Emi has exclusively created five works encapsulating her signature basis of inspiration shunga, a Japanese form of erotic art. Through her art, Emi marries distinct characters and themes from traditional Japan, contrasted with modern iconic characters such as Doraemon, Astroboy and Hello-Kitty, making them pertinent portrayals of both Japan’s past and present.

Emi studied realistic painting techniques with established painter Mineko Ando from a very young age, and graduated in 1991 with a degree in Fine Art. Since then, she has risen and emerged in eminent galleries and art fairs around the world.

A Selection of Emi Uchida’s work will be presented from today – end of February.
Vue Privée
20 Cairnhill Road
Singapore 229652

Gallery Hours: Thursday – Sunday 12 noon – 8 pm
Monday – Wednesday by appointment only

Bernhard Leitner, is a known Austrian artist who makes sound sculptures and sound installations, his works deals with the audio-physical experience of spaces and object which determined in form and content by movement of sound. He studied architecture and had visioned himself applying sound in an installation space, he undertakes his projects as  a scientific research by studying frequencies, volumes, movements and their impact on the body. Out of all his sound projects, his first one is called ‘Sound cube’ in 1969.

In ‘Sound cube’ Leitner gathered his research findings in sketches, where he explores the use of a space for how sounds would travel and how it’ll be received. His sketches is really descriptive of his research, in one sketch we can see how there’s a four different level of speed, pitch or direction, another sketch where the sound source is a loudspeaker that fades out as it travels through the room. Other sketches involved various sound travel in the same space, but with a more precise direction such as a circular or rectangular motion. It’s really interesting how a sound is conceived according to its fitting in the space provided, and Leitner’s other projects and sound installations has explored it in many ways possible, take a look at his other works HERE

Are you fascinated by installation art such as antiVJ’s 3Destruct? Then, check out another installation art by duo-based in Detroit. This project called Nervous Structure (field).

Nervous Structure (field) is created by Annica Cuppetelli and Cristobal Mendoza who collaborated to create an interactive installation. It consists of three elements: a structure from strings and fabrics, an interactive video projection, and the viewer’s interaction.

When you move, the computer software will interpret your movements. It causes the strings, which are illuminated by the projection, to move along as if they were blown by wind (even though just a small gesture and you are not near from the strings). This effect happened because of the combination between the projection, the strings, and the shadows that created on the background. This project installed in 2011, at inLight (Richmond, VA)

Watch video below!

“If your house was burning, what would you take with you?”—Foster Huntington, The Burning House.

Foster Huntington is a photographer and he shares his works through his first blog, A Restless Transplant (http://www.arestlesstransplant.com/). It contains Huntington’s photographs during his 19000 miles trip right after he left his design job in August 2008. Then he created The Burning House. The Burning House created back in May 2011—one month after he started asking his friends about what things they would bring if their house was burning. Besides that, it is because of Huntington’s interest in people’s relationship to their stuffs. The Burning House contains photos and lists of stuffs they will take if their house was burning. Below are some examples from The Burning House:

a New York-based musician, Bethany Marcial.

a 41-years-old art director, Audelino Moreno

From Bethany’s picture and list we can conclude that she is a simple for a girl, because she does not want to bring many stuffs with her. She loves vintage things, as she likes to bring vintage Wrangler jeans and a vintage blue strip blouse and Bethany seems loves to keep some stuffs that really meaningful to her. Different from Bethany, Audelino is simpler than her. I think it’s because he has a family and he’s a 41-years-old man. It describes that he does not need many things to bring.

And as an art director, of course Audelino is simpler than Bethany. Besides his family, he just needs eight stuffs to bring with him.

You can see people’s personalities, priorities, and their interests apart from interesting pictures on that blog. But, we would have no time to take all those stuffs if our house was burning… Because, we probably just run out from our house if it happens, right? Check out The Burning House HERE.

Typewriters are probably the most antique technology nowadays, not to mention cassette tapes and record players, once considered lame, now if you have one of those its one of those cool thing to have thingamajigs. A latest innovation takes the classical typewriter to a whole new level. Tyree Callahan, an American painter has created The Chromatic Typewriter, that enables it users to create an abstract landscape works on paper. Tyree Callahan is one of the hundreds of people who has submitted his innovation to the 2012 West Prize Competition, an annual art prize determined by the most popular by vote. Tyree took an unused 1937 Underwood Typewriter and replaced the letter keys with color pads and hue labels, so each time a key is pressed you’ll get a small rectangular pixel of color. Check out Tyree Callahan blog here.

Tanah Teduh is a residential project in Jakarta which its main initiative is to showcase Indonesia’s contemporary architecture.  Headed by prominent Indonesian architect, Andra Matin as principle architect, Tanah Teduh was established to find a riveting solution to everyday living by gathering nine like-minded architects – Adi Purnomo, Zenin Adrian, Ahmad Djuhara, Anthony Liu, Yori Antar, Wendy Djuhara, Tan Tik Lam, Eko Prawoto, and Ferry Adrian – to visually design a building that is defined by its pre-existing environment.

Located in Jati Padang, Pasar Minggu, Tanah Teduh is an open invitation for everyone to experience Indonesia’s architecture at its best, with high hopes that Tanah Teduh can be a benchmark and an exemplar for future developments in Indonesia and the international public.

Developer Ronald Akili and architect Andra Matin share their poignant view of this residential project at the video below.

50watts is a book-related design and illustration personal blog created by a 34 years old bibliomaniac, Will Schofield. His previous blog name was “A Journey Round My Skull” and in February 2011, he moved to 50watts. This January, Schofield posted 17 illustration books and one of them is Das Puppendorf (The Village Puppets) by Hans Hoffman.

Hans Hoffmann (1848-1909) was a schoolmaster and then he resigned to be a novelist. His well-known novels are Unter blauem Himmel (1981), Der Hexenpredleger (1883), and Im Lande der Phaäken (1884). Besides that, he also authored a children’s book titled Das Puppendorf (1906), which the illustrator of this book remains a mystery as he/she only put his/her initial name “K.G.”.  Pictures below are sneak-peek from Das Puppendorf:

From the pictures above, the illustrations are quite interesting and unique to see for such an old children’s book like that. We can categorize K.G’s illustrations were quite imaginative and I’m pretty sure that this book will pretty much gain children’s interest during that time; such as endearing animals and engaging dolls as the characters. Unfortunately, Das Puppendorf’s story is written in German. If you are interested to read the whole book, you can read at the Braunschweigh Digital Library.

Architecture UI Fair (AFAIR) is an annual event presented by Ikatan Mahasiswa Arsitektur (IMA) BEM FTUI and Department of Architecture FTUI, as a moment for the students to show their talent in thinking creatively and responding towards issues in their surroundings. The output would be developed as certain architectural projects that could be shared and communicated to the society, academicians, and professionals.

This year we choose Play With Your Surroundings as a concept of the whole event where having fun in urban activities is the main focus.
“Summing up the formal characteristics of play we might call it a free activity standing quite consciously outside “ordinary” life as being “not serious,”

“Play is a voluntary activity or occupation executed within certain fixed limits of time and place, according to rules freely accepted but absolutely binding, having its aim in itself and accompanied by feeling of tension, joy, and consciousness that it is different from ordinary life” J. Huizinga ‘Homo Ludens’

Man and playing can not be separated. Playing is a free activity done with consciousness, outside the typical human life which often faced with stress and seriousness. In playing, we create, decide, and form a certain space and time. This human need of space and time is an architectural aspect that determines many forms of urban places according to the activities and surroundings.

Open House Exhibition
AFAIR 2012
“Play with Your Surrounding”
(ARCHITECTURE UI FAIR 2012)
Design Competition, Workshop, Public Lecture, Open House Exhibition

29th Jan 2012 – 4th Feb 2012 (10.00 a.m. -6 p.m.)
@ Exhibition Hall C, 2nd Floor, Grand Indonesia, Jakarta

Opening (30th Jan 1 p.m.)
Opening Speech by Kemas Ridwan Kurniawan, ST., MSc., Ph.D.
(Head of Department of Architecture, University of Indonesia)

Public Lecture (3th Feb)
(1 p.m.) 1st session “Intervensi Ruang Publik: Catatan Pendek” by Iswanto G. Hartono (UNTAR Lecturer, sculpture, installation artist)
(3 p.m.) 2nd session “Sustainable Design: Instalasi Jebak Kandang” by Agus Iswahyudi & Ari Setyo N. (Ambitext)

Play with Your Surrounding Design Competition Final Presentation (4th Feb 1 p.m.)

Judges :
Sarah Ginting (Architect of Gang Sesama)
Yandi Andri Yatmo (Architect, Lecturer)
Ardi Yunanto (Karbon Journal)

Music Performance by Prof. Ir. Triatno Yudo Harjoko, MSc., Ph.D. (Architecture UI Lecturer) (4th Feb 4 p.m.)

Bandung based brand UNKL recently added a new collection to their T-shirt Artist Series, this time collaborating with artist, Pink Girl Go Wild (PGGW). PGGW is an artist known for the exploration of character and patterns, the  previous work of art has been exhibited in the women surfing tournament International in Australia as part of a charity event.

For this collaborative series, the two designs of the T-shirt consist of a shirt titled “Lucky (Cat) Bstrd”, a work of art on canvas that was part of the solo exhibition ‘Bird’ and then there is ‘Papa Muertos’, that was the cover of PGGW second book titled ‘Racun’ published in 2011. ‘Papa Muertos’ was inspirited by ‘day of the dead’ or Mexico’s death celebration.

The T-shirt Artist Series are only sold at UNKL flagship stores in Bandung for a price of Rp. 130,000 and is available in a limited amount.

Olaf Breuning is one unique fellow. His creative personality could be traced throughout his artwork; colorful, realistic and lusty.

The Swiss-born New Yorker could be known for his films, staged photography, sculptures and illustrations. Including solo exhibitions such as Metro Pictures, Nicola von Senger, Air de Paris, the Swiss Institute and the Whitney Biennale.

For the even more curious, Olaf Breuning, in collaboration with Nieves released a publication that is displays his personal sketches. The publication features 20 pages of his dear drawings, and is only limited to 150 copies.

Interesting, detail, and very imaginative – if I would describe it. Very colorful although it’s in black and white.

Check it out, or bag a copy here.