[Nettime-bold] Re: <nettime> * open-source architecture * [esex -estructurasexpansibles]

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Expansible Structures

Like the graphics generated from data and information; like the statistics of population density, the works in this exhibition have been created almost anonymously by the result of a not-regulated interaction of the internet user. The forms created from such operations are the work that never is finished, since the diverse parameters which limit these forms are in constant change. The results that appear here are freezing of these mutual relations.

In this show three different projects appear that assume a modeller practice from very different perspective. They approach his process assuming the digital context from where they work, treating to assume their interfaces as a possibly real use.

Created by the artist multimedia James Peterson in the e-era and where the work daily coexists with the Sony Play Station and the music reproducers in format MP3, The Engagement of Architecture is a functional work that produces, in itself another piece from the interaction between the public, the interface and the instrument. This assembly of drawing-programming produced in architectonic animation is from the preoccupation by the interaction in the creative process of spaces; where the user or co-creator becomes an integral part of the work. The result, spaces and structures conformed by digital drawings and music obey to the emotional movement of the human being. The audio on these works is produced by DJ K-Rad.

Library of Information Age (LIA)[www.degrezero.com/lia/NY/index.html], created by Elena Alva, Katrin Kalden, David Serero and Esther Sperber of the group Degre Zero is an attempt to shift the concept of library as a fortress of knowledge and culture toward an interactive organism organizing fields of information. The LIA does not contain information, it is generated by information. The space of the library is built dynamically by the user : Beneath the body of information, a "metasearch engine" compiles the information from several databases (online/offline libraries, databases, internet search engines, e.g.); The nodes and relations within the information generate a 3 dimensional interface, created on the movement and relative positioning of search parameters such as keywords, ISBN, titles, authors. The indexing becomes one variable in the generation of space. 
The user defines his field of interest, creates, manipulates, and customizes his personal "information environment" (cross sections, flat, studies by levels, nodes, per year, by syntactic relationships). Form mutates and dynamically responds to the user's command. Built up from the lowest bits of information (URLs) and from groups of keywords and concepts, the temporal alignments of the interacting bits give structure to the library. This structure is not fixed, it exists instead as an ephemeral alliances of connections.

Communimage [www.communimage.ch]is a work in process of the group calc and Johanes Gees that portrays, by means of images voluntarily contributed by the Internet navigators, a moment in time. This work began to being produced in June of 1999 and will leave the Internet definitively in May of the 2002 in order to appear in the Expo.02. Communimage, physically appears in the museum like a printing of which it is until the 12:00 hours GMT of 16 of May of the 2000, the always changing geographic form. Communimage works as a plastic work that manages to create a collective work for our time and form of creation, not just because of what the images represents but by the way of its production. A functional work that is simultaneously an instrument and a product.

ESEX Expansible Structures, more than a network show, it operates like a convoking organism of diverse projects that look forward, through the interaction a mechanical and conceptual improvement, in the creative processes of our daily urban life.


ESEX Expansible Structures, more than a network show, it operates like a convoking organism of diverse projects that look forward, through the interaction a mechanical and conceptual improvement, in the creative processes of our daily urban life. 
In this sense ESEX tries to be open to collaborations that work under the same parameters marked by this curatorial call. 

Mario García Torres

If you want to submit your project please send [title project, author(s) name, project description (about 10 lines)] to proyectos.macg@worldmailer.com, in order to make the link in these pages.

http://www.macg.inba.gob.mx/enred/esex.html. 

Bios:

Founded in 1996 in Paris and in New York, Degré Zéro is a research group
intended to present original projects dealing with Architecture, Urbanism
and Design. The designers of the LIA project Elena Alva, Katrin Kalden,
David Serero and Esther Sperber practice in a large range of field, from architecture to
urban speculation, from industrial design to information technology. They
collaborated with different organizations to create several on-line projects :
The Liquid Crystal Glass House (www.virtualglass.net), the
InEx House, Informing Interiorities Vrml prototypes (www.arch.columbia.edu).

The web site of Degré Zéro (www.degrezero.com) offers a multitude of
projects of architecture, and a newly created Dat[A]base (Digital
Architecture Archive) which is an online database of digital architecture
and speculations, based on digital fabrication processes and computer
generated forms. Degré Zéro's experimental projects address the problem of
production of architecture in the context of digital technologies.
Information technology allows us not only to generate new codes or
new forms, but also to create a transition between abstract data and
operational systems of organization. Degré Zéro does not only apprehend the
Virtual as a material consequence of architecture but also as a mean of
articulating immaterial framework, with spatial or territorial implications.

James Paterson studied art and multimedia in Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. This Canadian has created the site Press Tube (www.presstube.com), organism that publishes his drawings in animations. He is also co-creator of the open community Halfempty (www.halfempty.com) and of the musical hip-hop record label without published discs Buck65 (www.buck65.com). K-Rad is a DJ of the post-electronics era. Some of their pieces of the 10 discs that have autopublished can be found in format MP3 in (www.padk-rad.com).

calc is a group formed, by the moment by Teresa Alonso, Tomas Scheidergbauer and Lucas Brunner, who works like a cultural laboratory in where diverse products like designs, facilities, music, graphic and computer works take place. CALC proposes as an artistic practice to make an intersection between different fields for life form. CALC is also conceived like an interactive sculpture where the processes of creation and communication intersect between their members and their context. The group has as it bases; house and factory, in the town of Navia, Spain (www.las.es/calcaxy)

Johannes Gees is the producer of a number of online projects, both artistic and commercial. He has developed the official website of the Swiss national exhibition, http://expo.02.ch, and is currently co-producing a internet project called http://cyberhelvetia.ch, which will go online later this year and will feature new collaborations with calc. Cyberhelvetia is an online contribution to the swiss national exhibition expo.02. the authors are belleville ag (http://www.belleville.ch); it is sponsored by Credit Suisse.




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