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steampunk and the ebaroque
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POSTDIGITALISM“Steampunk” and “E-coco” in twenty-first century design
Kasimir Malevich, Black Square, 1914-15
Le Corbusier, Villa Savoye, Poissy-sur-Seine, France, 1929-31
A machine for living?
Marcel Breuer, Wassily-Chair, Bauhaus, 1926
Miesian minimalism
Less is more?
“Magiler” series storage unitsIkeaUSA, 2005
Modern European Functionalism
…a noble
simplicity and
calm grandeur.
Heroic and affirmative: 21st century American corporate style?
Ulysse Nardin Chairman
Mechanical Smartphone
The Hybrid?
Retronics
Craftsmanship, materiality, splendour
Datamancer, 2007
The furnished man
US
USB Stick?
Modding or physical hacking?
10,000 year clock
“slow design”
Longevitywith occasional maintenance, the clock should reasonably be expected to display the correct time for the next 10,000 years.
MaintainabilityThe clock should be maintainable with bronze-age technology.
Transparency It should be possible to determine operational principles of the clock by close inspection.
EvolvabilityIt should be possible to improve the clock with time.
ScalabilityIt should be possible to build working models of the clock from table-top to monumental size using the same design.
Long Now Foundation: A “slow design” Manifesto
In 2009 artist Tim Wetherell
created a large wall piece for
Questacon, The National
Science and Technology
centre in Canberra
Rococo cartel clockattributed to Jacques CaffieriFrancec.1750
“What do the pendulum clocks, so much in fashion, resemble; which have neither basis not console, but seem to spring out of the wainscot . . . those stags, dogs, huntsmen, or Chinese figures, which they dispose in so odd a manner about the dial-plate; are they its natural ornament?”
Abbé le BlancLetter to Comte de Caylus1737-44
Mantel clockAttributed to Jean-Pierre LatzFrenchc. 1730’s
Mantle clock Maker unknownFrenchc. 1745-1750
Casket (coffres de toilette)Maker unknownFrance1755-1760
Cinderella Table Jeroen VerhoevenThe Netherlands,2004
Heatwave radiatorJoris Laarman, The Netherlands2003
Altermodernism
Modernist E-coco/Steampunk
• Curvalinear, organic
• Exuberant and emotional
• Amoral and irrational
• Synthetic and inclusive
• Artisanal
• heterogenous
• Rectilinear, geometric
• Restrained and rational
• Moral and rational
• Reductive and exclusive
• Academic
• homogenous
Victorian science fiction
Rococo Revivalism
Jules Verne, Captain Nemo and Nautilus
Dr. Grordborts Infallible Aether Oscillators
analytical engineCharles Babbage, 1837
Analog computer?
The Telectroscope
Telectroscope 2006, Paul St. George
• Bottom-up design
• repurposed
• DIY
• Aura/authenticity
• Protoindustrial
• Nostalgic
• Postmodern?
• Postdigital
• Critical?
Elements of
Steampunk
Why?
• Dissolution with homogeneity of mass market goods (iphone)
• Reemphasis on the physical world
• Pre-digital and pre-electrical nostalgia
• Reconnection with embedded cultural meaning
• Reconstitution of “aura”
• Antidote to digital-age attention deficits