polygon den(c)ity - LAb[au]

polygon den(c)ity

workshop LAb[au]
15.05 - 19.05.2006

at:
Academy of fine arts Lyon
Lyon, France

following an invitation by:
Laurent Lucas, Roger Tator gallery

about:
'Polygon Den[c]ity' deals with the specificities in the conception and production of electronic space as a new field of investigation in spatial constructs combining codes / language drawn from communication and information sciences - cognitive science with the one of music and architecture.

At the same time the title plays on two different levels of understanding: a first direct one - to work on the interrelation between 'music' and 'the city' - (danse city) and a second more abstract one: 'density'* qualifying contemporary architectural and sonic concepts. In this play between the two level of signification the title also express the general idee of the project where the starting point, a schematic 3D model of a city is proposed to musicians, architects and visual artists in order to enlarge transform the mimic representation into a specific one within the electronic media while combining it to graphics, visuals, video and sound structures.

Density as a generic concepts linking space and sound constitutes a conceptual frame of the workshop in the aim to transform mimic spatial and sonic representation (the city) to specific one of

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e.space based on fundamental principals which also bridges the gap between the idea of real and virtual.