Generative Architecture. The Making of a Room.
- Presented by
- Alejandro Campos
- Ismahelio
- Artists
- Anaglyphic
- Anna Beller & Alejandro Campos
- Corneel Cannaerts & Luis E. Fraguada
- Victor Doval & xnmtrc
- Fleep
- Olga Fradina
- Kira0
- office ca & {protocell:labs}
- Erik Swahn
- Studio Yorktown
Verse is delighted to present Generative Architecture, an exhibition curated by Alejandro Campos and Ismahelio.nnAlejandro and Ismahelio, both architects and practicing generative artists, realized that there are many artists with similar backgrounds in the digital space.nnFor their exhibition, they invited a curated selection of these artists to create works that challenge the interpretation of a room in the virtual realm. The result is a collection of works specifically created for GenArch, born out of discussions and collaborations on this theme.n
nArchitecture comes from the making of a room but, What’s exactly a room?nnFor architects, buildings are just a form of architecture and architecture, further beyond, the sense of place, of continuity and connection with everything around us. When one makes room for something, it opens spaces and possibilities, frameworks for new relationships, communities of wonder, creativity, and knowledge.nnThe Generative Art, web3, NFT spaces are henceforth to be referred to as an architecture made of Twitter Spaces, Art Galleries, Discord Rooms, Marketplaces, Forums, Platforms, Archives, Repositories, Code Structures, Blocks and Chains… all of them words that carry architectural meanings.nnCan these spaces develop without architects? Where are they? What are they doing?
Generative Architecture, or GenArch, is an exhibition that follows architects on their Creative Coding journeys, on their opening of spaces for virtual encounter, their merging of virtual and mixed reality technologies with physical objects and crafts, and their use of generative systems for artistic discovery. With both physical and digital artworks by artists with a background in architecture, GenArch takes a closer look at how disciplinary knowledge and techniques can be used to open new perspectives on the field of Generative Art.nnWhat can architects contribute to a world that appears to be shifting away from embodied experiences to predominantly audiovisual stimuli?nnIf artworks are rooms, then,
Curatorial statement by Alejandro Campos and Ismahelio.