SlidingScale

SlidingScale

13-15/12/06 to 19/01/07:


SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) / Rapid-prototyping workshop & Looking into the Eye of God seminar. The Bartlett School of Architecture, i-DAT, m-DAT, nascent-research, trans-techresearch. Sliding Scale (13-15/12/06 to 19/01/07) presents a view of our relationship with the peculiar landscapes of digital technology as an ‘ecology’. In exploring these landscapes we navigate through a territory that is disturbed, moist, blurred and vacillating. We are forced to focus on the ‘relationships between’ where process replaces product in importance, just as systems supersede structure. The tools that form these landscapes are harbinger’s for a meaningful ecological (both machinic and natural) audit of specific sites and processes. They demand the development of new strategies and protocols for their users (designers, engineers, architects and artists) and require that the sites, agents, provocateurs, disparate observers and drifters that consume and influence their output critically engage with them.

Download: SlidingScales.pdf

SlidingScale Workshop: The Bartlett School of Architecture and i-DAT

SlidingScale Workshop: The Bartlett School of Architecture and i-DAT

slidingscale.jpg
(15/12/2006) i-DAT & The Bartlett School of Architecture are collaborating on an SEM (Scanning Electron Microscope) and Rapid-prototyping workshop to generate an exhibition to be installed in January 2007 at University College London. The workshop and seminar are part of Nascent Research Digital Knitting Practice based research workshop, the Tran-Technology research Seminar series (Looking into the Eye of God) and the Invisible Architectures module for m-DAT. This continuing collaboration with Unit 20 of the Bartlett School of Architecture builds on last years Arch-OS workshop held in the IVT.

PDF Download 

EMPOD

EMPOD

10/03/2006:


i-DAT have been developing the EMPOD, a Scanning Electron Microscope Simulation interactive pod with the Plymouth Electron Microscopy Centre.

The commission from the National Marine Aquarium is part of the brand new 3.6 million Explorocean Centre, which is set to open on 10th March.

The web-enabled pod offers interactive explorations of microsopic organisms and incorporates a real (but dormant) Scanning Electron Microscope.