'Superficial Superglow: Channeling The Stars', Presentation and Discussion

Superficial Superglow V2.0 is the second course at UCLA researching the condensation of multiple technologies into building enclosures. Seen as a collaboration between the Architecture Department, Design Media Arts Department and Center for Embedded Networked Sensing, students explore the possibility of storefronts that watch you, respond to you, and allow you to interact with them. After students present projects developed for the course, Professor Dana Cuff (UCLA Architecture and Urban Design and Director of CityLAB) will moderate a discussion with Design Media Arts Chair Casey Reas and Heather Roberge, Principal of murmur and Assistant Professor at the UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design. The work from this class re-thinks the possibility of projects like Storefront for Art and Architecture within the context of Los Angelesusing the storefront of LACE gallery and the stars in the Hollywood Boulevard “Walk of Fame.” The urban-technological setting is seen as an agent to provoke interaction, capture motion and display digital data through full scale illuminated, plastic prototypes student teams design and fabricate. All projects will be presented on November 13, including the full-scale installation 'Openings' by Andrea Boeck, Jihyun Kim and Justin Lui currently installed at LACE. Superficial Superglow V2.0 was held in early 2008 by instructor David Erdman with the support of a UCLA Arts Forum Grant and a Charles Moore Traveling Fellowship from the Department of Architecture and Urban Design. Additional support was provided by CityLAB, the UCLA Design Media Arts Department and the Center for Embedded Networked Sensing. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), 6522 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028