[spectre] "COOP HIMMELB(L)AU: FUTURE REVISITED" @ ICC

[yukiko shikata]

"COOP HIMMELB(L)AU: FUTURE REVISITED"


Date: September 19 (Sat.)-December 23 (Wed.), 2009

Venue: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC] Gallery A,
Tokyo Opera City Tower 4F, 3-20-2 Nishishinjuku,
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 163-1404 Japan

Organizer: NTT InterCommunication Center [ICC]
Special cooperation: Austrian Embassy - Cultural Forum / Austrian
Ministry for Education, Arts and Culture
Cooperation: TOSTEM Foundation for Construction Materials Industry
Promotion / Austrian Airlines

Curated by Yukiko Shikata


The exhibition "COOP HIMMELB(L)AU: FUTURE REVISITED" presents two
projects that have first been shown at the 11th International
Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale in 2008. "Astro Balloon
1969 Revisited - Feedback Space", an interactive installation which
uses the participants' heartbeat in a feedback mechanism to
synchronize and visualize it on screens in the balloon, has originally
devised in 1969, finally realized in 2008 in Venice and has now been
upgraded to accommodate the exhibition hall in the ICC. The second
project, "Brain City Lab" is a current research assignment of COOP
HIMMELB(L)AU, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the
neuroscientist Wolf Singer as well as sociologists, and computer
programmers. This interactive installation relates the development
process of the human brain with that of the city. Final goal will be
to conceive programs adopting the latest resources from biological and
information sciences to forebode scenarios for urban and social
development.

[COOP HIMMELB(L)AU]
Founded by Wolf D. PRIX, Helmut SWICZINSKY and Michael HOLZER in
Vienna, Austria in 1968, is active in architecture, urban planning,
design, and art. Headquartered in Vienna, there is a second office in
Los Angeles as well as several project offices in Frankfurt am
Main/Germany, Paris/France, Akron/USA, Mexico City/Mexico and Hong
Kong/China. Since 2006 the studio has been run through Wolf D. PRIX,
Wolfdieter DREIBHOLZ, Harald KRIEGER, Karolin SCHMIDBAUR and Project
Partners.

http://www.ntticc.or.jp/

http://www.coop-himmelblau.at/