olafur eliasson and ma yansong: feelings are facts

‘space and light bring life into existence. there is no space, unless given light and boundary. space has never existed, but rather exists only in the specific feelings it induces. space in reality, exists only in sensuality. with expanding desire, everything is managed with utmost efficiency. our feelings and sensibilities are seeing facts in the context of habituated life. no until shutting our eyes, can be feel the world from within, space and light will touch your soul.’ - ma yansong 

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N Building

N Building is a commercial structure located near Tachikawa station amidst a shopping district. Being a commercial building signs or billboards are typically attached to its facade which we feel undermines the structures’ identity. As a solution we thought to use a QR Code as the facade itself. By reading the QR Code with your mobile device you will be taken to a site which includes up to date shop information. In this manner we envision a cityscape unhindered by ubiquitous signage and also an improvement to the quality and accuracy of the information itself.

CRYSTAL MESH

The „screen“ facade is formed by a tessellated pattern made up by physical plastic bodies. A regular matrix of fluorescent lamps is superimposed onto (into) this idiosyncratic physical structure. That produces a display screen, which however is vividly distorted by the strong geometry of the individual light fixture and which is peppered by the regular perforations of the physical screen as well as by variations in the arrangements of the light fixture objects.

By intention a complex and ambivalent impression. On one side there is the impression of an ultra large media screen, which is not yet fully there. It appears to be still deep frozen under a surface of ice, cracking and thawing. A herald of a fundamental change of architecture, which is about to transform from a static to a dynamic art.

On the other side the individual blinking crystals carry a strong reminiscence to the look of the “modern city” of the 20th century. The idea of “entertainment” linked to flashing neon signs and excessive baroque carpets of light bulbs with its on-off moving aesthetic.

Sergej Hein is a moving image, animation and fine arts student currently studying at the University of East London. His “Berlin Block Tetris” is a fantastic addition to a growing body of homages to the classic video game: there’s human Tetris, Tetris on a skateboard at night, Tetris against a building, and now what might be called Soviet-era architecture Tetris. It took Hein two weeks to make this clip — but just a few minutes to tell us about it… [Read more at Creator’s Corner Blog]