Jodi La Coe, R.A.

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Tesla Sparks

October 25, 2018by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

On March 13, 1895, according to The New York Times, physicist Тесла Никола (Nikola Tesla) was grief-stricken when his laboratory on Fifth Avenue in New York City was consumed by […]

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Zero Point

March 27, 2018by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

In his lecture, “Raum und Zeit” (Space and Time) delivered at the 80th Meeting of the Natural Scientists in Cologne on September 21, 1908, German mathematician Hermann Minkowski developed his […]

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Lichtrequisit

January 20, 2018by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

As Oliver Botar has demonstrated in his Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts, the Lichtrequisit was not conceived to be viewed as a sculpture in itself. It was […]

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Prototype

January 14, 2018by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

In 1937, the Association of Arts and Industries invited László Moholy–Nagy to develop and direct a school of design and architecture in Chicago based upon the Bauhaus model of an […]

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Prima Materia

January 9, 2018by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

According to Plato, the four material elements were derived from a common source or prima materia (first matter), associated with chaos, which alchemists later assigned to the first element used […]

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Color–Light–Plays

January 7, 2018by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

While a student at the Bauhaus, Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack developed equipment to produce experiments with Farblichtspiele (Color-Light-Plays, c. 1924) on continuous film. In Malerei Photographie Film (Painting, Photography, Film, 1925), Bauhaus […]

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Views of the Tesseract

December 30, 2017by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

In his treatise on The Fourth Dimension (1904), British mathematician Charles Hinton demonstrated how three-dimensional representations do not adequately represent all of the elements of matter, only its three spatial coordinates, […]

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Is Time Space?

December 29, 2017by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

American inventor and photographer Eadweard Muybridge was commissioned by Leland Stanford, then entrepreneur and horse breeder, later Governor of California, to study the motion of his horses at his ranch […]

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Choreosophy

December 28, 2017by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

In his exposition on the geometry of movement, Choreutics (1966), choreographer and dance theorist Rudolf von Laban attributed the ancient Greek term choreosophia, a combination of choros meaning circles and sophia meaning […]

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The Metaphysician

December 20, 2017by Jodi La Coe Leave a comment

Until the publication of The Seven Lamps of Architecture in 1849, John Ruskin published anonymously. For the first two volumes of his Modern Painters (1843, 1846), Ruskin was identified only as […]

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2008 ACSA Award
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