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 […]
Author Archives: Jodi La Coe
Butterfly Map
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 […]
WAAC history
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 […]
Partiturskizze zu einer mechanischen Exzentrik
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) […]
Eccentrism
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 […]
Tesla Sparks
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 […]
Zero Point
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 […]
Lichtrequisit
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 […]
Prototype
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 […]
Prima Materia
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 […]
Jodi La Coe, R.A. 