At the end of a long day's rambling either a bouillabaisse or a clear broth is appreciated ...
The notion of a performative architecture, or an architecture defined in terms of performance, is an interesting one. Bernard Tschumi springs to mind, in his desire to map the contradictory relation of the moving occupant in regard to the, traditionally, static architectural form, as well as his notion of architectural space as "filmic", a succession of scenes rather than places. From a totally different perspective Anthony Dunne, and his students, work on the the physically experiential aspects of electronic communications media within urban space are also appropriate (some of you may have seen him at the CCA last December, and one of his students, Pedro Sepulveda Sandoval at the nonSymposium at DCA in June - info on both Anthony and Pedro is available at http://www.livingzeroes.org) - the notion of different zones of media content, as well as a "tectonics" of frequency fields such as those generated by the antennae which support the mobile phone network. On the issue of broth - Krauss's essay derives from both a structuralist notion and an Adornoesque dialectic (sculpture as "not-architecture" and "not-landscape"). This approach is intellectually virtuous but hard work, to apply it to an ever expanding field, as Oren suggests, requires a constant revising of one's identifying framework for that field. In an ever expanding field, the possiblity of Maturana's notion of "orientation" becomes appealing, and perhaps more appropriate. From a pragmatic point of view those who are producers and makers of this stuff (artists, designers, programmers, whatever) tend not to apply the same sort of frameworks that theorists tend to get concerned about. There's a more pragmatic sense of just doing and not worrying about the boundaries or categories so much. So this enables the possibility of, rather than thinking in terms of ever-decreasing interstitional boundaries of micro-disciplines, a notion of varying but comparable orientations as manifest by different practices and practioners across a broader mutli-disciplinary expanse. Identifications in terms of movement between disciplines rather than constructing new categories. To return to the soup metaphor it means we can keep an eye on the tasty chunks without getting lost in the lentils. ------------------------------------------------- a m b i t : networking media arts in scotland post: [EMAIL PROTECTED] info: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and write "info ambit" in the message body -------------------------------------------------
