Author: Marcus Trimble

P.E.A.R. the ‘Paper for Emerging Architectural Research’ is being launched on 15 June 2009 at The Building Centre, London. P.E.A.R. aims to re-establish the fanzine as a primary medium for the dissemination of architectural ideas, musings, research and works. Through its presentation of a wide range of architectural discourses, P.E.A.R. seeks to present the complexity…

By George! A call for proposals by inter-disciplinary teams for temporary art interventions in Sydney’s few remaining laneways.

NASA’s scientists unable to wait for the computer to translate the series of data points into an image, plotted the results on strips of paper, coloured it in with crayon, and in doing so captured the first television image of Mars by hand. The close up of the drawing could pass for a piece of…

If I was in London, this Friday, I would be going to the AA for ‘Thilling Wonder Stories: Speculative Futures for an alternate present‘. I mean, Warren Ellis? Geoff Manaugh? Ian McLeod? Vickto Antonov (art director for Half Life 2)? Peter Cook? Could there be a better way to spend a day?

Creative Sydney has released its ‘Creative Catalysts‘ list; with 100 people in Sydney that promote and enable creative pursuits in Sydney. I am terribly excited to have been nominated and readers of this site will be happy to see the inclusion of Dan Hill, Eoghan Lewis and Simeon King, Rod Simpson, Andrew Frost and of…

Required reading: Geoff Manaugh interviews Jim Rossignol, author of This Gaming Life. 7,000 words ( ! ) on the possibilities of architecture in games and games in architecture.