We use simple materials in novel ways to create this low-cost, realistic piece of technology.
In a compact show of just seven color photographs and two small-scale sculptures, all created between 1921 and 1946, Moholy-Nagy casts a spell with simple materials in odd forms.
He showed understanding of modern defensive structures built quickly of simple materials in complex profiles that offered minimum vulnerability to attackers and maximum resistance to cannon and other artillery.
Yet, like so many Barragan buildings, it is ultra-modern, while realised in the simplest materials - in this case adobe, timber and limewash.
That means that we can try to understand a simple material in some depth, because it is easier to study than a more complicated material.
The ability of these simple materials to partake in and steer the complex set of events ultimately resulting in neural differentiation opens numerous new opportunities for controlling this process.
They are constructed in highly sophisticated combinations and arrangements of the simplest materials.
For the exhibition, Sonntag presents "Heutu Bleibe Ich Daheim," a slide projection piece that places the simplest of materials in the most precarious arrangements - a standing pair of scissors, an upside down bottle of soda, or a lamp caressing an apple.
Some pieces, in simple materials like linen and cotton, formed a quiet backdrop for the dazzle of gilded snake that looked like a tribal trophy.
It is an iterative and social activity and through repetition it forms pattern and structure in simple materials to yield complex cultural artifacts.
Using simple materials like wood and paper in their constructions, SOFTlab are pioneering a new design practice that is perfectly in step with the future.
