MARC FORNES & THEVERYMANY™
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Recipient of the Architectural League Prize 2013
Pleased to share that MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY is one of the recipient of the Architectural League Prize 2013!
http://archleague.org/2013/05/league-prize-2013-range/
Lecture | Die ANGEWANDTE – Sliver Lecture Series
MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY will lecture at Die Angewandte (University of Applied Arts Vienna) as part of their Sliver lecture series (March 5th).
A+ Awards | LOUIS VUITTON Pop Up store Finalist!
We are pleased to announce that LOUIS VUITTON – YAYOI KUSAMA Pop Up store is a finalist for the A+ Awards for Commercial / Pop Ups typology .
The project is currently competing for the Jury Award and Popular Choice award.
We need your support in the popular choice award – please vote for the project here:
http://awards.architizer.com/public/voting/?cid=11
Credits:
Collaboration LOUIS VUITTON – YAYOI KUSAMA
Executive architect: MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY
Innovation: first carbon fiber self-supported shell applied to architecture
Public Art | INRIA | Rennes, France | winning entry!
WINNING ENTRY
MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY won the commission for their 1% Artistique proposal (Public Art project) for the INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique) in Rennes, FRANCE!
Many thanks for the support:
- INCEPTION Gallery, Paris
Acquisition | Permanent collection of the CNAP
ACQUISITION / PERMANENT COLLECTION
DAW / Double Agent White – the pavilion / large scale installation produced by MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY during his Artist Residency at the Atelier Alexander Calder (in Sache, France) – has been acquired within the permanent collection of the CNAP!
Many thanks for their support to:
- Alfred Pacquement ( Director of the CENTRE POMPIDOU )
- Marie-Ange Brayer ( Director of the FRAC Centre )
Public Art | 2013 Capital Projects Artist Pool
ARTIST POOL
MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY has been selected by the Public Art San Antonio (PASA), a division of the Department for Culture and Creative Development for the City of San Antonio – for the 2013 Capital Projects Artist Pool (CPAP).
Catalog | Phillips de Pury / MOSS
MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY™’s Coracae screen is included within the catalog MOSS: Dialogues between Art & Design, an auction at Phillips de Pury.
Book | Generative Design
MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY™’s work is published within Generative Design: Visualize, Program and Create with Processing.
Just received this amazing book from Princeton Press! Most probably one of the best book on the topic! I would highly recommend it to anyone interested in Graphic, Data visualization, Processing… (with simple samples codes to get started for the one interested). A very nice present…
http://www.generative-gestaltung.de/about
Generative Design
Visualize, Program, and Create with Processing
Hartmut Bohnacker, Benedikt Gross, Julia Laub
8 x 11 in / 472 pp / 1500 color illustrations
$100.00 / hardcover
ISBN 978-1-61689-077-3
Publication date: September 2012
Generative design is a revolutionary new method of creating artwork, models, and animations from sets of rules, or algorithms. By using accessible programming languages such as Processing, artists and designers are producing extravagant, crystalline structures that can form the basis of anything from patterned textiles and typography to lighting, scientific diagrams, sculptures, films, and even fantastical buildings.
Generative Design opens with a gallery of thirty-five illustrated case studies, drawn from the work of graphic designers, sculptors, architects, and other visual artists, including Stefan Sagmeister, THEVERYMANY, Eno Henze, Janne Kyttanen, Golan Levin, Jonathan Puckey, Marius Watz and Casey Reas.
A step-by-step how-to manual follows, guiding users through specific, practical instructions on how to create their own visual experiments by combining simple-to-use programming codes with basic design principles. A detailed handbook of advanced strategies provides visual artists with all the tools to achieve proficiency. Generative Design is the definitive showcase, study, and reference for this exciting, emerging field.
Press | Harvard Design Magazine #35
MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY™ is kindly featured within the latest article from Preston Scott Cohen ” The Hidden Core of Architecture” published within Harvard Design Magazine #35.
Interesting… not sure if temporality is not only a necessary by product in order to artificially capitalize building experience as large physical objects (since the only thing one can afford when self-founded) and therefore hopefully trust from potential clients to grow experimentation in scale and eventually permanency…
Press | Architecture Australia
MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY™’s Atelier Calder project “DAW / Double Agent(s) White” is featured within Stanislav Roudavski‘s article entitled “Frontier Learning” published in the vol 101 Sept/Oct issue of Architecture Australia.
Publication | CAADRIA 2012: Beyond codes and Pixels
The work of MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY™ is the main subject of a pier reviewed article called “Prototypical Architecture” (title borrowed from THEVERYMANY’s agenda) by Djordje Stojanovic and featured within ” CAADRIA 2012 conference: Beyond Codes and Pixels ”.
Lecture | Proto/E/Co/Logics 02
Marc Fornes will give a talk as part of Proto/E/Co/Logics 02 - “the field is open” – symposium curated by Alisa Andrasek and Bruno Juricic in Croatia.
Lecture | ARCHITECTURE + EXPERIMENTATION
Marc Fornes will give a lecture as part of the ARCHITECTURE + EXPERIMENTATION Conference Cycle 2012 organized by “Maison de l’Architecture du FRAC Centre“.
Tuesday June 26th 2012 – Mediatheque d’Orleans
Press | Journal des Arts
MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY™ ‘s piece for Art Paris – and commissioned by Inception Gallery, Paris – is featured in the latest issue of “Le Journal des Arts” (#365 | 16-29 March 2012)
Lecture / Workshop | TexFab / San Antonio
Marc Fornes will run a Python workshop as part of the “Applied Research through Fabrication” TexFab conference in San Antonio, Tx – April 14-15 2012
Press | Design Bureau
MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY™ nonLin/Lin Pavilion project is featured within the latest issue of Design Bureau (# January/February 2012).
THEVERYMANY “New Practices New York 2012″ AIA
MARC FORNES / THEVERYMANY has been awarded one of the “New Practices New York 2012″ by the AIANY.
Many thanks to the jury and the AIA NY (American Institute of Architects New York Chapter)
111025 Marc Fornes @ TED 2012
Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY™ has been awarded a TED 2012 Fellowship - and will give a first talk at the 2012 TED conference in Long Beach. Looking forward!
http://blog.ted.com/2011/10/25/meet-the-ted2012-fellows/
111028 @ PIN-UP Magazine
Marc Fornes / THEVERYMANY has kindly been featured within the latest issue of PIN-UP Magazine (No. 11, Fall Winter 2011/12) – many thanks to Felix Burrichter.
The feature include the following (and very kind) introduction by Aranda\Lasch:
Marc Fornes, who founded his firm THEVERYMANY in 2002, was among the first architects to convincingly employ scripting and computation in design, and remains one of the most influential. Through workshops all around the world, as well as his heavily trafficked website, Fornes has introduced a generation of students and young practitioners to new design possibilities. Typically seductive, mind-bendingly complex, and lovingly rendered, these forms are now oozing out of every crack in the architecture blogosphere, which Fornes refers to as the “digital soup“. There is nothing how soupy about his own work, however, which stands out not only because of the strange and exciting forms he produces, but because of his maniacal drive to actually build them. In a very short period of time, with the help of very many people, Fornes has managed to build a great number of experimental installations. Neither buildings nor models of buildings, they are fabricated from industrial materials, support weight, and create inhabitable space – examples of what Fornes calls “prototypical architecture.” They’re never easy to do but in the end it’s the accountability of built realization that drives Marc’s computational research, the rigorous investigations of geometry, materials, and assembly bringing the depth often missing in computer renderings. These installations also make the work much more accessible, and lay plain the way that the very many bits of information, the very many exquisitely machined metal parts and the very very many rivets come together in a singular architecture. Building is how these very many become one.
1204-07 | M.F. Awarded a residency at Atelier Calder
Marc Fornes has been awarded a residency at the Atelier Calder (link)
Many thanks for their kind support to:
- Alfred Pacquement (President Atelier Calder / Director of the Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou)
- Marie Ange Brayer (Director FRAC Centre)
110600 | M.F. featured in PIN UP Magazine
Marc Fornes has been featured by Felix Burrichter from PIN UP Magazine (link) as part of 10 emerging architecture offices in New York - together with Aranda\Lasch, Leong Leong, Peter Macapia, Marc Kushner,…
110719 TVMNY win BOFFO Building Fashion
Exciting news: TVMNY win BOFFO Building Fashion 2011 Design Competition! (link)
MARC FORNES // THEVERYMANY™ will be designing Irene Neuwirth‘s Pop Up Store in New York! (Sept. 22 – Oct. 5 2011)
110718 BOFFO Building Fashion
BOFFO / Building Fashion | Benefits | Tonight! (link)
The 5 architects winners for the designer’s pop up store will be revealed tonight.
We’ll be there 
20110800 | TVMNY featured in Scripting Cultures
MARC FORNES :: THEVERYMANY™ featured within:
Scripting Cultures: Architectural Design and Programming from Prof. Mark Burry
Published by Wiley | August 2011
With scripting, computer programming becomes integral to the digital design process. It provides unique opportunities for innovation, enabling the designer to customise the software around their own predilections and modes of working. It liberates the designer by automating many routine aspects and repetitive activities of the design process, freeing-up the designer to spend more time on design thinking. Software that is modified through scripting offers a range of speculations that are not possible using the software only as the manufacturers intended it to be used. There are also significant economic benefits to automating routines and coupling them with emerging digital fabrication technologies, as time is saved at the front-end and new file-to-factory protocols can be taken advantage of. Most significantly perhaps, scripting as a computing program overlay enables the tool user (designer) to become the new tool maker (software engineer). Though scripting is not new to design, it is only recently that it has started to be regarded as integral to the designer’s skill set rather than a technical speciality. Many designers are now aware of its potential, but remain hesitant. This book treats scripting not only as a technical challenge, requiring clear description, guidance and training, but also, and more crucially, answers the question as to why designers should script in the first place, and what the cultural and theoretical implications are.
This book:
- Investigates the application of scripting for productivity, experimentation and design speculation.
- Offers detailed exploration of the scripting of Gaudí’s final realised design for the Sagrada Família, leading to file-to-factory digital fabrication.
- Features projects and commentary from over 30 contemporary scripting leaders, including Evan Douglis, Marc Fornes, Sawako Kaijima, Achim Menges, Neri Oxman, Casey Reas and Hugh Whitehead of Foster + Partners.
110706 | THEVERYMANY on Twitter
Stay tuned for the updates on theverymany.com on Twitter :
@THEVERYMANY | http://twitter.com/#!/THEVERYMANY
110706 FIRST PLACE | Creve Coeur, St-Louis, MO
MARC FORNES :: THEVERYMANY, LLC and VOLKAN ALKANOGLU win the competition for a bus stop in the city of CREVE COEUR (ST-Louis, MO).
Congratulation to the entire team! Looking forward to build it!
110628 MF – Jury @ eVolo 2012 Skyscraper Competition
Marc Fornes will be part of the jury for the eVolo 2012 skyscraper competition.
“eVolo Magazine is pleased to invite architects, students, engineers, designers, and artists from around the globe to take part in the eVolo 2012 Skyscraper Competition. Established in 2006, the annual Skyscraper Competition is one of the world’s most prestigious awards for high-rise architecture. It recognizes outstanding ideas that redefine skyscraper design through the implementation of novel technologies, materials, programs, aesthetics, and spatial organizations along with studies on globalization, flexibility, adaptability, and the digital revolution. It is a forum that examines the relationship between the skyscraper and the natural world, the skyscraper and the community, and the skyscraper and the city.
The participants should take into consideration the advances in technology, the exploration of sustainable systems, and the establishment of new urban and architectural methods to solve economic, social, and cultural problems of the contemporary city including the scarcity of natural resources and infrastructure and the exponential increase of inhabitants, pollution, economic division, and unplanned urban sprawl.
The competition is an investigation on the public and private space and the role of the individual and the collective in the creation of a dynamic and adaptive vertical community. It is also a response to the exploration and adaptation of new habitats and territories based on a dynamic equilibrium between man and nature – a new kind of responsive and adaptive design capable of intelligent growth through the self-regulation of its own systems.”
110506 FRAC Centre | Assembly (4/40)
FRAC Centre | Assembly | 10% : 4 modules / 40…
Design: MARC FORNES & THEVERYMANY™ ©2011
110507 TVMNY @ AUDI Urban Future, NYC
AUDI – URBAN FUTURE NYC | Exhibition | New York | 05.07.2011
Design: MARC FORNES & THEVERYMANY™ - 3D prints by Z Corporation (link)
Audi / Urban Future (link) : Project New York developed by Stylepark – curator of the larger Audi Urban Future Intiative – to select emerging firms to execute and curate an aspect of an exhibition during the New Museum’s Festival of Ideas for the New City. Architect teams were invited by Architizer (link) [Ryan Quinlan, Programming Director] to imagine a future New York City.
Openhouse Gallery
201 Mulberry Street, New York
May 7, 12pm-7pm, May 8/9, 11am–7pm
110420 FIRST PLACE | Redondo Beach, California
MARC FORNES :: THEVERYMANY™ and VOLKAN ALKANOGLU have been awarded FIRST PLACE for their Public Art Project proposal for Redondo Beach, California. (Engineering: Will Laufs / Buro Happold)
Congratulation to the entire team! Looking forward to build it!
110500 Public Art Project | Creve Coeur, Missouri
MARC FORNES :: THEVERYMANY™ and VOLKAN ALKANOGLU have been shortlisted for a Public Art Project in Creve Coeur, MO.
Engineering: Will Laufs / Buro Happold
Design in progress / more to come…
110406 Centre Pompidou, Paris
Opening April 6th, 2011
Y/Surf/Struc* | Centre Pompidou, Paris (4th floor)
*project part of the permanent collection of the Centre Pompidou, Paris.
Design: MARC FORNES :: THEVERYMANY™ ©2010-11
“from surface condition to structural network”
100823_TVMNY @Sukkah City | NYC
THEVERYMANY has been selected as one of the 12 winners of the Sukkah City competition who are invited to build a temporary Sukkah structure on Union Square, NYC.
Please join us for the opening on Union Square - September 19th.
Jury: Michael Arad, Ron Arad, Rick Bell, Allan Chochinov, Matias Corea, Paul Goldberger, Steven Heller, Natalie, Jeremijenko, Maira Kalman, Geoff Manaugh, Thom Mayne, Thomas de Monchaux, Ada Tolla, Adam Yarinsky.
Sukkah City 2010 Winners: (on 600 entries)
Dale Suttle, So Sugita, and Ginna Nguyen – New York, NY
Henry Grosman and Babak Bryan – Long Island City, NY
Ronald Rael, Virginia San Fratello – Oakland, CA
Kyle May and Scott Abrahams – New York, NY
Peter Sagar – United Kingdom
tinder, tinker – Sagle, ID
Matthias Karch – Berlin, Germany
Matter Practice – Brooklyn, NY
Volkan Alkanoglu – Los Angeles, CA
Bittertang – Brooklyn, NY
SO-IL – Brooklyn, NY
THEVERYMANY – Brooklyn, NY
100610-12_TVMNY @MIAMI | AIA Convention |McNeel
TVMNY @ AIA National Convention | Miami | June 10-12th 2010
Marc Fornes has been invited by McNeel US to display a piece within the Software pavilion.
That new prototypic structure has been produced at Penn State.
Many thanks to David Celento & Jamie Heilman at PSU for the invitation & support.
Image of the prototype | place holder for more…
(images and full credits to come…)
100401_TVMNY @ CHICAGO | Extension Gallery
CHICAGO | Extension Gallery | Opening Thursday 1st April
THEVERYMANY will present a new prototypic structure…
(FM lecture @ 6pm)
Design: THEVERYMANY / Marc Fornes
Research team: Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Brandon kruysman, John Proto
Production team: Mathew Staudt, Brandon kruysman, John Proto + many…
Assembly team: Marc Fornes, Mathew Staudt, Brandon kruysman, John Proto + many…
EXTENSION GALLERY
625 N. Kingsbury Street
Chicago, Illinois 60654
http://www.extensiongallery.us
(invitation: Paula Palombo)
100325_TVMNY @ PARIS | Synesthesie Galerie
PARIS | Galerie Synesthesie | Opening Thursday 25th March
THEVERYMANY will present a new prototypic structure…
Design: THEVERYMANY / Marc Fornes
Design team: Marc Fornes, Mathew Staudt
Assembly team: Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Veronica Emig + many…
Fab: Jared Laucks
SYNESTHESIE
15 rue Denfert Rochereau
93200 SAINT DENIS
www.synesthesie.com
090907_TVMNY @LYON(FR) | Galerie Roger Tator (3)
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LYON (FRANCE)| nEdg| Galerie Roger Tator | 090907
THEVERYMANY (Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt, Jared Laucks)
(invited as part of “parcours raisonance” of the Lyon Art Biennale)
14 September – 27 November (extended…)
“n|Edg” as the sum of its parts:
2 compound surfaces
2796 individual surfaces (from 3 to n edges)
5375 holes
“n|Edg” assembly is written within continuous series of investigations at different scale:
- the overall: development of protocols of surface relaxation – in order for the surface to generate best fit curvature in response to fix hanging or support points (floor, ceiling, walls) as curvature – despite generating apparent complexity – also provides natural structural stiffness.
- surface description (or sampling): re-understanding the resultant surface as series of points – which densities are relative to the degree of curvature – the more curvature the more points and eventually parts.
- surface reconstruction (or tessellation): previous work focused on describing complex surfaces with flat components – after working for different “high end” architectural and design practices – the only way to keep pushing non standard environments is to introduce the economy of parts as part of the equation – therefore early tests were first looking at ways to triangulate complex surfaces – and therefore strategize on panels cut within flat sheets of material – which very quickly evolved toward what is now the trendy “arrays of quads” components paradigm. “n|Edg” is now investigating the reconstruction of a surface with polygonal parts going from three edges to (n) number of edges.
- informed customization: each part is similar though not identical – its change of size and proportion is therefore allows to describe different radius of curvature – but also local re-reading of orientation is driving the length and width of branches – the flatter, the wider in order to provide more surface alike coverage.
top surface reconstruction
bottom surface reconstruction
pattern extract
090907_TVMNY @LYON(FR) | Galerie Roger Tator (2)(Assembly)
LYON (FRANCE) | nEdg | Galerie Roger Tator | 090907
THEVERYMANY | Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt, Jared Laucks
(invited as part of “parcours raisonance” of the Lyon Art Biennale)
14 September – 27 November
Few night shots…
(timing: end of assembly – before final surface twicks)
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MORE TO COME…
090907_TVMNY @LYON(FR) | Galerie Roger Tator (1)(Assembly)
LYON (France) | nEdg | Galerie Roger Tator 090907
(invited as part of “parcours raisonance” of the Lyon Art Biennale)
14 September – 13 November
While waiting for a screws delivery for a new installation (due to open tomorrow!) I have finally few minutes to start posting images from that one…
4 suitaces (flying from New York to Lyon)
81.6kg (max weight allowed for two people + tolerances)
38.274 m2
0.025” thick Golden Anodized Aluminum
22 sheets 4’*8’
6 days to CNC cut
2796 individual panels (from 2 to n edges)
2796 tags (3 to 5digits)
5375 holes
6500 rivets (or 13 boxes)
5 rivet guns
Assembling…
10 days installation
10 people
HISTOIRE A SUIVRE…
091104_TVMNY @NYC | Material Connexion
THEVERYMANY @ BITS’N PIECES | Material Connexion | New York
Opening November 4th 2009
Invitation: Dries Verbruggen with Alissia Melka-Teichroew & Jan Habraken
Material Connexion
Once more many parts…
091001_TVMNY @LYON | Galerie Roger Tator (proposal)(2)
LYON (France) | n|Edg | Galerie Roger Tator 091409
(invited as part of the “parcours raisonance” of the Lyon Art Biennale)
Few more images sent as part of an early proposal:
OPT01 | “Up Down” | inverted terrain
OPT02 | “Ground up” | inflated morphology
Early tests of “surface reconstruction”:
090925_TVMNY @LYON | Galerie Roger Tator (proposal)
LYON (France) | n|Edg | Galerie Roger Tator 091409
(invited as part of the “parcours raisonance” of the Lyon Art Biennale)
Despite the installation has already open – I am somehow forced to respect the linear story telling of the blog format – so here are the very first images sent as proposal to the Galerie Roger Tator…
Here the focus of the research was to investigate the tessellation of a double curve surface beyond triangle and arrays of quad – is it possible to generate parts going from three sides to n number of sides?
090906_TVMNY @NYC | Elga Wimmer Gallery (3)
NEW YORK | MODOID | Elga Wimmer Gallery
by THEVERYMANY
Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mat Staudt,
Jared Laucks, Brandon Kruysman, Jon Proto,…
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090906_TVMNY @NYC | Elga Wimmer Gallery (2)
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NEW YORK | MODOID | Elga Wimmer Gallery
(pictures while assembling)
by THEVERYMANY
Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mat Staudt,
Jared Laucks, Brandon Kruysman, Jon Proto,…
MODOID is part “OVERLAP”
“Extending beyond edges and boundaries in art & architecture“
August 27 – September 19, 2009 (Tuesday – Saturday noon-6:00pm)
Curated and produced by Kelsey Harrington & Christine Yogiaman
Elga Wimmer Gallery
526 West 26th St, # 310 NY NY 10001
t. 212 206 0006 c.401 316 4303
MORE TO COME…
090906_TVMNY @LYON | Galerie Roger Tator
n|Edg | Gallery Roger Tator | Lyon (France) | September 2009
THEVERYMANY | Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt
Opening: Monday, September 14th
IMAGES TO COME AFTER OPENING…
090906_TVMNY @NYC | Elga Wimmer Gallery (1)
NEW YORK | OVERLAP | Elga Wimmer Gallery
August 27 – September 19, 2009 (Tuesday – Saturday noon-6:00pm)
Reception: Wednesday September 9th 6:00-9:00pm
THEVERYMANY | Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt, Jared Laucks, Brandon Kruysman, Jon Proto
THEVERYMANY has been invited by Kelsey Harrington & Christine Yogiaman to produced not so much a piece/installation than encourage to try/test/experiment… the focus this time was not so much on a procedural level neither on a geometrical level – but rather on testing a material technique…
As pretentious as it can sound – research even in design is “somehow” like solving the Cancer – one has to focus on tiny steps – though still keeping in mind the larger picture…
MODOID – is one of those tiny steps – though still within THEVERYMANY usual agenda of procedural, large scale, short timing and low budget experimental framework…
the first of new series – so operative failures to be expected…
though come and see…
IMAGES TO COME AFTER RECEPTION…
090820_TVMNY @CHILE | ALOBLUMS (2)
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ALOBLUMS Valparaiso (Chile) August 2009
THEVERYMANY / Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt
+ collective BANGS & many students from the workshop…
marc fornes installation. from ameliechucky on Vimeo.
Many thanks to Pablo C. Herrera for the video…
090820_TVMNY @CHILE | ALOBLUMS
ALOBLUMS | Valparaiso (Chile) | August 2009
Design: THEVERYMANY
Design Team: Marc Fornes, Skylar Tibbits, Mathew Staudt
Assembly team: collective BANGS and many students from the workshop…
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ALOBLUMS SUM OF ITS PARTS:
sphereoid – 2m (6′) approx. diameter…
70 modules (4 types)…
12 sheets of golden anodized aluminum…
cnc cut in Philadeplhia (Continental Signs)…
3700 rivets…
all packed with me on the plane as 2 check in bags (40 and 35 pounds)…
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MORE TO COME SOON……
Many thanks to the collective BANGS for the invitation – especially Marcela Godoy for making that workshop happen…
Students:
Eduardo Hirose, Daniel Concha, Diego Moreno, Juan Pablo Klempau, Felipe Valdebenito, Pablo Banda, Francisco Quitral, Hermann Zbindenn, José Luis Guzmán, Victor Bunster M., Drago Vodanovic, Claudio Troncoso, Tomas Jacobsen, Miguel Aravena, Pablo Silva
Francisco Calvo, Camila Rock De Luigi, Francisco Lara, Oscar Terrazas , Gabriel Santander, Oscar Ignacio Contreras, Hernán Castro, Natalija Boljsakov, Brian Miller, Manuel Díaz, Rodrigo Ramírez, Gonzalo Andrade, Andre Geoffroy, Matias Carrera…
BANGS:
Pablo Barría, Begoña Arellano, Claudio Astudillo, José Narea,, Marcela Godoy, Linda Schilling
Extras:
Pablo C. Herrera, Tristan Al Haddad…
090804_TVMNY @NYC | BRIDGE GALLERY (re)configured
NEW YORK | Bridge Gallery | Echinoids (re)configured
How many people do actualy believe in “failures“?
I do! – while giving talks/lectures I am often arguying about it – “operative failures” – in philosophy, empiricism is a theory of knowledge which asserts that knowledge arises from experience – one of many ways to gain experience is through test and trials – and within the recent jump in scale of the digital craft and the “Do it yourself” paradigm – experience requires failures…
Experiencing failure within prototypes – yes! – and despite often being displayed within art gallery THEVERYMANY’s “constructs” are partly installation partly prototypes – though not so much prototypes to see if the systems is actually going to fail? – but rather when? – can failures be expected? – even better anticipated up to embodied within the geometrical system tested potential response?
“the lion sat” – a localized part of Echinoids v1.0 slowly saddled – it didn’t break but suffered from “fatigue” – unexpected failure? – blind future? – I would argue for curated ones…
Temporary installation are related to time – but also budget – aggregate systems and their inherent qualities are highly depending on numbers – unfortunately numbers are often the exact opposit vector to time/budget – then if no budget the system requires carefull compositionnal search methods to maintain a scale large enough to be experienced by its viewer as architectural artefact – homogeneity could be one way to go – unfortunately spreading the elements all accross the construct while maintaining structural integrity often requires down sizing…
“until where can one go too far?”
Echinoids system is based on “calculated risk“ – calculated risk is different from denying risk or maximising efforts to avoid falires – here the aggregate is designed through variation of desnties – balancing strengh and weakness – fully closed macro-systems as stable larger parts and low density members at transitional areas – a curated aggregate system allowing within its own geometric nature possible partial re-configuration – “explosion” as safe away exit strategy – allowing second lifes for a piece: from construct to environment…
That (re)configuration is only the first one possible – and therefore to be followed along the summer for eventual other ones…
090717_TVMNY @NYC | BRIDGE GALLERY (2)
Echinoids | THEVERYMANY | Bridge Gallery | 2009 | nyc
“-oid” is derived from the Latin suffix -oides taken from Greek and meaning “having the likeness of”. Thus it is a suffix much used in the sciences and mathematics to indicate a “similarity, not necessarily exact, to something else”.
Thus Rhomboid means “like a rhombus”. Because -oid denotes similarity, not necessarily exact, but can also denote exactness, in chemistry the suffix refers to a very large class of related compounds, natural and/or synthetic. Examples include steroid (of which sterols are just one smaller group) and alkaloid. (ie wikipedia)
From many parts…
Long. 13.5ft – Larg. 5ft – Height 7.5ft
530 modules
25 Sheets (4*8″) Walnut veneer (800 Sft) + olive oil
1600 of Elastic bras straps (Brown, Black, Navy Blue)
4500 screws
To logistic of parts…
Lacing time: 1/2h/module – 40 modules/day!
“RUSTIC COMPUTATION”…
THEVERYMANY | Marc Fornes with Skylar Tibbits, Mat Staudt
