An Aggregate Collection

Transformer dress An innovation that is still in the experimental stage - taken from Style.com Clothes that react and transform. Amazing!

An Aggregate Collection was founded by Sophia Sobers as a design center for exploring and creating by the fundamental ideas of an "aggregate collection."

An aggregate is "a collection of items that are gathered together to form a total quantity." Our rhetorical name emphasizes that smaller systems make up a uniform whole. This is our manifesto.

On our playlist for today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7DQYuM3yKA

Iannis Xenakis/Taurhiphanie Works for Computer generated sound.2-track tape & 4 loudspeakers

Playing with notions of the natural and the artificial, Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto creates enormous interactive installations that evoke biomorphic masses. His works envelope the viewers in environments reminiscent of the lumps and organs that make up the human body. In the Espace Louis Vuitton in Tokyo, Neto created an enormous, spidery installation titled “Madness is Part of Life.” Originally conceived as a multi-story Louis Vuitton store, the art space provides plenty of room for Neto’s elaborate creation. Take a look at some photos of the installation courtesy of Louis Vuitton / Jérémie Souteyrat. http://hifructose.com/2012/12/28/ernesto-netos-madness-is-part-of-life-at-espace-louis-vuitton-tokyo/

Pokate has an amazing display of artists and their work which is worth checking out! We're seeing many nature inspired aggregations~

Black & white sketches by Kilian Eng:
http://butdoesitfloat.com/I-was-six-years-old-when-my-parents-told-me-that-there-was-a-small

John Zorn : The Concealed

Combining the sound of two of Zorn’s most popular and beloved groups, Bar Kokhba and The Dreamers, The Concealed is a sonic journey filled with surprise, elation and mystery. The latest volume in Zorn’s continuing series of 21st century mystical works features the dynamic quartet Nova Express augmented by the brilliant string masters Erik Friedlander and Mark Feldman creating a remarkable all-star sextet that combines and recombines into a variety of powerful small chamber ensembles. With arrangements ranging from solo pieces to trios, quartets and of course the lush exotic sound of the full sextet, the music is lyrical, enigmatic and stunningly beautiful.

http://www.tzadik.com/index.php?catalog=8304

Artist Laura Bell works with repetitive patterns to create amazing compositions! Check out her work for inspiration. Also, she has a series titled "aggregate!" Right up our alley.

http://laurabellstudio.blogspot.com/

Laura Bell Studio

Artist Andy Lomas has created a stunning collection of images of aggregation.

"These works come from a study of organic natural forms and their relationship to simple mathematical rules.

Influenced by the work of D'Arcy Thompson, Alan Turing and Ernst Haeckel, they study how intricate forms of plant and coral like structures can be created by digital simulation of flow and deposition."

http://www.andylomas.com/

Andy Lomas homepage Andy Lomas, homepage

"An aggregate is a collection of items that are gathered together to form a total quantity." -wikipedia