Drawing is human: what happens when we attempt to draw remotely and independently from the body? The project Scripts – a chronicle of incidents consists of an extensive series of drawings produced without the hand, emerged by the relentless gesture of a mechanical device, alimented by an external source of information.
The exhibition presents the work of Machinic Protocols, an investigation line within the Master of Advanced Architecture of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. Structured in three different sections, it features automated plotting machines, data-driven cartographical drawings and performing architectural models.
The drawings displayed are mechanically created, yet featuring irregularities: no two drawings are the same, the strokes are unique and their form is anything but homogenous. “Calligraphic qualities emerge from the machinic gesture, bizarrely resembling the movement of the hand of the artist” says Edouard Cabay, curator of the exhibition and director of the project.
The exhibition raises the questions of the replicability of an artistic artefact and of the role of chance in creative experimentations. The moment in which the machine seems to lose the traditional precision that normally characterizes it is when the most powerful results are produced.
The exhibition, directed by Edouard Cabay will be hosted at the Casa Elizalde in Barcelona from the 19 of April until the 28th of May 2017.
Exhibition Credits
Direction: Edouard Cabay
Assistant: Lili Tayefi
Computation: Rodrigo Aguirre
Physical computation: Angel Muñoz
Photography: Xavier González
Drawing: Rung Jeng Hong, Hsin Li
Scenography: APPAREIL
Video: Hsin Li, Rung Jeng Hong, Kenny Huang, Lili Tayefi
Drawing Machines
Machine #1: Valerie Frey
Machine #2: Kathleen Bainbridges, Irene Ayala Castro, Yasmine Wery, Krati Gora
Machine #3: Athanasios Zervos, Keesje Avis
Machine #4: Cagan Izgi
Machine #5: Gleder Van Limburg Stirum, Pablo Agustin Vivas
Machine #6: Hsin Li and Jeng Rung Hong, based on original work by Nasser Ghannam, Mohamad Rachid Jalloul, Ceren Yildrim and Guolang Zhang
Machine #7: Mehmed Berk Bostanci
Machine #8: Anonymous
Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia Areti Markopoulou, Academic director
Silvia Brandi, Communications Director
Mathilde Marengo, Academic coordinator
Marco Ingrassia, MAA01 coordinator
Machinic Protocols
Edouard Cabay and Rodrigo Aguirre
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