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| Project 4.33 — Atopia Journal: urg/üeistu was realized through a collaborative project between students at Brown University (RI, US), Edinburgh College of Art (UK), and Rhode Island School of Design (RI, US). Collectively the students formed a unified editorial team for this issue of Atopia Journal.
"This issue of Atopia Journal presents diverse models of negotiations, communications, and resolutions, which occur within different spheres. "Each contributor examines the gaps and overlaps critical to a subject. Through artistic, scientific, political, and cultural work, they relate the spectrum of negotiation to the human experience. Urg/üeistu is a literal translation into Mänti - a language developed by mathematic and linguistic savant Daniel Tammet - of the English phrase 'gap/overlap'" from editorial |
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| Building a Studio. Students from the Art, Space, Nature, Science, Edinburgh (asnsE) program at Edinburgh College of Art (ECA) were set the project of providing a design solution to a proposed studio for the Swedish (NY based) artist Sigrid Sandström. The building will be constructed near the settlement of Tovåsen in the mountainous region of Härjedalen, Sweden. The project included initial workshops and seminars in Edinburgh (led by Gavin Morrison), site visits in Sweden (led by Gavin Morrison and Sigrid Sandström), and will culminate in reviews and seminars in Edinburgh. The students were instructed to function as a radical research collaborative unit whose outputs would directly feed into the actualised building. From the onset it was stated that the final outcome need not take the form of a building. Rather the group were to interrogate the conditions of site, client and intended function to arrive at a unified design solution. Workshop co-directed with Sigrid Sandström. |
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| Project 2.99 — Atopia Journal, A jet engine on a Chevy Impala (released April 2004). Set of eight photocopied pages by students in a New Genre class at Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island (Andreas Abramoff, Katelin Crook, Louise Despont, Seth Erickson, Diana Fishman, Billy Gomberg, Brian Lee and Taichi Yoneya). Distributed as an unbound photocopied issue packaged in a printed envelope. The project was initiated and realized in conjunction with Subtract Studio (Zurich) and the Department of Visual Art, Brown University. The students had two intensive work sessions in which to produce a project that related to the absurd, logical and/or idealistic impulses and outcomes of invention. Workshop co-directed with Subtract Studio, Zurich | ||