DO MACHINES DREAM OF ECLECTIC SCENES? HUMAN/MACHINE HYPER-LANGUAGE AND POSTHUMAN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN At a time where cognitive machines are becoming increasingly ubiquitous, the hope of this project is to introduce a novel culture of communication and collaboration with artificial intelligence to discover new meaning in posthuman architectural design. This project explores the hyper-real nature of communicating with machines. Through a series of evolving discussions between architect and machine, a food festival architecture is designed in the hyperspace between the imagination of the architect and the dreams of artificial intelligence. Utilising algorithmic image making and semantic form-finding an exploration of consciousness, meglanguage and semiotics is carried out to define a series of speculative architectural vignettes. Meglanguage - ”When using a meglanguage, one is able to grasp meanings that exist in-between and outside of routine conceptualisation. This not-knowing-what-the-fuck-it-is-you’re-talking-about is a way of escaping concept traps. It’s a way of following gravity into the gaps, a way of meeting the muse. In that way it is an art language. There is no need to ‘prove’ its reality or its falseness. Meglanguage is there to propel us into new configurations so that we can create. Understanding is important, but it is not the goal. The goal is to invent new configurations.” Allado-McDowell, K., 2020. Pharmako-AI. Ignota, p.72.
Jeffrey Bray U14 ARCT1059