Dressing The Air is the brainchild of the London-based artist Paul Schütze.

In a career spanning 30 years, Schütze has exhibited his photographic and installation works in galleries and museums around the world, released over thirty albums of original recordings, scored a number of films and performed numerous concerts. He has collaborated with artists such as James Turrell, Josiah McElheny and Isaac Julien and musicians as diverse as Bill Laswell, Raoul Björkenheim, Toshinori Kondo, Lol Coxhill and Jah Wobble.

Dressing The Air is a unique open resource that aims to enrich creative thinking by encouraging a multi-sensory approach. A constantly evolving archive and creative news feed, Dressing The Air monitors and reports on a diverse range of art-forms from cinema to sculpture, painting to furniture design, land-art to perfumery.

dressing the air: the bureau of sensory intelligence

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Overstepping Artefacts
Musicians With Guns

Overstepping Artefacts

While the fascination with fractal geometry is ongoing and its application in music video hardly new, this piece is interesting as much for the fizzing edges of computation visible in the evolving details as anything else. Viewed closely it is as if one can see the furious number-crunching involved in actually building these complexities whilst on the move. I have always imagined that the virtual worlds proposed as far back as William Gibson's Neuromancer would be accompanied by a vibrating, peripheral activity as they struggled to anticipate the needs of the user, frantically building themselves just ahead of one's gaze. The earthy, mineral aesthetic used here gives rise to a hybrid environment which looks partly geological and partly biological.

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"...the owners of a New York skyscraper had a problem on their hands as people got dangerously impatient waiting for the elevators. A psychologist was called in, who advised that large mirrors be placed on the elevator doors so that people could see themselves as they waited. This stroke of brilliance solved the problem."
- Richard Gregory, 1997, Mirrors In Mind