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The Unstable Image
Kelly Bair
University of Illinois at Chicago
Kristy Balliet
Southern California Institute of Architecture
According to a 2018 Microsoft study, the attention span of human beings shrunk from 12 seconds in 2000 (the approximate start of the digital revolution) to 8 seconds. If we now officially have a lower attention span than a goldfish then how is architecture, a profession that literally casts in place physical material with mortar, silicone and welds, to even compete for the attention of its subjects when other visual information can be altered with the swipe of a finger? While our attention may be waning our ability to multi-task has increased as our lives become increasingly digitized. This Darwinian adaptation of our brains and subsequently our eyes to our multi-image laden screens suggests that there may be alternatives to architecture’s perceived stasis. The Unstable Image project interrogates the ways in which images are destabilized through the various image-based platforms in which we consume them (social media, news outlets, etc.). It explores the spatial constructs that are lurking within the plethora of two – dimensional images that we engage daily, in rapid succession. Multi-screening, swiping and scrollin
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During World War II, Dr. Harry Coover was part of a research team experimenting with cyanoacrylates. This research was intended to discover a way to create clear plastic for precision gunsights on the battlefield.
However, the scientists soon discovered that the cyanoacrylates were extremely sticky, making them difficult to work with. Moisture caused the chemicals to polymerize, and since virtually everything contains moisture of some sort, the idea of using cyanoacrylates in battle was abandoned.
Six years after World War II ended, Coover was transferred to the Eastman-Kodak lab in Kingsport, Tennessee, to oversee chemists researching heat-resistant polymers for airplane canopies. Coover once again began experimenting with cyanoacrylate monomers and discovered that the adhesive was unique because it required no heat or pressure to bond one object to another. Both Coover and the Eastman-Kodak company knew they had come up with a useful new idea and soon patented the adhesive, which became known as "Superglue."
Despite not being used in World War II, the sticky substance never fully avoided war. During the Vietnam War, it was discovered that cyanoacrylate (aka Superglue) could be used as a quic