To celebrate London as a centre of design and innovation, the ‘Digital Architecture London’ Conference will take place at the Building Centre on 21st September 2009. Presenting a selection of London’s leading architects, artists, designers and engineers, the conference will examine how London is shaping the digital future of the built environment. Introducing the latest developments in digital design practice, the conference will explore new spaces, social interactions, design and fabrication processes, and speculate on architecture’s post-digital futures. DAL09 is directed by Ruairi Glynn with the support of London Digital Week, The Building Centre, Arup & The Bartlett School of Architecture.

via:interactivearchitecture.org, digital-architecture.org

On Friday the 4th and Saturday the 5th of September 2009, the CASZUIDAS Urban Screen Festival is taking place in Amsterdam. The CASZUIDAS Urban Screen Festival is a new international festival specially aimed at artworks for urban screens. The focal point of the festival is the contemporary art screen CASZ, which has graced the Zuidas, Amsterdam’s new office and residential district, since October 2007. With its mix of 80% art and 20% art-related programming and advertising, CASZ is unique in the world. The screen runs from six o’clock in the morning until twelve o’clock at night; the art it shows is part of daily life in the public space of the Zuidplein in Zuidas, Amsterdam.

CASZUIDAS – moving images in public space is an urban screen arts initiative established by Virtual Museum Zuidas (VMZ) and SKOR (Foundation Art and Public Space) at Zuidas, Amsterdam, in October 2007.

The festival is free for all.

via: urbanscreens.org, festival.caszuidas.nl

Vierunddreißig Aktionen von Hans Nevídal
vom 10. Mai 2000 bis zum 10. Mai 2033 (jeweils 22:00 Uhr) an den Fassaden der Deutschen Nationalbibliothek

Am 10. 5. 2000, etwa zum Zeitpunkt des Autodafés vom 10. 5. 1933, begann der Wiener Künstler Hans Nevídal mit Projektionen von Brandschutzfilmen an die Außen wand der Deutsche Nationalbibliothek in Frankfurt. 2001 wurde diese Aktion an der Deutschen Bücherei Leipzig weitergeführt. 2002 fand sowohl in Frankfurt wie in Leipzig eine Aktion statt, wobei in Leipzig alte 35mm-Brandschutzfilme aus den DDR-Beständen der Feuerwehr Leipzig gezeigt wurden. Seither wird alternierend oder an beiden Orten gleichzeitig projiziert. Dieses Jahr zeigt Nevídal in Leipzig den Film » THE ART OF FIGHTING WILDFIRES / techniques, awareness, training«.

via.: brandschutz.mur.at

via:luminapolis.com

The next edition of the BEYOND MEDIA festival -which will take place at the Stazione Leopolda in Florence, Italy, July 9-17, 2009- will once again offer the opportunity to enhance the architectural discourse by means of a wider awareness of the role of the media of communication in the professional, academic and public field.

The ninth edition of the Florence festival is titled “VISIONS”.

It seems as if contemporary architecture lost, in the last years, its ability to pursue broad visions, to collect with a wide outlook the complex transformations of the built environment, to lead its thoughts and conscience beyond that which is usual, empirical, and visible. The massive production and consumption of architectural images resulted in a greater vicinity, on the part of the general public, to design issues. But, at the same time, they produced an alteration in the way people conceive architecture, and affected the ability and the opportunity to generate visions, and hence theories, which are deeply rooted in our times but, at the same time, are receptive towards new possible scenarios.

With “VISIONS”, the BEYOND MEDIA festival suggests to carefully think over topics of figuration and representation, and will put forward more effective visions which might be useful in tracing the outlines of our possible future.

via: beyondmedia.it

This is an example of an ephemeral 3D Media Architecture only existing for a blink of time – on the occasion of the opening of the new Palm Jumeirah in Dubai; fits perfectly as a start into the new year: We wish a glamorous 2009 to all our readers and friends!

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The Media Facade Conference 2008 will take place on Oct 17 and 18. Please check the conference program. Still tickets available. Please register directly at DAZ.

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From today you can register your project for the Luminale 08 (6th to 11th
April 2008). You find the registration form on the website
http://www.luminapolis.com under the heading: TOP NEWS.
Luminale is part of light+building.

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spectr|a|um offers a night with audiovisual performances and visual art on the 145 m high Dexia Tower, from which 4200 windows will be enlightened by internationally renowned musicians and artists, taking place on Place Rogier’s urban lounge and Dexia Tower.
Line-up:

• Limiteazero / Holger Lippmann / Olaf Bender _ artworks: 20h0 – 21h0, 21h45 – 22h45, 0h0 – 1h0
• Frank Bretschneider + LAb[au] _ audiovisual performance: 21h00 – 21h45
• Balanescu Quartet + LAb[au] _ audiovisual performance: 22h45 – 0h00

via LAb[au]