Friday, April 28, 2006

Arthropods

Pictures from a library book.
Two products of Haus-Rucker-Co, on the left the Flyhead and on the right The Mind Expander. The stone age of virtual reality; Even then it blurred certain things: Are those hipsters playing doctor or plotting against the establishment?
A suspendended, inflatable, motorized pavilion entitled Kinetic Roof by Event Structures Research Group.
This was a concept for "psychological environments for in-flight astronauts" the Himmelblau Cooperative from Vienna submitted to NASA.
Battleship(upper-left) and Yellow Heart(left) are two works by Haus-Rucker-Co that are overtly for, or about, screwing. The battleship contraption is used by each person pushing buttons on the matress to light-up the panel above, somehow this constitutes a game. The Yellow Heart is two nested tubes which ungulate independently, compressing like a heart-beat.


Burns, Jim. Arthropods: New Design Futures. New York: Praeger Publishers, 1972.
Link to an online copy of the text, though it lacks many of the catalogue images.

1 comment:

Pete said...

Yes! This stuff, though highly impractical and often ugly, is wicked cool!