BLINGCRETE™ light reflecting concrete

A new material development

BlingCrete™ represents a new genre of materials with its own logic of effect that cannot be described simply in terms of the usual categories of heavy and light or form, construction, and surface. BlingCrete™, also known as light-reflecting concrete, combines the positive characteristics of concrete (fire safety, solidity, building methods) with those of light-reflection. The dialog with light, lastingly integrated by the combination of materials, creates the special, dematerialized aesthetic.
The BlingCrete™ surface is activated depending on the position of surface, light source, and recipient. The concrete changes from a passive to an active state. BlingCrete™ aims to transform any ordinary space into a highly immersive or interactive environment by lowtech analogue modes. It can be regarded as an analogue interactive surface. BlingCrete™ is the concept of a material admitting the creation of subtle surfaces that manage to mediate between material and light and thus indirectly refer to the relationship between mass and surface. Surfaces that do not represent a static energy state, but rather permit a flowing transition to formulation and set the architecture in motion, as it were. The attention shifts from the appearance of a material to the performance of surfaces.

www.blingcrete.com
www.kennwert.com
www.baukunsterfinden.org

Membranes Surfaces Boundaries

Aedes Architecture Forum & Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

At first glance, surfaces are boundaries. But as far back as the nature philosophers of Classical Antiquity, there was an awareness of the enigmatic character of this perception. Material, they speculated, was by no means a continuum, but consisted instead of small, ultimate elements, the átomos, themselves indivisible. The concepts of the membrane, the surface, and the boundary are of equal importance in technological research, in the humanities, and in the arts, and each yields access to important if highly disparate contents. By virtue of this multiplicity, these concepts are especially well suited to bringing together an important spectrum of contemporary and historic developments in various disciplines in innovative ways. Whether visible and utilizable in the everyday context or removed from the gaze in the realm of nanotechnological materials research or on the level of biotechnological and chemical processes, boundaries condition the reality of our lived world. They define and catalyze life processes, for example those of cellular membranes, or in the form of skin, immune systems, even the ecosphere. Phenomena which occur along material boundaries play a role in the applied natural sciences, for instance in chemical process engineering (catalysis, filtration, electrophoresis), thereby representing a link to artistic production. This is manifested in the material forms of the appearances of surfaces, in medial representations in photography, film, and digital image media, but also in experiences of indifference such as Duchamp’s concept of the “Inframince,” which characterizes the almost imperceptible separation (or “simultaneous delay”), between two adjoining processes or states.

The exhibition was conceived by the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science and Kassel University jointly with the artists. The intention is to generate a differentiated exchange between science and art. For the first time, surfaces become a space of interdisciplinary negotiation. The exhibition contributions correspond to the scientific positions of a workshop bearing the same name which was organized by the Max Planck Institute and which opens simultaneously in Dahlem.

Welcome at the opening by:
Dr.h.c. Kristin Feireiss, Aedes Berlin
Prof. Hans-Jörg Rheinberger, Director, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science
Heike Catherina Mertens, Director of Arts and Culture, Ernst Schering Foundation

www.aedes-arc.de/msb
www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/msb
233, aedes, berlin, blingcrete, heikeklussmann
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Membranes Surfaces Boundaries

Aedes Architecture Forum & Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

This exhibition presents works by artist Heike Klussmann, architect Thorsten Klooster, designer and artist Susanna Hertrich, and designer Clemens Winkler. In projects and experiments, they demonstrate the reciprocal action between the theoretical and material manifestations of membranes, surfaces, and boundaries, and their transitional stages between everyday objects, technology and aesthetic production.

www.aedes-arc.de/msb
www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/msb

...a small but very exciting group show being held in Berlins Aedes gallery. (Mathias Remmele, Added value surfaces, www.stylepark.com).

www.stylepark.com
konferenz, solitude

Akademie Schloss Solitude Stuttgart

Artistic Research

On the occasion of the workshop »Artistic Research as Aesthetic Science?« Heike Klussmann and Thorsten Klooster present their transdisciplinary project BlingCrete at the Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart.

Art research as »aesthetic science« is conceived as a process that utilizes artists’ specific knowledge, working methods, and competence and applies them to other contexts outside of the art system. It is neither research about art that then lies in the field of science of art, nor is it research with art that genuinely characterizes artistic production. Central to the discussion are forms of sensual insight that are combined with scientific practices to generate new knowledge.

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Lago Vicenza

Dialoghi

Lecture at the series “Lago | Dialoghi” in Vicenza, Italy, November 19, 2010.

This presentation was the second in a series of three evening events centering on contemporary perspectives in art, design, architecture and urban planning. Thorsten Klooster and Heike Klussmann were preceded by Bernardo Secchi and followed by Raul Pantaleo (Tam Associati).

Moderator: Michele Sbrissa
 Wehrhahnlinie Duesseldorf,  Entwurfsmodelle,  Heike Klussmann, netzwerkarchitekten, 02
wehrhahninie, duesseldorf, entwurf, schnittraeume, heikeklussmann
wehrhahninie, duesseldorf, entwurf, schnittraeume, heikeklussmann
 Wehrhahnlinie Duesseldorf,  Entwurfsmodelle,  Heike Klussmann,  Netzwerkarchitekten

Subway Wehrhahnlinie Düsseldorf

design models

Heike Klussmann, netzwerkarchitekten: continuum & cut, design models for six new metro stations Wehrhahnlinie Düsseldorf

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wehrhahninie, duesseldorf, entwurf, pempelforterstr, heikeklussmann

Subway Wehrhahnlinie Düsseldorf

Design drawing subway station Pempelforter Straße

Heike Klussmann, Surround, Design drawing for the subway station Pempelforter Straße, Wehrhahnlinie Düsseldorf
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Subway Wehrhahnlinie Düsseldorf

3-D model for the subway station Pempelforter Straße

Heike Klussmann, Surround, 3-D model for the subway station Pempelforter Straße, Wehrhahnlinie Düsseldorf
skizze, uhpc

Defining the Zero Element

Brandenburgische Technischen Universität Cottbus

Defining the Zero Element – lecture ba Heike Klussmann and Thorsten Klooster in the DER DIE DAS series at the Brandenburg University of Technology in Cottbus.

www.tu-cottbus.de
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Berlinische Galerie

Berlin 89/09: Art Between Traces of the Past and Utopian Futures

Berlin 89/09: Art Between Traces of the Past and Utopian Futures at Berlins Museum of Modern Art, Photography and Architecture.

Heike Klussmann shows a selction of her work around the deconstroction of Alexanderplatz Berlin.

www.berlinischegalerie.de/berlin-8909
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Temporäre Kunsthalle

Zeigen: An Audio Tour through Berlin

For Zeigen: An Audio Tour through Berlin Karin Sander invited her fellow Berlin-based artists to translate their work into audio pieces.

Heike Klussmann
Underground bunker, Alexanderplatz Berlin
12.04.2007 14:00 - 15:00 Uhr

www.kunsthalle-berlin.com
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