Anto Yeldezian Design Portfolio

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Portfolio of Selected Work Anto Yeldezian

Portfolio of Selected Work Anto Yeldezian

The following content documents the exhibition design for a solo show of the New Zealand artist, Susan Te Kahurangi King at Artspace Auckland.

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above collage: detail [UNTITLED], Susan Te Kahurangi King + superimposed CGI of install elements

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The intention for the exhibiton design was to re-route the visitors fundamental expectactions of an art gallery space upon their arrival. The colours of the installation extracted from the works coupled with the milieu of surfaces and proportions extracted from the everyday allow the visitors to engender the space with their own associations, in a way that might open them up to a more relational form of viewing the work. The element of joy is effectively generated not only by the pink school desks, but by the casually vibrant mess of drawing equipment on offer, inviting the visitor in even further by allowing them to participate in the space with their own drawing and mark making.

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Exhibition Design Photography: Sam Hartnett Artspace Aotearoa

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Exhibition Design Photography: Sam Hartnett Artspace Aotearoa

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Exhibition Design Photography: Sam Hartnett Artspace Aotearoa

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Exhibition Design Photography: Sam Hartnett Artspace Aotearoa

2018

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The Making Ways site was host to the opening night as well as a number of events within the Auckland chapter of the 2019 NZIA Festival of Architecture program. festivalofarchitecture. nz/2019/09/08/making-waysalternative-architecturalpractice-in-aotearoa/ objectspace.org.nz/ exhibitions/making-waysalternative-architecturalpractice-1/

MAKING WAYS: alternative architectural practice in

Motivated by the urgency of the challenges we all now face – environmental, social and economic – young architects in Aotearoa are inventing new forms of practice. These moves respond to a range of overlapping factors that draw practices in different directions and see them developing new and alternative ways of making architecture.

Making Ways takes the format of a staged, live ‘rolling event’, bringing together four practices that have emerged in Aotearoa in response to this context. Shaping their ways of making architecture by charting a new course through these concerns, each practice has developed a week-long project that brings to life aspects of their practice. Sequentially inha`biting the gallery, Objectspace is recast as a hybrid studio, laboratory and wānanga as Making Ways includes lectures, slide shows, interviews, workshops and other evolving live events.

Kathy Waghorn [curator]

Exhibition Design for Making Ways Co-designer: Frances Cooper concept models by Frances Cooper The University of Auckland at Objectspace

2019

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KIT OF PARTS Our role as the exhibition designers for the Making Ways

show was to provide the ‘stage’ on which the four practices would carry out their varying installations.

The need to create a set of elements that would provide the practices with all the surfaces they might need to facilitate

‘Insiders’ at Objectspace Studio Concept WiP 21 May 2019

their programs gave rise to the ‘kit of parts’ approach, where it was decided that all these elements would be off-the-shelf hardware. From the idea of ‘staging’ practices, we were

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prompted to imagine the theatre - with it’s backstage and flytower of suspended set-pieces; and from the standardised ‘kit of parts’ approach we arrived at the concept of door leaves as the standard unit - with the ability to be hung from the grid above. And so we arrived at the concept of an exhibition space that ‘hybridises’ the theatre, studio and workshop.

1980 x 810 leaves hinged to create various functions

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PLANS DEMONSTRATING ARRANGEMENT POSSIBILITIES AND FLEXIBILITY OF THE SHOW SET-UP Exhibition Design for Making Ways Co-designer: Frances Cooper The University of Auckland at Objectspace

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INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE TESTS CGI OBJECTSPACE gallery digital model was created to test spatial arrangements, potentials and limits of the evolving exhibition.

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INTERIOR PERSPECTIVE CGI 10/22/2019

FOA: Unit Y at Making Ways

FOA: Unit Y at Making Ways | Architecture Now

Festival Of Architecture | Words ArchitectureNow Editorial Desk

Alternative architectural firm Unit Y is part of the Making Ways exhibition at Objectspace, running until 13 October. Image: David St George

University of Auckland School of Architecture and Planning lecturer architecturenow.co.nz/articles/foa-unit-y-at-making-ways/ Karamia Müller reviews a breakfast interview givengallery

by Unit one Unit Y occupied the Objecspace for oneY, week withof their live-sized architectural drawing. four firms participating in the Making Ways exhibition at Objectspace gallery in Ponsonby. The interview was part of the Fast Forward lecture FOLLOW US SHARE THIS PAGE series and the 2019 Festival of Architecture. https://architecturenow.co.nz/articles/foa-unit-y-at-making-ways/

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Master of Architecture Thesis Content

2012

Exhibition Design for Making Ways Co-designer: Frances Cooper The University of Auckland at Objectspace

2019

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SPECTACULARISING THE UNSPECTACULAR: ARCHITECTURE FOR THE DISTRACTED COLLECTIVE

THESIS ABSTRACT

Globalization, in every sense of the word, has undermined the significance of the city. Denis Cosgrove calls for a rethinking of appropriate ways to represent our world of “contingent and unstable” spaces and connections.

This thesis analyses the effect of the modern dissolution of time and spatial relations – a state of ‘distraction’ – on our experiential perception of the urban everyday. The cultural ‘collapse of time and space’ is visually recorded as the material for investigating the effects of spectacular media (particularly the moving image) on the embodied image of architecture.

The architecture that is technically displaced by the camera represents the ‘collapsed space’ of the contemporary city. The investigation thus poses the critical question; at what point does the space of the moving image intercept the experiential reality of architecture? This ‘collapsed space’ is the material of the three projection installations of this thesis that explore the potential of a shared tectonics between the experience of architecture in the public realm and that of the moving image. The three projects intend to intercept the attention of the disillusioned urban inhabitant to directly interrogate the effect of spectacular media on our spatial perception as a means of unfolding this critical question. The outcome of the three installations of this thesis is to generate what I term the ‘perceptual nudge.’ The installations achieve this by the disruption of the viewer’s spatial perception by the intervention of architecturally considered moving imagery. The outcome of the work suggests that the contemporary human condition of ‘distracted reception’ allows for this kind of moving imagery to be implicated into the practice of placemaking.

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1_A Place outside of Space

with the onset of the filmic technique, the perceptual reality of architecture was irreversibly transmuted.

The added dimension of time meant that film was able to metabolize the photographic image, absorbing the experience of unfolding spatiality into the celluloid.

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STILL FROM ROLLERDOOR VIDEO PROJECTION INSTALLATION

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STILL FROM ESCALATOR VIDEO PROJECTION INSTALLATION

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Projection test: ‘office window.’

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(left) Jump Cuts (1995), United Artist’s Cineplex Theatre, Diller + Scofidio. Still from surveillance video on the escalators. (above) Jump Cuts (1995), United Artist’s Cineplex Theatre, Diller + Scofidio.

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STILL FROM ROOM VIDEO PROJECTION INSTALLATION

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The outcome of the three installations of this thesis is to generate what I term the ‘perceptual nudge.’ This is achieved by the disruption of the viewer’s spatial perception by the intervention of architecturally considered moving imagery.

These installations each become architectural interventions as they transform the viewer’s perception of their surrounding constructed spaces.

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Masterplan Concept and Presentation Document Client: TRC and Crown Holdings Content Rights Reserved by DKO Architecture

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Masterplan Concept and Presentation Document Client: TRC and Crown Holdings Content Rights Reserved by DKO Architecture

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Masterplan Concept and Presentation Document Client: TRC and Crown Holdings Content Rights Reserved by DKO Architecture

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Portfolio of Selected Work Anto Yeldezian

Wynn Hamlyn Commercial Bay Store Concept +Visual Merchandising Concept

2020

Portfolio of Selected Work Anto Yeldezian

Wynn Hamlyn Commercial Bay Store Concept +Visual Merchandising Concept

2020

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Arcade Store Campaign Art Direction +Styling and ‘set’ design

2021

Portfolio of Selected Work Anto Yeldezian

Arcade Store Campaign Art Direction +Styling and ‘set’ design

2021

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WORDS & RENDERS_ANTO YELDEZIAN

A VIRTUAL WAREHOUSE

BY ANTO YELDEZIAN At some point in our evolutionary past, our ancestors gained a way of reading their surroundings that allowed them to identify opportunities or threats before they would emerge. This new capacity to anticipate trained our predecessors to visualise a reality just outside of their own, a virtual reality where the ‘what if?’ would play out in a mental map of their environment. Clearly advantageous to survival, this trait may have spurred the development of one of the most complex and mysterious objects in the known universe; the human brain.

Contemporary neuroscience illustrates the neocortex (outer layers) of the brain as a kind of super-computer, believed to inform and rationalise the instincts and impulses of the inner core. In other words, the neocortex is like a shell of analytical hardware that encases our otherwise typically mammalian brain. It seems the more we come to understand how we perceive the world around us, the more our cognitive processes appear analogous to digital simulations of virtual reality.

Jeff Hawkins, neuroscientist and inventor of the PalmPilot, describes the collective effect of the neocortex as pertaining to a kind of self-building virtual model of our environment –– an ever-expanding facsimile containing everything we know. This part of our brain stores memory by inscribing it into a network of connections between billions 178

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of neurons –– a kind of microscopic threedimensional code that seems to function like a reference frame system. Incoming stimuli (raw data) from our senses is measured and categorised against these ‘reference frames’ of memory to supplement this virtual modelling process.

The aforementioned occurs at light speed, essentially translating electrical signals into a comprehensive experience of reality.

In many ways, our neocortex’s process of virtual mapping is our operating system (OS), and perhaps the most powerful we’ll ever know. When we recall any kind of memory, that is a virtual space we access in our cognition. Our dreams –– however abstract –– play out in virtual space. Any narrative outside our immediate senses either lived, learned or imagined, is contextualised by this reference system of virtual models in our mind. Each moment of our lives is first mapped by the neocortex OS. What we experience is a retracing of this cerebral map that ceaselessly updates itself to generate our spatial awareness. As long as our surroundings unfold as our mental model anticipates, our upper levels of cognition can remain uninterrupted.

This ability liberated our distant ancestors to develop more complex thought, prompting a rapid evolution of their brain capacity into that of the modern human. The added processing

power and our innately social nature gave rise to language, like an app for our OS that allowed us to share specific data about our experiences to one another.

Language came as a way of projecting out –– for the first time –– our personal concepts and ‘models’ of the world from within the confines of our skull.

Language is our individual operating systems reaching out to one another by codifying life and its components into a shared set of associations. Communication, both visual and oral, allowed early humans to have an effect on one another's virtual memory models, elaborating their respective understanding of the universe through shared signs and symbols that describe it. In this sense, language represents an immaterial site where individuals contribute to, and inhabit a shared comprehension of existence — a shared virtual model in the ‘cloud.’

Language was born in its visual format from reading the appearance of elements in the wild to representing these elements through marks on the earth and on the walls of caves. Visual literacy implies the ability to simultaneously understand an image or environment as a sum of its parts –– as well as its individual components. Today, the majority of our species is more visually literate than ever before. Conditioned by our hyperactive visual culture, we have developed a heightened ability to grasp the virtual space of an image, trained by the 179

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frequency in which we share and process information in our day to day.

The accompanying images are computer generated, but because they present themselves in the language of interior photography, they trigger our background processes of spatial perception. In the first instance of noticing the image, the appearance of depth and light might delay the question of the existence of the space itself. The way our comprehension of space is hardwired means that our initial attention to these images prioritises a ‘sum of parts’ reading of its content, in search of a narrative to the scene that’s being interpolated.

The scenarios that play out through the series is all set in the same 30 by 40-metre virtual warehouse modelled using architectural design software.

The aim of the design was to make the building recede from the front of the viewers’ attention into a generic backdrop of overly familiar structural logic, but a backdrop nonetheless. Every apparent object and photon of light in the renders was at one point represented by a virtual facsimile in the model, adjusted and placed in the ‘warehouse’ by the author.

Like signs and symbols in nature, the objects in the renders are read as a part of the overall depiction of the environment.

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warehouse, as the viewer finds everyday or familiar items that help gauge the scale of their own bodies in the non-existent space. The absence of (realistic) figures, much like the interior renders of real estate media, may invite the viewer in further, placing them within the scene as though they are represented by the cameras capturing the images themselves. The combined affect could be described as a momentary suspension of disbelief in the authenticity of the space in the renders –– despite being generated decidedly short of hyperrealistic.

The modelling software used to create this work is like any other linguistic tool, in that it provides a means of projecting a concept from our cerebral ‘operating system’ into a representation of a moment.

This particular tool happens to deal solely with the language of virtual space, the perfect analogy to illustrate the subject of this text through the metaphor of a virtual warehouse full of things.

The neocortex, our brain’s container of memory and entire sense of the world is a kind of warehouse full of moments and meanings, both personal and shared. The space depicted in these renders represents a virtual warehouse that was first modelled, traversed and ‘photographed’ by yours truly, during a time when I was reconciling with my departure from a career in

architecture into the murky waters of a visual art practice. This model served as the expansive studio space I never had, where I could exercise my innate desire to explore the world-building potential of image-making.

The catharsis of revisiting the virtual warehouse after some time came with the sensation of retracing old steps, with a refreshed perspective on previous arrangements I had set up from when I last accessed the file. Similar to when an experience prompts one to revisit memories in a new light, this familiar environment spoke back to me in a new way. I could see that the use of symbolism, composition and treatment of the viewer I had since began to explore through drawing and painting was already playing out in the virtual warehouse, per the language of interior photography.

This exercise revealed that what seemed like such disparate mediums I was attending to were all very interconnected, through my core interest of human systems of imagination and narrative.

It’s a part of the same cognitive systems that simulate our sense of reality and give rise to language, our way of sharing our personal simulations of the universe that began with our ancestor who made the first mark of the first symbol on our world.

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Portfolio of Selected Work Anto Yeldezian

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Portfolio of Selected Work Anto Yeldezian

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Portfolio of Selected Work Anto Yeldezian

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2021