DirtyProject: March 2012

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

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DirtyProject | Spatial experiments in the dirty borderlands of media – a publication of projects that were developed during a conceptual collaboration between the faculty of architecture and the faculty of computer scienceat the Dresden University of Technology.

DIRTY PROJECT
Spatial experiments in the dirty borderlands of media.

Candy Lenk / Grit Koalick (Hrsg.)
TU Dresden 2012
english / german
ISBN: 978-3-86780-258-1

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Nowadays the computer dictates artistic and scientific research and large parts of everyday life. This great success of the computer as a kind of universal machine is based upon the computer's ability to convert one form of media into another using digital codes. The art historian Clement Greenberg, an advocate of “art for art's sake” and a defender of “media purity”, would therefore describe the essence of the digital as “impure”.

Do ‘em dirty!

This project is centered around an analysis of digital media and the examination of its interaction with space. Space is understood here as a free realm of action on the one hand and a technical requirement the other.

In an experimental design exercise, the students explore the “dirty” borderlands of media.

Traditional composition and spatial design require decisions to be made, that will be permanently materialized. But what does the design of virtual, ephemeral, immaterial, limitless, arbitrary, undisturbed space mean? In what form do the material limitations of space manifest themselves within the limitless possibilities of the virtual? What happens when they are brought together: virtually extended space? Restricted digital arbitrariness?

The DIRTY PROJECT is a conceptual collaboration between the architecture faculty (Spatial Design Department) and the computer science faculty (Institute for Software and Multimedia Technology) of the Dresden University of Technology.

Candy Lenk | Grit Koalick