Cities studio
led by Doug Hecker and work from Martha Skinner’s A/V Mappings and Notations
Seminar and 4th year studio fall 05. The installation which was entitled Motion
Mapping presented individual student projects while mapping the activity of
people as they interacted with the student work presented during the period
of one week - the length of the exhibit.
Motion Mapping:
The project was inspired by Parallel, an example of Vision in Motion by Moholy-Nagy.
In this 1937 photograph by Ryuji Sibata the mosaic pattern of a swimming pool’s
bottom in its distortion reveals the movement of a swimmer as it interfaces
the body of water.
By using 18 miles of string threaded and hanging from laser cut panels with
a pattern of varying densities a thickened penetrable fluid space was formed.
This space was made luminous and also measurable by the projection of slowly
changing colored light and moving horizontal lines which penetrated the space
at different densities marking time at three different rates.
The volume of string and the projected lines were deformed by the movement
of people as they passed and engaged with the work embedded within the string
volume and playing on two small LCD screens. These deformations were captured
with daily video recordings and re-projected into the volume during each following
day in a layered process which developed a video drawing of the motion and
activity through the space in time over the course of a week.
Visitors who came to see the student work imbedded within were drawn to the
silky tactility of the surface of the volume, quickly disappearing into it
while others already inside would suddenly reemerge while interacting with
the disappearing and reappearing ghosted projections of the previous users
of the space.
The light and colors of the projection filtered through the various densities
of moving string creating from without a luminous inviting solid and from
within; an experience like that of being submerged in water. This effect which
was phenomenological for the visitors, took the experiment back to the Moholy-Nagy
“space-time synonym” example that inspired the work. The string
volume experiment while being a mapping through the revelatory deformations
of a mass is also like water as an experience. The project submerged people
into a space of refraction, light, color, depth, movement and fluidity.
Clemson Faculty invited to Beyond Media:
Doug Hecker / Martha Skinner
Clemson students and alumni represented in the exhibit:
Losse Knight / Hans Hermann / Matt Warner / Alicia Reed / Dan Culbertson
/ Matt Clarkson / Cleve Walker / Sandra Doyle / Brooke Barr/ Mike Stopka /
Lindsey Sabo / Peyton Shumate / Emily Cox / Thad Rhoden / Donna Horne / Knox
Jolly / Cole Stamm / Addison Woodrum / Fraysse Lyle / Mason Edge / Sheldon
Lovelace / Jonathan Pitts / Marc Leverant / Isaiah Dunlap / Akiko Matsumoto
/ Simons Young.
Clemson students who worked on the Motion Mapping installation:
Donna Horne / Knox Jolly / Cole Stamm / Addison Woodrum / Fraysse Lyle /
Mason Edge / Sheldon Lovelace / Jonathan Pitts / Marc Leverant
Motion Mapping Installation photo credits:
Mason Edge / Doug Hecker / Knox Jolly / Martha Skinner / Raffi Tomassian
Funding:
Clemson University Deans Discretionary Funds
Clemson University McMahan Fund for Excellence
Schools which participated in the Beyond Media exhibit:
Architectural Association / Carnegie Mellon University / Clemson University
/ Columbia University / ETH Zurich / Fabrica / Hosei University / Instituto
Superior Técnico / Miami University / NABA / National Chiao Tung University
/ Pratt Institute / Princeton University / SCI-Arc (Southern California Institute
of Architecture) / Uc Berkeley / Università La Sapienza / University
of Applied Arts Vienna.
Architects that participated in the Beyond Media exhibit:
2A+P / 5+1 Architetti Associati / 99IC / AEDS - Ammar Eloueini / Barbieri + Cafaggini / Casanova + Hernandez Architects / Chora + Raoul Bunschoten / Cibic & Partners / ERREMIX / Estudio Teddy Cruz / EZCT Architecture & Design Research / FAT / Huljich + Hamburg / IaN+ / id-lab / invOFFICE / Bernard Khoury / ma0 / MAP office - gutierrez + portefaix / MDU Architetti / Alessandro Mendini / Périphériques Architects - Jumeau + Marin + Trottin / PLOT - Julien De Smedt and Bjarke Ingels / ReD | Research + Design / Sami Rintala + Paul Brand / Bill Seaman / David Serero - Iterae Architecture / SPLITTERWERK / Studio ghigos / Tezuka Architects / TOROLAB / Xefirotarch - Hernan Diaz Alonso / ZPstudio.
For more information or if interested in exhibition and/or presentation of
the Mapping Motion volume, please contact Martha Skinner at (864) 656-6424
or marthas@clemson.edu