16.6.15

While looking for Tradescants museum I found this...


 So around the Civil wars in the 1640s (my knowledge of history is not great, sorry) London was surrounded by Forts. Lithgow walked them all (around 18 miles apparently) in one day and described them. This is a drawing by Captain John Eyre of the Quadrant Fort at Vauxhall, with possibly John Tradescants Ark behind it? This image is taken from Strange Blooms by Jennifer Potter.

Here is a map showing the position of all the forts (From http://www.fortified-places.com/london)


The First Museum: Tradescants Ark at South Lambeth Road



While researching the history of the Museum I discovered that the very first museum was just around the corner from my house in Vauxhall/Stockwell. Dubbed ‘Tradescant’s Ark’, the gardener John Tradescant's unsorted and unclassified collection was a microcosm of the entire world. There is little visual material to show what it loooked like, it was on a site beginning around what is now Tradescant Road. John Tradescant is now buried in the Garden Museum in Lambeth. It is possible to take out the book listing his collection from the library in Lambeth near Myatts Field. The collection eventually moved to Oxford and it became the foundation for the Ashmolean Museum's Collection.


26.3.15

PROJEKTIL: model based projection map

Taking an architectural scale model as their canvas, Zurich-based art collective PROJEKTIL use five projectors to create an augmented reality installation that demonstrates you don’t need large buildings to make an impressive projection mapped display. In fact, it’s turned the projection mapping trend on its head and, in a neat reversal of the trajectory, has used the opposite of a finished building—the genesis of it—by projecting on a showroom model. Not the first time its been done but a very good example.