Environmental Devices (1997-2017)

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Environmental Devices -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2018 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Monographic exhibition, fabric | ch ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Locations: Renens (CH), Internet -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Exhibited at “Ephemeral Kunshalle” (relocated in Renens, CH) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------With the support of Computed By Sàrl & Electricité Batilotti -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - 20 years of experiments, works and “devices” by fabric | ch, on 2000 m2 - Devices triggering intertwined, channeled or creolized environments - Interferences and “Moirés” spaces - Real-time monitoring of interferences -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- - List of exhibited works: Satellite Daylight Pavilion, A.I. vs A.I., Perpetual (Tropical) Sunshine, Satellite Daylight 63°24’S, Paranoid Shelter, Deterritorialized Living, Deterritorialized Clock, Datadroppers & Studio Station, Atomized Functioning, I-Weather Clock, Interférences dimensionnelles. Video documentations about Globale Surveillance, MIX-m, La_Fabrique, RealRoom(s), Electroscape 003, Responsive Atmospheric Patios, Cloud of Cards, Hétérochronie, Public Platform of Future Past. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [Img. 1] [Img. 2, 3] [Img. 4] [Img. 5] [Img. 6] [Img. 7] [Img. 8] [Img. 9, 10] [Img. 11] [Img. 12, 13] [Img. 14] [Img. 15] [Img. 16] [Img. 17] [Img. 18, 19] [Img. 20] [Img. 21] [Img. 22] [Img. 23] [Img. 24] [Img. 25, 26] [Img. 27] [Img. 28] [Img. 29] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Image captions: [Img. 1] “Ephemeral Kunsthalle”, outside view. [Img. 2-3] Documentation shelve at the entrance with small screens, texts and 3d prints, in the first, or last part of the visit. [Img. 4] Exhibition plan and works. [Img. 5] I-Weather and Deterritorialized Clocks (2009, 2013) on the right (screen clocks, apps.) and Perpetual (Tropical) Sunshine (2006) in the background. [Img. 6] Perpetual (Tropical) Sunshine (2006), installation. [Img. 7] Perpetual (Tropical) Sunshine (PTS) in a transition phase, and the back part of Satellite Daylight 66°24’S in the distance. [Img. 8-10] A.I. vs. A.I. (2004), sound and spatial piece. Different views with PTS. [Img. 11] One of the sensors monitoring the space for Studio Station (2016) of the “Ephemeral Kunsthalle” and declaring the live environmental data to Datadroppers (2015) (www.datadroppers.org). These data are then being used by the generative and algorithmic work Atomized Functioning. [Img. 12-13] Atomized Functioning (2017), generative app. 3D visualization of the ongoing algorithmic process consisting of inhabiting the space of the exhibition with domestic functions, mapping of the atmospheric conditions. [Img. 14] First quarter of the monographic exhibition Environmental Devices. View. [Img. 15] Satellite Daylight Pavilion (2017). One of four videos distributed in the space. Each video correspond to a specific day of the year (solstices and equinoxes). This one corresponds to the 21st of June. [Img. 16-17] Satellite Daylight Pavilion (2017). In the background [img. 17] can be seen the physical installation Satellite Daylight 66°24’S (2017), which serve as one of the two formal base for the video. [Img. 18-20] The same installation, front and back parts, at different time and configuration (the light pattern changes according to time, day and season as well as to the location of the artificial and virtual satellite). [Img. 21-22] Paranoid Shelter (2012). Realized and used at the occasion of a theatrical in collaboration with French writer and essayist Eric Sadin, about contemporary surveillance. Exhibited here as a standalone installation. [Img. 23] Second quarter of the Environmental Devices exhibition. View from the north-west corner with Satellite Daylight Pavilion in front (video), Paranoid Shelter and Satellite Daylight 66°24’S in the distance. [Img. 24] Satellite Daylight Pavilion (2017), video. 4th viewpoint, on the 21st of December. [Img. 25] Third quarter of the exhibition. View from the south-west corner with Deterritorialized Living setup in the space of the exhibition. [Img. 26-28] Deterritorialized Living (2013), an artificial and geo-engineered climate delivered in the form of open-source data feeds. [Img. 29] Perpetual (Tropical) Sunshine (2006), backside view. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Txt -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Environmental Devices, a monographic exhibition -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- “(…). Environment, understood as a set of elements - biotic or abiotic, natural or artificial - that surround an individual or a species and some of which contribute directly to its needs. In the context of our work, most often abiotic and artificial devices. (…)” fabric | ch, talk, 2017. In early 2018 and at the occasion of 20 years of experiments and research in architecture and interaction, fabric | ch set up the “Ephemeral Kunsthalle”. 2000 m2 were temporarily reclaimed in a disused factory as a surface for a monographic exhibition, to display 20 years of works by the collective, as well as to produce additional experiments. This was a unique occasion to combine several of our past works, installations and devices that would at the same time transform the space of the exhibition and its experience. The works still accessible and working, and that produce an intertwined new spatial condition as a result of their combination. A set of sensors were monitoring in parallel this combined environment (Studio Station, 2016), recording variation in temperature, humidity, luminosity, noise and network signals intensities. These data fed an online service of our own, Datadroppers (www.datadroppers.org, 2015), where open data can be stored and that in turn served as the base for a new project: Atomized Functioning (2017). Atomized Functioning opens up our 3rd decade of work. With the help of conditional rules and algorithms issued from our own experience and a capacity of learning (A.I.), the purpose of this 3d software is to help us dig into the contemporary spatial condition we’re all living in, while seeking for new ways of inhabiting it: an intertwined environment from the early Anthropocene. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Contact -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- fabric | ch (97-19) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Architecture/Art direction: Patrick Keller Christophe Guignard Technical/Technological direction: Christian Babski Stéphane Carion Team (1997-2017): Nicolas Baumgartner, Nicolas Besson, Sara Bochicchio, Letícia Cabecadas Do Carmo, Maxime Castelli, Michaël Chablais, David Colombini, Ligia Dias, Malcolm Malo Drougard, Gisèle Comte, Fabrice Consenti, Marc Escher, Luís Fetzner da Silva, Franz Hoffman, Keumok Kim, Laura Maccioni, Sinan Mansuroglu, Pierre-Xavier Puissant, Linda Martinez, Tatiana Rihs, Yves Staub, Reza Tavasoli, Marianne Thalmann -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------Contact: fabric | ch 6, rue de Langallerie 1003 Lausanne Switzerland www.fabric.ch t. +41(0)21-3511021 // f. +41(0)21-3511022 // m. info@fabric.ch