exhibitions

ARCHITECTURE IN THE DIGITAL AGE
Zagreb 2003

An exhibition dealing with P&R's project datasupermarket: infoscapes > mediascapes > e-scapes>>> was launched in Canvas Gallery as the first step in a long term international project. Datasupermarket is neither analogue (like a traditional library), nor analogue-digital (like a mediatheque), but a digital environment totally constructed by information itself updated in real time. Hyper-multimedia "buildings" offer information and knowledge through a personalised ambience and "natural" environments, harmonising the schizophrenic division of a physical and hyperrealities.

"Architecture is no longer simply the play of masses in light. It now embraces the play of digital information in space." Datasupermarket: infoscapes > mediascapes > e-scapes > is becoming an electronic tent for modern nomads, hypertextual space surfers. In this nature for itself form is given by the flow of instantaneous relations. Ever-changing constellations and configurations of desired data and media produce total digital experience. A hypermultimedia "building" offers information and knowledge through personalised ambience and "natural" environments. Datascape is neither analogue (like a library), nor analogue-digital (like a mediateque), but a digital, highly personalised tactile-corporeal simulacrum - electronic environment, where bits replace bricks, information replaces mortar, interfaces replace walls... Consisting of ritual (physical anchors - atavistic remains) and virtual (cyber matrix - transformational algorithms) parts of the public/social event. One changes digital constellations and configurations by desiring media and data, creating environments "constructed" entirely by information itself updated in real time. Datascapes' conditioning mutations are morph jungle, liquid lounge, chill-out kaleidoscope, defragmentation oasis, reality-show para-site, blur mall, electronic shadow, pierced void...

Read the foreword to the exhibition by Kengo Kuma >>>

View the virtual part of the exhibition (by Filetin L.O.) >>>