V O R T R A G
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Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut fuer Artificial Intelligence(OFAI)
Freyung 6/6, A-1010 Wien
Tel: +43-1-5336112-17, Fax: +43-1-5336112-77, Email: sec@ofai.at
Sandra Manninger, MSc
Principal, SPAN architecture & design, Vienna
"Sensible Bodies - architecture, geometry, and desire"
SPAN architecture & design, the architects of the Austrian Pavilion
at the Shanghai World Expo 2010, is constructing an epistemological
framework from practice and procedures that are based on the newly
acquired knowledge that we increasingly dominate through science and
technology. The result does not come from a formal effort, but rather
as a consequence of a union of evolutionary attempts based on very
rigid design procedures. These involve a software approach that goes
beyond the tool itself, leaving space for a true ecology of digital
thinking: an achievement that dispels techno-enthusiasm and opens the
door to something that might really become a certainty in the future.
What we can expect is an environment where affection, obsession,
opulence and romanticism are the outputs of an advanced system that
puts together biological behavior, environmental pressures and rigid
procedures of computational design.
SPAN architecture & designs research highlights how to go beyond
beautiful data to discover something that could be defined voluptuous
data. This coagulation of numbers, algorithms, procedures and programs
uses the forces of thriving nature and, passing through the calculation
of a multi-core processor, knits them with human desire.
Sabina Barcucci, digimag 64
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Time: Tuesday, 7th June 2011, 6.30 p.m. sharp
Location: Oesterreichisches Forschungsinstitut
fuer Artificial Intelligence, OFAI
Freyung 6, Stiege 6, 1010 Wien.
OESTERREICHISCHES FORSCHUNGSINSTITUT
FUER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
Univ.-Prof. Ing. Dr. Robert Trappl
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