@misc{6bbcf202eb5b40548f743e4be340f6be,
title = "Skopein",
abstract = "3 minuter animation",
author = "Michael Johansson and Andreas Siess",
note = "The animation New Worlds/Skopein, made by members of our Ideal Spaces Working Group Michael Johansson and Andreas Sie{\ss}, raises the mathematics already applied in the Gothic cathedral to a new level. The animation follows a procedural mathematics that generates its own forms, and which is expressed in a sequence of images. The Heavenly City/Paradise are presented as auto-evolving entities, which are, unlike their traditional precursors, no longer pre-given and fixed. According to Michael Johansson, “the animation creates a unique audience experience in which animation and its unfoldings become a vehicle for the visitors{\textquoteright} own curiosity and imagination. The display, which draws from historical references, paintings, films, and other sources, encourages the audience to explore and reflect upon ideas and beliefs about what is up in space (all our scenarios are projected onto the vaulted ceiling in the city of Karlsruhe{\textquoteright}s city church). “Gravity, imagination, and grace have been a key part of this sequence of images and our exploration of how an upwards motion into a projected space can be designed and experienced”, he says. Having an upward-oriented viewpoint as in the Gothic cathedral, emerging auto-generative forms, spaces, and color add richness and variety. “A complex and kaleidoscopic space is generated”, says Johansson, a space “in which visitors can independently explore and experience their own imagined versions of heaven.” It had been said about the world order symbolically expressed in the Gothic cathedral that only angels were capable of creating myriads of crystalline configurations in immeasurable complexity and beauty (L. Spuybroek). And all these configurations were components of God{\textquoteright}s world machine or machina mundi. Nowadays, it can also be generated by the new cathedral of computation. A New Machina Mundi (Michael Johansson/Andreas Sie{\ss}) ; The Heavenly City and Paradise ; Conference date: 30-08-2022 Through 08-09-2023",
year = "2022",
month = aug,
day = "30",
language = "Odefinierat/ok{\"a}nt",
publisher = "Ideal Spaces Working Group",
url = "https://wandering-machine.lowend.se/2022/09/03/exhibition-the-wandering-machine-as-framework-for-artworks/",
}