[spectre] doubleNegatives Architecture - Corpora in Si(gh)te

[miki fukuda]

new exhibition -------

doubleNegatives Architecture
"Corpora in Si(gh)te"
media architecture installation  commissioned by YCAM
official site: http://corpora.ycam.jp/


13 Oct  2007 $B!](B 13 Jan 2008
YCAM | Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media
Nakazono-cho 7-7, Yamaguchi,
753-0075 JAPAN
+81-83-901-2222
http://www.ycam.jp/ (The renewal of our webpage was completed on Sep.  
27th. YCAM`s previous works are documented under the Archive menu.)


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An attempt to extract autonomous architecture responding to the  
environment through information network Yamaguchi Center for Arts and  
Media (YCAM) holds a new installation"Corpora in Si(gh) 
te" (commissioned by YCAM) by "doubleNegatives Architecture."   
doubleNegatives Architecture is an architectural group who is engaged  
in crossover activities in a new area of architecture, making good  
use of various media and information technologies. In "Corpora in Si 
(gh)te," a number of sensors are set up in the whole area around YCAM  
(building and central park) to form a meshed network, so that real- 
time environmental information (temperature, brightness, wind  
direction, sound, etc.)  is collected and networked. A cellular,  
distributed network of nodes react through realtime processing to the  
environmental conditions, growing and subsiding like an organism.  
Despite each node making local decisions and not having a central  
architect, the nodes inadvertently give rise to an architectural  
structure, both indoors in the YCAM building and outdoors in the  
park. This "information architecture" has its own spatial perception  
to make itself transform into  various forms by providing each part  
of architecture with Super-Eye perceptive points with the  
environment, such as voluntary notation from each node of Corpora.  
Changes in the architecture that looks as if living in the  
environment are visualized for visitors, as images overlapping real  
scenes through the AR (augmented reality) technology at several  
points around YCAM building.


- doubleNegatives Architecture
doubleNegatives Architecture launched in 1998 as the brainchild of  
architect Sota ICHIKAWA, views the processes and devices used to  
measure space as "architecture", assembling a team for each project  
and engaging in a unique spectrum of activities including  
installations, software and architectural design. Currently dNA is  
employing a bottom-up-style cell automaton program to study  
architectural modeling through the autonomous generation of forms,  
and in future aims to convert this to three-dimensional media and  
present it in urban spaces.
www.doubleNegatives.jp


Co-production: YCAM InterLab
Project Curator: Kazunao Abe (YCAM)
Produced by: YCAM
Cooperation: University of Applied Sciences and Arts Zurich (HGKZ)
                      Department Interaction Design, Zurich Switzerland
                      Nextlab, Budapest Hungary


For further information:
Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media (YCAM)
+81-83-901-2222
http://www.ycam.jp/
information at ycam.jp


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YCAM was established on November 1, 2003, as a new type of cultural  
facilities, which pursues creative values in art and information.  
Using media technology as a common platform into media art, stage art  
and dance, it inquires what information means to people and what it  
is about. With emphases on "Environment for creation," "Methods of  
creation," and "Understanding for creation," YCAM makes suggestions  
to society, in its new style, as to how software and hardware for  
artworks should be. The Center does not acquire a collection, and  
provides a platform for stimulating practices and interactive  
collaborations.



Yumico Cotaki (yumicota at ycam.jp), Soo-jin Lee ( soojin at ycam.jp)
Public Relations, Yamaguchi Center for Arts and Media