Christian Zöllner

Just one short visual impression of the DJ set I played at the groovestation while the BRN festival in Dresden last weekend. back to back with j-kube on MPC and shoc on modul8 we dropped some nice dubby and stepping tunes plus sublime visuals. Thanks to Steve Osten, Kokü and the dancing crowd for having that much fun that weekend.

After two weeks the DMY extended exhibition “Me You & I” will close tommorow evening. So you still have at least one full day left to visit it. The feedback so far is very good, not only the lamps attracted attention, the shelves, the installations and one of my favourites, the trikoton collection of hannah wiesener and magdalena kohler had been payed regard to. The opening with the attached panel discussion about “the shape of designer work to come” was quite interesting too, though it was a bit to long. Again it was all about to meet friends and colleagues, having interesting talks and explaining the shown pieces. There had been several requests on the lamps - just get in touch with me again.

Here you see some impressions.

We will present a selection of the spatial sketched lamps at the snapshot udk exhibition. As stated in the entries before, it will take place while the dmy festival here in berlin and is listed as one of the extended events. The opening will be on the 4th of june with a panel discussion on the future of designerly work in face of new media, new techniques, new economies. There will be interesting guests on panel, like Holm Friebe, Reto Wettach, Claudia Kieserling, Ronen Kadushin and Jörg Petruschat. Next to the talks there will be short presentations of the participating projects, so I will tell something on the chances and constraints of designing in spatial virtual environments and what we as researchers now will change in the interactions of the used tools applications. There will be something to drink too, so feel invited and bring your friends - the entrance is free! If you cannot make it that day, the exposition is open until the 17th of june!

I am very glad to say that the presentation of the ’sketching in space’ project was a great success. All the participating students made the presentation look and feel good for both sides: the presenters and the audience. The models of the threedimanional virtually made sketches had been printed via three different rapid prototyping techniques (sls, fdm, 3D-print). As allready stated, this project can be seen as a reply to the 2 year old viral video of the swedish design team front. Instead of faking the sketching process by just waving trackers, we used the 3d sketch application to see the virtually drawn stroke in realtime floating in space. What we did  the same as front, is to get the sketches back to world and put them in a furniture context. The objects will be seen again while the dmy festival in berlin.

Please feel invited to join the presentation of the last semesters short term project at the college of fine arts berlin, which has been realized in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute Berlin. In two projectgroups the students had to sketch a lamp shade for a pendant light completely in the virtual environment of a CAVE. For refining lines and surfaces of the designs we used Rhino4. The lampshades have been printed via rapidprototyping techniques and will be the core elements of the presentation. A paper will be published soon about the related processes of ideation and selfreflections.

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PRESENTATION - SKETCHING IN SPACE

MONDAY 20.04.2009, 3pm

COLLEGE OF FINE ARTS

STRASSE DES 17. JUNI 118 RAUM 117

BERLIN-CHARLOTTENBURG

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