Pavilion 27 at Kuka College, 2019
Pavilion 27 at Kuka College, 2019
Pavilion 27 at Kuka College, 2019
Pavilion 27 at Kuka College, 2019
Pavilion 27 at Kuka College, 2019
Pavilion 27 at Kuka College, 2019
Pavilion 27 at Kuka College, 2019
Pavilion 27 at Kuka College, 2019
Training Equipment at KUKA College, 2019
Facilities at Kuka College, 2019
Instructional Drawings at KUKA College, 2019
KUKA College Classroom, 2019
To whom it may concern,
the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, founded in 1662, is the oldest art school in Germany and in this singular role it has grappled long-term with the notions of innovation, invention and creativity. By its nature as a dedicated stand-alone educational institution in this field, it exemplifies a practice based learning environment. Core activities include, manual training, research, crafting and fabrication, skill enhancement, process optimization, and a flexibility of ones knowledge application.
Pavillion 27 – Prof. Michael Stevenson is a practical course in sculpture, we understand artistic production in two senses; as material and process and, beyond this, we glimpse the intangible properties of an artwork. This way of dealing with objects as both hardware and software leads us in turn to the building of intelligent art objects. As a class, we function as a think tank and have recently focused our attention on human-machine relations as well as the situated conditions of learning. Our classroom is in a sense like any other - a space where action is simulated - our hopes are those shared with other learning communities: that simulated action can have application beyond the class and create real-world effect.
As a learning institution dedicated to the understanding of creativity we are interested in the KUKA College and its own highly specific learning environment. Your technology and its ability for near universal application simulates perhaps the traditional image of the artist with a blank canvas: an intelligent object ready to create. In viewing your website it can be seen that this universality, the reach of your technology across such a wide spectrum of applications, reflects in your classroom learning conditions for a manifold of potential work situations.
We would like to start a conversation - from our academy to yours - which we hope could develop as a collaboration. We respectfully ask therefore if it is possible in the first place to visit one of your classrooms; to see a demonstration of your technology and talk to one of your instructors about how universal knowledge is broken down in practice to construct a specific skill-base for situated action.
Pavilion 27 at Kuka College, 2019
Pavilion 27 at Kuka College, 2019
Pavilion 27 at Kuka College, 2019
Pavilion 27 at Kuka College, 2019
Pavilion 27 at Kuka College, 2019
Pavilion 27 at Kuka College, 2019
To whom it may concern,
the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg, founded in 1662, is the oldest art school in Germany and in this singular role it has grappled long-term with the notions of innovation, invention and creativity. By its nature as a dedicated stand-alone educational institution in this field, it exemplifies a practice based learning environment. Core activities include, manual training, research, crafting and fabrication, skill enhancement, process optimization, and a flexibility of ones knowledge application.
Pavillion 27 – Prof. Michael Stevenson is a practical course in sculpture, we understand artistic production in two senses; as material and process and, beyond this, we glimpse the intangible properties of an artwork. This way of dealing with objects as both hardware and software leads us in turn to the building of intelligent art objects. As a class, we function as a think tank and have recently focused our attention on human-machine relations as well as the situated conditions of learning. Our classroom is in a sense like any other - a space where action is simulated - our hopes are those shared with other learning communities: that simulated action can have application beyond the class and create real-world effect.
As a learning institution dedicated to the understanding of creativity we are interested in the KUKA College and its own highly specific learning environment. Your technology and its ability for near universal application simulates perhaps the traditional image of the artist with a blank canvas: an intelligent object ready to create. In viewing your website it can be seen that this universality, the reach of your technology across such a wide spectrum of applications, reflects in your classroom learning conditions for a manifold of potential work situations.
We would like to start a conversation - from our academy to yours - which we hope could develop as a collaboration. We respectfully ask therefore if it is possible in the first place to visit one of your classrooms; to see a demonstration of your technology and talk to one of your instructors about how universal knowledge is broken down in practice to construct a specific skill-base for situated action.
We lift something - an object, a memory, ourselves.
We feel the weight, feel what it does to us, feel our movements change under its influence.
Weight is a force: right now, there is a force between us and you.
Forces always act reciprocally. An even lift.
The interplay of observing and being a body in gravitational terms is the heavy burden we need get off our chests. On different orbits of contemplation, viewers will be asked to ponder the heavy weight of history, the aching light-heartedness of a contemporary mediascape, the impact of quantum physics on quintessential physiology.
Under the impact of the Omicron-Variant and in accordance with the efforts in social choreography to fight the pandemic, what was to premiere as a live performance is transformed into a video work over the runtime of the exhibition. Itself an essential part of the exhibition, the constant change of set-up will be reflected by the accumulation of raw footage that is put on display. The Akademie Galerie turns into a gravitational center, the nexus of a galaxy, an amassment of matter, that gathers, what belongs or wants to be together.
What is weight, if not attraction in the first place?
Pavilion 27 invites to a sneak preview with a live set on our opening day, to look behind the curtains during the runtime and finally to the initial screening of „Even Lift“.
The Gallery is accessible under 2G+ rules only.
Opening: Wed 19.01., 7-9 pm
Runtime: 20.01.-05.02. , Wed-Sun, 2-7 pm
Finissage : cancelled due to CoVid-restrictions, find our gestures from Sun, 06.02., 6pm under https://www.instagram.com/pavillon27/
We lift something - an object, a memory, ourselves.
We feel the weight, feel what it does to us, feel our movements change under its influence.
Weight is a force: right now, there is a force between us and you.
Forces always act reciprocally. An even lift.
The interplay of observing and being a body in gravitational terms is the heavy burden we need get off our chests. On different orbits of contemplation, viewers will be asked to ponder the heavy weight of history, the aching light-heartedness of a contemporary mediascape, the impact of quantum physics on quintessential physiology.
Under the impact of the Omicron-Variant and in accordance with the efforts in social choreography to fight the pandemic, what was to premiere as a live performance is transformed into a video work over the runtime of the exhibition. Itself an essential part of the exhibition, the constant change of set-up will be reflected by the accumulation of raw footage that is put on display. The Akademie Galerie turns into a gravitational center, the nexus of a galaxy, an amassment of matter, that gathers, what belongs or wants to be together.
What is weight, if not attraction in the first place?
Pavilion 27 invites to a sneak preview with a live set on our opening day, to look behind the curtains during the runtime and finally to the initial screening of „Even Lift“.
The Gallery is accessible under 2G+ rules only.
Opening: Wed 19.01., 7-9 pm
Runtime: 20.01.-05.02. , Wed-Sun, 2-7 pm
Finissage : cancelled due to CoVid-restrictions, find our gestures from Sun, 06.02., 6pm under https://www.instagram.com/pavillon27/