fabric | ch - studio for architecture, interaction and research

+++ DIARY

+++ 12.04.10: Invitation to MIMI festival which will happen in Marseille (France) from July 7 to 11, 2010.
During this event, fabric | ch will exhibit a new installation called Arctic Opening.
Exhibition on the Frioul island from June 30 to July 14, 2010.

+++ 15.03.10: CONVECTIVE CONDOMINIUM / SMART AIR, a project by Philippe Rahm architectes, has been selected for the last step of the Smart material houses competition, organised by IBA (Internationale Bauausstellung).
fabric | ch is partner of the project, with Arup, EPFL, Werner Sobek engineering and Weinmann Energies.

+++ 18.01.10: Invitation to 01SJ Biennial which will happen in San Jose (CA) from September 16 to 19, 2010.
During this exhibition, fabric | ch will present a new project entitled I-Weather as Deep Space Public Lighting.

+++ 20.12.09: Public opening of fabric | rblg, a website which gathers articles, researches, expositions and projects related to the investigation fields of fabric | ch.

+++ 27.10.09: Lecture by Patrick Keller at HEAD, Genève
In the context of the Design Masters of ECAL and HEAD (Product Design , Art Direction, Media Design), fabric | ch presents Variable Environment/, a research project realised for ECAL and EPFL (EPFL+ECAL Lab).

+++ 05-06.10.2009: Residency of fabric | ch and Eric Sadin at La Ménagerie de Verre, Paris
Evolution of the project « Globale_Surveillance » in collaboration with Eric Sadin.
For this project, fabric | ch develops « Paranoid Shelter », an over-controlled architecture.

+++ 18.09.09: Talk by fabric | ch at LIFT Asia, Jeju (Korea)
"Inhabiting interferences" by Patrick Keller
Among the other speakers of the session "Building for connected people" will be Dooeun Choi (curator at Art Center Nabi) and Minsuk Cho (architect, founder of Mass Studies).

+++ 08-14-06.09: Cahier d'artiste fabric | ch at Swiss Art Awards, Basel.
Exhibition "Cahiers d'artistes 1997-2009".

+++ 31.03.09: Lecture by Patrick Keller at POSTOPOLIS! LA, Los Angeles (USA)
Invited by Geoff Manaugh (BLDGBLOG), Patrick Keller will talk about "RealRoom(s), Atmospheric Relations & current questions". POSTOPOLIS! LA is organized by Storefront for Art and Architecture and ForYourArt.
To read on City of Sound and WMMNA

+++ 27.03.09: Talk by Patrick Keller at SwissNex, San Francisco (USA)
"The mediated (now)here" on the occasion of Media Facades and Newscocoons.
To read on BLDGBLOG

+++ 09-13.02.2009: Residency of fabric | ch and Eric Sadin at La Charteuse of Villeneuve-Lez-Avignon, France
Evolution of the project « Globale Surveillance » in collaboration with Eric Sadin.
For this project, fabric | ch develops « Paranoid Shelter », an over-controlled architecture.

+++ 05.01.09: "Lumière digitale" in Collage 1/09
Interview with Patrick Keller about the growing presence of "media facades" in urban space.

+++ 04.10.08: Exhibition of Perpetual (Tropical) SUNSHINE in Paris, France
for the Nuit Blanche 2008.

+++ 13.09.08: Exhibition of Perpetual (Tropical) SUNSHINE in Madrid, Spain
for the Noche en Blanco.

+++ 11.09.08: Talk by Patrick Keller and Christian Babski at Reflex, Madrid, Spain.

+++ 01.09.08: "Climatic Fictions" - talk by Christophe Guignard at EPFL
in the Media and Design Lab.

+++ 20.08.08: Hatch: The New Architectural Generation is edited by Laurence King Publishing, London
The work of fabric | ch is presented in the latest book of Kieran Long (previous editor of Icon, editor of The Architects' Journal) with projects like MIX-m and Perpetual (Tropical) SUNSHINE

+++ 04.08.08: Contemporary territories, welcome in a digital materiality, participation of fabric | ch to the Grand 8 of the Swiss Radio (RSR), with Xavier Comtesse and Frédéric Kaplan.
Podcast RSR - Le Grand 8 (in French) on iTunes

+++ 12-13.06.08: Talk by Patrick Keller during the Ateliers de la Recherche en Design at Nantes (France). Presentation of Variable Environment/, a design+science research project conducted by the University of Art and Design of Lausanne [ECAL] and the Swiss Institute of Technology [EPFL].

+++ 09-10.06.08: Presentation of Tower of Atmospheric Relations at the Climate Clock Colloquium in San Jose (USA).

+++ 12.04.08: Talk by fabric | ch at Palais de Tokyo (Paris) during the conference Global Paranoia organized by Eric Sadin.

+++ 26.02.08: fabric | ch is invited by the Federation of swiss architects (BSA/FAS) to present its work at The Bourg.

+++ 07.01.08: Perpetual (Tropical) SUNSHINE is shortlisted" by London International Creative Competition (LICC).

+++ 23.11.07: Talk by Christophe Guignard during the conference "Villes numériques de demain", organized by the Technological Observatory of Geneva.

+++ 01.10.07: Installation of the artwork "Daylight, 46°28'N"
at the Nestlé International Center, Building En Bergère

+++ 19.09-21.10.07: Exhibition of Dimensional Interferences at Montreal, Canada
70 Architect(e)s on Ethics and Poetics.

+++ 14.09.07: Talk by Christophe Guignard at Canadian Center for Architecture, during the conference "Reconciling Poetics and Ethics in Architecture".

+++ 27.07.07: Publication of Variable Environment/, activity report of a design+science research project conducted by the University of Art and Design of Lausanne [ECAL] and the Swiss Institute of Technology [EPFL]. This project is leaded by Patrick Keller.
Blog entries on WMMNA, Pasta & Vinegar, A3, ...

+++ 02.07.07: Talk by Patrick Keller and Christophe Guignard during "DIGITALITY AND SPACE",
a seminar organized by Chôros Institute at EPFL, with Boris Beaude, Jacques Lévy, Nicolas Nova, etc.

+++ 03.05.07: Talk by Patrick Keller at Swiss Institute of Technology [EPFL], invited by Philippe Rahm.

+++ 08.02.07: Talk by Christophe Guignard at LIFT (Geneva, Switzerland)
Contemporary space(s)

+++ 01.02.07: Perpetual (Tropical) SUNSHINE and RealRoom(s) broadcasted by Nouvo (TSR ).

+++ 12.12.06: Talk by Patrick Keller and Christophe Guignard during the Architecture and Materiality day organized by Pieter Versteegh at School of Architecture, Fribourg

+++ 16.11-30.11.06: Exhibition of Perpetual (Tropical) SUNSHINE at Tou Scene, Stavanger (Norway)
Festival Article 06.

+++ 31.10.06: Le Net art : la nouvelle Toile des artistes
Article published by Swiss Television about Perpetual (Tropical) SUNSHINE

+++ 20.10.06: The Centre Culturel Suisse publishes 2003-2005, a book about its past exhibitions, including Invisible Architecture - Philippe Rahm, where fabric | ch exhibited RealRoom(s).

+++ 17.10.06: Talk about "ex-dimensional architecture" at UQAM, Montreal
fabric | ch is invited by Louise Pelletier.

+++ 07.10-14.10.06: Exhibition of Perpetual (Tropical) SUNSHINE at Aix-en-Provence, France
Festival Arborescence

+++ 29.09-19.10.06: Exhibition of Electroscape 004 A.I. vs A.I. // in self-space //
and all the other electroscape.org projects at MediaRuimte,
during Nuits Blanches, Brussels
Curator: LAB[au]

+++ 13-19-06.06: Exhibition of Perpetual (Tropical) SUNSHINE at Swiss Art Awards 2006,
in parallel to Art | 37 | Basel (Switzerland)

+++ 27.04.06: Talk about Poetics in poiesis,
organised by Adam Somlai Fischer (Hu) and Usman Haque (UK),
PixelACHE 2006

+++ 20.04.06: Workshop rhizoreality.mu by fabric | ch ,
Festival PixelACHE 2006, Paris

+++ 19-29.04.06: Exhibition of electroscape 004 A.I. vs A.I. // in self-space //,
Festival PixelACHE 2006, Paris
Article in Libération and 20 minutes (in French)

+++ 20.03-20.04.06: Exhibition of RealRoom(s) at FILE RIO 2006, Rio de Janeiro

+++ 01.02.06: FACES publishes an article by Patrick Keller: ex-Dimensionelle (in French)
Ex-dmiensional architecture concept illustrated by RealRoom(s) and MIX-m.org

+++ 30.01.06: Archithese publishes RealRoom(s) and Perpetual (Tropical) SUNSHINE
Archithese 01.2006, Swiss Performance 06, Swiss Unlimited section

+++ 10.11.05: Talk by fabric | ch at Architectural Association (AA), London: "ex-dimensional"

+++ 07-10.12.05: Perpetual (Tropical) SUNSHINE installation during Lyon Lumières 2005

+++ 10.11.05: Talk by fabric | ch at Ecole nationale supérieure d'architecture de Montpellier: "Wide Spectrum Architecture"

+++ 01-20.11.05: Exhibition of RealRoom(s) at FILE 2005, São Paulo

+++ 03.10.05: Interview by Patrick Keller (fabric | ch) in Le design suisse, valeur refuge du XXIe siècle (in Envies de design, Bilan)

+++ 23.01.05-06.03.05: Exhibition of MIX-m.org at Centre d'art contemporain Genève.
Artists: Joëlle Flumet, Yves Mettler, Scanner, Nedko Solakov, Heimo Zobernig.
To read in CH-arts and to listen to Couleur3 and Espace2 (in French).

+++ 24.06.05: Symposium research+design organized by SDN and HGKZ.
Christophe Guignard presents the first results of the project
Variable environment / Interaction city and crossovers,
research project led by ECAL and EPFL in which fabric | ch is a partner.

+++ 20-22.06.05: Participation to Collaborative Artefacts - Interactive Furniture workshop organized by EPFL to extend the future Learning Center built by Kazuyo Sejima + Ryue Nishizawa / SANAA on the campus of the Swiss Institute of Technology.

+++ 09.06.05: "fabric | ch: ein Abend mit Patrick Keller"
Talk by fabric | ch at Zeughaus 5, Zurich, in the context of the Hello Stranger exhibition.
Invitation by Vehovar & Jauslin architects.

+++ 10.05.05: fabric | ch presents RealRoom(s) and other projects of material - non material, localized - distributed architecture during the "Physical/virtual" symposium organized by Eric Sadin (éc/artS) at Orléans Media Center (France).

+++ 09.05.05: Interview by Patrick Keller (fabric | ch) broadcasted by France Culture, "Culture Plus" animated by Arnaud Laporte. Other invited speakers: Eric Sadin (éc/artS), Clarisse Bardiot, Frédéric Bevilacqua and José-Louis Lestocard
To read in and to listen to France Culture (in French)

+++ 05.05.05: "Dimensional crossovers"
Talk by fabric | ch at Sabanci University, Istanbul

+++ 15.04.05: Information Architecture, Artifices and S(t)imulated Spaces
Talk by fabric | ch at MediaRuimte, Brussels

+++ 14-22.04.05: fabric | ch is invited to exhibit its work at MediaRuimte, Brussels during the event cycle 'Information Architecture':
Knowscape Mobile at MEDIARUIMTE, Brussels
RealRoom(s)
electroscape.org

+++ 09.04.05-29.06.05: Electroscape 004 A.I. vs A.I. // in self-space //
Exhibition *La scena svizzera contemporanea*
CAMEC (Centro Arte Moderna e Contemporanea) de La Spezia.

+++ 12.03.05-15.05.05: Philippe Rahm invites fabric | ch to exhibit RealRoom(s) at the Centre Culturel Suisse in Paris: Invisible Architecture / Climatic Continuum
Other invited architects/artists: Diller + Scofidio (USA), Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster (France), Bauart (Switzerland), Cero9 (Spain).

+++ 09.02.05: "Material - Non Material Architectures".
Seminar about fabric | ch work at the École des arts visuels et médiatiques of UQAM (Montreal).

+++ 07.02.05: "Electromagnetic Architectures and variables environments".
Talk by Christophe Guignard at the Society for Arts and Technology, Montreal, presented by the CIAM (Centre Interuniversitaire des Arts Médiatiques).

+++ 23.01.05-06.03.05: Exhibition of MIX-m.org.
Office World, Espace culturel de la Tour OFS, Neuchâtel.
Curator: Simon Lamunière.
Article in Le Temps.

+++ 10.01.05: University of Art and Design of Lausanne [ECAL] and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [EPFL] launch the design+science research project
Variable environment / Interaction city and crossovers, in which fabric | ch takes part as professional partner. Patrick Keller is also project leader of the research project.

+++ 22.09.04: Tracés publishes an article by Patrick Keller and Christophe Guignard:
Variable environment / Interaction city and crossovers,
a design+science research project proposed by the University of Art and Design of Lausanne [ECAL] and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology [EPFL]

+++ 11.08.04: Presentation of Knowscape Mobile at Siggraph 2004, Los Angeles
Paper given during the Web Graphics - navigation session and exhibition in the festival Art Gallery; Presentation of Electroscape 002 at Siggraph 2004, Los Angeles
Paper given during the Web Graphics - visualization session (participation of Casey Reas, UCLA Media Arts; Ben Fry, MIT Medialab; Eric Rodenbeck, Cooper Union).

+++ 01-04.08.04: fabric | ch exhibits Knowscape Mobile at DIS2004, Cambridge
on the occasion of the ACM DIS2004 symposium in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

+++ 01.07.04: map_I.T. master plan for the digital campus of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Lausanne (EPFL) put online. See PDF documents

+++ 18.06.04: Presentation of MIX-m.org at the Swiss Museum of Communication
Mediaproject funded by the Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Sitemapping initiative.

+++ 15-21.06.04: Presentation of MIX-m.org at Art Unlimited, Art | 35 | Basel

+++ 01.06.04: Article about i-weather.org, artificial climate project relaised with Décosterd & Rahm,
published in Oeste 17, Arquitectura, Urbanismo, Arte y Pensamiento Contemporáneos, Madrid

+++ 15.05.04-29.08.04: Electroscape 004 A.I. vs A.I. // in self-space //
Exhibition *Dalla pagina allo spazio* at the Museo Cantonale d'Arte de Lugano
Article in Kunst Bulletin 7/8 2004

+++ 14.05.04: Publication of the Cahier d'artiste fabric | ch
Texts by Maia Engeli and Eric Sadin
Publication by Pro Helvetia

+++ 13.05.04: Interview by Christophe Guignard in art-en-jeu.ch

+++ 13.05.04: Open -tracking and -profiling [2001-2003]
Talk by fabric | ch at Paris 8 University (laboratoire Paragraphe) in the framework of the symposium "Web: navigation areas, exploration objects".

+++ 03.04.04: Interactive Visions
Talk by fabric | ch at Hochschule der Künste Bern

+++ 18.03.04: _Patrick.Keller?selection=ANDREAS*ANGELIDAKIS*ARCHITECTURE
Curator for the project vpar.net

+++ 10.02.04: Launch of Electroscape 003
Cahier d'artiste // fabric | ch //

+++ 16-18.01.04: Reboot of fabric | ch in Londres
New playgrounds: tangible architecture and substituted architecture

+++ 16.01.04: fabric | ch and Interversion receive the backing of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture in the framework of Sitemapping.ch/mediaprojects for their project MIX-m.org