LAb[au] _ Laboratory for Architecture and Urbanism

According to the current progresses in information and computation technologies, LAb[au] has developed a transdisciplinary and collaborative methodology and examines the transformation of architecture, art and design within a practice entitled ‘MetaDeSIGN’. Metadesign [meta = information about information] displays the theme of space- and time constructs relative to information processes - architecture as a code. It concerns the transposition of inFORMational processes in n-dimensional ( visual, sonic, spatial, … ) form.

Founded in 1997 and based in Brussels, LAb[au] mainly creates interactive artworks, audiovisual performances and scenographies, for which it develops its own software and interfaces. Its four members (Manuel Abendroth, Jerome Decock, Alexandre Plennevaux and Els Vermang) also run a digital design gallery since 2003, "MediaRuimte", in the centre of Brussels. 

LAb[au] has exhibited its work at Sonar (Barcelona, 2004), New Museaum (New York, 2003), Nabi Art Center (Seoul, 2003), Bauhaus (Dessau, several times), ICA (London, 2002), Louvre (Paris, 2000), Ars Elektronica (Linz, 1999), Centre Georges Pompidou (Paris, several times), NAI ( Rotterdam, 1998) among many others.

Official website: http://www.lab-au.com
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