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.

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Digital Grotesque
Digital Grotesque

21/09/13

Digital Grotesque

I have written about Michael Hansmeyer's extraordinary work with algorithm based design complexity here several times. This project shows the process of realizing an "occupiable" structure deriving from his research. The resulting construction really does push the eye's ability to digest formal information and density to its limit. The edges of what we can process with none of the tropes of needless maximalism. There is something really fascinating lurking here.

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"Touch is the unconsciousness of vision, and this hidden tactile experience determines the sensuous quality of the perceived object, and mediates messages of invitation or rejection, courtesy or hostility."
- Juhani Pallasmaa, 1999, Hapticity and Time