http://danakarwas.com danakarwas Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:03:25 +0000 http://danakarwas.com en http://danakarwas.com/Nervous-in-Tokyo http://danakarwas.com/following/danakarwas.com/Nervous-in-Tokyo Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:03:25 +0000 danakarwas 1212497 3.11.2011 Tokyo, Japan. The earthquake hit in the afternoon while I was enjoying a coffee with family and friends. We happened to be in the basement of the OIOI store in the Shinjuku area of downtown Tokyo. The building made some terrifying shifting steel noises and the swaying lasted for what seemed like a half an hour. We exited the shaking building onto the shaking street - heads up just in case things were falling -and went to a nearby park. I sat on the ground but that did not help as the ground was still swaying. Our ryokan was ten miles from the park, with the trains down - we walked with thousands of other people home that night. Everyone was so calm and headed home, but Tokyo is so huge, that it was hard to say there was a general direction - just home. When we arrived at the ryokan we were constantly reminded of the earths force. The aftershocks would arrive every 15 to 20 minutes and each time the short building would sigh and then do its little dance which woke me every time. Who knew that being on a land boat would be so scary. The windows in the ryokan would tap the wall and then the waves of shake would resonate through the structure. I have never loved architecture so much. Tokyo - for me has been an indestructible city. The entire city shook so hard and held together. I love Tokyo. After experiencing the earthquake and dealing with a few nerves in the aftermath, this video is an expression of something after nervous. It has a first time Garage Band mix to make it less scary. Thanks: Jason Kohn for the geometric inspiration and to MLS for providing the props and location. Thanks also to all of my friends who encouraged me to make this short video. http://danakarwas.com/Pet-Shelter http://danakarwas.com/following/danakarwas.com/Pet-Shelter Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:03:23 +0000 danakarwas 874194 A selected video for the Pen Tales Making Ends Meet Story Competition. Pet Shelter is a short video that expresses the idea of making ends meet. It was shot on the new iphone 4 in NYC. Everyday when I am headed into the studio I pass the same beggar on the way. He has the same cup and it was a very dingy cup. 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data-mid="4182767" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874194/petShelter 88.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="640" height_o="360" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874194/petShelter 88_o.jpg" data-mid="4182768" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874194/petShelter 89.jpg" width="640" height="360" width_o="640" height_o="360" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874194/petShelter 89_o.jpg" data-mid="4182769" border="0" align="left"/> http://danakarwas.com/Framing-Nature http://danakarwas.com/following/danakarwas.com/Framing-Nature Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:03:21 +0000 danakarwas 874129 Framing Nature at the Wilderness Workshop We need to reconsider the human relationship with nature. For the majority of human existence (surprisingly!) non-human nature has had control over the human race. Since the seventeenth century humans have gained more power over nature through a combination of social, cultural, political, economic, and religious needs. (1) Is there a way to restructure the current human / nature relationship? A new union of shared control? How will the new union work with the advancement of the 21st century? How can I frame nature on my terms, without harm? These are some of the questions that I decided to tackle as party of my day spent upstate at the Wilderness Workshop in Cortlandt Manor, NY. To begin, I was looking for a site on the property that looked really out of control -- that might need some structure. Bingo! After hiking around the ledge for about a half an hour I found a cluster of chaos where trees, ground, grass, brush, and the slope all met to form a very dense version of it’s own not-so-dense surroundings. A tree had been uprooted nearby which had opened up a large patch of sunlight onto the south-facing slope. The uprooted tree looked like an awkward hunchback on the already steep slope. Hunchback created a new mini ecosystem of tangled roots and a cave like entrance -- a perfect destination home for all the species living inside and nearby. I was drawn to this particular patch of land because the ecology was already dramatic, based on a force that was not human – a storm ripped through and a tree fell. Once I had the site I created a three-by-three square white frame out of wood and hung it from two nearby trees with fishing line -- ultimately suggesting a controlled point of view of the tangled mess. I then took photos of the frame by itself in nature, and then more photos with people in the frame, and in nature. With my camera I was able to capture the frame and translate my sense of control into digital space. I then took the digital photos and extracted parts of the frame virtually to use as cultural commodities across the new environments of the digital world. (Facebook photos, portfolio piece to show my connection with the natural, Flickr tags for nature photos, etc) In the end I was partnering with nature and using technology to frame nature (for my social and cultural needs)– without controlling nature. 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data-mid="4182325" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874129/extraction8cut.jpg" width="670" height="500" width_o="850" height_o="635" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874129/extraction8cut_o.jpg" data-mid="4182326" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874129/extraction9.jpg" width="670" height="500" width_o="850" height_o="635" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874129/extraction9_o.jpg" data-mid="4182328" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874129/extraction9cut.jpg" width="670" height="500" width_o="850" height_o="635" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874129/extraction9cut_o.jpg" data-mid="4182329" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874129/extraction10.jpg" width="670" height="500" width_o="850" height_o="635" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874129/extraction10_o.jpg" data-mid="4182333" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874129/extraction10cut.jpg" width="670" height="500" width_o="850" height_o="635" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874129/extraction10cut_o.jpg" data-mid="4182335" border="0" align="left"/> http://danakarwas.com/Fashionably-Late http://danakarwas.com/following/danakarwas.com/Fashionably-Late Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:03:15 +0000 danakarwas 1548472 Fashionably Late For The Relationship is a three-day long public performance by Lián Amaris Sifuentes filmed and digitally compressed into a feature-length video work by R. Luke DuBois.I produced this project in collaboration with Gabriel Winer. We operate as WIKA. As a woman prepares for a night on the town, three days pass by in the city around her. In the live performance on the Southeast corner of Union Square, her slow, nuanced actions become a counterpoint to and critique of the unnaturally rapid and unyielding pace of the public environment which she redefines as the private, feminine ritual space of a boudoir. Her actions will be captured by a combination of three HD video cameras (wide, medium, and closeup) and a number of small surveillance cameras embedded in her set. The cameras will be shooting the entire time, with the result digitally time-compressed to a 72-minute multi-channel video installation. Accelerated to sixty-times speed in the final video, the barely perceptible acts of her intimate narrative unfold in a radically condensed time frame, making her actions the punctuation within the ephemeral blur of the transformed urban landscape. Read more in the NY Times article. http://danakarwas.com/Hindsight-is-Always-20-20 http://danakarwas.com/following/danakarwas.com/Hindsight-is-Always-20-20 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:03:13 +0000 danakarwas 960225 This is a project I consulted on for R. Luke Dubois represented by Bitforms Gallery in New York. The project made it's debut at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Hindsight is Always 20/20 examines the history of American political discourse through the metaphor of vision. Drawing from the annual State of the Union (SOTU) addresses given by Presidents to Congress, ‘Hindsight’ consists of a single Snellen-style eye chart for each president who gave SOTU addresses. Instead of the typical characters present in an eye chart, the piece employs words drawn from their speeches, presented in order of most frequent (top line) to least frequent (bottom line) word. The result is a startlingly clear snapshot of the lexicon of each presidency, containing a mix of historically topical keywords and rhetoric unique to each president and the time period in which they served in office. For this project I worked with Luke and the Gallery to produce, design, and oversee installation of: Forty-three fluorescent lightboxes, weather-resistant aluminum (41 eye charts, 1 title, 1 synopsis) Each light box: 72” x 48” x 6” / 183 x 122 x 15 cm Public commission for the City of Denver Portfolio set of forty-three letterpress prints (41 eye charts, 1 title page, 1 synopsis page) Each print: 21.25 x 28.25” / 54 x 72 cm Edition of 10 The Data was collected from the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Software was developed using MAX/MSP/Jitter. 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src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/960225/22.jpg" width="480" height="319" width_o="480" height_o="319" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/960225/22_o.jpg" data-mid="4609108" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/960225/23.jpg" width="480" height="327" width_o="480" height_o="327" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/960225/23_o.jpg" data-mid="4609109" border="0" align="left"/> http://danakarwas.com/Botanitrope http://danakarwas.com/following/danakarwas.com/Botanitrope Sat, 04 Feb 2012 17:03:05 +0000 danakarwas 874177 <img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874177/NIGHT1.jpg" width="670" height="433" width_o="2048" height_o="1325" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874177/NIGHT1_o.jpg" data-mid="4182561" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874177/view1.jpg" width="468" height="317" width_o="468" height_o="317" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874177/view1_o.jpg" data-mid="4182546" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874177/view2.jpg" width="468" height="317" width_o="468" height_o="317" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874177/view2_o.jpg" data-mid="4182548" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874177/lefttree.jpg" width="670" height="192" width_o="692" height_o="199" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874177/lefttree_o.jpg" data-mid="4182555" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874177/s3.jpg" width="670" height="433" width_o="1800" height_o="1165" src_o="http://payload.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/874177/s3_o.jpg" data-mid="4182545" border="0" align="left"/> A solution for urban green space The rising skylines of America’s urban epicenters currently serve as a reminder of the synthetic and artificial “nature” of the city. Sunlight either reflects dully on the cement exoskeletons of these behemoths, or brightly on the glass and steel, but except for a few blushes of forlorn green on the rooftops of vanishingly small number of buildings, the skyline remains a completely manmade and alien landscape. As more and more people crowd in to the urban area, there will be an increased market for the green experience: our disillusioned society will delve in silk plants, astroturf parks, fake dirt, and genetically engineered organic fruit. They will be faced with the commoditization of grass, the death of birds, brown air, erosion, landslides, disappearing insects, garbage dust, disease, and heat islands. In short, nature will be experienced in derivative form, where people buy and trade and market the valuable tranches of the green experience while exacerbating the overall problems that come with increased human distance from nature. The simple truth is that American cities lack green spaces. There is seemingly no room to accommodate new parks. We need to rethink how we create green space in the city. Globally there are approximately 60 trees for each person. In New York City, there is ONE tree for every 160 people. As urban cities slip further and further away from their biological connection to the earth, the city dweller will transform into a disoriented city nomad in search of the natural but unable to find it. There is no substitute for nature. American cities are very good at creating allusions to nature = we attempt to brand our cities and neighborhoods and streets with nature labels, to convey and ascribe some attribute of the pastoral. We have cities – Babylon, Wildwood Beach, Garden City – neighborhoods and subdivisions – Babbler Meadows, the Pines, the Palms, Sahara Springs – street names – Pacific, Green Pines Drive, and Palisades Parkway. We commute from those areas in vehicles that are mockingly named in a similar fashion – we own Tauruses, Talons, Touaregs, never mind the El Dorado or the Eclipse. We then spend our days in cubicles that are mounted with fake wood and posters of nature. We attempt to “go green” by eating organic produce, community gardening, using public transportation, LEED certifying ourselves and our buildings, riding bikes, driving a hybrid, buying free trade, making a compost pile, planting a roof garden, cultivating our own vegetables, recycling, buying a wind mill, joining a co-op, using green materials, and planting a tree… but most if not all of these are attempts to establish a relationship with a nature that isn’t present – our energy efficient car is no more natural than the gas guzzling one, and our organize produce still travels from miles away. In many ways these are mental trick we perform on ourselves that are no more real than the naming of our building “The Dakota” or “The Galaxy.” Are Americans allowing their cities to so easily forget about nature? Are Americans hiding behind the illusion of going GREEN? Why is nature feeling more and more like a nostalgic place? In large urban areas, access to green space, urban farms, and community gardens is still very limited—and even more limiting are roof gardens, a space that is accessible only by those in a given building, and only visible by those in buildings above. The average city dweller has to go out of his way to find a park, to share a moment with nature. Accessibility prevents most people from finding a connection to the natural habitat – there is simply not enough space. We need to rethink the way we approach nature in urban cities. The solution is to reconsider density and work with the flows of the city, the rules of urban. We have to re-examine why we have green spaces where we do – are we too strict about keeping our parks on the ground, our trees on the sidewalks? Americans need to re-establish their biological connection to the earth by having more contact with the natural environment on a daily basis, especially the populations living in large urban areas. In the last century, city dwellers of means would escape the cities for the country side, to escape the press and stress of city life, and to re-establish their connection with nature. Since the buildings are not going to let us compete with the ground, and roof gardens are too far and few between, we must create a new way of experience green space in the city, a place that everyone can see and a place the greatly effects the way we use the buildings in this city. A simple solution to what we do every day. BOTANITROPE will bring more green space to the vertical spaces of American cites. In such a dense environment, we must start to consider the vertical space for parks and bring nature back to the city. BOTANITROPE is a project addressing the need for more urban gardens and trees in NYC and other urban American cities. BOTANITROPE takes monumental architecture combined with a mobile greenhouse transforming the standard steel and glass façade of a skyscraper into a window of nature, bringing together exotic landscapes, experimental architecture and natural elements to dense vertical cities. Derived from the story of the tree and the Hanging Gardens of Babylon, BOTANITROPE is a pair of single floored greenhouses that live and move along the exterior of skyscrapers. BOTANITROPE is designed to randomly visit different floors at different times of the day, bringing nature to and creating biological surprise for both the inhabitants and those on the outside. Outside BOTANITROPE ascends and descends slowly, amplifying the desire and dream of the Hanging Gardens and ownership to nature in the form of a fantastical roving greenhouse. BOTANITROPE is a sparkling, glowing, garden designed to be simple and allow the sunlight in by combining materials with maximum transparency and minimum weight. On the inside the BOTANITROPE exhibits a lush garden full of plants that purify the air and species that are native to the city it lives in. The interior is complete with self-irrigating watering systems as well as a few insects, reptiles, and mammals. Plants in this environment will also produce food. A colorful array of green plant life growing at great heights and a thriving living system will all contribute to the vibrant scene inside of BOTANITROPE. In the evening BOTANITROPE will be lit dramatically creating a cinematic botanical scene, a radiant kingdom in the night. Buildings and urban environments differ most greatly from nature at night, when lighting literally highlights the buildings’ existence and statement against the darkness. It is at night that urban environments live in their grandest moments; it is a night that the city becomes alive; it is at night that the urban becomes so dramatically different from the suburban. At night the BOTANITROPE will participate in the most magnificent skyline on earth. The night of electric lights will bring attention to the botanical greatness of BOTANITROPE. 100% recycled materials, landscape design, theatrical sensibility, a pulley elevator system, and robotic control will be used to install BOTANITROPE onto the skin of an existing skyscraper. BOTANITROPE takes advantage of the remaining dimensions of the city and re-invigorates it with a sense of the chaos of the forest and the jungle while providing a reconnection with nature that is not confined to the building residents. Much like the magical village Brigadoon, BOTANITROPE’s appearance at a given floor will delight, but its arrival or disappearance will be a mystery that adds liveliness to the perfunctory work day. The window washing-inspired structure will be engineered to facilitate all vertical movement with minimal energy expenditure – the two-unit structure allows each garden unit to act as a counter-weight for the other and allow economical movement of the gardens. Live motion control software written in Max/MSP/Jitter will control and randomly design the position of the BOTANITROPE pair, robotically controlling the vertical positions and generating a different surprise location for the garden to visit throughout the day. Serving as a new type of strategy for establishing green space in an urban/vertical environment, BOTANITROPE investigates the relationship between urban landscapes and garden habitats. BOTANITROPE brings nature and society together by reimaging the environment at the scale of the vertical city. http://danakarwas.com/Moleskine-Nomad-Music http://danakarwas.com/following/danakarwas.com/Moleskine-Nomad-Music Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:52:56 +0000 danakarwas 2721689 Nomad Music is an interactive sound installation that transformed two Moleskine bags into musical instruments. Pick them up, open them, play with them, and play them. By carrying, moving and exploring, the musician carries their instrument with them wherever they go. Each bag played a series of musical sounds based on the way the bag was held, it's position, and the overall bag activity. When the bags are not in motion they go silent. Each bag will work together with others, but also alone, as it helps bring attention to the composition of everyday life on the move. Nomad Music used motion tracking technology and sound design to create the portrait of people in motion. In collaboration with Perlin Studios. The installation was shown as part of the Moleskine Portraits event at Exit Art in NYC. About Moleskine Portraits: Moleskine Portraits is a first time ever evening of interactive portrait-making at Exit Art gallery in the Chelsea art district of New York City. The places we visit, the things we carry, the marks we make, the pictures we share, the ideas we capture, the tastes we savor, the gifts we choose... we make portraits with each choice and each choice makes up an ever-changing portrait of who we are. Moleskine Portraits explores the many ways to capture who you are using Moleskine objects: Text-portraits, sound-portraits, taste-portraits, photo-portraits, and more. Moleskine Portraits explores the themes of imagination and identity that inform the design of every Moleskine collection while bringing together the community of creative fans who use Moleskine objects as open platforms for expression, memory, and sharing. This one-night only event features new projects by creatives working in sound, text, visual art, photography, food, and technology. Credits: Design Team: Dana Karwas and Perlin Studios Programming and Installation Assistant: Cody Fulcher <img src="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/IMG_4735.jpg" width="600" height="448" width_o="600" height_o="448" src_o="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/IMG_4735_o.jpg" data-mid="13801360" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/IMG_4722.jpg" width="600" height="448" width_o="600" height_o="448" src_o="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/IMG_4722_o.jpg" data-mid="13801358" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/IMG_4741.jpg" width="600" height="448" width_o="600" height_o="448" src_o="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/IMG_4741_o.jpg" data-mid="13801361" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/IMG_4742.jpg" width="600" height="448" width_o="600" height_o="448" src_o="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/IMG_4742_o.jpg" data-mid="13801363" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/IMG_4743.jpg" width="600" height="448" width_o="600" height_o="448" src_o="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/IMG_4743_o.jpg" data-mid="13801367" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/IMG_4744.jpg" width="600" height="448" width_o="600" height_o="448" src_o="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/IMG_4744_o.jpg" data-mid="13801368" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/image.jpg" width="460" height="844" width_o="460" height_o="844" src_o="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/image_o.jpg" data-mid="13797391" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/Picture 19.png" width="670" height="389" width_o="816" height_o="474" src_o="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/Picture 19_o.png" data-mid="13800849" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/Picture 20.png" width="670" height="388" width_o="810" height_o="470" src_o="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/Picture 20_o.png" data-mid="13800855" border="0" align="left"/><img src="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/IMG_4731.jpg" width="600" height="448" width_o="600" height_o="448" src_o="http://payload21.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2721689/IMG_4731_o.jpg" data-mid="13801359" border="0" align="left"/> http://danakarwas.com/The-Future-Spaces http://danakarwas.com/following/danakarwas.com/The-Future-Spaces Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:43:38 +0000 danakarwas 2659560 An interview with Mark Collins at Columbia Architecture about the role of architects in the development of the internet. Check out their work at The Cloud Lab and Proxy. Mark spoke with us about the future of architecture, understanding complexity, and attempts to visualize the internet, and humankind's first glimpse of Earth. http://danakarwas.com/Extending-the-Mind http://danakarwas.com/following/danakarwas.com/Extending-the-Mind Mon, 23 Jan 2012 16:41:20 +0000 danakarwas 2659528 An interview with Toru Hasegawa at Columbia Architecture about the role of architects in the development of the internet. Check out their work at The Cloud Lab and Proxy. Toru talks about designing using neural sensors, using technology as a mirror, and the internet as an extension of the human mind. http://danakarwas.com/The-Esquire-Ghost http://danakarwas.com/following/danakarwas.com/The-Esquire-Ghost Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:38:36 +0000 danakarwas 2403878 Dana Karwas (of WIKA) collaborated with POD Design + Media on a digital experience for Esquire Magazine's Ninth-annual 'Ultimate Bachelor Pad'. For the First Time Ever, Esquire Takes Its NYC Apartment Out of Manhattan. Premium Brands, Leading Designers and State-of-the-Art Technology Showcase ‘Man at His Best’ at the Exclusive ClockTower Building in DUMBO. Guests at the Esquire Apartment will experience numerous technological and lifestyle innovations customized for today’s “ultimate bachelor,” including such innovations as The Ghost, the Lufthansa Digital Loft and the “Home Office of the Future.” The only permanent resident of the 2011 Apartment is Charlotte, the elusive ghost. Charlotte is a life-size digital illusion who will appear at various locations inside the Apartment to flirt with guests, provide information on various aspects of the space and otherwise engage a crowd that may think they have seen everything. Charlotte is embodied by actress Margot Robbie, who appears in Pam Am on ABC this fall. The ghost was created by a series of embedded projectors and is running from custom built software in the program Max/MSP/Jitter. Visit the esquire apartment here: http://esquireapartment.com/ <img src="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2403878/esquire_635.jpg" width="635" height="357" width_o="635" height_o="357" src_o="http://payload5.cargocollective.com/1/2/72546/2403878/esquire_635_o.jpg" data-mid="12095415" border="0" align="left"/>