ANARCHITECTURE

ZOESCOPE CONTINUED

2011-02-15T23:20:00.000-08:00

Out of necessity, I went more in depth on representing this project, since I'm leaving my life in Wine Country to seek a more stimulating (and more urban) environment. Though a portfolio usually seems like a chore, I'm always surprised by how much you learn about a project or idea when you're forced to describe it to someone. Hopefully this post makes the project more coherent, I know it does for me.

ZOESCOPE

2010-09-03T22:20:00.000-07:00

"Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth" - Martin Heidegger

Video art in a gallery, when projected on a wall, is totally out of context in this day in age. The art gallery exists mainly as a showcase to connect collectors and artists; as a venue that presents new work to those who might appreciate it and pay the artist for their blood, sweat and tears. Video art, devoid of a space-specific installation, may as well be viewed on Youtube. It lacks the object-specificity of the canvas or the sculpture and therefore becomes less precious by its very nature.

Media has lost its object-ness. We stare endlessly at glowing rectangles that instantly and endlessly change. Your sweetheart's "I love you" text becomes some dumb teenager being kicked in the crotch three seconds later.

A visceral connection to a tangible object bridges the gap between what we are and what we do.

This project comes from this argument (or the argument comes from the project). Video is a medium with which I feel comfortable as an artist, by which I mean I feel capable of producing work through it that I believe is worth showing, that I'm proud of. So how does one practically bridge the phenomenological gap and connect the art to the viewer?

When art is not preformed, it should be carefully and preciously packaged to give it a singular physical manifestation.

My solution is a proprietary device, capable only of presenting my work (or work that I choose to transpose to the format of my invention).

Panelized Punk

2010-02-20T11:22:00.000-08:00

A friend and I decided to be Daft Punk for Halloween 2009. Not having the time to sculpt and mold helmets or access to a vacuum former, it seemed the best way to execute a complex form like a helmet would be to build a polygonal model in Maya, make a flattened layout of the pieces in Pepakura, and assemble the parts by hand using super glue.

Step 1: Maya Model

Step 2: Pepakura layout

Step 3: Cutting and seaming

I did a poor job of documenting these steps. I had the layouts laser cut at CCA in San Francisco for about $15 each. They could have been cut by hand with an exacto knife, but as you can image that would have been really time consuming. The red lines in the layouts are for valley folds and the blue are for mountain folds. The chip board material used made it easy to bend the scores in either direction without too much trouble. It dawned on me after making these layouts that the visors would be much easier to make and much more realistic if I just traced splines between the points on the polygon model, and cut out curved strips to be seamed together later with transparent model glue.

Intimate Landscapes

2009-06-27T15:10:00.000-07:00

SCI-Arc: Yael Reisner workshop, 2007

Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced. - Søren Keirkegaard

AFTERMARKET IDENTITY: mobile housing beyond relief

2009-04-27T23:45:00.000-07:00

AFTERMARKET IDENTITY: mobile housing beyond relief from jonathan odom on Vimeo.

Sciarc Thesis Midterm

2009-03-04T12:30:00.001-08:00

Pimp My House midterm presentation from jonathan odom on Vimeo.

Sciarc Thesis Review #1

2009-03-04T12:29:00.000-08:00

Pimp My House [sciarc review #1] from jonathan odom on Vimeo.

2009-02-24T14:19:00.001-08:00

Pimp My Ride - MTV Shows

Zeitgeist- Addendum

2009-01-06T11:08:00.000-08:00

the film

The Venus Project

Apartment Therapy Article

2008-12-10T18:47:00.001-08:00

Apartment Therapy on the Ungloo

Architecture Unplugged: Dwelling Optemized for Freedom

2008-10-27T11:39:00.001-07:00

A project on the idea of reducing comfort and necessity to an optimized state:

INTERVENTION Possible Site

2008-08-30T15:22:00.000-07:00

Chartres St & Montegut St, New Orleans, Orleans, Louisiana 70117, United States

INTERVENTION PT1

2008-08-29T15:04:00.000-07:00

1. new orleans used to be a great city for artists because you could live in a decent house for $300 a month and other costs were low, leaving spare time to work on art, music, etc.

2. housing prices have risen with the massive drop in supply, so now it's much harder to work out that kind of arrangement, sending NOLA''s artists to austin, san francisco, etc.

3. new orleans is slowly becoming a las vegas-esque playground for adults, with the city council and private businesses catering to large conventions and ignoring the cultural capital aside from the built environment (e.g. the french quarter).

4. an answer to the problem is to create a live/work housing development exclusively for creatives (artists, writers, designers, musicians, film makers) where rent would be capped at around $350.

5. the low rent could be subsidized by a music venue / restaurant / coffee shop / bar that would see a fast increase in income because of the "cool factor" of the inhabitants of the development. this would also all but guarantee the gentrification factor, making property values rise in the surround area.

6. at set intervals (probably coinciding with the art walk) artist opening workspaces and / or showing their work would be mandatory, adding extra incentive to produce work and increasing clientele and cool factor.

7. the design of the development would be an aesthetically avant garde, culturally relevant, environmentally and economically sustainable piece of architecture that the city could be proud of. environmental sustainability also capitalizes on the numerous government tax and grant incentives available to such projects.

7b. we're thinking about using freight containers (though practically disguised through the use of other building elements, foliage, possibly sod roofs, etc.) in a configuration that minimizes material use and maximizes communal spaces.