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SuperNova, exhibition about the young Belgian architecture |
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08.09.00 - 22.10.00 centre bruxelles 2000 50, rue de l'ecuyer B-1000 Brussels info: +32.2.278.2000
LAB[au] laboratory for architecture and urbanisme Manuel Abendroth, Jérôme Decock
+ Naziha Mestaoui http://www.electronicshadow.com
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exposed work: of LAB[au]: >> eSPACE CCONSTRUCTionS A technology isn't an independent or alien object, it complements integrally our sensorial system; as a medium, it conditions not only communication modes but also the way we perceive and conceive our environment. The increasing implication of communication and information technologies in the process of production and knowledge leads to the fundamental re-thinking of the organisation and the definition of space. Technology based on the transmission and computation of information influences organisation models (modes of production, of work and of knowledge) and affects the communication process (code, symbol) and the social relations as well as their spatialisation. The affectation of traditional articulations between information, space and time leads to the augmenting need to flatten the electronic realm into the concrete space. If, as all communication systems, new technologies induce a transmission channel (signal-medium), a message (information) and a code, their property is to operate on any kind of information, even space, a reduction in a sequence of elementary information coded in a binary language, 0/1 or bit/second. But contrary to its analog counterparts within which information was materialy fixed on a medium, digital media celebrates the loss of inscription; it's the transposition of all stable "FORM" into transmissible and editable "inFORMation". In consequence the investigation in information space construct shows the shift from traditional architecture into a hyperdesign, exploring new spatio-temporal structures as well as their representation practices such as architecture and urbanism. New technologies therefore perform a transformation on semantic and spatial structures (architecture) as much on the level of language (code, style) as well as on other levels as social/spatial/economical/political relations. "e-SPACE CONSTRUCTionS" displays the theme of new space constructs relative to information processes, as the formalisations of communication and computation processes. Key words : Datascapes - Hyperspaces - Hypersurfaces - Hypertextures - Mappings |
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PROJECTS
figure1: Liquid axis |
PROJECTS Urbanism: Liquid Axis, the circuit - structuring of the urban space Transit(e), the printed plate - structuring of the urban space Scenography: Gamevillage: the map - mapping of video game culture Graphical user interfaces: i-tube, the tube - mapping of database structure meta.lab, the geoshape - mapping of LAB(au) works |
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figure 2 : Transit(e)
figure 3: gamevillage
figure 4: I-tube
figure 5: meta.lab |
Statement The comparison between communication modes (the hypertext) and spatial constructs ( architecture and urbanism ) allows us to ponder on possible spatial and semantic transformations of these space-time systems according to the implications of new communication and information technologies. The hypertext as a semantic structure of language includes complex space-time processes such as transfer codes - communication - as well as formalisation codes - computation, the coding and decoding of binary signals. The hypertext is a space-time model based on these inFormation processes - the hypertext constitutes a new synthesis between communication, technology and space. As a polysemic support of scattered but interconnected fragments the hypertext substitutes the hierarchical and material conception of space by a rhizomatic and interactive formalisation of intersubjective communication (network) transforming fundamentally the perception and conception of our environment. The shift from text to hypertext, from analogic to digital technology, replaces the notions of linearity, hierarchy and order with the notion of multilinear, multitemporal and polysemic structures. The hypertext as a textured zone formed by interconnected codes and systems therefore questions the signification of space and its shift to hybrid spaces-times within the digital media.
Key Words: spacetime constructs: multi-layered, multi-temporal, multisequencual, rhizomatic, liquid, hypertraces, neurological space mapping: semantic-chronological-spatial-behviour..mappings,hybrid media, profiling,
Links : go.to : Hypertextures, article ec_art / October 2000 go.to : Hypertextu(r)al environments, article parpaing / January 2000
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