Carscapes: How the Motor Car Reshaped England

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Few people would associate the words “English heritage” with car showrooms, repair garages, filling stations, traffic lights, inner ring roads, multi-storey car parks, and drive-through restaurants. Yet, the exhibition at Wellington Arch shows that the car’s impact on the physical environment needn’t be reduced to ruthless out pours of concrete and “wayside eyesores” continue

Transport for London Campaign

Le designer et illustrateur anglais Chris LaBrooy, dont nous avons déjà parlé sur Fubiz avec le projet Auto Aerobics, a été sollicité par Transport for London pour créer des affiches de publicité. Le projet a été conçu avec l’agence M&C Saatchi basée à Londres, sous la direction artistique de Will Bates.

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Japanese Art Truck Scene

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Tatsuki Masaru spent a decade following the Decotora (an abbreviation for “Decoration Truck”) subculture, photographing the trucks of course but also their drivers and in the long series of “Japanese do it better”, these vehicles have a panache and extravagance that never reach bad taste continue

Book review – Explore Everything: Place-Hacking the City

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Plotting expeditions from London, Paris, Berlin, Detroit, Chicago, Las Vegas and Los Angeles, Bradley L. Garrett has evaded urban security in order to experience the city in ways beyond the boundaries of conventional life. He calls it ‘place hacking’: the recoding of closed, secret, hidden and forgotten urban space to make them realms of opportunity continue

United Micro Kingdoms

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Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby use elements of industrial design, architecture, politics, science and sociology to provoke debate around the power and potential of design. UmK challenges assumptions about how products and services are made and used, through reinterpretations of the car and other transport systems continue

The Silence of Dogs in Cars

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“I did start it as a reportage project but after I found myself walking around supermarket carparks making barking noises to try and awaken sleeping dogs that were not actually there, I set up the shots. But I now realise that is the right thing. It’s very important that it’s lit and looks cinematic, dreamlike almost” continue

Bus Stop Series

« By the Bus Stop » vient de l’idée du photographe anglais Richard Hooker, passionné par l’arrêt de bus en tant que lieu de transition et de mélange social. Il a donc immortalisé à travers Londres les passagers de bus entre les années 2001 et 2005. Une idée simple mais très réussie à découvrir dans la suite.

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Artistic automated transport system

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The ‘Train Project’ has seen HeHe develop temporary autonomous vehicles that piggyback on unused or abandoned rail tracks. The vehicles offer an alternative to cars of course but also to collective transportation systems continue

Interview with Michel de Broin

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I had a little chat with the artist who hung a gigantic disco-ball over Paris, threw 12 tons of asphalt on the road to create a absurdly twisted bike lane in Montreal, rode his polluting bicycle in parks, knitted New Orleans street lamps into a satellite-shaped structure, silenced an alarm bell under a vacuum system and famously got his pedal-powered 86′ Buick Regal car pulled over by the police continue

The Arctic’s 24/7 banking ship

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In the early 2040’s an ex-Soviet Arktika class icebreaker was recommissioned to act as an experiment in global finance at 88.7 degrees latitude – the heart of the arctic sea. Here it could circumnavigate the world in twenty-four hours, allowing it to stay in constant contact with trading zones throughout the world. The experiment was a phenomenal success… continue

The Moon Goose Analogue: Lunar Migration Bird Facility

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One of the works on show at the AV Festival this month is the extremely long-term project that sees Agnes Meyer-Brandis training a flock of young geese to fly to the moon. The whole training started last Spring and according to her schedule, the birds will go on their first unmanned flight to the satellite in 2024 continue

AV Festival – Slow Motion Car Crash

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A slow motion car crash sculpture is moving at a speed of 7mm per hour in an empty shop in the center of Newcastle continue

Pervert Trailers

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Tim Miller has devised 101 ways to use a trailer. Yes, a trailer, that mundane, strictly utilitarian object no one would ever waste a glance on. The designer, however, sees the trailer as a blank canvas that has the potential to become a tool for the realization of collective as well as individual dreams. You can use trailers for anything, you can reinterpret them, you can use them to manipulate the world around you or better said you can ‘pervert’ trailers according to your desires and needs continue

Book review: Utopia Forever – Visions of Architecture and Urbanism

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The projects presented in the book explore how current challenges for architecture, mobility, and energy as well as the logistics of food consumption and waste removal can be met. Text features by both architects and theorists give added insight continue

PERGOLA at the Palais de Tokyo

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Poltergeists are on the agenda at PERGOLA. Against the background of a haunted modernity, silhouettes of erased lives demand restitution: Swiss tavern lanterns cast a gloom over the museum space, the ventilation shafts bring back good memories of monumental architecture, the melancholy of the Renaissance seeps into this no man’s land, pneumatic dispatch breaches communication…. continue

BIP2010 – The Acrobatic Squad

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The 7th International Biennial of Photography and Visual Arts in Liege is one of the most exciting art events i’ve seen in a while. This year’s theme is (Out of) Control. It oscillates between the cheerful and the somber, between the mundane and the extraordinary. I’ll get back to you with a proper report but i couldn’t help singling out a quirky series of photos i discovered at the biennial continue

Exhibition tip – Tomas Saraceno at MUDAM

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Tomas Saraceno’s Galaxies Forming along Filaments, like Droplets along the Strands of a Spider’s Web was the ultimate photo-magnet at this year’s Venice Biennale. No doubt the work he’s exhibiting at ReThink: Contemporary Art and Climate Change in Copenhagen is meeting with the same fascination from the audience. I’ve seen his pieces in numerous group exhibition. They are always striking of course but i never really took the time to sit down and watch his work with enough attention continue

Australian pavilion at the Venice Biennale – MADDESTMAXIMVS

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First stop: the show MADDESTMAXIMVS at the Australian Pavilion. I wasn’t expecting to like that one as much as i did. A 1:1 ‘sculptural’ replica of the V8 ‘Interceptor’ car driven by Mel Gibson in Mad Max 1 and 2 parked at the entrance of the pavilion almost made me run in the opposite direction continue

Level Green Installation

Une exposition permanente dans l’usine de Volkswagen Autostadt en Allemagne, incluant cette installation qui vise à montrer de manière symbolique les enjeux complexes du transport entre les continents. Des données physiques et interactives conçues par le studio allemand Art+Com.



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Previously on Fubiz

The Golden Institute

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What logic lies behind major technological pushes of the past and how could it apply to future projects and what could we learn from the visions of an American past that never happened? continue