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May 07
Kitchen Budapest is
the spicy innovation lab, where we are heavily involed directing the
programing.
April 07
Interviewin Kontrast Magazine, and in Magyar Narancs (hungarian)
Lecture at Waseda University, Tokyo
March 07
Low tech workshop at Domus Academy
Jan 07
Low tech workshop at the Bartlett School of Architecture
Sept 06
Interview at WMMNA (thanks Regine)
Wifi camera obscura is presented at Waves in Riga than at
Folly in Lancaster, with Usman
Haque and Bengt
Sjölén
June 06
Brainmirror wil be exhibited at Ludwig Musem as part of the Resonance
exhibition, Budapest
May 06
Aether co-coorinates Reorient,
the Hungarian project to the architecture biennale, looking into the
urbanism and technologies of Chinese migration.
Distributed Projection Structure exhibited at Mixedmedia,
Milan
Lowtech Workshop
at Domus Academy + Ivera Interaciton Design, Milan
April 06
Ping
Genius Loci exhibited at Mal au Pixel, where
we alos spent 2 weeks of residency, Mains d'Ouvres, Paris
Who we are
We are an adventurous young design practice focusing on the convergence
of new media and architecture. Aether architecture is about collaboration, founded by
Adam
Somlai-Fischer
Peter
Hudini
Anita Pozna
working with many collaborators
contact us at 
News archive
March 06
We are speaking at the Crystalpunk workshop for Soft
Architecture in Utrecht, March 11, then
presenting at the Game Set and Match II
conference at TU Delft
Feb 06
Lowtech Workshop at the Goldsmith College Design MA,
London than presentation at the German Centre for Architecture (DAZ)
in Berlin
2005
Induction
house V4: Ping Genius Loci first publich
showing at Millenáris park, Budapest. December 2005.
We got third price on the 'I Love Budapest' competition with autósétány
(sorry Hungarian only)
Low tech (below) was presented at O'Reilly's Maker
Faire in Amsterdam, Crystalpunk
in Utrech, also have been speaking and exhibiting at Matchmaking
in Tornheim. October 2005.
Low Tech Sensors and Actuators
handbook published. 15 000 downloads first week! Check PDF.
Commissioned by FACT, Liverpool
done in collaboration with Usman
Haque who has been lecturing in
Budapest recently.
Sept 2005.
Lecturing at
IaaC, Institute of Advanced Architecture of
Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain 6/2005
Talleres "LA MINA"
exhibited
at the Gallery N&n in Budapest
until 26/08/05
BrainMirror
is out 2/2005-2007, all around Sweden
Budapest
Heat Art Stars, Abbaye de Neumünster,
Luxembourg 3/2005
Lecturing at University of Westminster, School of Architecture and The
Built Environment, London UK 2/2005
Induction House
became our second project @ rhizome ArtBase (fisrt was mediated
spaces) 1/2005
Lecture and workshop at NTNU, Norway, invited by Ĺsmund
Gamlesćter 1/2005
We started working on Low Tech Sensors and Actuators
in collaboration with Usman Haque,
11/2004
Speaking at VIPER
Basel international festival for film and new
media, Basel, 18-22/ 11/2004
Holding
Interaction Hacking workshop at Konstfack
University College for Art and Design, Stockholm, 11/2004
We started a joint research year
with the Media Research Centre at the Sociology and Communications
Department of the Budapest University of Technology and Economics.
We organise SmartSeminar
in Budapest, 10/11/2004
aether induction house development
continued, presented at the Venice Biennale of Architecture
and at ISEA2004.
We are also delighted to have Bengt Sjölén,
independent game technology researcher joining us for this project.
e3&aticias
live at maumau
Barcelona 11/6/04
Outside-in
DIY Media architecture workshop, Göteborg. 14-15/6/04
Kinetic shadows
a collaborative proposal for a series of interactive street furniture
at the Interactive Intitute wins Athens 2004 design competition. 5/2004
Pixelache 2004
Audiovisual architecture festival, Kiasma, Helsinki. 1-4/4/2004
Media Embodiment workshop
at the Stockholm School of Architecture 3/2004
Adam Somlai-Fischer invited critique at the Bartlett School of Architecture,
Unit14
15/3/04
Re-Approaching New Media 4
Performance/presentation and workshop in Helsinki
8/11/03
aether induction
house
interactive prototype at Kunsthalle Budapest
3/9/03-3/10/03
exploring the thresholds between architecture, people and media
Aleph Reflection Remapping
at Belsay Hall, UK, with Bengt
Sjölén. Open until Sept 07.
Reconfigurable
House at ICC Tokyo, with Usman
Haque, remixed from Reorient .
open until April 08.
Wifi camera obscura is presented at Waves in Riga than at
Folly in Lancaster, with Usman
Haque and Bengt
Sjölén
Reorient at the
Venice Biennale of Architecture was a big success, alreday got further
invitations.
Ping Genius Loci
interactive architecture research
Low Tech Sensors and Actuators
Commissioned by FACT,
done in collaboration with Usman
Haque
Induction house series
projectable structures
Our Budapest Heat installation is
sharing the temperature of Budapest at Art Stars, Abbaye de Neumünster,
Luxembourg
Distributed Projection Structure
Prototyping architecture - engineering media
The fishtank
Interactive architecture and electro-magnetic fields
Mediated Spaces
Architecture research project with the aim of exploring spaces of
mediation Between the human, the physical and the virtual
2002
Remote
Home Prototype
The first remotely shared
apartment at the Smart Studio
Memory Scan
architectural device that helps to ignite 'magasins' reincarnation
Dance Backpack
biofeedback instrument turns dance into music
2001
Screen
Threshold
giving physical qualities to a mediated entity
Satellite
Algorithms
spatial generator evolution
Learning Lab
soundshowers meet Kodály Zoltán
2000
Indefinite House
Shinkenchiku-sha, Japanese Architect
1999
House of Goethe
Shinkenchiku-sha, Japanese Architect
1998
Rainbow space
hilltop action
building
projects
Talleres LaMina
artist´s center in Barcelona
2003
Malama Learning Center
tropical school in kapolei, Hawaii
BCN
Hall
model studies
2001
Shadow
of the Canary
cartoon exploring the Manhattan waterfront
2000
Nagyszikla
artificial mountain redesign
interaction experience engineering for online places and actual spaces
BrainMirror explore your brain in
natural interaciton
Fractal Cells
Fractal based cellular structure for genetic
biology for the Swedish Research Councils project
Bach Arquitectes
Abacus navigation for an architecture practice in Barcelona
Caramelos en directo
Handmade candy website
The Responsive Octopus
A virtual structure designed through physical modeling
Mobius Textspace
"Contemplate the words, phrases through traces, figures,
scribbles, constellations..." Enric Miralles
Tour de School
Enter the School of Architecture, Stockholm
2002
Meta-L-Hyttan
digital demonstrator around a blast furnace
Dymaxion Map
at Buckminster Fuller Institute
Soccer Field
chase soccer
Kispetermuterme
online forest for an architecture practice
2001
Emerging
Urbanities
webcity for Manhattan projects
low tech thinking in physical interactivity, architecture & media.
Low
Tech Sensors and Actuators
workshops at: Goldsmith College, London; Domus Academy, Milan; Crystalpunk,
Utrecht; Dorkbot, Budapest, Bartlett School of Architcture, London, Electrolobby at Ars Electronica, Linz.
2005-2007
Interaction Hacking, introduction to
responsive things and spaces, Konstfack University College for Art
crafts and Design
2004 Fall Stockholm
Reality Interface
low cost alternatives in new media projects
2004 Fall Budapest
Outside-in DIY Media architecture
2004 Summer Göteborg
Media
Embodiment electronic toys in architecture,
2004 Spring Stockholm
A + URL
2003 spring
School of Architecture
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Poiesis
of Spaces
2003 summer
School of Architecture
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Communicative
Spaces
2002 spring, 2002 fall
School of Media technology
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
PoP Project or Proposal
2002 summer
School of Architecture
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
VMaV
2001 spring - 2003 spring
School of Architecture
Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm
Publicity
Television
SVT, Swedish National TV, Brainmirror, 2005/5
MTV, Hungarian National TV, Brainmirror, 2005/6
Printed Press
Architectural Design, UK, 4DSpace, Induction House 2005/2
Indian Architect and Builder, India, Induction House 2005/4
INDE magazine, Spain, Induction House 2005/4
Octogon Architecture & Design, Hungary
2003/2 - The Responsive Octopus
2003/4 - Mediated Spaces, Malama learning center
Dagens Nyheter - Kultur
induction house 12.2004
read it here
Élet és Irodalom, Építészfórum
2003/10
read it here
Arkitekten 2002/5, Sweden
Screen Threshold installation
Blogs
WeMakeMoneyNotArt 1 2 3
Information aesthetics 1
Angermann 1
2
PurseLipsSquareJaw 1
Online Press
Rhizome.org ArtBase
Induction House
read it here
Építészfórum, Budapest
Induction House, interview
and article
Homegarden, Budapest
read it here
Designboom, Milan
Mediated Spaces article
read it here
index.hu, induction house 10.2003
read it here
Rhizome.org
Mediated Spaces
read it here
Exhibitions
Venice Biennale of Architecture, 9.2004
ISEA2004, Galleri U Helsinki 8.2004
Pixelache, Kiasma
Helsinki 4.2004
'Közben' Kusnthalle Budapest
aether induction house 10.2003
'Tänk om' Stockholm
Mediated Spaces 08.2003
Fisher Gallery, Seattle
Remote home prototype 10.2002
Magasin, Vienna
Memory Scan 02.2003
Kulturhuset, Stockholm
Screen Threshold 04.2002