Scottish geographer, biologist, sociologist and town planner Patrick Geddes bought a tower next to the Edinburgh Castle in 1892. In over 20 years, he … [Read more...]
The Section as an Interior Landscape: Glider, a videogame by John Calhoun (1988-1994)
Video game developer John Calhoun published Glider in 1988. The whole Macintosh video-game is structured on the section of a house with a series of … [Read more...]
Mapping Fictional Realms: “Terram in Aspectu” by Liliana Farber (2019)
New Media artist Liliana Farber investigates the ways in which the virtual redefines the physical world. Using custom-made software and collected … [Read more...]
Gareth Damian Martin, Postcards from The Continuous City, 2018
The Continuous City is an in-progress photographic series by Gareth Damian Martin. The British artist, game designer and writer explores video game … [Read more...]
The Shape of Knowledge: The Mundaneum by Paul Otlet and Henri La Fontaine
Mankind is at a turning point in its history. The mass of data acquired is astounding. We need new instruments to simplify it, to condense it, or … [Read more...]
The Museum Inside The Telephone Network (1991)
“The Museum Inside The Telephone Network” was a 1991 exhibition that was not based upon any physical space. The show was only accessible to home … [Read more...]
Early Digital, Unintentional Collages: Fireflies by William Larson
William Larson is an American photographer who continuously experimented with different media in order to produce meaningful works and question the … [Read more...]
Hashimoto Okiie’s Views of Ancient Castles and Gardens / 1
Hashimoto Okiie ( 1899- 1993) was a Japanese woodcut artist. After working as a teacher and spare-time artist, he devoted himself completely to the … [Read more...]
Joseph Müller-Brockmann: Musica Viva Posters for the Zurich Tonhalle
Josef Müller-Brockmann (1914-1996) was an influential graphic and exhibition designer and photographer who lived and worked in Zurich. As the leading … [Read more...]
National Collegiate Football Hall of Fame in New Brunswick, NJ, by Venturi, Scott Brown and Associates, Inc. (1967)
The (unbuilt) competition project for the National Collegiate Football Hall of Fame in New Brunswick, NJ, was a sort of religious building, or rather … [Read more...]
William Heath Robinson’s Wacky Inventions
William Heath Robinson (1872-1944) was a victorian cartoonist best known for drawing overly complicated mechanisms able to achieve only simple … [Read more...]
Zones Devoid of Time: Ballard’s Penguin Covers, by David Pelham
David Pelham was an English artist and graphic designer who came to meet author J. G. Ballard through their mutual friend, pop artist Eduardo … [Read more...]
Liam Cobb, “Reflections” and Other Drawings
Liam Cobb is an illustrator and comic artist we have already featured on Socks. Here we collect a series of sketches, croquis, half finished … [Read more...]
A Monument to Endless Space: Manifold Garden by William Chyr
William Chyr is currently designing and developing an independent game set in a parallel universe where the physical laws are completely differents … [Read more...]
Music on a Long Thin Wire by Alvin Lucier (1977)
Alvin Lucier (1931, -) is a major American composer. He pioneered areas of sound art such as using brain waves in live performances, tracking … [Read more...]
“A Roman State of Landscape”. Exhibition and talk at Campo, Rome – June, 23rd 2016
If you are in Rome today, do not miss: A ROMAN STATE OF LANDSCAPE Exhibition and talk curated by Mariabruna Fabrizi and Fosco Lucarelli … [Read more...]
Brian Eno, Light Music
In 2014, the renowned composer, producer and all encompassing art theorist Brian Eno ( see Socks's post "Before and After Science"), worked on a … [Read more...]
The Knowledge Box by Ken Isaacs (1962)
In 1962, experimental designer Ken Isaacs imagined and constructed a 'knowledge box', a compressed environment for experiencing 'culture': a cube of … [Read more...]
The Prince Of The Darknet. Illustrations by Daniel Stolle
Daniel Stolle (1982) is a German illustrator living in Finland. Although he works on dark subjects (isolation, depression, the impact of modern … [Read more...]
The New Landscape in Art and Science by György Kepes
The New Landscape in Art and Science is a 1956 book by György Kepes. The Hungarian-born artist, art theorist and educator taught along Laszlo … [Read more...]
Negative Writing: ‘Home’ and Other Works by Jochen Gerner
I treat the theme of violence, but also the notions of noise, of movement, of money, of religion, of Good and Evil that go with it. Jochen Gerner, … [Read more...]
Fragmented Memory: Glitch Textiles by Phillip Stearns (2013)
As a collateral post after our last one on Anni Albers, here we present one recent work by electronic media artist Phillip Stearns. Interested … [Read more...]
Building a Micropolis: SimCity in 1989
Will Wright's SimCity was originally a map developing feature within the game Raid on Bungeling Bay. Born of Wright's love for the intricacies of … [Read more...]
The Supreme Achievement – Call for Students Contributions
CALL FOR STUDENT CONTRIBUTORS FOR ‘THE SUPREME ACHIEVEMENT’ Workshop at CAMPO (www.campo.space), Rome, September 5 to September 12. Apply until July … [Read more...]
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