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BUBBLESOpening ReceptionSeptember 15th – 6 to 10PMJoin us to celebrate the
opening of this responsive
inflatable environment. Music and sax with John
Juster (housegrown/
respect music) This event takes place during the kick-off of Art Crawl. Bicycles will be available at M&A on loan (with picture id) so that you can pedal around Silver Lake, Echo Park, and Los Feliz to see what's on at the other galleries. This interactive installation is a spatially adaptable pneumatic environment at an urban scale. The installation consists of large air-bags or "bubbles" that inflate and deflate in reaction to the visitors coming to the site. For more information and to see the installation near completion, visit: ibubbles.blogspot.com or www.emanate.org. Bubbles was created by Foxlin (Michael Fox and Juintow Lin) and NONDesigns (Miao Miao and Scott Franklin) and Brand Name Label (Gabriel Renz), with Axel kilian and Darius Miller. Many thanks to our sponsors : the Annenberg Foundation, the Pasadena Art Alliance, Fountainhead, Dazian Fabrics, M&K Metal Company, and Furniture Technologies Inc. BLOW UP YOUR MINDPresentations and ConversationsOct./Dec. 2006 - Wednesdays, 8PM- 5$ donation.A lecture series "among the pods" will illuminate this new installation. The speakers, including Natalie Jeremijenko, George Yu, Robert Miles Kemp, Jen Silbert, Dennis Dollens, and the bubbles team, will discuss the uses of biological networks and systems as models to develop interactive and responsive architecture. All the lectures are scheduled on Wednesday nights at 8pm. More details will be posted on the m&a website by 09.22.06! GREEN YOUR ROOFLearn how & why to construct a green roof gardenSeptember date cancelled!!!!October date TBD with Freya Bardell M&A will be hosting a Green Roof and Living Architecture workshop. The day will kick off with a presentation about the pros and cons of creating living membranes upon built surfaces. The rest of the day will be dedicated to installing a basic green roof system on the roof of M&A. Participants will also have the opportunity to assist a research and art project that Freya is conducting by each creating a portable roof tile. Over the course of a year, plant data will be recorded by all the participants in the project, then compiled by Freya and shared with the public in the form of an art exhibit. We hope to gain knowledge on whether our selected plant species will thrive within the Los Angeles bioregion and to create a living work of art. Ecological designer, Freya Bardell, draws inspiration from the evolving discourse about nature, technology and art, utilizing biomimetic techniques in her designs. She is committed to conserving the environment and increasing biodiversity by intelligently utilizing our natural, ecological and cultural resources. Freya Bardell works for the living architecture firm, Rana Creek, and is the founder of Greenmeme, a Los Angeles based design collective. Space is limited – please register by emailing contact@emanate.org 35$ material fee is required. Let's Build Something Beautiful!Materials & Applications ** M&A is an experimental architecture and landscape research center with a unique outdoor exhibit space that is designed to be visible from the street. Twice yearly, the site hosts new outdoor installations. We encourage use of sustainable resources, renewable energy and smart technologies used in an artful way to push new and underused ideas for landscape and architecture into view. Since 2002 Materials &
Applications has explored building techniques and new materials through
a series of outdoor installations. The summer 2005 installation,
Maximilian's Schell, by Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues won an AIA
Design Honors award and the ID Magazine 2006 best of category award for
environmental design. Here there Be Monsters, our most recent
installation
(spring/summer 2006) also won an AIA Design Honors award. Check out a new critical
review of Here There Be Monsters in the Fall issue of XTRA
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