EXHIBITION:

The digitalisation in contemporary culture has profoundly influenced our experience of architecture and spatial phenomena. Technology extends human agency and open our minds for new opportunities, but it also raises fundamental questions concerning the status of the human users: the way we perceive, the role of our bodies, notions of consciousness, cultural conventions for social life etc. 

At this exhibition Maskinstorm displayed four installations by internationally acknowledged artists and groups. The pieces are all generative artworks, which mean that they can not be understood independently from the agency of the human users. The artworks consist of an open field of aesthetic scenarios which unfold in the interplay between algorithms and the presence of the visitors in the exhibition space.

 

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Image Courtesy, Lærke Posselt

 

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EXHIBITED WORKS:

CALCIFICATIONS, 2007 New work by CITA, Centre for Information Technology and Architecture (Denmark). Collaborators: Mette Ramsgard Thomsen, Chiron Mottram, Martin Tamke, Kristine Agergaard Jensen, Karin Bech and Norbert Palz.  Visitors are met by red wine glasses and a decanter on a table. The interactive table is framing a social situation as it develops but it also frames a meeting between human beings and artificial intelligent agents. The results of these meetings are reflected in the imagery projected on the table, as the glasses are filled, moved and emptied. The social and cultural rituals connected to the sharing of wine are visualised as events that develops and slowly erodes over time – like a process of calcification. Read more: link

UNTITLED 5, 2004 Camille Utterback (USA) An ingoing painterly process is projected on a translucent screen hanging in the central stairwell at the Danish Architecture Centre. The aesthetics of "Untitled 5" is open and evocative and it unfolds live in response to the presence of people in the exhibition space. Visitors feel encouraged to examine the rules, layers and momentum of this kinetic piece by the movements of their bodies. Visitors thereby transform the situated space through the creation of new aesthetic experiences. www.camilleutterback.com

APARTMENT, 2001 Marek Walczak and Martin Wattenberg (USA) Visitors are confronted with a blinking cursor. As they type words and sentences in English rooms begin to take shape in the form of a two-dimensional plan projected on a drawing table. The plan is constantly morphing and restructuring as new words are added. Typing words and generating apartments is an act of playful exploration, but it is also an invitation to critical reflection about the spatial organisation o f everyday language. www.turbulence.org/Works/apartment/

THE CENTRAL CITY, 2001 Stanza (England) Urban sounds from Istanbul and live images from CCTV cameras in London. Stanza use material stored as data from cities around the world in his generative artworks. "The Central City" invites us on an aesthetic journey in an online urban environment where grids and plans are deconstructed as new and often organic compositions of sound and images are created. www.thecentralcity.co.uk

CONFERENCE, WORKSHOPS, TALKS & EVENTS:

 

ARCHITRONIC: PEOPLE ENTER SPACE lasted for two weeks. The first week of the festival programme included the opening of the exhibition, the related academic conference "Erlebnis and Erfahrung: Aesthetics of Pervasiveness" and the two workshops; "Temporal Interactions" and "Creative Partnership". In the second week of the festival the Danish Architecture Centre presented talks and events that focused on the interplay between digital technology, art and architecture in contemporary culture.

 

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CONFERENCE:

 

ERLEBNIS AND ERFAHRUNG: 
"Erlebnis and Erfahrung: Aesthetics of Pervasiveness" was a two day conference organised by the academic network "Digital Art and Culture in the Age of Pervasive Computing". 
Lev Manovich (US), N. Katherine Hayles (US), Mark B. N. Hansen (US) and John Johnston (US) were invited as international keynote speakers. The theme of the conference was pervasive computing’s influence on aesthetic experiences in contemporary art and culture. 

In collaboration with the conference partners the festival ARCHITRONIC // PEOPLE ENTER SPACE aimed to bridge academic reflection with concrete art experiences and specific case studies presented by Camille Utterback and Mette Ramsgard Thomsen at the conference. The bridge between festival and conference also included the panel discussion "Creation and Experience of Contemporary Installation Art – Panel Polylogue" and several network activities.

Links: 
- Conference programme: "Erlebnis and Erfahrung: Aesthetics of Pervasiveness" (pdf)
- Academic network: "Digital Art and Culture in the Age of Pervasive Computing" 

 

WORKSHOPS:

 

TEMPORAL INTERACTIONS: 
Workshop for students and art practitioners by Mette Ramsgard Thomsen and Camille Utterback at The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts - School of Architecture. The theme of the workshop was "temporal landscapes of interfaced environments". 
Link: "Temporal Interactions"


CREATIVE PARTNERSHIP: 
A collaborative project by four Copenhagen based institutions: Diginet Øresund, Copenhagen Institute of Interaction Design, LinkUp and the Danish Architecture Centre.
At this workshop Camille Utterback taught young architects, designers and industry partners about digital art as innovation strategy. Camille Utterback was in 2002 nominated by MIT’s magazine Technology Review as one of the top 100 innovators in the world under 35 years. Link: "Creative Partnership" (pdf)

 

TALKS & EVENTS:

 

MAPT: Presentation of the young architectural office MAPT by partner Mads Møller

MINORITY REPORT: Professor Carsten Thau talked about different concepts of interactive spaces and the way these have influenced films throughout the 20th century.

FROM NASA TO PRADA: Architect and researcher Tina Henriette talked about augmented reality and her experiences at NASA with design of dwellings for space.

HITMAN AND RUMPISTOL: Event where the audience were invited to play the Hitman computer game, while two classical musicians were playing live music. DJ Rumpistol was afterwards playing electronic music.