peter lunenfeld

Holy Fire in Brussels

Peter Lunenfeld — Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:55:30 +0000

There’s an interesting new show going up in Brussels inspired by one of Bruce Sterling’s novels. “Holy Fire, Art of the Digital Age”, is at iMAL, Center for Digital Cultures and Technology from the 18th-30th of April. It features Cory Arcangel (USA), Vuk Cosic (SLO), Shane Hope (USA), Jodi (BE/NL), Lab[au] (BE), Joan Leandre (SP), Olia Lialina & Dragan Espenschied (RU/DE), Golan Levin (USA),Mark Napier (USA), Casey Reas (USA), Charles Sandison (UK/FI), Antoine Schmitt (FR), Yacine Sebti (BE), Alexei Shulgin & Aristarkh Chernyshev (RU), John F. Simon, Jr. (USA), Paul Slocum (USA), Wolfgang Staehle (USA), Eddo Stern (USA), Ubermorgen.com (AT), Carlo Zanni (IT) among others.

Jan Chipchase in the NYT

Peter Lunenfeld — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 16:23:04 +0000

In February, our Bespoke Futures seminar did a workshop with Nokia’s design anthropologist Jan Chipchase. His work with global, low income communities and ITC development, including cell phone banking was covered in depth this weekend in the New York Times Sunday Magazine.

Pecha Kucha from Da Fucha 4/11/08

Peter Lunenfeld — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:21:25 +0000

As their final in Design Dialogues, 1st year MDP students will do a pecha kucha in which they envision themselves five to seven years out of graduate school, coming back to do a presentation at Art Center. This is a prospective exercise in retrospective path finding. As Oscar-nominated editor Sally Menke discussed in Design Dialogues in the Fall of ‘07, one can only craft the narrative of a career in reverse, picking out signposts in the rear view mirror. This assignment, which might also be tited “Pech Fucha,” also serves as a place to examine the issue of ambition: How does a creative person think past the defaults of design authorship, commercial celebrity, and avant-garde autonomy?

Rick Vermeulen @ Design Dialogues 4/4/08

Peter Lunenfeld — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 18:04:20 +0000

Rick Vermeulen is one of the most influential designers coming out of the Netherlands in the past quarter century. From 1978-82, Vermeulen was an editor of Hard Werken magazine, which made a considerable national impact and the group became a design studio operating under the name Hard Werken. In 1994, the company moved from Rotterdam to the Amsterdam area and amalgamated with the packaging design company Ten Cate Bergmans, subsequently changing its name to Inizio. In 1993, Vermeulen, a regular visitor to the United States, with teaching experience at Cranbrook, CalArts and North Carolina State University, moved to Los Angeles, where he took over the Hard Werken LA Desk for two years. Now back in Holland, he runs his own studio Via Vermeulen and works on projects for publishing and other clients.

Design Dialogues 3/14/08

Peter Lunenfeld — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:31:01 +0000

This week, we are hosting Jason Tester, Research and Design Manager, The Institute for the Future. His interests in interactive technology began the old-fashioned way, tinkering one-on-one with the equipment he had at hand. With his work on technological voting, however, he saw the possible effects of computer-human interaction on the future of society as a whole. At IFTF, Jason focuses on three areas: research into how people use emerging technologies, the application of design to futures research, and facilitating groups to stimulate insights and implications about the future. Jason strives to look beneath the surface of society and its artifacts for hidden layers of meaning.

Software Studies

peterlunenfeld — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:43:29 +0000

I’ll be participating in the inaugural Software Studies Workshop at UC San Diego, May 21 - Thu. May 22. This workshop has been organized by Lev Manovich, Director, Noah Wardrip-Fruin, Associate Director, and Jeremy Douglass, Postdoctoral Researcher, Helena Bristow, Program Manager

Design Dialogues 03/07/08

peterlunenfeld — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:59:50 +0000

This Friday, March 7th from 2-5, we’ve got presentations by two MDP alumni, Scott Nazarian of Frog Design and Jiyeon Song who is spending this term working on the intellectual property issues related to her One Day Poem Pavilion thesis project. As well, a number of applicants to the MDP for admission in Fall ‘08 will be attending.

Visual Powershow

peterlunenfeld — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 01:05:59 +0000

On May 17th, 2008, I’ll be presenting at the Visual Powershow at the Windtunnel on the theme of Next Nature. Organized by Art Center’s Dutch Visionary-Designers-in-Residence Mieke Gerritzen and Koert van Mensvoort, the Biggest Visual Powershow will be an amazing event. More info nextnature.com

American Comparative Literature Association

peterlunenfeld — Tue, 04 Mar 2008 00:38:12 +0000

In April, I’ll be at the the American Comparative Literature Association’s 2008 Annual Meeting in Long Beach. I’ll be participating in a three day session on Interface Aesthetics organized by Carsten Strathausen, U of Missouri, Sabine Eckmann, Washington U in St. Louis, and Lutz Koepnick, Washington U in St. Louis. http://www.acla.org/acla2008/