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sister sylvester is a multimedia artist based in NYC and Istanbul. Her next work, The Eagle and The Tortoise, is a collective reading of a hand-made book that tracks the history of the ‘aerial view’ in art, journalism and warfare. It will show in NYC at Under The Radar Festival in January 2024. In 1997, the Dutch architect Aldo van Eyck wrote an essay titled “The Radiant and the Grim,” in which he outlined two opposing tendencies in art and architecture. He called the design sensibility of modernists who prioritized vernacular forms and worked on a human scale “the Radiant.” An example from his own work is PREVI, a social housing project just outside of Lima that was completed in 1973. With a very limited budget, Van Eyck created houses that drew on architectural traditions in Peru, taking into account both local climate and social dynamics. Although PREVI’s houses were initially identical, their designs were adaptable; after years of use, the project’s dwellings were no longer uniform

The Radiant and the Grim | Broadcast The Radiant and the Grim On the slippery potentials of Web 3.0, and transcending crypto-bro technocracy. technology Playground for which architect Aldo van Eyck and painter Joost van Roojen received the Sikkens Prize in 1961. Courtesy of DPG Media B.V. BY sister sylvester sister sylvester is a multimedia artist based in NYC and Istanbul. Her next work, The Eagle and The Tortoise , is a collective reading of a hand-made book that tracks the history of the 'aerial view' in art, journalism and warfare. It will show in NYC at Under The Radar Festival in January

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