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that were interviewed. Human Beans were the least anticipated (50%)
participants in the exhibition for the same group. ‘What's Cooking Grandma?’
was indicated as most liked by two visitors and tied for the second most popular
work in the exhibition in the audience survey. Human Beans and ‘What's
Cooking Grandma?’ were both cited as the most surprising practitioners and the
strongest work in the exhibition by folly. Since the exhibition ‘What's Cooking
Grandma?’ continues to expand online and was featured in the exhibition ‘My
Own Private Reality’ selected by Sabine Himmelsbach and Sarah Cook at the
Edith Russ Site for Media Art in Oldenbourg, Germany. May 12 - July 1, 2007 92 .
Commission 3. ‘Watermark’ (2006) by Rotterdam-based NIO Architecten 93 is a
series of prototype façade panels for a leisure park and a cluster of buildings for
the city of Middelburg in the Netherlands. Architects Joan Almekinders, Radek
Brunecky, Sean Matsumoto and Maurice Nio developed a set of rules related to
building materials where circles were to be expressed in several ways (small
round perforations in a steel plate, patterns cast in concrete, big round
constructional elements, etc.). For this exhibition they presented ten rapid
prototyped panels of potential building materials to be used within the project
and a screen-based, slide presentation showing the sources drawn on for their
creation and renderings of how the panels would look once tiled. The architects
stated the panels embody various moods and the characteristics of water:
desire-whirl, arousal-cohesion, thrill-humidity, satisfaction-drop, curiositydrifting,
relaxation-rain, joy-floating, excitement-boiling, welcoming-wave and
anticipation-ripple.
Figure 56: ‘Watermark’, 2006. NIO Architecten
92 http://myownprivatereality.wordpress.com/
93 http://www.nio.nl
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