Exhibition tip - Tomas Saraceno at MUDAM

http://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/ original article

Tomas Saraceno's Galaxies Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider's Web was the ultimate photo-magnet at this year's Venice Biennale. No doubt the work he's exhibiting at ReThink: Contemporary Art and Climate Change in Copenhagen is meeting with the same fascination from the audience. I've seen his artworks in numerous group exhibition. They are always striking of course but i never really took the time to sit down and watch his work with enough attention.

Tomas Saraceno, Galaxies Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider's Web, 2009 (detail)

MUDAM gave me a great opportunity to do just that. The Luxembourg museum is currently dedicating one of its exhibitions to the Argentinian artist with videos, sketches, photo documentation of his experiments, prototypes of inflatable structures anchored to the floor of the galleries, etc.

View of the exhibition © Photo: Andres Lejona

The artist's suspended gardens and nomadic architecture follow the steps of the structures conceived by Peter Cook, Yona Friedman, Buckminster Fuller and the members of Ant Farm. Saraceno's vehicles are "lighter than air", they are powered by solar energy and made with materials such as aerogel, an extremely low-density solid derived from a gel in which the liquid component of the gel has been replaced with a gas.

Tomás Saraceno, Sharjah/Flying Garden/Air-Port-City (working title), 2007. © Photo: Andres Lejona

His Air-Port-City is an ongoing experiment that interconnects various living areas floating in the air through a system of modules. Saraceno's architecture is ethereal and delicate, it is poetical and utopian but because they are ruled by regulations similar to airport ones, his cities also challenge existing political, social, cultural and military boundaries. They are truly international. Inhabitants will survive eating the produces of the "Flying Gardens" made of plants that can survive the constant changes in spatial and temporal conditions. There will be 'airplants' for example. These plants, from the genus Tillandsia, feed on rain, dust, insect matter, dew and whatever nutrients the air brings to them.

Tomás Saraceno, Space Elevator II (working title), 2009. © Tomás Saraceno

The work of Tomas Saraceno is on view at MUDAM in Luxembourg until January, 3, 2010.

Previously at MUDAM: Mudam, the Museum of Modern Art in Luxembourg (part 1)and Mudam (part 2): RRRIPP!! Paper Fashion.

Related: Open Sailing, drifting lifestyle to cope with looming disasters.

TED 2010 fellowship, Cesar Harada

2009/12/14 : It is now official and public :
Open_Sailing will be present at TED 2010 Long Beach!
Following is the Press release
http://www.ted.com/pages/view/id/394

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TED ANNOUNCES RECIPIENTS OF NEXT 25 TED FELLOWSHIPS

Newest TED Fellows to participate in the prestigious TED2010 Conference in Long Beach, CA

NEW YORK, December 14, 2009 — Organizers of the TED Conference announced today the 25 TED Fellows who will participate in TED2010, TED’s annual conference in Long Beach, CA, February 9 – 13, 2010. The TED2010 Fellows join the TED community as the most recent additions to the TED Fellows program, joining the TED, TEDGlobal and TEDIndia Fellows from 2009.

The TED2010 Fellows reflect both geographic and discipline diversity. From Israel to Brazil to Malaysia, these innovators excel in the technology, entertainment, design, science, film, art, music, entrepreneurship and nonprofit worlds. The group also includes filmmakers, engineers, artists, scientists and musicians.

“We are thrilled to embark upon our second year of the TED Fellows program with these 25 individuals. They represent a spectacular concentration of cross-disciplinary talent in the arts and sciences, entrepreneurship and engineering, education and new journalism. We look forward to their contributions to the TED community and the amazing collaborations that are sure to occur among them," said Tom Rielly, TED Fellows director.

In addition to participating as full members of the TED2010 conference audience, each TED Fellow will participate in a two-day pre-conference, where they will receive world-class communication training, deliver a short TEDTalk, and collaborate with their peers, among other benefits. The Fellows will also participate in the TED community throughout the next year, by telling their ongoing stories on the TED Fellows blog, being featured in the online Fellows directory and participating in a private social network.

The TED Fellows program seeks individuals of age 21-40 (though anyone over age 18 is eligible) who demonstrate remarkable achievement in their field of endeavor. The program focuses on candidates from five regions: Asia/Pacific, Africa, the Caribbean, Latin America and the Middle East. The TED Fellows program is made possible by the visionary support of the Bezos family, Sherpalo Ventures, the Harnisch Foundation, the Case Foundation, private donors and Nokia.

Meet the TED2010 Fellows:

Mubarak Abdullahi (Nigeria/UK) – Aircraft engineer who, at 24, built a homemade helicopter out of old car and bike parts

Milena Boniolo (Brazil) – Chemist and PhD student at Federal University of São Carlos, Brazil, who is developing methods to detect emerging contaminants in the environment

Premesh Chandran (Malaysia) – Co-founder and CEO of Malaysiakini.com, an independent Malaysian news website

Perry Chen (US) – Co-founder and CEO of Kickstarter.com, a web platform offering people a new way to fund their creative ideas and endeavors

Anita Doron (Ukraine/Israel/Canada) – Surrealist filmmaker and documentarian

Ndubuisi Ekekwe (Nigeria/US) – Engineer, inventor, author and founder of the African Institution of Technology, an organization seeking to develop microelectronics in Africa

Saeed Taji Farouky (UK/Palestine) – Documentary filmmaker, photographer and writer focusing on human rights in the Middle East and North Africa

Jessica Green (US) – Professor at the University of Oregon’s Center for Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, whose research focuses on microbial diversity

Benjamin Gulak (Canada/US) – Inventor of the Uno, a “green” electric street bike, and founder of BPG Motors

Robert Gupta (US) – Violinist and youngest member of the Los Angeles Philharmonic whose area of study also included neurobiology

Cesar Harada (Japan/France/UK) – Coordinator of the Open_Sailing project, working to develop open-source technologies to intelligently inhabit the oceans

Susie Ibarra (US/Philippines) – Composer, percussionist and co-founder of Song of the Bird King, a production company using music and film to preserve indigenous culture and ecology

Jennifer Indovina (US) – Founder of Tenrehte Technologies, a semiconductor company developing wireless smart-grid applications

Mitchell Joachim (US/Canada) – Architect and co-founder of Terreform ONE + Terrefuge, non-profit design groups that promote ecological design in cities

Raffael Lomas (Israel) – Sculptor and teacher of creative visual workshops for the blind

Kate Nichols (US) – Artist-in-residence at the Alivisatos Lab who synthesizes nanoparticles that exhibit structural color and incorporates them into macroscale art pieces

Sharmeen Obaid-Chinoy (Pakistan/Canada) – Documentary filmmaker and founder of The Citizens Archive of Pakistan, an educational institution and heritage center established to preserve Pakistan's history.

Sarah Jane Pell (Australia) – Artist-researcher, diver and founder of Aquabatics Research Team initiative (ARTi)

Manu Prakash (India/US) – Junior Fellow at Harvard Society of Fellows, physicist and inventor pursuing research in the field of physical biology

Kellee Santiago (US) – President and co-founder of thatgamecompany, a video game company working to create games that communicate unique emotional experiences

Durreen Shahnaz (Bangladesh/Singapore/US) – Founder and Chairperson of Impact Investment Exchange Asia (IIX), a social stock exchange for Social Enterprises to raise growth capital

Gavin Sheppard (Canada) – Founder of I.C. Visions and co-founder of The Remix Project, a youth program acting as an arts and cultural incubator in Toronto, Canada

Hugo Van Vuuren (South Africa/US) – Fellow at the Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Fellow at The Laboratory at Harvard, co-founder of Lebone – a social enterprise working on off-grid technologies

Angelo Vermeulen (Belgium) – Biologist, filmmaker, and visual artist creating large-scale collaborative art installations

Daniel Zoughbie (US) – Founder and CEO of the Global Micro-Clinic Project (GMCP), an organization working to prevent and manage diseases in the developing world using low-cost behavioral interventions

Details on each Fellow and the program are available at www.ted.com/fellows. To support the program, or to receive more information, please contact Logan McClure at +1 212.346.9333 or via email at fellows@ted.com. Follow the TED Fellows blog at http://tedfellows.posterous.com.

About TED

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to Ideas Worth Spreading. Started as a four-day conference in California 25 years ago, TED has grown to support those world-changing ideas with multiple initiatives. The annual TED Conference invites the world's leading thinkers and doers to speak for 18 minutes. Their talks are then made available, free, at TED.com. TED speakers have included Bill Gates, Al Gore, Jane Goodall, Elizabeth Gilbert, Sir Richard Branson, Nandan Nilekani, Philippe Starck, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Isabel Allende and UK Prime Minister Gordon Brown. The annual TED Conference takes place in Long Beach, California; TEDGlobal is held each year in Oxford, UK. TED’s media initiatives include TED.com, where new TEDTalks are posted daily, and the Open Translation Project, which provides subtitles and interactive transcripts as well as the ability for any TEDTalk to be translated by volunteers worldwide. TED has established the annual TED Prize, where three exceptional individuals with a wish to change the world are given the opportunity to put their wishes into action, and TEDx, which offers individuals or groups a way to host local, self-organized events around the world. Follow TED on Twitter, twitter.com/tedtalks, or on Facebook, www.facebook.com/TED

TED2010, “What the World Needs Now,” will be held Feb. 9-13, 2010, in Long Beach, California, along with TEDActive, a simulcast conference of TED2010, in Palm Springs, California. TEDGlobal 2010, “And Now the Good News,” will be held July 13-16, 2010, in Oxford, UK

Logan McClure
Program Officer, TED Fellows
TED Conferences

Open_Sailing at Mission Future Global Summit 2009, Linz Austria

2009/09/06 Linz : Cesar Harada representing Open_Sailing (http://opensailing.net) at Mission Future Global Summit, 11:00-12:00 The Future of Technology
missionfuture.trendpool.com/?p=5943
Photo by Stephanie Werner.

With
Hide Ogawa // Creator & Artist, Ars Electronica Futurelab; DENTSU Inc
Constantin Gonzalez-Schmitz // Ambassador Technical Systems, Sun Microsystems
Horst Hörtner (tbc) // Director, Ars Electronica Futurelab
Amanda Parkes // MIT Media Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Tangible Media Group
Hiroshi Ishii // MIT Media Lab (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), Tangible Media Group

opensailing.net

Open_Sailing at Ars Electronica 2009 [NEXT IDEA] grant

2009/09/04 Ars Electronica Linz, Austria,



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMM_sSwztdA


film made by fhTVstudio

Open_Sailing at the Art & Architecture Association

http://artandarchitecture.co.uk/photo/aa-event-jul09-nomadic

Information

Cesar Harada / Hiromi Ozaki / Ruairi Glynn

Monday 06th Jul 2009

6:30pm for 7:00pm

The Gallery, 70 Cowcross Street

London, EC1M 6EJ.

Nearest Tube: Farringdon

Entrance: £6 non-members - £4 members/Students - £2 Student Members

Synopsis

Open_Sailing is an alternative vision of life at sea: pioneering innovative architecture, navigation and sea farming techniques to create a life that’s comfortable, sustainable and safe. This interdisciplinary team are developing a floating architecture: a laboratory for techno-social experiments that evolves like a living organism. Gradually, this project is building towards a voyage across the Atlantic Ocean, from the Azores to Brazil; currents and drift will carry this nomadic structure on its way.

Cesar Harada studied Applied Arts at Ecole Boulle; animation at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs Paris; and industrial design at the ENSCI Les Ateliers Saint-Sabin. He is author of HARADA and Open_Architecture (RCA publication.) and taught at the Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Architecture de Versailles.

Hiromi Ozaki is a programmer and artist. A Maths and Computers graduate of Imperial College, As Sputniko! Hiromi also creates music, performances and films which humorously explore quirky ways in which we engage with technology. Hiromi is the creator and developer of hi-ve, a swarm intelligence-inspired operating system.

Cesar and Hiromi are both researchers in Design Interactions at the Royal College of Art collaborating on Open_Sailing. (www.opensailing.net)

Ruairi Glynn is director of the blog www.interactivearchitecture.org

Open_Sailing at the Barbican

Open_Sailing was presented by Cesar Harada & Hiromi Ozaki at the Barbican as a part of the Radical Nature exhibition. The conference was called "aqua-tecture".

http://www.barbican.org.uk/artgallery/event-detail.asp?ID=9353

3 parts video on youtube :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMq-Xgmms54
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBx0ZQVqkb8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSJlzp9pRS0

Aqua-tecture 27 August 2009 Redgrave Suite, Level 4

Tickets: £5 Time: 7.30pm

Discover extraordinary examples of architecture designed for and inspired by the sea. With Cesar Harada and Hiromi Ozaki of the Open_Sailing project, along with Frank Gutzeit, who worked with visionary architect Wolf Hilbertz and his Biorock coral structures.

Open_Sailing at the MIT

http://techtv.mit.edu/videos/4014-open-sailing-presentation-in-future-craft

Cesar Harada and Hiromi Ozaki have been presenting Open_Sailing at the MIT Media Lab Tangible group the 2009 sept 16.

Here is the lecture :



download video flv (227mb)  | wmv (475mb)

And this was our slideshow :

Whale Song - just for fun!

if you want to see it in better quality, please go this way!

City Symbiosis

02-16-2009 : http://www.thefunctionality.com/blog/2009/2/16/city-symbiosis.html

Michael Rakowitz is not an architect, but he has probably made more houses than many architects in the last ten years. Architects should be envious of the artist's production and vision. He is working with the margins of society. His project Parasite uses a building's heat exhaust to inflate plastic sheeting, creating dwellings for the homeless. For Rakowitz the project is about community involvement as well as dwelling design. He is responsive to the needs of his "clients."

Courtesy Michael Rakowitz

Bill S.’s paraSITE shelter. He requested as many windows as possible, because “homeless people don’t have privacy issues, but they do have security issues. We want to see potential attackers, we want to be visible to the public.” Six windows are placed at eye level for when Bill is seated and six smaller windows for when Bill is reclining.

The article on these structure at World Changing highlights the social impact of his projects. The social agenda is remincient of Archigram, Archizoom and the social idealist and critics of the sixties,where the concept of building was challanged to mean utopian spaces, inflatable huts, or technological phenomena in the guise of a natural environment.

Copyright David Green - Courtesy Archigram

Projects like the living pod,above, imagines a green field condition where the building tapped into site resources to make its own place. Parasite deals with the roughness and tactics of city dwelling. These structures are deployable in the aims of allowing their inhabitants to move when they are at the limits of the law.

At The Functionality we want to encourage this type of tactical thinking. Architects, artists, urban designers, even graphic designers need to re-examine how we will approach the city, our suburbs and even our housing as the economic and environmental conditions unfold. We think the sooner we start the better off we will be.

AV festival, Inspire Northumberland, NaREC Application

http://www.avfestival.co.uk/news/opportunities/av-festival-10-announcement-and-call-for-artists

We have just applied to this competition to develop the Energy_Animal with AV Festival in partnership with Inspire Northumberland and NaREC, the centre of excellence for new and renewable energy technologies in North East England.
pdf 1 Introduction, pdf 2 Full documentation

And now we keep our fingers crossed, because we really wanr to do this.

The aim of the residency is to provide an opportunity for an artist to carry out new research and share ideas in response to the key areas of sustainable energy technology undertaken by NaREC. The residency aims to provide a vibrant environment for an artist to research the relationship between energy, technology and innovation, and enable all the project partners to look at renewable energy technology in a new way.

Open_Sailing_01 @ RCA SHOW 2009

Ole !
It is indeed too late to advertise about it, but let's do it anyway : Open_Sailing was exhited at the Royal College of Art final show 2009, and it was a great success. We met so many interesting people! We got a nice website for our show.



The setup was simple, thanks to Ilona, Hiromi and Colet for your precious help.



And if you haven't seen it yet : the superb model made by Oliver Goodhall ! [How it was made]



The show was busy, it was so good !

Open_Sailing_01 was also nominated for the Helen Hamlyn Design Award and finalist ! Capture

Open_Sailing_01 was also selected to represent the college as one of the most promising sustainable project : Sustainable design at the Royal College of Art. Capture 1 | 2

All these great pictures taken by Hayeon Yoo, THANK YOU ! ( www.flickr.com/photos/hayeon/ )

Energy_Animal update

So here's an update by Gerard Rallo and Antonio Carvalho Fernandes,  nice 3D renders ! Original .3DS file 1 | Original .3DS file 2 | original images

So the Energy_Animal now is more modular, in order to be able to upgrade and maitain it part by part, without having to change the entire thing.



This Energy_Animal is placed on little legs to be usable on land too.







And this fantastic presentation by Antonio Carvalho Fernandes.

Open_Sailing @ Art & Architecture

http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dg7vzwwg_3ctf6rpkf

O_S at the V2_ Test_Lab: What Crisis?!

We have been invited to present Open_Sailing, the 9th July 2009, at the V2_ the institute for unstable media, Rotterdam, Netherland, it is very very exciting, powerpoint forbidden ! >>



http://www.v2.nl/events/test_lab-what-crisis

the event is going to be streamed and archived here ! http://live.v2.nl/

Download the flyer : .pdf 5.7 mb

see on vimeo | download the .mov high-quality (302mb) | WMV medium (182mb) |

In this edition of Test_Lab, V2_ will create its own special think tank for young artists to address issues of a world in crisis with artistic reflection and creative vision, laying out a young generation’s artistic view on our current conditions and ways of living.

Featuring: David Hahlbrock (DE) Academy of Media Arts Cologne, Cesar Harada (FR/JP), Dot Mancando (TH),Thomas Thwaites (UK) Royal College of Art, Sander Veenhof (NL) Gerrit Rietveld Academy.

Opening: Mieke Gerritzen
Respondent: Koert van Mensvoort

Performance: TokTek vs VJ MNK

Newspaper headlines report that our world is in crisis, but while the front page illustrates how bad the global situation is, a few pages down, positive tongues claim that the current global crisis provides us with unprecedented opportunities for creative technological innovation, social transformation, revisions of financial systems, environmental change, and entrepreneurship. But did we really need this crisis to generate these opportunities?! We think not. Our world is continuously in crisis, and therefore constantly requires critical reflection and rethinking. However, as the world’s future is said to be in the hands of the truly creative and critical thinkers, we are more than willing to soothe away any worries about the crisis by revealing a whole new generation of artists’ and designers’ views on the current state of affairs.

While elsewhere the crisis is being tackled by young scientists, policy makers, and entrepreneurs, through initiatives such as think tanks and campaigns, in this edition of Test_Lab, V2_ will create its own special think tank for young artists to address issues of a world in crisis with artistic reflection and creative vision. In order to do so, V2_ has made a selection of several outstanding graduation projects from this past academic year, that were proposed for the program by teachers and coordinators from various European art and design academies. The demonstrated works will lay out a young generation’s artistic view on our current conditions and ways of living: Featuring a truly objective coin-flipper, a revolutionary strategy for urban gardening, the first ever open source international ocean station, toast from a toaster made from scratch, and an interactively controlled greenhouse for growing graduation bouquets.

As is custom to Test_Lab, the audience is invited to assess these young artists’ reflections by testing the demonstrated artworks and designs themselves. So prepare for an evening of trying thought provoking electronic art and design that deals with urgent (and less urgent) aspects of a world in crisis. If after this any worries about the crises should remain, then TokTek vs. VJ MNK will soothe your cares away by performing live at Test_Lab: What Crisis?!

This event will be streamed live at http://www.v2.nl

External Links:

Academies:

Royal College of Art, London

Academy of Media Arts, Cologne

Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam

Projects:

Cesar Harada - Open_Sailing

David Hahlbrock - TransitGarden2

Dot Mancando - Coinflipper/The Buttons

Sander Veenhof - Publicity Plant

Thomas Thwaites - The Toaster project

New exhibition design

Staying as simple as possible, from left to right : the website, below a webcam, on the tablet a mic, a trackball mouse, the threat map, the concept model we made month ago, a beautiful picture of the construction site (photoshoot tomorow thursday 16h00 at Area10, come! The great photographer Hitomi Yoda's is shooting us!), the model.

Modelmaking

The amazing Oliver Goodhall (RCA page + We made that page) is making the model for the RCA show. Work in progress WATCH OUT ! WET PAINT !

1. proposing an aesthetic :



2. making a quick pre-model :



3. cutting the real bridge :



4. choosing the colors :



5. making the small moving parts (here the rudder):



6. the hulls :



7. all the hulls :



8. a section of the ballast bag :



9. ballast bag, flat :



10. Assembling the hull :





11. now wondering : shall we put this on a stand to keep it suspended and open? I would say yes, if you can fold it for transport! Amazing Oliver Goodhall !


The model will soon be on a shelf and in a suitecase! GRRREAT!

Construction update

Yes, the construction is going well.
If you haven't yest, you want to check our webcam here :



The thing is that we dont necessarily work right under it, actually most of the time we are working in a different building, but check it out, see the time moving - it is live !!!!

There is a lot of welding action (Nasser Moustakim)



Cutting action (Adrien Lécuru)




And Cooking (Cesar - doing the runner + secretary)




In a week time we have a show, ooohh, that's very soon !!!! RUSH !!!!!!!



So that's the site inside, where most welding work is carried on.



And this is the construction outside, where most cutting happens.

It is a very enjoyable work. It is quite tough. Now Adrien and Nasser are heavily involved, I (cesar) wish I didnt have to do all the admin and spend my day either on the computer or driving the van to collect and deliver raw materials or tools. I reclaim more time for design! After graduation... Sleep after graduation ...

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INHALT

• Ankündigung: OPEN_SAILING gewnnint [THE NEXT IDEA] bei ARS ELECTRONICA
• Open_Sailing: Hintergrund
• Termine im Sommer
• Die Ausstellung auf dem ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL
• Ausblick
• Auf dem Laufenden bleiben
• Unsere Partner

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ANKÜNDIGUNG

OPEN_SAILING hat den PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA in der Kategorie NEXT IDEA gewonnen!

english : http://www.aec.at/prix_history_en.php?year=2009
german : http://www.aec.at/prix_history_de.php?year=2009

We are in Wikipedia ! : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prix_Ars_Electronica

Wir sind also stolze Empfänger des [NEXT IDEA] Art and Technology Grant, ein Stipendium, das zudem einen 3 monatigen Forschungs- und Arbeitsaufenthalt im ARS ELECTRONICA FUTURELAB beinhhaltet.

Wir sind sehr stolz auf diese Auszeichnung unserer Arbeit und sehen es als einmalige Chance, der Idee von OPEN_SAILING zu stärken und mehr und mehr Leute zu erreichen.

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OPEN_SAILING: HINTERGRUND

OPEN_SAILING ist ein interdisziplinäres Projekt an der Schnittstelle von Kunst, Design und Technologie. Wir sind Pioniere einer gänzlich neuen Form mariner Architektur, einer Reihe von schwimmenden Laboratoerien für techno-soziale Experimente, in denen wir die Ozeane unseres Planeten erforschen, um mit ihnen leben und von ihnen lernen können.


Open_Sailing_01 vor dem ARS Electronica Haus, auf der Donau

Wir sind ein stetig wachsendes, internationales Team von rund 15 Leuten, unter der Leitung von Cesar Harada. Wir treiben das Projekt mit Hilfe zahlreicher Experten voran. Zur Zeit entwickeln und bauen wir den ersten seetüchtigen Prototypen auf dem Gelände der Area10 in London. Die Open_Sailing_01 wird am 18. Juli ihre erste Reise antreten: über den Kanal von London nach Rotterdam.


Open_Sailing_01, Blick aus dem ARS Electronica Gebäude

Open_Sailing macht einen großen Schritt weiter in ihrem Ziel, eine interdisziplinäre Plattform für Zukunfts-Experimente zu werden. Unsere Themen sind Bio-Architektur, Design unter den Bedingungen der Meere, Objekt-Orientierte Politik, Ökonomie, Infrastruktur und Kommunikationsstandards.

Auf http://international-ocean-station.org steht mehr zu unserem Projekt. Hier lässt sich die Arbeit an allen Forschungsfeldern - den LABs - mitverfolgen.

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TERMINE IM SOMMER 2009

13. Juni, 14h00: Pressekonferenz in London, unter der Leitung von LuckyPDF.
Area10, Eagle Wharf, Peckham Hill Street, London, SE15 5JT
Präsentation der Open_Sailing_01 an der Anlegestelle, Workshop und anschließendes maritimes Grillfest.
Kontakt: Oliver Hogan, oliver@luckypdf.com, 00+447970123418

25. Juni: Ausstellung des Royal College of Art, ausgeführt von dem Design Interaction Department.
Kensington Gore, SW7 2EU, London, UK
Freier Eintritt vom 26. Juni bis 5 Juli.
Kontakt: cesar.harada@international-ocean-station.org, 00+447853286216

18. Juli: Reise von London to Rotterdam.
Ablegehafen wird noch bekannt gegeben.
Wir segeln und treiben in etwa 2 Wochen über die Nordsee.
Kontakt: colet.castano@international-ocean-station.org, 00+44 7500888120

5. September: Eröffnung der ARS ELECTRONICA
Ars Electronica Linz GmbH, Hauptstraße 2, 4040 Linz, Österreich
In Zusammenarbeit mit Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse 4, A-4040 Linz, Österreich
Wir präsentieren die Open_Sailing_01, vor allem die Arbeitsbereiche Instinctive_Architecture, Energy_Animal, Swarm_OS, Life_Cable und Nomadic_ecosystem.
Kontakt: ollie.palmer@international-ocean-station.org, 00+447853286216

9. September: ARS Abschlusszeremoie / Die Open_Sailing_01 tritt ihre zweite Reise an, die Donau hinab mit Kurs aufs Schwarze Meer.
Kontakt: ollie.palmer@international-ocean-station.org, 00+447853286216

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DIE AUSSTELLUNG AUF DEM ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL 5. – 8. September 2009 IN LINZ, ÖSTERREICH

Für die Dauer des ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVALS wird die Open_Sailing_01, unser erster seetüchtiger Prototyp, vorr dem AEC Museum auf der Donau vor Anker gehen. Eine Fussgängerbrücke vom Ufer ermöglicht Besuchern den Zutritt zur Open_Sailing.

Der Hauptraum der OPEN_SAILING_01 ist zugleich das temporäre zuhause der Crew während ihres Aufenthaltes in Linz. Sie wird von schwimmenden Gärten umgeben sein, die in enger Zusammenarbeit mit der STATDTWERKSTATT (http://www.stwst.at/) udf Green Guerrilla Bewegung in Linz realisiert werden.

Während des 3-monatigen Aufenthalts im FUTURELAB vor dem Festival werden wir entscheidende Fortschritte in der Entwicklung des Designs und der Funktionalität der einzelenen LAB Prototypen – wie dem ENERGY_ANIMAL und dem SWARM_OPERATING_SYSTEM.erreicht haben.

OPEN_SAILING profitiert ungemein von der sozialen Interaktion und produktivem Austausch. Wir laden daher Besucher herzlich ein, das Floß zu besichtigen. Wir werden den Stand aller 7 Forschungsfelder in Videopräsentationen und Live-Demonstrationen zugängig machen.

Die Abschlusszeremonie des ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVALS am 9. September 2009 beinhaltet den feierlichen Aufbruch der OPEN_SAILING auf ihre Reise entlang der Donau mit Kurs aufs Schwarze Meer, durch Österreich, die Slowakei, Ungarn, Kroatien, Serbien, Rumänien, Bulgarien, Moldawien und die Ukraine.

Diese Aufgabe ist eine Herausforderung für das OPEN_SAILING Projekt. Ein Fluss ist kein Ozean und stellt völlig andere Bedingungen. Zum einen sind wir hier statt mit einer treibenden Kraft in mehrere Richtungen auf einmal mit einer eindeutigen Flussrichtung konfrontiert. In jedem Fall wird aber die Erfahrung und das Wissen, was wir während der Reise und aus unseren Experimenten lernen, unersetzlich sein. Für zukünftige Reisen auf offenem Ozean ist das eine große Hilfe.

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AUSBLICK

Wir sehen uns als ein Labor für Lebensweisen und Technologien der Zukunft. Unser Ziel ist es, unsere Erfahrung in der Form von Open Source Prototypen und Technologien bereitzustellen. Die langfristige Vision ist das Erschaffen einer Grundlage für eine INTERNATIONAL_OCEAN_STATION.

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AUF DEM LAUFENDEN BLEIBEN


Blog: Diskutieren und Involvieren
http://international-ocean-station.org

Twitter: Direkt den Neuigkeiten auf der Spur bleiben
http://www.twitter.com/opensailing

Facebook: Werdet Teil der Gruppe Open_Sailing
http://www.facebook.com/

Flickr: Schaut uns beim Bauen zu, macht Gebrauch von unseren Bildern (Creative Commons)
www.flickr.com/groups/opensailing/

Instructables: Lernt mit uns
http://www.instructables.com/group/2012hopes/

Webcam auf der Baustelle: Schaut uns beim Bauen zu – LIVE!
http://www.international-ocean-station.org/webcam/
http://www.international-ocean-station.org/timelapse/

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KONTAKTE

Presse ( English)
Ollie Palmer, ollie.palmer@international-ocean-station.org, 00+447853286216

Presse (Deutsch)
Nadine Freischlad, nadine.freischlad@international-ocean-station.org

Allgemeine Anfragen
Yoko Kasai : yoko.kasai@international-ocean-station.org

Projekt Koordination
Cesar Harada : cesar.harada@international-ocean-station.org, 00+447853286216

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UNSERE PARTNER

Unser tiefster Dank gilt unseren Partnern:

Royal College of Art, Design Interactions Department : http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/

The Center for the Study and Practice of Survival Techniques : http://www.ceps-survie.com/

Area 10 : http://www.area10.info/

Pachube.com : http://www.pachube.com/

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Open_Sailing_01 wins the [THE NEXT IDEA] at ARS ELECTRONICA Festival, Austria

May 27th 2009
OPEN_SAILING PRESS RELEASE #01

english : http://www.aec.at/prix_history_en.php?year=2009
german : http://www.aec.at/prix_history_de.php?year=2009

CONTENT OVERVIEW

• Announcement: OPEN_SAILING wins [THE NEXT IDEA] at ARS ELECTRONICA
• Open_Sailing: Synthesis
• Summer Schedule
• Exhibiting at ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL
• Perspective
• How to keep in touch
• Our Partners

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ANNOUNCEMENT
On May 27th 2009, OPEN_SAILING happily announces winning the PRIX ARS ELECTRONICA in the category NEXT IDEA.

This means we will be receiving the [NEXT IDEA] Art and Technology Grant, including a 3-month research residency at the ARS ELECTRONICA FUTURELAB.

We are honoured by this recognition of our work and will to seize this opportunity to empower the idea of OPEN_SAILING and to reach more and more people with our project.

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OPEN_SAILING: SYNTHESIS
OPEN_SAILING is an interdisciplinary project embracing the realms of art, design and technology. We are pioneering an entirely new form of marine architecture, a series of socio-technical floating laboratories where we can explore, experiment, live and learn from our planet’s beautiful oceans.


Open_Sailing_01 in front of the ARS Electronica, on the Danube river

We are a constantly growing, international team of around 15 people led by Cesar Harada, advancing the project under the mentoring of numerous experts. Right now, we are designing and engineering the first sea-faring prototype. It is being built at AREA10 in London, UK. The Open_Sailing_01 will embark on its first drift across the Channel from London to Rotterdam on July 18th.


Open_Sailing_01 seen from the ARS Electronica

Open_Sailing is entering a new phase in its goal to become an interdisciplinary platform for future experiments in bio-architecture, maritime design, object oriented politics, economy, infrastructure and communication protocols.

Read more about our project and follow the progress of research on each research LAB here: http://opensailing.net

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SUMMER SCHEDULE 2009

June 13th, 14h00 : Press conference in London, organised by LuckyPDF.
Area10, Eagle Wharf, Peckham Hill Street, London, SE15 5JT
Press conference, Presentation of Open_Sailing_01 in the shipyard, workshop, maritime barbecue following.
Contact : Oliver Hogan, oliver@luckypdf.com, 00+447970123418

June 25th : Royal College of Art, organised by the Design Interaction department.
Kensington Gore, SW7 2EU, London, UK
Free entrance from 26 June to 5 July.
Contact : cesar.harada@opensailing.net, 00+447853286216

July 18th : Departure from London to Rotterdam.
Departure harbour to be confirmed.
Sailing and drifting for about 2 weeks across the north sea.
Contact : colet.castano@opensailing.net, 00+44 7500888120

September 5th : ARS Electronica opening
Ars Electronica Linz GmbH, Hauptstraße 2, 4040 Linz, Austria
In partnership with Stadtwerkstatt, Kirchengasse 4, A-4040 Linz, Austria
Presenting the Open_Sailing_01 with emphasis on the 1. Instinctive_Architecture, Energy_Animal, Swarm_OS, Life_Cable, Nomadic_ecosystem.
Contact : ollie.palmer@opensailing.net, 00 +44 7886 031 028

September 9th : ARS closing ceremony / Open_Sailing departure into the Danube, heading to the black sea.
Contact : ollie.palmer@opensailing.net, 00 +44 7853 286 216

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EXHIBITING AT ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL Sept. 5rd – 8th 2009 IN LINZ, AUSTRIA

For the length of the ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL, the Open_Sailing_01, our first seafaring prototype, will drop anchor on the Danube in front of the AEC museum just down from the ARS ELECTRONICA centre. There will be a bridge connecting the riverside to the Open_Sailing for visitors to cross.

The main shelter of the OPEN_SAILING_01, also serving as a temporary home for the crew during their stay in Linz, will be surrounded by floating gardens that are realized in close partnership with STATDTWERKSTATT (http://www.stwst.at/) and the Green Guerrilla movement in Linz.

During our 3-month residency at FUTURELAB prior to the festival, we’ll have further advanced the design and functionality of our LAB prototypes, such as the ENERGY_ANIMAL and SWARM_OPERATING_SYSTEM.

OPEN_SAILING profits fundamentally from social interaction and discourse. We thus invite visitors to come aboard the raft, where we’re showing the progress of research on all 7 OPEN_SAILING LABS in the form of video presentations and live demonstration.

The closing ceremony of the ARS ELECTRONICA FESTIVAL on Sept. 9th 2009 will see the OPEN_SAILING depart from its anchor place to embark on a research trip down the Danube and into the Black Sea, across Austria, Slovakia, Hungary, Croatia Serbia, Romania, Bulgaria, Moldova, and Ukraine.

This task is a challenge to the Open_Sailing project. Sure enough, a river is not an ocean and poses a different set of conditions. For one, instead of a multi-directional drift, we are confronted with the idea of a one-directional flow. In any case, the experience and knowledge gained from the technical and biological experiments we are conducting while travelling down the Danube will be an invaluable experience for the crew and be extremely helpful for upcoming ocean trips.

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PERSPECTIVE

We see ourselves as a laboratory for future lifestyle and technologies. Our goal is to provide experience and prototypes for open source hardware technologies which can form the base for a future INTERNATIONAL_OCEAN_STATION.

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KEEP IN TOUCH

Blog: Discuss and get involved
http://opensailing.net

Twitter: Follow our updates
http://www.twitter.com/opensailing

Facebook: Join our Group, Open_Sailing
http://www.facebook.com/

Flickr: Watch us build and make, feel free to use our photos, Creative Commons
www.flickr.com/groups/opensailing/

Instructables: Learn with us
http://www.instructables.com/group/2012hopes/

Construction Site Webcam: Watch us build and make – LIVE!
http://www.opensailing.net/webcam/
http://www.opensailing.net/timelapse/

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Contacts

Press ( English)
Contact : Ollie Palmer, ollie.palmer@opensailing.net, 00+447853286216

Press (German)
Nadine Freischlad, nadine.freischlad@opensailing.net

General Enquiries
Yoko Kasai : yoko.kasai@opensailing.net

Project Coordinator
Cesar Harada : cesar.harada@opensailing.net, 00+447853286216

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OUR PARTNERS

Our sincere gratitude goes out to our partners:

Royal College of Art, Design Interactions Department : http://www.interaction.rca.ac.uk/

The Center for the Study and Practice of Survival Technics : http://www.ceps-survie.com/

Area 10 : http://www.area10.info/

Pachube.com : http://www.pachube.com/