The September installment of Art in the Art will be on view tonight for all in view of PECO’s Crown Lights display. Keep an eye out for original digital art by this months selected artists: Alex de Boer, Christopher P. McManus and Shirley Steele. You can find out more about each artist on our BIO Page. If you are interested in submitting your own digital work for review please visit our Guideline page. To read more about the Breadboard-PECO partnership and this program visit the Art in the Air Project Page.
Seth Brown and comic art created this summer at NextFab Studio
Seth Brown is one of 4 YES students from The Enterprise Center in Philadelphia who participated in Breadboard’s summer Youth Outreach pilot program at NextFab Studio. Seth came to NextFab with aspirations to start a career as a comic book artist and develop an original series for publication. He was mostly hand drawing and sketching ideas. Over the summer he learned how to scan his drawings into digital files and find tune them through Photoshop and Illustrator software programs. He also laser etched his cover art using the Trotec Laser Cutter. We hope to feature Seth in an online interview and more images of his work in a future Breadboard blog post.
On Wednesday, September 1 @ 6-8pm Breadboard will host a talk & demo with Chris Manzione, founder of the Virtual Public Art Project. Breadboard is developing a VPAP Philadelphia project to be launched in October.
The Virtual Public Art Project (VPAP) is an Augmented Reality (AR) platform for the public display of digital works of art. VPAP is the first mobile AR outdoor art experience ever, and maximizes public reception of AR art through compatibility with both iPhone and Android platforms.
VPAP creates site-specific sculptures at a location that invite viewers in for close observation from all sides and from multiple perspectives.Augmented Reality (AR) is a view of the physical real-world environment merged with virtual computer-generated imagery in real-time. VPAP merges the real-world physical environment of public spaces around the world with site-specific virtual sculptures that can only be viewed in-the-round using the iPhone 3GS and Android phones when one is at the sculpture’s real-world location.
Read an interview with VPAP founder, Chris Manzione, on the Breadboard BLOG.
*Artists and individuals interested in submitting work for the VPAP Philadelphia exhibit please contact bbprograms[@]sciencecenter[dot]org (subject: VPAP)
FABRICATE is an International Peer Reviewed Conference with supporting publication and exhibition to be held at The Building Centre in London from 15-16 April 2011. Discussing the progressive integration of digital design with manufacturing processes, and its impact on design and making in the 21st century, FABRICATE will bring together pioneers in design and making within architecture, construction, engineering, manufacturing, materials technology and computation.
Call for Work: Central to the aim of FABRICATE is to interrogate and disseminate difference, similarity and innovation across design and making practices in industry and academia. Submissions will be independently blind reviewed by two members of an international panel of experts.
As we prepare for our upcoming events with Virtual Public Art Project in the coming months here is another example of Augmented Reality and the virtual world VPAP projects exist in. Read more at Techcrunch Europe
VPAP Q&A between Chris Manzione, founder of Virtual Public Art Project (VPAP), and Mimi Sheller, director of Drexel University’s new Center for Mobilities Research and Policy (mCenter@Drexel). The Q&A was conducted via email and is the first in what will be an ongoing conversation with Chris Manzione about VPAP and future applications of augmented reality.
Breadboard has two projects planned with VPAP, one of which is set to launch in the Fall of 2010.
We are set to launch the pilot project for the Breadboard Residency Program with Sabin+Jones LabStudio. LabStudio will have access to NextFab Studio resources, personnel and workshop space for the Fall of 2010. Project information and team bios can be viewed HERE.
LabStudio team
LabStudio’s primary focus will be on the use of NextFab’s 3D Laser Scanner and 3D printers to further their research. An excerpt from the LabStudio residency proposal:
Organic models such as those found in cell biology afford new modes for understanding issues of feedback, adaptation, growth and self-assembly as they negotiate truly dynamic environments with nonlinear responses. A rigorous understanding and analysis of these types of models will allow architects to retool and revaluate how we negotiate topics such as complexity, emergence and self-organization in architecture at tectonic and material levels.
A LabStudio wiki (still in development) will document the project with regular updates. Members of the LabStudio team will also take on the daunting task of Breadboard guest blogging from time to time. We all look forward to working with them over the next several months. A special EKG exhibit will be developed in the future based on the LabStudio residency.
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