liquid-space04
Co/ordinate space
artistic design session
31.08 - 22.09.2006

in the context of the exhibition:

Neo-beginners | open Rotterdam
curator: Reinaart Vanhoe
at:
Witte de With, center for contemporary art
TENT gallery
Rotterdam, The Netherlands

about the lqs04 theme:

Co/ordinate space dealss with spatial logics involved in digital design, since working on visual and sonic architectures is not only the spatial structuring of information and communication processes, but also a concern of hardware interfacing and its scenography. In this sense 'coordinates' stands for the spatial logics of programming, its semantics and its visualisation logics proposed through the space navigable music platform, whereas 'coordination' stands for the coherency in the interplay of different spatial concepts binding 3d real-time constructs to the design of specific hardware interfaces, its protocols and dataflows, as its spatial display, the scenography. In this manner the theme of 'Co/ordinate space' focus on architectural concepts binding electronic and physical space as it questions the way we interact and perceive inside these constructs integrating any form of visual, sonic... media. Further 'coordination' outlines one of the main focuses of the liquid space workshop the

setting up of collaborative design processes.

about liquid space:

Liquid space is a series of artistic workshops LAb[au] has initiated in the past three years to design spatial audiovisuals with a specific focus on collaborative design processes.

Each design cycle stands under a specific theme, theoretic approach, to frame the work on the interactive, immersive and performative qualities of digital design whereas its results lead to installations, exhibitions and performances. In the context of Liquid Space, LAb[au] also conceived a hypertextual catalogue transcribing these interactive 360° multiscreen and quadraphonic real-time constructs into a 2D concept. The dvd-book is a visual, theoretic and sonic collection of spatial audiovisuals created by LAb[au] in collaboration with over 30 artists from all over the world.

liquid-space01: deSIGNforms _ Nabi Art Center, Seoul - 2003
liquid-space02: deSIGNing by numbers _ MediaRuimte, Brussels - 2004
liquid-space03: deSIGNing feedback loop systems _ Brakke Grond, Amsterdam - 2005
lqs 01/02 dvd book

list of participants:
Dieter Van Dooren, Xavier Gazon, Marie-Laure Plougastel, Alexandra Reill, Rodrigo Burgos, Olga Mink, Matthias Siegert, Gabriel Hase, Amy Cox, Alex Zitsmann, Colmenares Guerra Laura