advertisements, station maps, and wayfinding aids, but you have abstracted all of the textual (and some of the graphic) information. What is the impetus in this kind of treatment?
technology in the documentation process-this process extends through every medium. The turnstile is a sensor. In it, the act of sensing the physical world is obvious and amplified, going completely against the new
Jo,o Vasco Paiva:As I mentioned before, I wanted to remove any kind of additional information from the objects. The paintings keep the same formal attributes of the design that was made to contain information, so, when this information is removed, the design becomes the information itself-the basic attributes of a painting, color, composition, and structure. The impetus is to reduce the transmission of information to its basic features-forms, shapes, and colors-that can be recognizable despite cultural and social backgrounds and apart from any culturally constructed knowledge and language.
technological developments that pursue invisibility and space ecology. That was what first attracted me to itwe could call it a monument to the acts of mapping and encrypting, not only to control, but to the idea of gaining a very basic knowledge: how many and with what frequency individuals have passed through it. And again, there is also the idea of access, the access that I have to information, the access that new media experts will have to the paintings, and so on.
At the same time I intend to highlight the aesthetic components that feature in a so-called “non-space.” While a non-place is defined as a place with no cultural content, my project contradicts this by concluding that a “non-place” represents a cultural and social space that still characterizes the population. In a global context, these non-places are circulation places for the masses, and we spend a quantifiable part of our life in them. They are a symbol of our
Robin Peckham: The paintings in this exhibition are based on visual materials from those same MTR stations and platforms like 98