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INVISIBLE CITY is an online magazine dedicated to showcasing contemporary art and writing by emerging artists from Australia and around the world. Each issue will explore a contemporary theoretical idea through images, creative and critical writing.

Issue 04 DANGEROUS BODIES (PDF 7.4 MB)

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555 KUBIK | facade projection | from urbanscreen on Vimeo.

“How it would be, if a house was dreaming”

The conception of this project consistently derives from its underlying architecture - the theoretic conception and visual pattern of the Hamburg Kunsthalle. The Basic idea of narration was to dissolve and break through the strict architecture of O. M. Ungers “Galerie der Gegenwart”. Resultant permeabilty of the solid facade uncovers different interpretations of conception, geometry and aesthetics expressed through graphics and movement. A situation of reflexivity evolves - describing the constitution and spacious perception of this location by means of the building itself.

D&AD Presidents Lecture / Matt Pyke from Universal Everything on Vimeo.

Please talk about the Space Is the Limit project. Who are some other artists/designers involved? Do you really plan to shoot something into space?

Space is the limit is a site created to promote the course I attended at Hyper Island, the aim was to create awareness and get agencies to check out or work. Our idea was to make an interactive site where you could send any message, feeling, statement etc. to outer space. All students were involved more or less and we also had a launch party for it. We received a lot of traffic and PR from the site and soon we will launch everyones messages into space. Literally.

Human Pyramids Collective was formed in 2007 by an international group of artists and friends. Though we have been happily making art and working within our own cities and circles, the idea of forming some kind of creative intersecting outlet was appealed to us all. A place where we all can share our stories, news, interests, and arts. Ergo, Human Pyramids was born - our online marketplace filled with chunks of wonder and slices of awesome from all around the globe. Dig it!

http://www.humanpyramids.net/main.html 

Ioli Sifakaki, a student at the Royal College of Art, made ceramic tableware set cast from her own body and invited a dozen men to a feast. The dinner service was inspired by the Greek myth of Tantalus, who, after revealing the secrets of the gods, cut up his son, boiled him, and served him as food as a sacrifice for the gods.





Sifakaka told Dezeen: “The ritual of eating is a key element in my work… By casting myself, I copy, dismantle and offer parts of me, in order to provoke new, unusual relationships between the maker and the user.” Note that there’s no silverware — they had to eat with their hands.

A parallel to Daniel Eatock? 

“Avocado Slicer - There were many candidates for most useless vegetable or fruit slicer, but we wanted to include just one, and this is it. Avocado slicer? Really? You can’t use a spoon?”

The latest installation from Illegal Art happened on a chilly May afternoon in the Lower East Side. A long floral panel fixed against the store window of Kaight boutique. People slowly gathered to share and honor a(or a few) past loves.

“From the days of Junior High where holding hands constituted a romantic affiliation to the complications of adulthood affairs, the ending of a relationship can be both trying and freeing at once. Divorce, separation, one night stands, three months to twenty years. If it ended, whether it was good or bad, it always stays in our head and sometimes, heart.

As an honor to your past, and theirs, write down the name of someone you broke up with or who broke up with you. First name. Last name. Or both. Think of it as the “Wailing Wall of Relationships”. The names of the participants of the collective broken relationships of the neighborhood, the city and world.

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Thanks Jackie

The Day After

This is what the sidewalks look like during Vappu, the Finnish May Day celebration where students dress like race car drivers (academic jumpsuits color-coded by university department) in sailor hats (graduation caps)…

Now this moment I must stop for a commercial from my sponsor…and your sponsor: the human brain. You’re carrying around a perfect instrument. This instrument is designed to create any reality that you can wire it up to create. The brain is perfect. It’s that program that screws it up. The programs that they lay on us. I’ll tell you what the brain wants, the brains wants to be excited. To be surprised. Electrified. Your brain wants you to take your brain everywhere. Your brain doesn’t want to be stuck in cities all its life. Your brain wants to do it all and see it all. Your brain wants you to go all the way - wouldn’t you if you were a brain? And to continually show your brain that same old dumb soap opera…here’s what your brain is gonna do. It’s gonna turn you off. The brain wants to…evolve! That’s the end of the commercial. How about a round of applause for the brain! (Applause)

http://spacecollective.org/rene/5026/New-Concepts-of-Self 

If all goes well—or very wrong—Earth may receive a message from aliens from the Altair solar system as early as 2015. Japanese astronomers Hisashi Hirabayashi and Masaki Morimoto sent an email there back in 1983, which was lost and has just been re-discovered by the latter at the Nishi-Harima Astronomical Observatory. Hirabayashi says they were drunk at the time, which explains why some of the 13 71 x 71 pixel images are the molecular formula for ethanol, the kanji characters for “kanpai!” (cheers!), and the English word “toast.” Check out some of the pictures and play drunk alien yourself after the jump.According to Hirabayahsi, he “came up with that idea while drinking. The aliens probably won’t understand that (kanpai and toast) part.” We can only hope that whoever is looking for life at their radio telescope up there won’t be drunk as well, if only to ensure good inter-planetary relations from the start. Example:

Obviously, this means: “Dear People of Altair, We are organisms who reproduce sexually to form families. Life on Earth started in the water.” Kind of scary, but better than the alternative—after five whiskies: “Hey alien dudes, here on Earth we are all nudist. Some of us are giants with big tits. Others are giants with tiny penises. Fishes like to suntan on the beach. Turn the page to see us drunk. Kanpai!”

http://gizmodo.com/390304/earth-set-to-receive-alien-reply-invasion-in-2015 

For about a year now these oxygen bottles have been for sale in 7-eleven in Japan.

They come in several choices such as melon, coffea or like the in the photo below, “forest”.

Exactly what to do with these bottles including how, when and why to use them remains unknown. But a competing convenience store chain has answered by offering oxygen-rich water on bottle.

via http://www.kimchikid.com/blog/2008/04/26/oxygen-gas-bottles-for-sale-in-7-eleven-in-japan/ 

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“Can I Make Everybody Happy?” is a collection of e—mail dialogues between the client and the graphic designer in practical situations. It started out as an assignment by Linda van Deursen at the Gerrit Rietveld academy, about the limitations in graphic design. Later on this assignment ended up in a set of 6 different books. Avaliable as a series or sold seperately. Avaliable at Amazon

Chalkbot allows people to SMS, email or tweet messages to Lance and the team
to be printed by a “robot” along the entire Tour de France route.

Check out a video of the Chalkbot in action and send your own messages at
http://www.nike.com/nikeos/p/livestrong/en_US/chalk_messages

A jeweler found in flea market of Williamsburg, New York.

This piece is call ‘Dino eating drumstick’

Leave it to students at the MIT Media Lab to develop a wearable computing system that turns any surface into an interactive display screen. With an ordinary webcam and a battery-powered 3M projector, they attached a mirror and connected it to an internet-enabled mobile phone. A mere $350 of off-the-shelf components and suddenly the glass window at Macy’s, your car door, or your arm become a computer display. Want to Google the latest Dow Jones, Nasdaq, or S&P 500 returns? No problem, just do a quick search on your shirt sleeve.

WindMaker from Stewdio on Vimeo.

http://stewdio.org/windmaker

WindMaker is an ambient weather widget which applies the current wind conditions to (almost) any Web site.

WindMaker uses a United States ZIP code to grab local conditions from the Yahoo! Weather RSS feed. It then parses a Web site into individual pieces such as text blocks and images. Finally, WindMaker sets the pieces in motion according to the strength of the wind

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