https://decuyperpieter.net De Cuyper Pieter Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:49:36 +0000 https://decuyperpieter.net en https://decuyperpieter.net/PompiWho Thu, 28 Mar 2024 11:49:36 +0000 De Cuyper Pieter https://decuyperpieter.net/PompiWho PompiWho?<img width="6496" height="6496" width_o="6496" height_o="6496" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a247a36b8a1b430f7345028a4129fcb8e02a1a0ceb0eec7fc5679ed7453ea05/pompidou_rgb.jpg" data-mid="207795365" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a247a36b8a1b430f7345028a4129fcb8e02a1a0ceb0eec7fc5679ed7453ea05/pompidou_rgb.jpg" /> What defines the Centre Pompidou? The Centre Pompidou stands as a testament to a specific moment in history. This architectural marvel, even today, prompts us to consider its ongoing relevance and future trajectory. Following the post-war boom, Western societies grappled with the rise of mass culture and a growing fascination with technology. This transformative era birthed architectural collectives like Archigram and Superstudio, who challenged prevailing modernist ideals with utopian visions. Inspired by this spirit of innovation, Richard Rogers and Renzo Piano embarked on a bold project: the Centre Pompidou, a neo-futuristic masterpiece. Despite initial skepticism, the Centre Pompidou has evolved into a cultural landmark. It attracts art lovers, performers, and curious visitors from all corners of the globe. Today, it serves as a vibrant hub, where people from all walks of life come together to be inspired by its unique architecture, expansive art spaces, comprehensive library, and enticing shops. The building's enduring allure lies in its remarkable balance. The intricate network of tubes and escalators ushers millions through its doors, offering equal access to physical space, knowledge, and a sense of wonder. However, as the world dives deeper into the digital realm, a critical question emerges: can this neo-futuristic utopia adapt and resonate with new audiences, or will it fade into a relic of a bygone era? Collage created for the Non Architecture competition, Redraw 04 - Centre Pompidou, acknowledged as a finalist. 2022 https://decuyperpieter.net/Natural-Cycles Thu, 28 Mar 2024 09:39:59 +0000 De Cuyper Pieter https://decuyperpieter.net/Natural-Cycles Natural Cycles&nbsp;Natural Cycles: The Aesthetics and Architectures of Femtech' – Carmen Lael Hines Collagework accompanying the essay in the book: 'Reality Harvester: Nature after Data after Nature' <img width="5906" height="5906" width_o="5906" height_o="5906" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/37435496a364a503f72577acd6cf1d58d021f8285a8ca799d4dafe021945680c/cycle_N.jpeg" data-mid="207786525" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/37435496a364a503f72577acd6cf1d58d021f8285a8ca799d4dafe021945680c/cycle_N.jpeg" /> In this essay, Carmen Lael Hines, examines the contraceptive app Natural Cycles. The essay exposes the hidden reality behind Natural Cycles' sleek interface. The app's effectiveness relies heavily on users adhering to a demanding self-monitoring routine, which the advertisements conveniently downplay. This "seamless utopia" ignores the complexities of daily life and creates unrealistic expectations. It promises freedom while actually reinforces a controlling and unrealistic lifestyle for women. Natural Cycles is anything but natural. The app relies heavily on technology and creates a cyborgian relationship between the user and their body. Furthermore, the app fuels the data economy by turning a woman's body into a source of profit through data collection and sale. The essay concludes by drawing parallels between Natural Cycles and neoliberal ideology. The app reinforces social norms that benefit platform capitalism, ultimately controlling user behavior through a seemingly empowering guise. Excerpt from the essay accompanied with the collages&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="1575" height="1575" width_o="1575" height_o="1575" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7488542b5560f13fff2f0891aa4e5d55447fabd8ae7492fe7772788b818a9c01/oblivious.jpeg" data-mid="207786532" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7488542b5560f13fff2f0891aa4e5d55447fabd8ae7492fe7772788b818a9c01/oblivious.jpeg" /> &lt;&lt;Adaptability, flexibility, seamless utopia, where less seductive logistics of life, and their labour-intensive normalcies and complexities, are packaged away in facilities we will never see. &gt;&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="3779" height="2834" width_o="3779" height_o="2834" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/89fa59484cbf884adada8c9117ccfcf41d8aa17078957488389ea3d8def0f2d9/labor.jpeg" data-mid="207786529" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/89fa59484cbf884adada8c9117ccfcf41d8aa17078957488389ea3d8def0f2d9/labor.jpeg" /> &lt;&lt;It becomes clear in researching the app, that the self-monitoring and regulatory lifestyle revealed in the adverts is not only a seductive media strategy, but necessity for the technology’s functionality. &gt;&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="3937" height="3937" width_o="3937" height_o="3937" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3238d7827e38408a20a8156dd45183436d532771a7aa77f6dc4bcc34db4338df/glitch.jpeg" data-mid="207786456" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3238d7827e38408a20a8156dd45183436d532771a7aa77f6dc4bcc34db4338df/glitch.jpeg" /> &lt;&lt;Glitch, error, temporal irregularity and the incalculable are inevitable parts of human life, which the platform world, and the forces of capital behind it, attempt to smooth over. These apps are anything but ‚natural‘. They rely on technology as a mediator. One could even say they are Cyborgian.&gt;&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; <img width="663" height="1185" width_o="663" height_o="1185" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8a636dc7937aabac3eaff0788615fe2f33be779b44cc54592fecaa339613e245/consume.jpeg" data-mid="207786527" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/663/i/8a636dc7937aabac3eaff0788615fe2f33be779b44cc54592fecaa339613e245/consume.jpeg" /> &lt;&lt;What ‚risk‘ entails, however, becomes troublingly subjective, and contingent on things such as class, age, and overall lifestyle.&gt;&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; <img width="1200" height="628" width_o="1200" height_o="628" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/27dce30c766ce30133339ab6f76c04d092647215b70959e70f2a7263f787550d/reality-harvester.jpg" data-mid="207794439" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/27dce30c766ce30133339ab6f76c04d092647215b70959e70f2a7263f787550d/reality-harvester.jpg" /> "Reality Harvester" explores the impact of data overload in a pandemic world. This book and website project investigates how big data, automation, and technology blur the lines between nature and digital communication. It features contributions from various disciplines like art, architecture, and environmental humanities. Collagework: Pieter De Cuyper (2022). Essay: Carmen Lael Hines, (2022). Natural Cycles: The Aesthetics and Architectures of Femtech. In L. Boulton, T. L. Devgun, &amp; B. J. Engblom (Eds.), Reality Harvester: Data After Nature After Nature. Skogen. https://decuyperpieter.net/Onstage-Offstage Thu, 12 Aug 2021 15:12:28 +0000 De Cuyper Pieter https://decuyperpieter.net/Onstage-Offstage Onstage/ Offstage Biennale Archittetura 2021 Offstage Onstage/Offstage is a two-panel landscape collage comprised of more than 3,500 images. Each image manifests varying aspects of platform urbanism around the world, from start-up villages, boutique street festivals and corporate work/live campuses, to ghost kitchens, labour camps and the global delivery chains of container ports, distribution centres and bike couriers. Spread across the two side galleries of the pavilion, the diptych visually investigates the emergent architecture of platform urbanism and the impact these new spatial typologies have on the creation of all-encompassing worlds.&nbsp; <img width="4967" height="2118" width_o="4967" height_o="2118" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bf6274cc628854177d402e2a1c3aac277c301cbfca4cd43a1c0d9ee4ec0f20c6/Onstage-A0-N.jpg" data-mid="116716815" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bf6274cc628854177d402e2a1c3aac277c301cbfca4cd43a1c0d9ee4ec0f20c6/Onstage-A0-N.jpg" />Onstage Collage, as a medium based on layering, allows for the exploration of recurring formal qualities from composition to colour to saturation, which in turn indicate platforms' tactical re-use and repetition of a certain set of aesthetic formats to create visions of desirable environments. Drawing on the work of Hieronymus Bosch and Baroque landscape painting, Onstage/0ffstage harkens back to artistic renderings of imaginary worlds employed to propagate collective beliefs in quasi-natural With its opulent and bucolic settings, it gestures towards a genealogy in which glorification without substance and praxis as separate from being have emerged as the foundational parameters of our current economic paradigm. To explore the ensuing transformation of human habitats, two scenes of platform urbanism are posited for contemplation: the staged landscape of an intoxicating, super-saturated reality of techno-capitalist salvation, and the sparse 'in-between', an underworld of platform urbanism, where we bear witness to the camouflaged support structures of speculative world-making. Text passage from the exhibition <img width="7022" height="2996" width_o="7022" height_o="2996" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dd8ffb19fed554514822001a0b7a92d93665b33ee804fc993ae326bf00ddb66a/Offstage-A0-N.jpg" data-mid="116716813" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/dd8ffb19fed554514822001a0b7a92d93665b33ee804fc993ae326bf00ddb66a/Offstage-A0-N.jpg" /> Offstage Images of the Collage produced by the Center for Global Architecture Visit for more Information www.platform-austria.org/ Team of Platform Austria, the Austrian Pavilion at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale &nbsp; &nbsp; Curators: Peter Mörtenböck and Helge Mooshammer, Centre for Global Architecture Curatorial assistance: Carmen Lael Hines, Centre for Global Architecture Research assistance: Christian Frieß, Lovro Koncar-Gamulin, Pieter De Cuyper, Ruth Köchl, Julius Bartz, Centre for Global Architecture https://decuyperpieter.net/Architectures-and-Utopias Fri, 13 Aug 2021 10:49:36 +0000 De Cuyper Pieter https://decuyperpieter.net/Architectures-and-Utopias ARCHITECTURE AND UTOPIAS &nbsp; The Relationship between Society, Space and Politics <img width="4535" height="2079" width_o="4535" height_o="2079" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/38c547a254c3e53f45857230001a73204070b28186a5c6b0bbe16927505e9ac3/Luilekkerland.jpg" data-mid="116383130" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/38c547a254c3e53f45857230001a73204070b28186a5c6b0bbe16927505e9ac3/Luilekkerland.jpg" /> The relationship between architecture and politics has manifested itself through different conditions over different periods of time. Throughout history, politics in architecture can be seen through the emergence of new design movements, the construction of prestigious monuments, the work of individual architects but especially through utopias. Utopias in general represent an attempt to reinterpret the future and a form of critique of social, political, economical conditions and norms of that period. However, nearly all utopian projects have remained theoretical and were never realized as they were either too complicated for construction or too daring to find enough supporters. In the present work, utopian projects from the last 250 years that were created in specific political environments were studied. The projects were analyzed to gauge their success or failure in terms of realization or further development. For centuries people have been writing books and theories about ideal utopian societies expressing criticism towards their current political environment. As early as 350 BC, Plato wrote The Republic, presenting a new form of society and thereby criticizing and questioning the way society had organized itself up until then. Further research is amplifying the transformation of political ideals and its influence on architects and architecture. Starting from the Revolutions in the late 18th century to the advancement of the Industrialization in the 19th century, the rise of totalitarian states to capitalism and ending with the transition of liberalistic states towards neoliberalism. It is to be questioned to which degree an architect and his design project can remain independent and indifferent towards politics and whether a shift from a place of creation to obsequiousness takes place. <img width="2362" height="2362" width_o="2362" height_o="2362" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8830b986d02b409d57ee91ff1f9731861beeb05465b1e08d8e22c7f2412d98aa/platon.jpg" data-mid="116559824" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8830b986d02b409d57ee91ff1f9731861beeb05465b1e08d8e22c7f2412d98aa/platon.jpg" /> Plato - The RepublicThe Analogy of City and Soul (380 BC) <img width="2953" height="2953" width_o="2953" height_o="2953" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/441f7f74a7d9c35405ee29371ee2ea11c901ae8df4ea3451b23dd14c2e8c91e9/Thomas-More-Utopia.jpg" data-mid="116559826" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/441f7f74a7d9c35405ee29371ee2ea11c901ae8df4ea3451b23dd14c2e8c91e9/Thomas-More-Utopia.jpg" /> Sir Thomas More – Utopia“A little, true book, both beneficial and enjoyable, about how things should be in the new island Utopia” (1516) <img width="2481" height="2481" width_o="2481" height_o="2481" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c8d694e0a558f47f83810834fedb0286978df5936fe04b01b4f670c21745eeb0/Ledoux.jpg" data-mid="116742829" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c8d694e0a558f47f83810834fedb0286978df5936fe04b01b4f670c21745eeb0/Ledoux.jpg" /> Claude-Nicolas LedouxRoyal Saltwork at Arc-et-Senans and the City of Chaux (End 18th Century) <img width="2362" height="1181" width_o="2362" height_o="1181" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64e22cefc2db28bf69411372fbde554606cec648a884d369fe6f88deefa0f0ac/Boullee.jpg" data-mid="116559815" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64e22cefc2db28bf69411372fbde554606cec648a884d369fe6f88deefa0f0ac/Boullee.jpg" /> Étienne-Louis BoulléeUtopia as a monument (End 18th Century) <img width="2953" height="2363" width_o="2953" height_o="2363" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bbc0b54c064ab327ad2d5334998b34357a7fee86b28f48d2c23f180a83e03f98/Charles-Fourier.jpg" data-mid="116559816" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bbc0b54c064ab327ad2d5334998b34357a7fee86b28f48d2c23f180a83e03f98/Charles-Fourier.jpg" /> Utopian SocialismCharles Fourier and Robert Owen(Beginning of the 19th century) <img width="2481" height="2481" width_o="2481" height_o="2481" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b47cee3a4698a97361a7beb386f800a03f58534678c47c306232f43154c52c62/Ebenezer.jpg" data-mid="116858090" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b47cee3a4698a97361a7beb386f800a03f58534678c47c306232f43154c52c62/Ebenezer.jpg" /> Ebenezer HowardGarden City (1898) <img width="2363" height="2363" width_o="2363" height_o="2363" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bcabeb3847ab088caff33b43027f534ae2d689971f11423a6faf52cf58ef66d9/Corbusier.jpg" data-mid="116559819" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bcabeb3847ab088caff33b43027f534ae2d689971f11423a6faf52cf58ef66d9/Corbusier.jpg" /> Le CorbusierVille Contemporaine — Plan Voisin — Ville Radieuse (1922–30) <img width="2067" height="1477" width_o="2067" height_o="1477" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1d08f0b7028bc3cb2a143859180cd58896e4133e4c8edf3cb136e526363eb01/FLW.jpg" data-mid="116559821" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1d08f0b7028bc3cb2a143859180cd58896e4133e4c8edf3cb136e526363eb01/FLW.jpg" /> Frank Lloyd Wright Broadacre City (1932) <img width="4134" height="4134" width_o="4134" height_o="4134" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/c833004f420b1ba0abdd14f80d5b0613ad93dadd3c1d83db3ed0722bf071591a/Constructivism.jpg" data-mid="116559817" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/c833004f420b1ba0abdd14f80d5b0613ad93dadd3c1d83db3ed0722bf071591a/Constructivism.jpg" /> Yakov Chernikhov, Constructivist ArchitectureArchitecture Fantasies (1920s) <img width="1638" height="1201" width_o="1638" height_o="1201" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cb3682dff43c762b52fa68f7cc94df7d8be8c1294124fac819f7ee699284474d/Totalitarianism.jpg" data-mid="116559827" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cb3682dff43c762b52fa68f7cc94df7d8be8c1294124fac819f7ee699284474d/Totalitarianism.jpg" /> Utopian Totalitarianism ArchitectureUtopias in World War 2 <img width="3248" height="3248" width_o="3248" height_o="3248" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5b57c51d1dafe66b5fccce701ce8325da24dafd5ac1f46448039d5630e063590/Metabolism.jpg" data-mid="116559822" border="0" data-marker-id="2" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5b57c51d1dafe66b5fccce701ce8325da24dafd5ac1f46448039d5630e063590/Metabolism.jpg" /> MetabolismPost War Utopias <img width="3544" height="2067" width_o="3544" height_o="2067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7f0ad5150bee3d5d432bb615a866933c04b12b698845c418315e826115432f17/Archigram.jpg" data-mid="116559814" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7f0ad5150bee3d5d432bb615a866933c04b12b698845c418315e826115432f17/Archigram.jpg" /> ArchigramTechnology and the Total Environment (1960s) <img width="4725" height="2363" width_o="4725" height_o="2363" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/145413237d637bb83cdfc5dac4e05f069d18519d3191ab8994de0c9d7689ed04/continious-monument.jpg" data-mid="116654998" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/145413237d637bb83cdfc5dac4e05f069d18519d3191ab8994de0c9d7689ed04/continious-monument.jpg" /> SuperstudioThe Continuous MonumentL’utopia è morta viva l’ utopia! &nbsp;(1960s) <img width="4067" height="1772" width_o="4067" height_o="1772" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0dbfd6f40e7dab0d049e63af1f63368ac5d04a08965ed2744c07d641ffe9be81/3er-N.jpg" data-mid="116860793" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0dbfd6f40e7dab0d049e63af1f63368ac5d04a08965ed2744c07d641ffe9be81/3er-N.jpg" /> The Crisis of UtopiaThe Crisis of the grand projects <img width="4725" height="2953" width_o="4725" height_o="2953" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/674ce90265fd90d670b351411163fc97469fa4263874ad79edcfc3614622dcef/Silicon-Valley.jpg" data-mid="116559825" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/674ce90265fd90d670b351411163fc97469fa4263874ad79edcfc3614622dcef/Silicon-Valley.jpg" /> Corporate MonumentsSilicon Valley The determination of the importance of utopian projects cannot rest on their implementation. Whether a project was built or not is of lesser importance than the ideas the project communicates. Most of the built utopian projects have failed in hindsight due to their lack in spontaneous regeneration or in autocracy in moderating. Utopian projects can much rather be seen as the starting point to a discussion in which the creator invites the viewer to engage in a conversation in which he wants to question certain opinions, ideas, habits or traditions. The purpose is to bring new ideas into conversation and challenge present and future problems with innovative new thinking. Master Thesis 2019 Supervised by&nbsp;Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Mag.phil. Dr.phil. Peter Mörtenböck Technical University of Vienna, Institute of Art and Design, Visual Culture Unit https://decuyperpieter.net/Analyzage Tue, 17 Aug 2021 13:54:42 +0000 De Cuyper Pieter https://decuyperpieter.net/Analyzage ANALYZAGE <img width="10630" height="3543" width_o="10630" height_o="3543" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6b050979a3d7b020b9334794da23f530c9ba2ab1297cfa58a9136575a134ffe0/MoMoney_long.jpg" data-mid="116862407" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6b050979a3d7b020b9334794da23f530c9ba2ab1297cfa58a9136575a134ffe0/MoMoney_long.jpg" /> Politics and Balance In preparation for my Master Thesis I used collages not only to represent a certain topic in my work, but also as a analyzing board for myself to gather Information. It helped me to be more free and open about new topics and channeling them into sharper ideas for it’s thesis. Some of these Collage Analysis Boards could be used in the final Thesis, others had to be left out. Here are some examples with some quotes and excerpts from the book: Architecture and Utopias. <img width="3508" height="2481" width_o="3508" height_o="2481" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a543add6a395730dfaf09ee5ecc6c65563c0809861a7736cecb6b4730d0e4656/Bury-Millions.jpg" data-mid="116862130" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a543add6a395730dfaf09ee5ecc6c65563c0809861a7736cecb6b4730d0e4656/Bury-Millions.jpg" /> »Then the vision of an enormous town presented itself, of a monstrous town more&nbsp;populous than some continents and in its man-made might as if indifferent to heaven's frowns and smiles;&nbsp;a cruel devourer of the world's light. There was room enough there to place any story, depth enough for any passion, variety enough there for any setting, darkness enough to bury five millions of lives.« Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Agent. 1907. <img width="4067" height="1772" width_o="4067" height_o="1772" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a1574a29fcae27db3b5952b37fac05426904be4f64f2bf0ab5a8314914aded2e/3er-N.jpg" data-mid="117136258" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a1574a29fcae27db3b5952b37fac05426904be4f64f2bf0ab5a8314914aded2e/3er-N.jpg" /> The crisis of the grand projects began in the 60s with the rise of more critical views towards the 3 big meta-proj- ects of the era; Modernism as the cultural meta project, Technoscientism as the technological meta-project and Socialism as the political meta project. Modernism was criticized because of its tendency towards standardiza- tion and functional mass production of the industrializa- tion which resulted in a critical loss of individuality. Technoscientism, established to achieve mastery over nature and its forces, is accused of causing the global ecological crisis. The decline of Socialism was caused by the association with authoritarianism, by the repression of the people and the inability of the system’s for sponta- neous regeneration Excerpt from the Chapter :&nbsp;The Crisis of Utopia,&nbsp;The Crisis of the grand projects. <img width="3508" height="2481" width_o="3508" height_o="2481" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7595a1d2d4ab58324e1b6c78016f47975bbdb6386fed8751e661bf4f6ca7651c/unproven-technology.jpg" data-mid="117136169" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7595a1d2d4ab58324e1b6c78016f47975bbdb6386fed8751e661bf4f6ca7651c/unproven-technology.jpg" /> »Human history is littered with people who tried to build really huge projects with unproven technology.« Mozingo, Louise A. 2015. https://decuyperpieter.net/Fading-Reminiscence Mon, 16 Aug 2021 07:21:27 +0000 De Cuyper Pieter https://decuyperpieter.net/Fading-Reminiscence Fading Reminiscence <img width="2304" height="768" width_o="2304" height_o="768" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7d3efa7a5497bcdaa9a3161d670585aa227658438b08dbded2166a5b16d220a3/downtempo.jpg" data-mid="116547999" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7d3efa7a5497bcdaa9a3161d670585aa227658438b08dbded2166a5b16d220a3/downtempo.jpg" /> Tal der Verwirrung · Ninze - Sedate (Original Mix) https://decuyperpieter.net/Being-Daidalos Mon, 16 Aug 2021 07:21:34 +0000 De Cuyper Pieter https://decuyperpieter.net/Being-Daidalos Being Daidalos <img width="3508" height="2481" width_o="3508" height_o="2481" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/59295e400f67bb5bada1f78a2d36d7131af335dcd5f96c80bd3d85c934c4cb8a/mindfuck.jpg" data-mid="117213275" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/59295e400f67bb5bada1f78a2d36d7131af335dcd5f96c80bd3d85c934c4cb8a/mindfuck.jpg" /> The labyrinth takes place in our mind and can only be decoded within our perception. This key does not exist in a unique form, it differs and unites from person to person. <img width="2213" height="2213" width_o="2213" height_o="2213" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/797b50f03667e9d2dafa8fb5bf77fb9b19d27bc69cebedb668ecbda830f49b13/Daidalos.jpg" data-mid="116548122" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/797b50f03667e9d2dafa8fb5bf77fb9b19d27bc69cebedb668ecbda830f49b13/Daidalos.jpg" /> Being Daidalos, digital collage Medial sources can create a labyrinth, where an objective and neutral viewpoint is rare and hard to be discovered. How can individuals perceive knowledge without being influenced or getting lost on their way. We live in bubbles of our chosen medial knowledge input and social interactions. Depending on these sources we receive and are willing to listen to, we form our own opinions and ideas. Beeing Daidalos tries to burst these bubbles and aims to broaden our horizon to different perspectives. <img width="1792" height="3264" width_o="1792" height_o="3264" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8983ccda9759fc52bf8489ac4cb80d371a1fd4f4e18c2e58181fc644e7ab78dc/Analog.png" data-mid="116919242" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/8983ccda9759fc52bf8489ac4cb80d371a1fd4f4e18c2e58181fc644e7ab78dc/Analog.png" /> Being Daidalos, analogue collage Being Daidalos is an interactive installation, created around the headset tool called Emotiv. With proper coverage and electrode configuration, it is possible to reconstruct a source model of all important brain regions and to see their interplay. Offering access to advanced brain monitoring and cognitive assessment technologies, Emotiv has a developed system for users to train direct mental commands. The user trains the system to recognize thought patterns related to different desired outcomes, such as moving objects or making them disappear. <img width="2304" height="1072" width_o="2304" height_o="1072" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3ab1b3b1e0d69f32ddb06770455fc80d9f80fcbf4bfcedca27326c66a3692ce2/emotiv.jpg" data-mid="117217641" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3ab1b3b1e0d69f32ddb06770455fc80d9f80fcbf4bfcedca27326c66a3692ce2/emotiv.jpg" /> Installation Beeing Daidalos https://decuyperpieter.net/Do-The-Gehry Tue, 17 Aug 2021 13:58:40 +0000 De Cuyper Pieter https://decuyperpieter.net/Do-The-Gehry Do The Gehry <img width="4339" height="4723" width_o="4339" height_o="4723" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7829be8cb1ed4e505c11ee5aec54683fc66ccacb9dbc744ddf9c1aade7e5ddeb/GehryCollage.png" data-mid="116920060" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7829be8cb1ed4e505c11ee5aec54683fc66ccacb9dbc744ddf9c1aade7e5ddeb/GehryCollage.png" /> How does perception and perspective shape our vision and understanding of space? How can we break through this? <img width="3015" height="1156" width_o="3015" height_o="1156" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b14ffa4bf9c5d88806420326a4d6c919a34b2109e4c366a8a8e43a6d6074a67a/Vitralandscape.png" data-mid="116920322" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b14ffa4bf9c5d88806420326a4d6c919a34b2109e4c366a8a8e43a6d6074a67a/Vitralandscape.png" /> Collage from Gehry’s Vitra Museum in Weil am Rhein. Frank Gehry can be described as a polarizing architect to most people who experience his buildings. His design process suggests the combination of effortless shapes and arbitrary geometries, mixed with a complex construction concept. The play with 2D and 3D perspectives can both amuse and disturb the viewer, thus creating a different perception of its perspective. Inspired from this visual paradox of Gehry’s architecture, Do The Gehry, an interactive installation piece was created. Are we biased in our visual perception of space and is there a way to actively experience a change in our perspective? Analysis Analysis Video of &nbsp;Do The Gehry <img width="1754" height="2481" width_o="1754" height_o="2481" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0cc2bcafe8677db5489955e62f81f0e068304490bddfa48b5be9dbda6525f734/INstallation.jpg" data-mid="117221088" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0cc2bcafe8677db5489955e62f81f0e068304490bddfa48b5be9dbda6525f734/INstallation.jpg" /> Installation Interactive Installation &nbsp;Do The Gehry Karlsruhe Institute of Technology,&nbsp;2014 Department of Building Lifecycle Management Team: Anabel Egner, Claudia Schmidt,&nbsp;Helen Bossmann, Maximiliane Ocker, Pieter De Cuyper