ETHOS

I am a people watcher and that is why interaction is the focus and drive of my work. I feel over time physical interaction between people has significantly reduced. With Modern culture first closing down the doors of communal living, into our own personal worlds, everything at hands reach; personal computers; personal MP3 players; even to the extent of personal robotic pets. From there the doors began to reopen, but interaction as we knew it refreshed; a middle man is now required, ‘The Device’. I would agree that change and progress is important, but as I see it we are not gaining new skills, we are replacing. them. Physical interaction is comparatively rare to those of ‘the device’, and slowly we are loosing the ability to communicate to our previous level, creating age barriers of those before and after ‘the device’.


During the 3rd stage of ISD course I would like to design events which encourage physical interaction as I feel passionately about creating design for change, with my aims to bring back the community, whether that be through town planning or interventions which provoke a reaction and discussion. I am particularly keen on temporary structures and installations which pop up in busy places, as this opens them up for the ‘everyday’ person to see and often is a catalyst for discussion, inevitably flowing into the device interaction ; the news, networking and photo sharing internet sites, therefore creating a worldwide critic on just one persons vision.


I want to further my understanding of the context of space and abstraction of space, therefore allowing my work to become stronger and enable me to push my passion for creating discussion and physical interaction between young people.

Monday, 7 March 2011

Bernhard Leither

HörSaal. A Wave Field Installation
In the static hearing space (sound material: speech) the listener wanders through various places in the hall, which are indicated visually by the installation of staves, 2 m high and painted red. Out of a diffuse noise pervading the total space and assembled out of twelve different speech channels we step into precisely defined sound sites, extremely individual hearing spaces, where we experience the sound-world of words spoken by the physicists Planck, Schrödinger, Einstein, Meitner, Hahn, Pauli and Heisenberg.


















sound/body/spaces

Exhibition Kunsthaus Mürzzuschlag (Austria)

























SPIRAL SPACE 1973/2008


Nationalgalerie Berlin, Hamburger Bahnhof. 2008

Circles of sound at equal distance from each other move transversally to the direction of the sound tube. The spiralling acoustic space is generated according to one’s own walking speed: at a slow pace it is a confined, forward-rotating acoustic space; at a fast pace, the space is stretched and spirals its curved lines of sound around the person.
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