I have never seen a description of anything architectural more concise than this, especially about “scripting.” Look up scripting and the you’ll see where the term “archy-speak,”came from…
“Blow x Blow stages a bout between two trends in exhibition: the claiming of gallery space by architects, and the ceding of that space to the ambient possibilities of new media. To chart this collision, techniques of cinematic projection and scripting are repurposed to spur new orders of spatial and structural sequencing, and new environments for communing with new art.
In the SCI-Arc Gallery, the initial ‘bounce-line’ scripting, in which a single projection-based vector was allowed to rebound ad infinitum through the space of the gallery, evolved in two more disciplined directions. First, the space of the gallery was reconceived as a 6’x7’x8’ gridded frame, the proportions of which allow a 4:3 televisual image on one face, and a 9:16 cinematic aspect ration on the diagonal. Within this matrix, a randomized 16-part vector path was developed, in which each third vector point was triangulated back to its origin to create a continuous, facetted surface. A ‘braid’ of two of these paths supports two dual-screen projection areas. Rather than simply blacking out the gallery, the spanning surfaces of the vectorpaths create a ‘grey room’ condition in which viewers may see each other, but projected images are shaded from clerestory exposure.”
P.S. The openings at Sci-Arc and their lectures are less than stellar to be honest with you. Go on an off day my friends.
