Architecture is a virus, where the grid is purely organic and the urbanism is redefined. By working off of some of the Metabolist’s theories from Japan in the 60’s and Karl Chu’s theories in the foundations of mathematics and philosophy along with the metaphysics and genetics there is an exploration into the conceptual space of evolutionary cosmology based on the metaphysics of computation.
I want to explore the visual outcome of a computational Monadology. “With the convergence of computation and genetics, he (Chu) believes that we are at the threshold of a brave new world that is unfolding before us and we have yet to develop an adequate theory of architecture that engages with the deep and profound ideas inherent in these issues, which is destined to transform the world unlike anything we have seen in the history of human civilization. “
As a part of our physical molecular structure, the unseen that passes through the universe going anywhere it wants, becomes the last terrain. In the age that has begun to return to religion, this is purely about evolution. It is seeing and using the basics of all mater to show us the new revolutionary to grow. Architecture as a modal conception and the architecture of possible worlds that would spur on a reconsidered organic architecture that would “grow” to suit the needs of the landscape and its inhabitants.
For this project I will be working out ideas for drawings and a site-specific installation works for upcoming exhibitions. These works will visually “grow” in the space and use the local and international structures as the basis for this new series. By using projections to facilitate a mural size wall drawings the viewer will be taken into a new site a reinvented site, the organic within the grid. I will spend some time documenting the current surrounding urban elements. After compiling a library of images, I then use various softwares, primarily photoshop, in developing the imagery and begin the 'growth' process. The many different images will be layered, hybrid, edited and reconstructed visually, adding parts of several buildings together or parts of one fitted onto another structure so that they grow into organic form and multiples of structure.
These images are then edited and printed on architectural plotters and then projected into the walls of the gallery space, where they are then drawn and rearranged, manipulated and recombined with other projections. The final results are wall drawings and constructed “growths” that reconstruct the urban area and give the visual illusion of structure and architecture growing into the building. This confronts the viewer to rethink it growing into something else.
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