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DAM
Deutsches Architecture Museum
http://dam.inm.de
SCHIRM
Kunsthalle Frankfurt
http://www.schirn-kunsthalle.de
LAB[au]
laboratory
for architecture and urbanism
M. Abendroth , J. Decock
A.Plennevaux , P.Heremans
http://www.lab-au.com
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... LAB[au] invited for:
... Architecture
and Computer Games
... Panel discussion connected to the exhibition
"Visions and Utopias"
... at:
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the Schirm, a cooperation of the DAM and Schirn Kunsthalle
... KUNSTHALLE FRANKFURT,
... Römerberg,
... D-60311 Frankfurt
... with:
... Lucien King / Game On, Rockstar Games
(London) and
... Tom Barker / box consultants, Architectural
Association Design Research Laboratory (London)
... Manuel Abendroth / LAB[au] - laboratory
for architecture and urbanism (Brussels)
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Moderation:
... Ingeborg Flagge, Director of DAM /
Peter Cachola Schmal, Curator DAM
... entrance fee: 5 €, reduced 3 €
(cards can be bought at the Schirn)
...
when:
... Tuesday, 17. Juni, um 19 Uhr
... thx: Peter Cachola
Schmal, Curator DAM
... read about:
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the event
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the exhibition
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Architecture and Computer Games
Panel discussion
connected to the exhibition "Visions and Utopias" at the Schirn,
a cooperation of the DAM and Schirn Kunsthalle
Participants:
Lucien King / Game On, Rockstar Games (London) and
Tom Barker / box consultants, AADRL Architectural Association Design
Research Laboratory (London) Manuel Abendroth / LAB[au] - laboratory
for architecture and urbanism (Brussels)
Moderation:
Ingeborg Flagge, Director of DAM / Peter Cachola Schmal, Curator DAM
entrance fee: 5 €, reduced 3 € (cards can be bought at the
Schirn)
The most highly developed virtual visualizations of space are to be
found in the world of computer games. Supposedly this business has even
surpassed both film and music industries in terms of revenue. Computer
games are now considered as an independent art form. That is the theme
of first the exhibition of this type: „Game On“. The relevance
of this technology for architecture and the use of it in the realm of
research between animation and built architecture, installation and
urban planning will be the issue to be addressed.
Lucien King, born 1971 in Nairobi
Kenya, Development Manager at Rockstar Games London and organizer of
the exhibition: " Game On. The Culture and History of Videogames".
The exhibition started at the Barbican Gallery in London in summer 2002,
at the end of 2002 it went to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh
and will soon be shown at the Dutch Faxx Tilburg, from 28 May until
24 August 2003. The show will then move to Helsinki in autumn 2003.
Tom Barker, born 1965 in London, studied hat Engineering an Cambridge
University, Imperial College London und Edinburgh University, was responsible
at Arup for structures such as the Kansai Airport (Renzo Piano), teaches
at the Architectural Association London Design Research Lab, founder
of the multidisciplinary agency box consultants in London, that works
in the field of research, design and application of new materials and
developed the materials for the pavilions inside the Millennium Dome.
In 2002 they won the Innovation Company of the Year Award. His company
Curvatex Ltd is on the market selling hybrid materials.
Manuel Abendroth, born 1969 in Wels Austria, studied Architecture
and Urbanism at the ISACF- La Cambre in Brussels, 1996 co-founder of
lab[au], a „trans-disciplinary agency“ of architects, musicians
and programmers, that work not only in the field of theoretical research,
but also in the development of new interfaces between architecture,
information technology, software programming and space. The group took
part in multiple music and dance performances, lectures, conferences
and exhibitions all over the realm of new media art. This program is
realized with the support of the museum cooperation pool of the City
of Frankfurt am Main.
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LAB[au] is presenting two projects to introduce its participation to
the panel discussion:
00 GAME_VILLAGE [ 1999 ]
01 sPACE, NAVIGABLE MUSIC [ 2002 ]
Title:
Game Village
Category:
Exhibition Scenography
Authors:
lab[au], laboratory for architecture and urbanism
M.Abendroth , J.Decock , N.Mestaoui
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ABCD, Paris, France
AVA, Brussels, Belgium
Commissioned by:
Infogrames, Lyon France
Completion date of the study: 1999
URL: http://www.lab-au.com/game
Project:
The scenography
was elaborated for a video game exhibition in Lyon, commissioned by
the Frenchgame’s producer Infogrames. The scenography is based
on the creation of a map covering the ground, organizing video games
in time (from 1971 to 2001) and in action (kill, win, drive, control...).
This time-action index of video games is spatialized through extruded
transparent fabrics shaped along the timelines, dilated or contracted
according to the presence and the amount of video games produced at
a given year. This statistical map forms an information surface printed
onto the floor, which is crossed by 5 transversal thematic circuits
constituted by artistic, scientific….works. In this manner the
folded plastic fabrics structure the space in a linear and chronological
way, the action corridors and the time shapes, with transversal - intertextual
- flows, the thematic circuits.
This spatial
organization transposes the traditional linear organization of exhibition
spaces into a hypertextu(r)al environment of playful exploration and
interaction integrating the user as an active part of the visit, thus
using its constructive, subjective or affective potential in the structuring
of the exhibition itself.
Keywords:
- Data.
scapes
- Programmatic Mapping + cartographies + Intertextuality,
- Hypertextu(r)al environments,
- Hypersurfaces,
- Mixed reality
Title:
sPACE,
navigable music
sPACE //: Space _ (XYZ) + PACE _ (rhythm – beat)
Navigation //: Users movement in e.space according to specific modalities
of perception + cognition
Year of conception / production: 2002 ...>
Authors:
lab[au], laboratory for architecture and urbanism
Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock, Alexandre Plennevaux,
Grégoire Verhaegen, Pieter Heremans
http://www.lab-au.com/space
sPACE,
navigable music:
sPACE, Navigable Music’ is an on-line project investigating the
impact of IC technologies and particularly, 3D Real Time modeling languages
(such as VRML) in the construct of space. According to the objectives
of LAB[au] the project constitutes as much a space for theoretical research
as a space of experimentation on the forms of spatial, visual and sonic
interactions in networked environments. The project thus explores the
setting of hyper media environments and electronic space combining architecture,
music and cinema through users interactions – navigation within
the digital matrix in order to build up connectivity.
In sPACE,
navigable music, the space is generated in real time according to the
position and movements of the user in this e.space ( > mix color,
> mix image, > mix sound). Operating on the spatial (x,y,z), temporal
(t-movements) and sonic (frequency, pitch) parameters, each interaction
by the user, navigation, transforms the visual and sonic space. In addition,
the recording of movements allows each user to produce a traveling according
to cinematic techniques, camera movements and image sequencing - montage.
The established relation between the spatial, visual and sonic formalization
processes and the editable interactivity of users lead to an experience
combining architecture, music and cinematic techniques through movement
patterns. The ‘Navigable Music’ thus constitutes a space,
in which the user experiments cyber space by dropping sounds into space,
mixing music throughout space and navigation, record its movements to
produce an animation, a kinetic music clip, a sharable sonic space.
for the online version: http://www.lab-au.com/space
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