Archive for February, 2008
Silent architectures
Renzo Piano (born in 1937) is an Italian architect.
The Beyeler Foundation (1997) with its museum in Riehen near Basel owns and oversees the art collection of Hildy and Ernst Beyeler that was built up by the couple over five decades and placed under the aegis of the foundation in 1982. By building Renzo Piano’s [...]
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Sonic acts festival XII
“The twelfth edition of the Sonic Acts festival is devoted to The Cinematic Experience and incorporates an international conference, a wide range of concerts and performances, an exhibition and a diverse programme of films. The central topic will be how the medium of cinema can be used as a means to make us conscious of [...]
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Gestalt psychology
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Gestalt psychology
Gestalt psychology is a theory of mind and brain that proposes that the operational principle of the brain is holistic, parallel, and analog, with self-organizing tendencies; or, that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. The classic Gestalt example is a soap bubble, whose spherical shape is [...]
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Silence workshop
For the silence workshop animated by Christiane Wittig I captured the reflexion of a lightbulb in a window when the sun is setting. The silent uniformity of the blue appears thanks to the flash of the floating lightbulb.
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From the road
This is a photoreportage about the landscape perceived from a moving car. The movement of the unrolling landscape is too fast for the eye and its perception becomes blured. Our usual landmarks disapear and the elements we see lose their usual signification with the increasing speed and distance, they become part of a day dream.
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Under the city’s skin
This is a photoreportage on a few spots in the city were we can feel its evolution in time and see its many components exposed. The temporary destructions allows us to get in touch with the evolutive aspect of a city regenerating its tissues. It gives me the feeling of being in a surgery block [...]
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VVVV
“vvvv is a toolkit for real time video synthesis. It is designed to facilitate the handling of large media environments with physical interfaces, real-time motion graphics, audio and video that can interact with many users simultaneously.
vvvv uses a visual programming interface. Therefore it provides a graphical programming language for easy prototyping and development.
vvvv is real [...]
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Research proposal
At the end of this year, I will make a research proposal. Here is a very first draft I made for Edith Doove’s workshop.
transmedia-research-proposal-delphine-desmet.doc
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Piet Mondrian
I admire Mondrian working techniques and trajectory finding the right balance between methodical research and irrational intuition. He follows his own coherent quest but is curious of all that happens around him. He is a pioneer of leeving figuration for abstraction but doesn’t stop there. That is why I presented him in Christiane Wittig’s workshop as a [...]
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