Perception of worlds:
Einstein's brain examines the idea of the world as a construct sustained through the neurological processes contained within the brain. References: Situationists, Rimbaud.
Explorations of place:
London Orbital an intriguing history of the occult archaeology of London that the ring-road discloses.
Imagining the City Penny Webb (ed.), RMIT Centre for Design (1993) '... the idea that the city and in particular, this City of Melbourne with its rich cultural history and fabric was a topic ripe for exploration – an exploration which might interweave art, history and cross-disciplinary social theories … the necessity of locating another kind of cultural space within the history and architecture of the city, present, past and future – one which had not been inscribed in the tomes of historical literature, but which resided in personal memories, in the private musings of writers, in the visions of artists, in wayward and clandestine geographic dalliances and in the sounds and poetry of place.'
Nonlinear multimedia presentations:
Eureka : to navigate freely through multimedia assets, allowing fluid contextual narratives to emerge.
documentation of sites -- 2004/08/04 07:58 EST reply
Brian Muller in "Space: A Thousand Words"
One day I went to an unknown “site”… It could be measured in terms of its temporal and spatial aspects, but also as an event in space/time. I attempted to document this event with film… Besides the intrinsic limitations of a camera and film, the fact is that for each 1/50th of a second that the camera shutter opened to expose the film, it was closed for me and vice versa… I then set about composing a mathematical score for myself that would re-structure the audio and visual information I had on film in such a way that it would fragment and structure the information so as to expose the illusion and perhaps trigger off a personal psychological investigation by the audience in terms of the way in which they relate receptually, perceptually and conceptually to the information. I am concerned with the idea of documentation in the broadest sense of the word i.e. The way in which the intellect receives the information, registers it, and fragments it; by its automatic reaction of associating it with previous information and forming an ‘image’. Because of our dependency on this associative tool, and its mechanical functioning in our objective and subjective relationships, we see the ‘image’, the thought, instead of the actual thing… The way we in our various specialised roles as artists, architects, filmmakers, physicists, psychologists, sociologists, etc tend to isolate fragments of a situation in terms of our particular frame of reference, not only conceptually, but physically as well, via the canvas, drawing board, camera, book and various forms of hardware we employ to ‘frame’ the work as artwork, architecture, cinema, ideology, theory, philosophy etc…
Archigram's Plug-In City -- 2004/08/04 08:12 EST reply
Dan Hill: Archigram's Plug-In City proposes that change could and should be built-in. I hear their talk of modularity and reusable components, and I hear echoes when software engineers talk of code being refactored, swapped-in and swapped-out of more virtual structures.
http://www.cityofsound.com/blog/2004/04/archigram_desig.html#trackback
Manhattan Transcripts -- 2004/08/04 08:32 EST reply
Bernard Tschumi: Architecture is not simply about space and form, but also about event, action, and what happens in space.
The Manhattan Transcripts differ from most architectural drawings insofar as they are neither real projects nor mere fantasies. Developed in the late 70s, they propsed to transcribe an architectural interpretation of reality. To this aim, they employed a particular structure involving photographs that either directed or ‘witnessed’ events (some would call them ‘functions’, others ‘programs’). At the same time, plans, sections, and diagrams outlined spaces and indicated the movements of the different protagonists intruding into the architectural ‘stage set.’ The Transcripts’ explicit purpose was to transcribe things normally removed from conventional architectural representation, namely the complex relationship between spaces and their use, between the set and the script, between ‘type and ‘program’, between objects and events. Their implicit purpose had to do with the 20th century city. http://www.tschumi.com