INFRAME
art
in
frame
17-19/09/19
INFRAME means “art in frame”. The structure was imagined as a lightweight, reusable elastic timber gridshell, which, as a picture frame, creates in its inside a space for the artistic expression. INFRAME transforms the function of the public staircase between buildings E15 and E25 at the MIT campus into a performance area. A single layer gridshell becomes a real temporary outdoor stage for the electronic music performances, a canvas for the video-mapping show and has multiple imaginary roles invented by potential next owners.
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The principles of structural art driving the INFRAME were interpreted as follows:
Elegance: simplicity – minimum material use, optimal distribution of laths(material)
Economy: selection of material and fabrication methods, minimal use of materials, recyclability of the structure, symmetry of the structure for faster manual fabrication, fitting all elements to minimum number of plywood boards
Efficiency: maximum buckling factor, minimum deflection, meeting the ASCE maximum stress requirements for timber structures, constructability
ARTISTS
ARTIST 1.
DANIELA HENSEL.
Daniela grown up in a small village near Berlin. After finishing school with her A-level she moved to Berlin to study economics. She discovered her passion for electronic music through friends from the DJ & Clubscene in Berlin. Because of her passion, she recognised her desire to express her personality, her way of life and her attitude with her own sound. Inspired by frequent stays in Ibiza, London and Miami she starts to develop her own style and to entertain her own crowd. Her mixing skills were not longer a secret and bookings at Helene Beach Festival, Suicide Circus (Berlin), Weidendamm (Hannover), Die Nacht (Mönchengladbach), Les Jeudis Electro (France), Silencio (Genf), Salon zur Wilden Renate and many more were the consequence. Pushed through this development she published her first own production on Quadriga Recording recently 2015. Her style of music is based by a lot of influneces from the past time till she finally found her own style. Her first EP FACES released 2018 on Pantagonik. The mix of impulsive and driving Techno is always a guarantee for a great night experience with her all over. That’s why she shared several venue’s together with Richy Hawtin, HITO, Detlef, Dapayk and more.
Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/danielahenselofficial
ARTIST 2.
THERESA SILVER.
Theresa has multidisciplinary practice traversing sculpture, video selection, editing, processing, projection mapping, and computer graphics programming technologies to create large-scale artwork for festivals, exhibitions, and events. Her experience in project management and creative direction was gained over than 20 installations including oversight and leadership of design, fabrication, and programming teams. Apart from her leading role in coordination and consultation for a diverse array of music events, assisting with tasks ranging from curation of performers to brand identity development, promotion, operations, and post-assessment, she is a performer herself. She has conducted real-time visual performances at more than 500 events, varying in size between 100-10,000 attendees, including Burning Man event.
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbmVCOfK8qFRSTVQoZolORw
MEDIA
NUMBERS
FABRICATION
Fabrication and erection: CNC fabrication of the base, manual fabrication of the gridshell members, sequentially erected
Fabrication time: CNC fabrication of 7 8x4ft board for the base:
7h (1 CNC Router)
Manual fabrication of the laths: 12h (4 people)
Assembly time: 20h (4 people)
Disassembly time: 7h (2 people)
MATERIAL
Materials & cost: total: 3335 USD
Plywood for laths: 1780USD
Red Oak plywood for base: 833 USD
Hardware: 722USD
Cross section: 100x9mm
Total length of members: 234.1m
Weight: 96kg (without the base)
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CONTRIBUTORS
Designer:
Judyta Cichocka
Project advisor: Prof. Caitlin Mueller
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Construction:
Camp Daniel Seats, Michael Ramirez, Daniela Hensel, Judyta Cichocka, Loai Namaani, Media Lab City Science, CEE MEng 2020 group, random passengers
Structural consultation:
Paul Richardson, Jonathan Roynon (BuroHappold Engineering), Riccardo La Magna (Struct.ure), Emil Adelis (Chalmers University of Technology)
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Photos & Videos:
Judyta Cichocka, Loai Namaani, Kim-Anh-Nhi Nguyen, Heidi Erickson (MIT)
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Sponsors:
MIT CEE Department, Council for the Arts at MIT
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MIT Media Lab, between E-15 and the Medical Center
75 Amherst St. Cambridge, MA02142, US
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