FLOCK HOUSE NEWS:

An Apocalyptic Shift At Eyebeam 4/26/2012

What have you done to prepare for December 21st? Built a bomb shelter? Bought a boat? Constructed a green house?

Regardless of the measures you’ve taken (or lack there of), you should check out Apocalyptic Shift, a Flock House Project Benefit that imagines a post-industrial landscape centralized around migratory, public, sculptural habitats that are movable, modular, and able to merge. The event combines music, video, technology, and performance to create a digital dystopia, and is going down at Eyebeam Art + Technology Center on April 26, from 7-12 PM, in collaboration with Fellow Mary Mattingly’s Flock House Project and curated by Ian Daniel.

Inspired by global human migration, immigration and pilgrimage, Flock House is built upon reclaimed, redesigned, and rethought materials within a culture. With wider adoption of natural systems like rainwater capture, inner-city agriculture, and solar energy harnessing, the project attempts to create mobile living systems that are interstitial, simultaneously autonomous and dependent on their local community, and shared amongst human beings. - The Creators Project

The following visualization shows periods of activity inside the habitat installed at Eyebeam, via a vibration sensor in the floor of the structure. Each ring of the spiral represents one day, with more recent data in the outermost rings. - Brian House, Founder, Rhythmanalysis Laboratory

Humboldt State University Students' Design Research is Uploaded! > > click here

HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY COLLABORATION:

Mary Mattingly on Skype with Lonny Grafman's Engineering 215 Class at Humboldt State University

Today was the first meeting of the semester with Humboldt State University’s Engineering 215 class, taught by Lonny Grafman. The students worked with Mary to understand criteria for alternative power sources, a food dehydrator, a power meter, and skins to cover the Flock House.

LOWER MANHATTAN CULTURAL COUNCIL:

Bridging Buildings, 2011, Digital C-Print

The Investigation, Constitution, and Formation of Flock House
An exhibition by Mary Mattingly'

LMCC is pleased to present The Investigation, Constitution, and Formation of Flock House, an exhibition that examines the urgency and cyclicality of urban development and proposes building for a time when migration and adaptable forms of habitation are a necessary and standard part of city life. This exhibition poses the question: What will our built environment look like when we live in a city where boundaries are flexible?

The Investigation, Constitution, and Formation of Flock House probes into a social sculpture–an autonomous Micronation that will traverse New York City on a choreographed journey. Beginning by constructing the tools to make the materials, Flock House is created from abandoned vehicles dredged up from the New York waterways that have been formed into a recycled building material. It proposes experiments in compact, migratory living: interdependent and collaborative journeys.
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Dates and Times
Friday, July 15 – Sunday, August 14
Fridays – Sundays, 12–5PM
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 16, 3–5PM