The Softness of Things: Technology in Space and Form  

"Literally as well as metaphorically, the man accustomed to inverting lenses has undergone a revolutionary transformation of vision."
"Frameworks must be lived with and explored before they can be broken."
Thomas Kuhn

"The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel the depth, the delight, the ecstasy of it, you will discover that for you the world is transformed."

J. Krishnamurti

Week 12: Transformation

Transformations -Technology is largely about transformation. We will retrace the themes that we have been working on throughout the semester and see how they have transformed our work. We will retrace assignments, exercises and projects we developed during the semester and synthesize them. In the process we will transform them, reevaluate their various aspects, and improve them with final transformational interventions.

connections transform
flow is transformative
energy is about transformation
open source has transformed the way we look at systems

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Butterflies & metamorphosis
Invitation to a Transformation by V. Nabokov

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The Grain of the Voice - Glenn Gould

"the piano is not an instrument for which I have any great love as such... [But] I have played it all my life and it is the best vehicle I have to express my ideas." In the case of Bach, Gould admitted, "[I] fixed the action in some of the instruments I play on — and the piano I use for all recordings is now so fixed — so that it is a shallower and more responsive action than the standard. It tends to have a mechanism which is rather like an automobile without power steering: you are in control and not it; it doesn't drive you, you drive it. This is the secret of doing Bach on the piano at all. You must have that immediacy of response, that control over fine definitions of things.

Glenn Gould playing Goldberg Variations and humming


Transformation & Sound and the Work of Max Neuhaus

 

Light Transformations

& James Turrell

youTube Video of Turrell's work
Another youTube Video of Turrell's work

Turrell taking about his work 1
Turrell taking about his work 2
Turrell taking about his work 3

& Dan Flavin

Dan Flavin Exhibition at Dia

Transformation & Perspective

The Peters Projection

Military Transformation
Technology and the Future of Warfare at the MIT Technology Review