I’ve heard about and Hypnosis chamber
2004-2006
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Series 2, I’ve heard about and Hypnosis chamber, 2004-2006, relates to the conception of the urban structure “I’ve heard about”.
The records contain algorithmically-generated images, renderings, pictures of models and exhibitions. There are also photographs of the contour crafting process, 3D models and animated renderings illustrating the construction process of the structure.
The project is a conceptual, unbuilt project that is meant to be a habitable organism, an adaptive landscape in a constant state of evolution. By means of transitory scenarios in which the operational mode is entropy and uncertainty, it develops open algorithms based on growth scripts permeable not only to human expressions, but also to the most discrete data such as the chemical emissions (for example due to stress or anxiety) of those who inhabit it. The chemical information is harvested through nanoreceptors feeding the VIAB machine with information. This biostructure becomes the visible part of human contingencies and their negotiation in real time. The structure is conceptualized to be in constant construction through the VIAB machine which is also a constituent of the structure itself. It secretes fiber cement, shaping the landscape where it is located and through which it moves. It generates the reticular structure using a process modelled on contour crafting. The VIAB machine was developed with Robotics Research Lab of the University of Southern California and takes its name from the terms viability and variability. R&Sie(n) considers that due to its mode of emergence “I’ve heard about” fabrication is not subjugated to any political power.
Hypnosis chamber is a component of “I’ve heard about”. It consists of an indoor chamber, which was realized as a full-scale sample constructed through automated machinery. The chamber is situated as a part of the whole urban structure presented by “I’ve heard about,” and its goal is to immerse the audience into the project, into a fictional environment only reachable by hypnosis. In this context, hypnosis is a way to help citizens escape from their social condition and experience the new condition of citizenship imagined in “I’ve heard about”, where democracy is re-evaluated as a process of self-determination.
Both parts of the projects were shown in contemporary art museums. First at Musée d’art de la ville de Paris in Paris (2005), the Hypnotic chamber is permanently on view at Towada Art Center in Towanda, Japan.
AP193.S4 contains a video orienting the project into François Roche theoretical stance, research as speculation, that can be summarize as the use of technological tools to take a critical and political position through esthetic in order to open new lines of thoughts. AP193.S4 contains an updated version of the VIAB machine
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Original directory name: "00 text catalogue". Most common file formats: Acrobat PDF 1.6 - Portable Document Format, Acrobat PDF 1.5 - Portable Document Format, JPEG File Interchange Format
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R&Sie(n) project records,
Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal.
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Original directory name: "01 nanoreceptors". Most common file formats: JPEG File Interchange Format, Tagged Image File Format, Audio/Video Interleaved Format, Thumbs DB file, ZIP Format
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R&Sie(n) project records,
Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal.
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Original directory name: "02 pictures". Most common file formats: Tagged Image File Format, JPEG File Interchange Format, Thumbs DB file
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R&Sie(n) project records,
Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal.
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Original directory name: "03 process scripts". Most common file formats: Tagged Image File Format, JPEG File Interchange Format, Audio/Video Interleaved Format, Microsoft Word Document, Thumbs DB file
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R&Sie(n) project records,
Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal.
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Original directory name: "04 countour crafting process". Most common file formats: Tagged Image File Format, Thumbs DB file
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Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal.
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Original directory name: "05 models 3dprints". Most common file formats: JPEG File Interchange Format, Exchangeable Image File Format (Uncompressed), Thumbs DB file
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R&Sie(n) project records,
Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal.
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Original directory name: "06 hypnosis prototype". Most common file formats: JPEG File Interchange Format, Acrobat PDF 1.4 - Portable Document Format, Tagged Image File Format, Exchangeable Image File Format (Uncompressed), Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed)
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R&Sie(n) project records,
Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal.
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Original directory name: "07 viab machine". Most common file formats: Tagged Image File Format, Thumbs DB file, JPEG File Interchange Format
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Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/
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Original directory name: "08 movie". Most common file formats: Audio/Video Interleaved Format, Video Object File (MPEG-2 subset), MPEG-2 Elementary Stream, Windows Portable Executable
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R&Sie(n) project records,
Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal.
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Original directory name: "091 3D". Most common file formats: STL (Standard Tessellation Language) Binary
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Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal.
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Original directory name: "01 exhibition". Most common file formats: JPEG File Interchange Format, Exchangeable Image File Format (Compressed)
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Collection Centre Canadien d’Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal.
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