Vortrag Marcos Novak

Marcos Novak (UCSB, Santa Barbara/California)

Public Lecture

Dienstag, 17. März, 19 Uhr, HS 2, Alte Technik, Rechbauerstraße 12, 8010 Graz

Veranstaltet vom Institut für Architekturtheorie, Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften der TU Graz in Zusammenarbeit mit Ivan Redi/ortlos

Marcos Novak is an architect, artist, composer, and theorist who employs algorithmic techniques to design actual, virtual and hybrid intelligent environments. The self-described transarchitect is seeking to expand the definition of architecture by including electronic space, and originated the concept of liquid architectures in cyberspace and the study of a dematerialized architecture for the new, virtual public domain, the immersive virtual worlds.

Novak is professor at the Department of Media Arts and Technology at UCSB, he is the founding director of the Laboratory for Immersive Virtual Environments and the Advanced Design Research Program at the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin, and a Fellow of the World Technology Network. His many writings, which combine architecture, music, art, computation, science, and/or technology, include the seminal paper „Liquid Architectures in Cyberspace“ (1991), „transArchitecture: Against the Collapsing Radius of Fiction“, and „Transmitting Architecture: The transPhysical City“ (1996), which became the theme of the XXIII World Congress of the UIA (Union Internationale des Architectes, 2008).  In 1998, Novak published „Next Babylon: Accidents to Play In“ in V2_’s The Art of the Accident.