“Les Fleurs du Mal” is called the renown book of poems by French author Charles Baudelaire. It is said to be the starting point of modern aesthetics and its fascination ...

Conceptualism in Recent Architecture for e-flux journal. Mobility in architecture means to mobilize—money, above all—on behalf of the immobile: to build more space in less time. This further confirms what ...

A hermetic series of works on post-conceptualism in architecture and design. Thereby, “post-” does not only refer to the period after (neo) conceptualism in art, but also to the absolute ...

In a visual analysis Aldi homes are investigated as less than decorated sheds, only reminding of the term coined by Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown. At the same time, ...

☁☁☁☁☁☁☁☁☁☁☁ Bonnie and Cloud are drifting across, robbing banks and stealing cars during the Great Depression. They are always in motion through space, burning the candle at both ends. Their ...

“Wir müssen einander lieben oder sterben” theater play upon the black humor novel ‘The death of Bunny Munro’ by Nick Cave. we turned the low budget project into a completely booked ...

The Border Between Technology and Culture for e-flux journal. Today, common sense tells us that the border between technology (formerly known as nature) and culture is a fluid one. It ...

the series of erroneous Eiffel towers from 2008, is again exhibited in Istanbul… systems are labile, if their behavior cannot be sufficiently predicted. that holds not only true for architectural statics, ...

Junk Jet Party in General Public Berlin with live mix of YouTube search terms “junk” and “jet”! DJ Junk and VJ Jet built an exclusive audio visual mixer to mix ...

Junk Jet n°4 was combing through studios, laboratories, and garages to find those works and theories that make 1 become 2, 2 become 3, 3 …, works that make something ...

In neo-neo-classicist style, mauser built a monumental micro-architecture, or an architectural micro-monument in new york city: As is typical for architecture of finance, the facade shows classic Greek columns, architraves, ...

Miniature golf, one of our micro-architecture series, is an exclusive architecture, as it was firstly set up for the Ladies’ Putting Club in St Andrews, Scotland, in 1867. Women, at ...

at least for her / him. Low-tech junk-films for Magazine Library Exhibition in Tokyo. The launch was on September 11th 2010 during Tokyo’s Fashion’s Night Out 2010. project: film, ad champaign ...

Junk Jet n°3 presents Jetistics: The Analysis of Junk. The Junk of Analysis? Dr. Dr. Crash and Dr. Trash of m-a-u-s-e-r (micro architecture unit star energy ray) brings light into ...

vynil covers, it is like with facades, or faces…  if they are somehow imperfect they are perfect. they show most if they show nothing. they are clever if they are ...

‘booking’ poems, songs, images and trying to keep cool. there is a lot of different elements, therefore we kept it simple, quasi under-dressed. of course, the book is about affairs ...

Collected Collections Cosmos. Comment to Alison and Peter Smithson’s ‘But Today We Collect Ads’ from 1956 and Reyner Banham’s ‘The Great Gizmo’ from 1965… There is a lot that seems ...

Junk Jet n°3: flux-us! flux-you! issue asked for fluxing architectures, boogie, buildings, rolling rocks, flying architectures, provisory pyramids, and temporary eternities; for all kinds of practical concepts and conceptual practices, ...

the title of a book with drawings from Grandville, showing a player that juggled with planets. there was also a monstuous planet bridge within weightless worlds and Paul Scherbart dreaming ...

For Walter Benjamin, fashion illustrates best the multifarious views on modern life with its diversity and volatility.[1] It is a barometer of social actuality and, at the same time, an ...

How Architecture Learned to Speculate. for the first time, the speculative in architecture becomes a topic of critical research. it is investigated, not as idealistic but as strategic acting within ...

even our disputation was graphical: we hacked google mash ups to create a galaxy of images that helped to constitute our conspiracy theory. there is no good phd without conspiracy. ...

a diamant, or a modernist box, micro-minimalism logo, built from the letters ‘igma’ for the department of modern architecture and design, for which we do the  conceptual framework and the ...

size matters or not? we are continously discussing this topic, with Claus Pias saying ‘yes, it does’. concerning design, we are not so sure: frank lloyd wright stated the unmodernity of ...

architect without architecture is the subtitle to what we have in mind for this exhibit. we cannot tell anything yet, but it will be scandalous, spectacular, splendid, insane… It is ...

‘world programming’ we called the 100th birthday party – less a party and more a hardcore scientific showdown –  for max bense, the philosopher of the ‘stuttgarter schule’. although not ...

for the website of Junk Jet, B. Arikan says “I was immediately psyched by their mix of retro web style and cybernetic concepts.” we rather call it simple and uncontrolled. ...

a micro-catalogue shows all what we have published yet. it is all about risky books between architecture, art, and design, beyond academic tradition and journalistic convention. there is no pure ...

Design of a digital facade ornament. of course, texts are tissues, as well as pixels. we converted religious texts into pixel patterns and back into zeros and ones. perceived from ...

Junk Jet n°2: speculative-architecture! issue contains all sorts of works: written, drawn, programmed, photographed, hacked, tinkered, cooked, and played; works that display an addiction for the speculative. Whereas Sam Jacob ...

the craziest, wildest, bravest department of modern architecture and design (igma) celebrated its birthday. it should be dressed up and glamorous. the plan was to import a circus tent, a ...

Any “order of things”, as Foucault called it, is always an expression of human spleens and fads that, despite, seems to act naturally at particular cultural moments. This holds true ...

a networked real-time audio visual installation, programmed in Pure Data and the image processing library GEM. the installation is composed of 44 networked computers, whose monitors are blinking in accordance. ...

we knew that this would be the best collection of junked sounds we could find. that is why we simply called it ‘best of’ although it is just the first. ...

Junk Jet n°1: noise-and-failure! issue wants to capture and transfer junk’s ambiguities indicating non-function, or at least bad-function implied in the nature of technology, and various forms of mis-use for ...

systems are labile, if their behavior cannot be sufficiently predicted. that holds not only true for architectural statics, but also for political processes and biological organisms. we were interested in ...

Computer Disturbed Design. we recognize the strategies of noise and error as a field of research that looks into irritated systems. there emerge labile systems, or even crashing systems, which, ...

a networked sound installation, which sonifies personal SMS texts (using text-to-speech synthe-sizers), sent to the system by people via mobile phones. the project addresses the single individual, by providing the possibility ...

the question is: how acting while reacting? because every acting is always reacting. that is not new: there are given contexts, biographies, fashions, politics, stories, chances, and technologies. we try ...

animating surfaces – via interactive media –  to re-act on differing contexts, to re-invent them, or to emphasize them, means to reflect conceptual, social and aesthetical challenges to globalized society. ...

Olia Lialina invited to lecture at the Merz Akademie in Stuttgart, and we made a student workshop in processing, a java-based programming environment. the results were presented at  Lange Nacht der ...

Paaatch! Baaang! Tooogleee! audiovisual has been a fashionable word. with the open-source programing environment pure data and gem, it becomes crazy. the environment is itself a masterpiece of design, as it ...

postcard automata, urban sound games, digital situa-tionist manuals, cellular automata, interaction, chance, random, algorithm, real-time, hurray… the programmed projects made up a weird,  experimental exhibition. project: workshop  and exhibition in ...

turning the Ars Electronica Center into a huge graphical screen, on which people can interact with each other, send messages to the world, make statements on love. the project is ...