Media and Machines marks the second phase of the research project initiated with the 2013 exhibition Archaeology of the Digital. This initiative investigates how architecture engaged with digital technology from the 1980s until the turn of the century. The first exhibition identified the earliest practices looking to computation as a design medium that could serve(...)
Main galleries
21 May 2014 to 5 October 2014
Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines
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Media and Machines marks the second phase of the research project initiated with the 2013 exhibition Archaeology of the Digital. This initiative investigates how architecture engaged with digital technology from the 1980s until the turn of the century. The first exhibition identified the earliest practices looking to computation as a design medium that could serve(...)
Main galleries
Join us on the opening day of Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines for a round-table discussion with curator Greg Lynn and some of the featured architects of the exhibition: Karl Chu (Metaxy), Lars Spuybroek (NOX), Kas Oosterhuis (ONL), Marc Goulthorpe (dECOi Architects), Lise-Anne Couture and Hani Rashid (Asymptote).
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
22 May 2014 , 6pm
In conversation with the architects Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines
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Join us on the opening day of Archaeology of the Digital: Media and Machines for a round-table discussion with curator Greg Lynn and some of the featured architects of the exhibition: Karl Chu (Metaxy), Lars Spuybroek (NOX), Kas Oosterhuis (ONL), Marc Goulthorpe (dECOi Architects), Lise-Anne Couture and Hani Rashid (Asymptote).
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
articles
Origins of the digital
Archaeology of the Digital, Archéologie du numérique, Environnements virtuels objets interactifs, Media and Machines, Wolfgang Ernst
14 July 2009
Origins of the digital
Wolfgang Ernst, chair of media theories at Humboldt University in Berlin, introduces media archaeology as a method of research and discusses recent concepts of the dynamic archive. He expresses the need for a virtual museum of computer architecture and addresses the concept of the so-called digital humanities, with special attention to the sound-related epistemology(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
25 September 2014 , 6pm
Digital Media Archaeology: Archive, Museum and Sonicity
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Wolfgang Ernst, chair of media theories at Humboldt University in Berlin, introduces media archaeology as a method of research and discusses recent concepts of the dynamic archive. He expresses the need for a virtual museum of computer architecture and addresses the concept of the so-called digital humanities, with special attention to the sound-related epistemology(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention is the third exhibition related to the development of a strategy for collecting and preserving digital archives at the CCA. The Archaeology of the Digital program comprises twenty-five projects for which digital materials are integral to an understanding of the design process. For projects included in the first two(...)
11 May 2016 to 16 October 2016
Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention
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Archaeology of the Digital: Complexity and Convention is the third exhibition related to the development of a strategy for collecting and preserving digital archives at the CCA. The Archaeology of the Digital program comprises twenty-five projects for which digital materials are integral to an understanding of the design process. For projects included in the first two(...)
Devices of Design
A collaboration between the CCA and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Devices of Design was initiated in response to the increasingly widespread use of digital media and software technologies in architectural design and construction. A colloquium and a subsequent roundtable discussion address both the consequences that this shift implies for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
18 November 2004 to 19 November 2004
Devices of Design
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A collaboration between the CCA and the Daniel Langlois Foundation for Art, Science, and Technology, Devices of Design was initiated in response to the increasingly widespread use of digital media and software technologies in architectural design and construction. A colloquium and a subsequent roundtable discussion address both the consequences that this shift implies for(...)
Paul-Desmarais Theatre
born digital
AP170.S3.023
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Original directory name: "HYPOpatch_Dec2013". Most common file formats: Audio Interchange File Format, Unidentified, CorelDraw Pattern, Plain Text File, MPEG 1/2 Audio Layer 3.
19 August 2006 - 6 December 2014
Paul Steenhuisen installation for HypoSurface wall at the Canadian Centre for Architecture Archeology of the Digital: Media and Machines exhibition, Montreal
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AP170.S3.023
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Original directory name: "HYPOpatch_Dec2013". Most common file formats: Audio Interchange File Format, Unidentified, CorelDraw Pattern, Plain Text File, MPEG 1/2 Audio Layer 3.
born digital
19 August 2006 - 6 December 2014
archives
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Lars Spuybroek fonds
AP173
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The Lars Spuybroek fonds documents the professional practice of architect Lars Spuybroek from his early projects in the 1990s to projects undertaken with his firm NOX from 1995 to 2010. The majority of the documents in the fonds consist of photographic materials, drawings and textual records relating to over 70 projects, such as the H2Oexpo in Neeltje Jans Island, Netherlands (1997), the Maison Folie in Nantes, France (2001) and the D-Tower in Doetinchem, Netherlands (2004).
1980s-2010
Lars Spuybroek fonds
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AP173
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The Lars Spuybroek fonds documents the professional practice of architect Lars Spuybroek from his early projects in the 1990s to projects undertaken with his firm NOX from 1995 to 2010. The majority of the documents in the fonds consist of photographic materials, drawings and textual records relating to over 70 projects, such as the H2Oexpo in Neeltje Jans Island, Netherlands (1997), the Maison Folie in Nantes, France (2001) and the D-Tower in Doetinchem, Netherlands (2004).
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1980s-2010
archives
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Fonds
AP177
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The RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records, circa 1996, document the New York based firm’s competition entry for the Kansai Science City branch of Japan’s National Diet Library. Records show integration of landscape in the building’s design, exploration of the relationship between structure and surface, and a multimedia approach to building design. Records include 169 digital files, mostly CAD models and images; 42 drawings and printed renderings; and 5 models and casts.
1996-2015
RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records
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AP177
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The RUR Architecture Kansai-kan of the National Diet Library project records, circa 1996, document the New York based firm’s competition entry for the Kansai Science City branch of Japan’s National Diet Library. Records show integration of landscape in the building’s design, exploration of the relationship between structure and surface, and a multimedia approach to building design. Records include 169 digital files, mostly CAD models and images; 42 drawings and printed renderings; and 5 models and casts.
archives
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Fonds
1996-2015
video
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1 streaming video file (3 min., 25 sec.) : sound, colour
[Montréal] : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2014]
Jonathan Hares presents the design of Archaeology of the digital : media and machines.
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1 streaming video file (3 min., 25 sec.) : sound, colour
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[Montréal] : Canadian Centre for Architecture, [2014]