Anémic Cinéma
Marcel Duchamp created Anémic Cinéma, a film based on his Rotoreliefs, with Man Ray and Marc Allégret between 1924 and 1926. In her article of the same name as the […]
Marcel Duchamp created Anémic Cinéma, a film based on his Rotoreliefs, with Man Ray and Marc Allégret between 1924 and 1926. In her article of the same name as the […]
Cartographer and architect Bernard Cahill was the inventor of the octahedral “Butterfly Map” (published 1909; patented 1913). His Butterfly World Map, like Buckminster Fuller’s later Dymaxion World of 1943 and […]
The Washington-Alexandria Architecture Center (WAAC) of Virginia Tech inhabits the former Lee School for Girls on Prince Street between the north–south branches of Route 1. This sixteen room high school […]
Alongside my dissertation, I have been working on a physical model in which to project my digital animation of the Partiturskizze zu einer mechanischen Exzentrik (Score-sketch for a Mechanical Eccentric, 1924) […]
An Exzentrik (eccentric) is a theatrical performance employing an exaggerated form of comedy capable of lowering the audience’s psychophysical barriers with uproarious laughter, opening them to new ideas. According to a […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]