Building Fragile Places

Our article, Building Fragile Places was just published in the review eCAADe 2011, Respecting Fragile Places. The paper was also presented in Ljubljana, Slovenia on the 20th of October, 2011 as a contribution to the eCAADe conference.

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SIZIGIA [Sizigia Island, SL]

Sizigia Island (Second Life): For the second stage of the project, Frontera Coroza was photographed and mapped, its geographic and visual characteristics were qualified and quantified in order to facilitate their representation through other media. A film maker, a topographer and a photographer worked together closely together, trying to fix an inventory of environmental assets and cartographic views on this territory.

[Third_I]land

[Third_I]^land is a limited series of five inworld builds (or atmospheres) for collectors of Mixed Reality works of art. Described as a “metaversal machine for the generation of real images from virtual worlds” (Kligerman & Mehdaoui, 2008), the five …

SIZIGIA [Scapes]

A vocabulary of scapes forms virtual territories, transformed from boundless, amorphous, and flowing, into the building blocks of contemporary imagined worlds. The spaces of SIZIGIA are dynamic and unstable, rather than static and finished; this volatility, rather than being a …

SIZIGIA [Frontera Coroza, Mexico]

Work began with the physical site of SIZIGIA Island, in the Usumacinta River on the frontier between Chiapas, Mexico and Guatemala in 2007. The collective of artists and curators, LC060 commissioned twelve artists to live, fabricate and install their work in the village of Frontera Coroza.

SIZIGIA [Frontera Augmented, Google Earth]

Frontera Augmented (Google Earth): SIZIGIA, SL is used to compensate for the economic realities that create geospatial hinterlands. Frontera, when viewed using Google Earth, not intelligible as a territorial entity. Using a web application hybrid of Google Earth + Sizigia Island, SL, a high resolution mirror world was fabricated.

REZ/FAB/REV [FAB]

FAB: Digital FABrication is the production of material objects from a 3-dimensional digital model. The formal properties of the model (geometric, material, spatial…) will be used to describe and fabricate the sculptural object and articulate the installation space. The installation’s …

Presentation : Building Fragile Places

September 22, 2011 in Ljubljana, Slovenia
(see the post Building Fragile Places for more links and information)

Metaverse

We define METAVERSE as the collective, consensual space created from the convergence of digitally enhanced physical reality and physically persistent virtual and online worlds. It is composed of the sum of all virtual worlds, augmented realities and network enabled services …