Entrée Open Studio Program: Lygia Clark and the Neo-Concrete movement

A lecture by Felipe R Pena given at Entrée Bergen on March 5th, 2022, as part of a series of live events in connection to the public presentation of Unmaking Abstractions.

Video sections

03:28 - Western canon, Relational Aesthetics // 06:30 - Brazil, population, demographics, language, geography // 09:30 - From economic growth to dictatorship // 12:30 - Clark’s background and artistic starting point // 13:11 - Change towards sculpture, Bichos // 16:30 - Propositions rather than art objects // 16:50 - Predating minimal art in US, Op Art // 17:30 - Helio Oiticica, painting to installation,embodiment, Tropicalia //19:30 - Lygia Pape, installations, participatory work, protests, new to art history // 21:12 - Large scale Bichos and relation to architecture //22:40 - Captial moving to Brasilia, painting abandoned, participatory work // 23:58 - Geometric abstraction made with a political setting // 24:35 - Hélio Oiticica, art as social and political // 26:00 - Lygia Clark therapeutic approaches, soft works // 26:47 - Propositions, The I and the you, clothing, glasses with mirrors // 28:44 - Late Career therapeutical work, sessions curing people // 35:00 - Questions and conversation

Entrée Open Studio Program: On infrastructural abstraction: Models, parameters and algorithms

A lecture by Gabriele de Seta given at Entrée Bergen on February 12th, 2022, as part of a series of live events in connection to the public presentation of Unmaking Abstractions. Video recording by KMD.

Video Sections

03:24 - Contagious Architecture by Luciana Parisi // 06:40 - Infrastructural abstraction // 08.30 - Abstraction: etymology, philosophy, computer science // 10:30 - Luciana Parisi, Whitehead // 12:00 - Abstraction layers in computer science // 14:30 - Limits of computation // 15:00 - First and second order cybernetic loops // 16:10 - Algorithms as black boxes // 21:40 - The “incomputable” // 24:30 - Scanned objects, incompressible data // 26:00 - Parametric architecture and design // 35:50 - Support structures as contagious architecture // 41:00 - Bezier curve as parametric abstraction // 51:40 - Interior at Entrée as contagious architecture // 52:20 - Conclusions // 53:50 - Unmaking and the incomputable // 56:30 - Questions and conversation

Entrée Open Studio Program: WHERE ARE WE NOW? WHERE ARE WE NOW? WHERE ARE WE NOW?

A performance-lecture by Sidsel Christensen on March 10th, 2022, at Entrée, Bergen as part of a series of live events in connection to the public presentation of Unmaking Abstractions. Video recording by Siavash Kheirkhah.

A conversation with Sirisha Shashikanth

In this video conversation Sirisha Shashikanth and I speak about 3D scanning, the things she scanned for the artwork Objects at Hand, her new job at CGI Simulations and her work as a mechanical engineer in Hyderabad, India. (December, 2021)

Video Sections

01:10 - Laser 3D scanner applications // 02:20 - What are the exercise objects // 02:40 - Scanner, Mouse // 03:18 - Automobile component, dissemble for reverse engineering // 03:30 - Coasters, Hammer // 04:00 - Fragments in exhibition architecture // 04:50 - Monkey Toy // 05:10 - Resolution, file conversion // 06:05 - Small house coaster, vacuum // 06:40 - Ganesh, meaning and idol reproduction // 08:15 - Helmet, car // 08:50 - Workflow physical object to 3D model // 09:05 - Place object, pointcloud data, STL // 09:40 - Imperfections in scans // 10:20 - Hyderabad technology capital of India // 11:10 - Shashikanth’s professional background // 13:00 - Polygon to B-rep conversion in Fusion360 // 13:30 - Object specific challenges in reverse engineering and casting

A conversation with Gustav Tresselt

This recorded conversation with Tenklabs founder and CEO Gustav Tresselt is a continuation of talks that started during a 3D modeling in Virtual Reality workshop at Aldea in June 2021. We speak about abstraction in programming, in art, science and about Tressels’ motivation behind starting a company that develops 3D modeling software for VR.

Video Sections

00:00 VR modeling workshop at Aldea // 01:23 - What is a package // 02:05 - Code as simulation of reality // 03:03 - Abstraction: transfer mechanisms, use in widest sense, trust function // 04:54 - Overabstraction vs underabstraction // 06:22 - Abstraction in law and text // 07:07 - Abstraction mistakes in history of science - protoplasma // 07:53 - What is abstraction in 3D modeling, how does it work and affect users and things // 09:15 - Creating realities with abstractions // 10:03 - What is coding really // 10:33 - Simulation in Unreal Engine // 11:27 - Simplifications and abstractions shaping new reality // 11:37 - Abstraction depending on your goal // 12:32 - Abstraction in psychology // 12:55 - Abstraction in science theory - operationalization // 13:33 - How we understand things abstractly // 13:51 - Abstraction in language, images, gestalt theory

Work in progress: Secret Support

This short video clip documents part of the process of making Secret Support. Holding a fragment of a Formlabs 3D printed support structure in front of my drawing in Fusion360, I measure by eye if my sketch matches the object.

Work in progress: Looking for a Neo-Concrete Painting

This short video clip documents part of the process of making Explode Mesh. Navigating around different polygonal 3D models in search for a form suitable as installation artchitecture, the screen displayed what looked like a continuously changing Neo-Concrete painting.