INFORMATION ARCHITECTURES
These early investigations into information architecture gradually evolved into artistic research on the organisation of knowledge through language, signs and systems—a line of inquiry that continues today in the Colour Archive, the Praxis Archive and LAb[au]'s artist books.
2019–1997
NETWORKED ARCHITECTURES
These networked architectures explored the web as a living archive rather than a repository of information. Libraries, taxonomies, identities, and urban structures became dynamic systems generated through navigation, interaction, and collective participation. The questions they raised continue to shape LAb[au]'s research into language, archives and the organisation of knowledge.
Polygon Den(c)ity, 2003
Urban morphology transformed into a musical score for spatial concerts
Invited by New Museum
New Museum, New York, USA
electroscope(s), 2001
Real-time 3D networked environment
Invited by Fabric|ch
ACM SIGGRAPH, Los Angeles, USA
i-skin, virtual embodiment, 2000
Computational fashion: generating avatars through image profiling
In collaboration with the Belgian fashion designer Crstof
Avignon 2000, Avignon, France
Cityscapes, 1999
An online cartographic navigator for a discussion forum, revealing a dynamic keyword index through the manipulation of a spatial interface
Commissioned by ART.image Festival, Charlotte Pöchhacker
Graz, Austria
Telezone, 1999
Experiment in collaborative computational urbanism
Ars Electronica Festival
Linz, Austria
i-tube, 1998
Information architecture replacing semantic search with behavioural navigation and collective profiling
INFORMATION GRAPHICS
Cartographies, visual indexes, semantic maps and time-based navigation became methods for organising knowledge. These projects transformed diagrams and archives into navigable structures for reading and relating information.
2014 - concepts, modes, systems, catalogue
Research catalogue organising LAb[au]'s artistic practice through cartographic diagrams based on concepts, modes, and systems.
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2009 - MetaDesign monograph
Book design based on parallel indexing systems and cartographic representations of LAb[au]'s artistic practice.
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2003 - liquid space book
Publication system organised through radial navigation, multiple indexing structures and thematic colour coding
2003 - infoscape, information society
Multi-level navigation system extending a hyperbolic tree into immersive three-dimensional information spaces for exploring European policy.
2001 - 2016 hisTHORy (digital choreography)
Design of a time-based website for the dance company Thor
www.thor.be
2000 - Daniel Buren, Practice
An interactive cartographic navigator developed for the solo exhibition at encore...bruxelles.
2000 - Daniel Buren, Catalogue Raisonné
Concept and design of a catalogue composed of detachable files with a visual indexing system.
2000 - tout d'edge
A real-time 3D Möbius interface transforming the history of Mass Moving into a continuous navigational strip.
1999 - encore...bruxelles
Design and development of a cartographic and sonic website for the exhibition platform.
1999 - Worldebt, you can count on it
A collaboration with the American artist John Knight, revealing the financial structures of debt through the interactive editing of a bank card.
1997 - MetaLab
Our first award-winning online interface, transforming a hyperbolic tree structure into an intuitive cartographic navigator.
WRITINGS ABOUT INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE
These commissioned articles and regular columns provided the theoretical framework for LAb[au]'s research into information architecture, introducing and articulating many of its underlying concepts.
2019 - Daily Computations (fr, en)
Essay for Art Même, Belgian art magazine.
2003 - spazio e.mozione (it)
Essay for l'ARCA, Italian architecture magazine, December issue 187
2003 - Lo spazio sonoro (it)
Essay for l'ARCA, Italian architecture magazine, May issue 181
2003 - La definizione di una disciplina, MetaDeSIGN (it)
Essay for l'ARCA, Italian architecture magazine, February issue 178
2002 - Soundscapes (fr, nl, en)
Essay for A+, Belgian architecture magazine, February issue 173
2001 - e.motional space (fr, nl, en)
Essay for A+, Belgian architecture magazine, December issue 172
2001 - cityscapes (fr, nl)
Essay for A+, Belgian architecture magazine, October issue 171
2001 - mind spaces (fr, nl)
Essay for A+, Belgian architecture magazine, April issue 169
2001 - l'hypertexte comme système comportemental (fr)
Essay for Inside Internet, Belgian technology magazine
2001 - Mind Expander (en)
Essay introducing a new series on media cognition
2001 - i-tube, building connectivity (en)
Essay on space, interfaces and knowledge
2000 - Recombinant Realities (fr, nl)
Essay for A+, Belgian architecture magazine, December issue 167
2000 - info.architects (fr, nl)
Essay for A+, Belgian architecture magazine, October issue 166
2000 - Cyborgs & Avatars (fr, nl)
Essay for A+, Belgian architecture magazine, August issue 165
2000 - L'hypertexte comme métaconstruction (fr)
Essay for Inside Internet, Belgian technology magazine, July issue 35
2000 - Les Graphical User Interfaces (fr, nl)
Essay for Inside Internet, Belgian technology magazine, June issue 34
2000 - Espace-temps-information, topographie du réseau (fr, nl)
Essay for Inside Internet, Belgian technology magazine, April issue 31
2000 - G.U.I., le langage performatif de l'écran (fr, nl)
Essay for A+, Belgian architecture magazine, April issue 163
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2000 - infospaces, la cartographie des réseaux (fr, nl)
Essay for A+, Belgian architecture magazine, January issue 161
1999 - Les G.U.I, l'espace d'interaction et d'immersion (fr)
1999 - Le cyberespace lisse et strié, les topographies virtuelles (fr)
1999 - Avatararchitecture, l'anthropomorphologie digitale (fr)
1999 - Réalités augmentées, les degrés de virtualité (fr)
1999 - L'interfaçage comme espace actif (fr, en)
1999 - Data Mining, l'espace digital (fr)