Fourth Door Review

Issue No. 6

Publiished 2003

The Lanternsure Issue

Andy Goldsworthy: Multimedia, chalk boulders and paths by moonlight

A timberbuild future for Europe

A bluer kind of brown: Jon Hassell, Sheila Shandra and digitally enhanced gamelan

Artstation's paperweight delight

Living the artificial: George Dyson on electronic evolution

Part one of Fourth Door Review 6’s in-depth look at artist Andy Goldsworthy, is one of this edition’s many delicious highlights along with Godfather of ambient music, Jon Hassell, drone maven Sheila Chandra and ambient illustrator, Russell Mills.

George Dyson contributes a the prehistory of electronic evolution, and we look at the prospects for a pan-European Timberbuild Renaissance, plus Thai elephant musicians and John Hull’s moving meditation on blindness and insight.

Full Contents

Digitalis

George Dyson writing on electronic evolution

Radiobiology, the evolution of radio by Duncan Marshall

Art Station
Paperweight Lighthouses: Craft, computers and cybernetic systems art

Architexts

Timber Space Frame – FCB's Earth Centre's canopy

A European Timberbuild Renaissance – the Nordic world as exemplar for a future timber architecture

African beehive architecture – Swaziland's traditional beehive structures

I-tecture – Chris Speed on Plymouth University's Cybrid

Ritoque – A South American experimental architecture school

Margins of Music

Sheila Chandra – Song of a Million years

The Gamelan Loop Orchestra of Mark Lockett - by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco

Jon Hassell's Fourth World Raga

Middleground

The Thai Elephant Orchestra

Orange Cake Bake recipe from Heidi Watts

Sense of Scale - Adam Niemann's Scale Explorer

Inci Mutlu's Wattbug energy use sensor

Makeshift

Hybrid Haystack MIT Media Lab and Haystack Centre for craft crossover symposium conversation by Chris Rose

Love Tokens Harold Lowenstein on an almost lost crafts-skill

Sonic Furniture of Kaffe Matthews

Framework – Art

Andy Goldsworthy Part 1 - Downloading a path by the light of a silver moon: Goldsworthy's new and multimedia experiments

A Fourth Door land art feature

Russell Mills Layers of Texture, layers of space

Dreams Of Consciousness (DOC)

Langdon Winner interview - On autonomous technology, old and new

DOC/ReRead

Reread – On blindness and whole body seeing - Touching the Rock, by John Hull
A Wordwatch article

Wordwatch (book reviews)

The architecture's of ecological emergence - Taking Shape by Susannah Hagan