Concept and Moderation: Oliver Schürer (A)

Redundancy versus Synergy is the juxtaposition that characterizes the multi-layered city of dawning knowledge-based society. Urbanity presents itself as hypermedial chimera to which new condensations and territories are attached. Accordingly, this discourse and its accompanying installation in transpublic will reflect the latest technological research.

September 5 – re:form “Habitat as Prosthesis as Cybernetic Assemblage”
Ludger Hovestadt (CH), ETH Zürich and Dietmar Dietrich (D), Computertechnologie Wien

- Lectures and a discussion about the end of habitat—from sphere of withdrawal to a new form of electro-physical medium. Plus, whither dwelling when the long-dead background of human action is synthetically resuscitated, when the digital habitat, via its perceptions, is supposed to develop a consciousness?
     
September 6 – re:fine “Ornaments as Facade as Dissolved Screen-Net”
Kari Jormakka (F), a-theory Wien and Peter Cornwell (UK), FLUNC

- Lectures and discussion about the end of the façade as skin or screen to a new urban medium. Façade becomes a membrane of osmosis between electronic and physical space. Ornament and façade, this dialectic that is fundamental to postmodern architecture, is dissolving in the face of the potential of a new technology, since new technologies are making possible previously inconceivable dimensions and forms of medially pervaded surfaces.

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