Friday, October 23, 2009

Dynamic information- static space.

- Architecture as performance art.

The idea of a participation in an online culture versus physical environments has changed the processes of interaction. While online interaction happens almost instantaneously, the is now the added layer in which the user can store, catalogue and revisit certain events that take place in virtual space. This brings into focus the question, what is a social thing?
Performance, Susan Kozel argues, can act as a catalyst for understanding wider social and cultural uses of digital technology. Taking this one step further, performative acts of sharing the body through our digital devices foster a collaborative construction of new physical states, levels of conscious awareness, and even ethics. We reencounter ourselves and others through our interactive computer systems. What we need now are conceptual and methodological frameworks to reflect this.
Mapping, making and manipulating spaces has become a new culture of space. The reinterpretation of the online social musical mash-up site was an attempt at awareness of the processes of collaborative music making which the eye cannot see. The aim to pull apart the events within that process, repeat them allows the viewer to witness the logic behind the process.

The formation of materiality and integration of technology in space can provide a new system of participatory spectacle, choreographing a crowd into motion. Through the preservation and dilation of materiality, architecture can become an instrument for participatory events.

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