010 ACA 019

Building Nerves

DRAWING 1 + MULTIMEDIA

TIME: 3 MONTHS

COORDINATOR: FREDERICA GOFFI COLOR PENCIL DRAWING, ALUMINIUM WIRE, 2D SCAN, 3D SCAN, PHOTO NEGATIVE SOLO PROJECT this rope, wood and styrofoam scultpure stand at over 2 meters tall, and resembles an oozy mass leaking from the corner of a wall. This project was inspired by the well known concept of buildings being described as living things and takes it to a more litteral level. If one does compare a building to say a body, the the stucture would be the bones, the envelope the skin, the mechanical room are lungs, etc. By this logic, I imagined that the people who inhabit and traverse buildings, are in fact the blood of the building, and the memories of their actions linger within the walls.

For this project, I reimagined the neural architecture of nerve cells as spaces to inhabit and visit. Unlike buildings in reality, whom are passive, this building would sense its surroundings and interact with it, sharing and gathering information, making it and active structure. I was then tasked to create an abstract sculpture of this space, which then became a drawing, then a negative, then a image from a photo scanner, and finally, through the use of photogrammetry, this object became a fully digital model.

Coursing Memories Sculpture

ROPE, STYROFOAM, WOOD AND NAILS

PERSONAL PROJECT

TIME: 2 DAYS

2017

240 X 100 X 100 CM

PORTRAIT BINAIRE (ANIMATED FRAGMENTATION)

A hand sculpted plaster bust of Auguste Rodin, early 20th century sculptor often credited for the creation of modern sculpture. this bust was then digitalized through photogrammetry and reprojected onto the same bust through a system of 2 computers, 4 monitors and a plexiglas pyramid. A parallel is drawn between the transition from classical art to modern art and the transition of physical an digital art. As the medium changes, so too should our approach to it and the way artists react to changes in the world of art and architecture. Should we approach with caution or freely embrace change? Here, I choos to take this question and rather than answer it, I let it speak for itself, so that it may speak for itself.