EAR Studio

Blur

Ear Studio collaborated with Diller+Scofidio on the media and interactive aspects of Blur, the Â centerpiece pavilion of Swiss Expo 2002. A football field-sized suspended platform shrouded in a Â perpetual cloud of man-made fog, the Blur Pavilion was to host an interactive media project featuring Â wearable, wireless technology embedded into “Brain Coats,” technologically-enhanced raincoats. Â Visitorsâ€™ Brain [...]

Brasserie

Customers entering through the revolving door are photographed by a video camera. An ephemeral record of the clientele emerges as the images shift to the right each time a new arrival appears on the leftmost screen. Together with the architecture, the video installation plays on the notion of a “grand entrance.” The Brasserie won the [...]

Architecture Based on Sound Principles

“Joel Sanders and Karen Van Lengen should run for office. They’re two of few leaders we can think of who practice what they preach.” (from UVA Today) So says a new article about the architects in the magazine Interior Design. EAR Studio agrees! Sanders and Van Lengen’s new Sound Lounge at the University of Virginia [...]

Great New Photography Show at the Storefront for Art and Architecture

Ben stopped in at the Storefront for Art and Architecture on his way to lunch today (Hoomoos Asli – amazing falafel!) and checked out the new show that just opened on Tuesday. He says the exhibit is excellent and well worth checking out. The show, Refuge, Five Cities, is an exhibition of work by Bas [...]

Terre Natale Opening in Bilbao

Terre Natale, or Native Land, Stop Eject, the exhibition organized by Raymond Depardon & Paul Virilio and originally shown at the Cartier Foundation for Contemporary Art in Paris will now be on view at the new cultural center in Bilboa, the AlhondigaBilbao, from May 18 through August 1, 2010. EXIT – "Remittances, sending money home" [...]

Radiolab Live

On April 14th hosts of the WNYC radio show Radiolab, Jad Abumrad and Robert Krulwich, presented the first in a series of live evening Awe-maggedon events “designed to tickle the mind and surprise the eyes.” Jad and Robert invited Ben and Princeton University Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Iain Couzin to inaugurate the [...]

Ben Rubin’s Dark Source in Artefact Festival

What is missing? Has it never been there or has it been removed? Does available information exist that is not looked at, read or used? The Artefact Festival, at the STUK Arts Center in Leuven, Belgium, ran from February 9-14, 2010 and featured Ben Rubin’s artwork, Dark Source, as part of its exploration into the [...]

Listening Post on Wired.com

Read about Ben Rubin and Mark Hansen’s LISTENING POST, and nine other fascinating artworks, in Hugh Hart’s great Wired.com article about the London exhibition, “Decode: Digital Design Sensations.” -Kali

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