This is a four channel video work that examines how regimes of vision and intelligence, supposedly sentient characteristics, are challenged by both popular and proprietary technologies, specifically focused on perception and sensing of our urban environments.
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- Systemic changes
This provocation is aimed at a disciplinary uncertainty in architecture at a moment when the image of the artifact is experienced more often than the artifact itself. Since the prevail of mass media, this circumstance is not new, but ubiquitous computing and the platforms of circulation that attend it, increase images' velocity, intensity, and spread. The project centers around the @archmixes twitterbot that welcomes any user to tweet in order to make new images of architecture, that can "get around." To do so, the bot recycles existing 3D models made by amateurs, found online. The project posits that when architecture becomes image, it's no longer a representation or artifact of mediation, but becomes an architectural work itself.
