Meet Nando the chicken
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Poser
by Sam
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Cider barn at The Newt, Somerset
by Sam
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Snapdragons #garden
by Sam
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Instagram Image
by Sam
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Grid Car Shoreditch
by Sam
Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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Video art innit
by Sam
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Spectrum
by Sam
Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in May 2012
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Gage: Edge Monkeys
by Sam
Download pdf Gage, S. (2005), Edge Monkeys, in Technoetic Arts, Intellect Ltd:Bristol, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics
Zhou: Embodiment and Hybrid Architecture
by Sam
Download pdf Zhou, X. (2012) Embodiment and Hybrid Architecture, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
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Budapest is cold #testicicles
by Sam
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Warhol Car Shoreditch
by Sam
Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in August 2012
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#site
by Sam
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Labyrinth Drawings
by Sam
Drawings which iteratively explore common simple labyrinth forms; overlaying each to illustrate how one type might be switched or folded into another. This process subjects the delicate ‘coherence’ of the recognisable labyrinth symbols to fragmentation, generating potentially ‘switching’ or momentarily incoherent maze conditions.
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Rome: Churches
by Sam
Pen and pencil sketches from a trip to Rome, March 2001 [by Sam]
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Koch: Spatial Systems as Producers of Meaning
by Sam
Download pdf Koch, D. (2004), ‘Spatial Systems as Producers of Meaning’, Licentiate Thesis, KTH, Stockholm:SWE.
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The Switching Labyrinth: Fabrication
by Sam
Much of the work for an installation focusses on how to construct it; metaphorically but also literally. This habitually hidden process deserves documentation as much as anything else; Architecture is, after all, often about delivery. This gallery shows some of the design drawings, prototyping and mass construction processes of the framework and intelligent acutation mechanisms for ‘The Switching Labyrinth’ installation. (See here for the completed project)
Categories: Architecture • Tags: labyrinths, work in progress
The Stags, off Buddagh
by Sam
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Travel Sketches
Lizzie’s assorted travel sketches
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Digital Agents: Agent-Maze Ecologies
by Sam
Study of multiple generations of autonomous spatial agents progressing through a real-time reconfiguring maze-matrix. ‘Doors’ in this opened or closed depending on maze-inherent desires over occupation levels. Those that tended towards closure are illustrated as ‘walls’. Dependent on the desire sets exhibited by the maze, different ‘wall’ structures were observed. These can be related back to archetypal plan forms, suggesting an emergent occupational basis for common architectural devices.
Categories: Research • Tags: agents, coding, drawings, labyrinths
The Epigenetic Object
by Sam
The Epigenetic Object was a mobile that performed and whistled noisily to attract attention, inflating in gratification when petted. Coded behaviours combined with the latent epigenetic qualities of the mobile’s body to produce a continually novel and playful sequence of form and dialogue with the observer. The ambiguities of this encounter were deliberately emphasised with the use of an androgynous yet strangely appealing doll’s head at the centre of the piece.
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Teaser
by Sam
Taken in Shoreditch, East London, in January 2012
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Beachy Head, mist closing in, seven knots.
by Sam
Taken off the coast of South England, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Great new book to read
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in July 2012
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Update X-Ray
by Sam
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Varna: Improvisational Choreography
by Sam
Download pdf Varna, C. (2013) Improvisational Choreography as a design language for Spatial Interaction, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: choreography, dance, GAD RC3, performance
Post Op X-Ray No.1
by Sam
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Kito: Delight in Architecture
by Sam
Download pdf (if you tweet or facebook it) Kito, A. (2012) Delight in Architecture, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: cybernetics, delight, GAD RC3, mobiles
Last shot of #Boulogne, which bizarrely had numerous #Welsh restaurants. Anyone know why?
by Sam
Taken in Boulogne, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Heron
by Sam
Taken at Chiswick House, West London, in July 2012
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Instagram Image
by Sam
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Bit of gormer innit
by Sam
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Costa Rica: Turtles
Turtle conservation project, Costa Rica from Lizzie’s volunteer trip, 2005
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Port tasting for two? Oh yes I will.
by Sam
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Gandhi? endorses Portugese coffee.
by Sam
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Foam on beach at Sandymouth #nofilter
by Sam
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Wind turbine and rainbow #nofilter
by Sam
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Poissonnerie.
by Sam
Taken in Le Treport, Northern France, on Arcangel’s August 2012 voyage
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Walking Places: Harrods
by Sam
[click & drag to pan] Recorded in Central London, in January 2012
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Costa Rica: Life
Life shots from Lizzie’s volunteering trip to Costa Rica, 2005
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Doorbell detail, Córdoba
by Sam
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Choppy seas, Margate pier
by Sam
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Torro torro
by Sam
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Burrow Hill Cider Mill
by Sam
Traditional cider mill and cider brandy distillery in Somerset, West England. Visited in April 2008
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Quiet day in the office
by Sam
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Instagram Image
by Sam
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Festive self portrait
by Sam
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Much stairs
by Sam
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Abandoned at Quintins Boat Club
by Sam
Taken in Chiswick, West London, in August 2012
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Average Radial in a simple gridisovists.org
by Sam
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Realtime & Reflective Isovist Agents
by Sam
Typical spectral graph results from the methods shown in the below films can be viewed here. A complete re-write of the realtime isovist agents code into c++ has facilitated more complex isovist modelling and realtime analysis extracts. An updated version of the previously demonstrated movement within and perception of real plan space in realtime is shown above; below follow illustrations of new capabilities. As a secondary level, transparent barriers to movement can now be modelled and isovists related to vision […]
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#Guerilla garden under the westway flyover
by Sam
Taken at the confluence of the Westway and the Grand Union, West London, in September 2012
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Berardi: Predictable Unpredictability
by Sam
Download pdf Berardi, V. (2012) Predictable Unpredictability, Bartlett RC3 GAD Report, University College London:London, UK.
Categories: Theory Library • Tags: chaos, GAD RC3, interaction