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A chronicle of incidents

The show at La Casa Elizalde in Barcelona consists of an extensive series of drawings produced without the hand, emerged by the relentless gesture of a mechanical device.

Drawing is human: what happens when we attempt to draw remotely and independently from the body? The project “Scripts – a chronicle of incidents” consists of an extensive series of drawings produced without the hand, emerged by the relentless gesture of a mechanical device, alimented by an external source of information.

Top: Valerie Frey, Machine

Cagan Izgi, Machine

Hsin Li and Jeng Rung Hong, based on original work by Nasser Ghannam, Mohamad, Machine

Mehmed Berk Bostanci, Machine

Anonymous, Machine

The exhibition presents the work of Machinic Protocols, an investigation line within the Master of Advanced Architecture of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia. Structured in three different sections, it features automated plotting machines, data-driven cartographical drawings and performing architectural models.

The exhibition raises the questions of the replicability of an artistic artefact and of the role of chance in creative experimentations. The moment in which the machine seems to lose the traditional precision that normally characterizes it is when the most powerful results are produced.

Gleder Van Limburg Stirum, Pablo Agustin Vivas, Machine #5

19 April – 18 May 2017
Scripts – a chronicle of incidents
curated by Edouard Cabay with Lili Tayefi
La Casa Elizalde
Carrer València 302, Barcelona

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A chronicle of incidents

The show at La Casa Elizalde in Barcelona consists of an extensive series of drawings produced without the hand, emerged by the relentless gesture of a mechanical device.

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