Ernst Mach 1871 

  "I did it my way ...."

"all you need is love ...."

Mc Luhan / Medientheorie

INFORMATION _ PROCESSING

 A. Cozens  1785
 "New methods of assisting the invention in drawing of original compositions of landscape"

"To sketch is to transfer ideas from the mind to paper. To blot is to make varied spots ... producing accidental forms ... from which ideas are presented to the mind ... To sketch is to delineate ideas; blotting suggests them."
 

universal templet  plottegg 1987

W.A. Mozart 1756 -1791

opus KV 516f   is a composition resulting from dice-playing (random design)

Instruction how to compose a waltz with 2 dicesprocedure:
throw the dice, make the sum of their values,
go to the first table,
take the number of the bar from the table
match the value of the dice with the corresponding bar column
then read the value for the bar table
look up the notes for the selected bar
continue for the next bar

 
Arnold Schönberg: production by algorithms;
not extrapolation of what he was hearing (in his brain /mind) but exterior generation; anoather contribution to the question of subject / object / algortithm.

The twelf tone music is a very strict rule for composing: for instance you may repeat a tone only after having used the other 11 tones.

John Cage "Fontana Mix" 1964
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Roman Haubenstock Ramati
 
 
 VITO ACCONCI  1967
 

THE SQUARE NOVEL / Friedrich Achleitner

"Volksbuch" Heidulf Gerngroß 1978

Peter Bichsel:             "a table is a table"     1969 

wordmix.htm                                README.1ST / UPDATE

Recipe for cooking recipies 1998

Hybrid Architecture / Plottegg already 1981

Poster = {IDENTITÄT:DIFFERENZ  + INCLUSION:EXCLUSION + JENSEITS VON KUNST}
=
Architektur jenseits der Identität und Inclusion ist Exklusion und Differenz von Kunst

exhibitions

Urban E 1999 / GBL TU WIEN
desingning objects # designing processes

hybrid buildings SS 2003

Las Vegas Venetian

merge, morph, scale, shift, randomise, fake, ..............

PERCEPTION OF SPACE

"The Renaissance Legacy. The Vanishing Point = Self-Effacement, The Detached Observer. No Involvement! - The viewer of Renaissance art is systematically placed outside the frame of experience. A piazza for everything and everything in its piazza. - The instantaneous world of electronic informational media involves all of us, all at once. No detachment or frame is possible." The Medium is the Massage: Marshall McLuhan / Quentin Fiore

anamorphoses

Borromini Palazzo Spada / fake 1540

perception by wire-frame; the edges of space:

We are used to recognise space, the size of space and distances on behalf of edges; the wire frame of boxes (equally very useful for perspective drawings as scales are)  have therfore become prototypes for our understanding of space;

If you do´nt agree with this, you can produce many edges, distort them, torment them:
 
 
 

MERZBAU	Bathroomdesign by Plottegg 1983

cube*.avi
cube_h_wf.avi
cube_h.avi
cube_ax_wf.avi
cube_ax_.avi

 
Rolltreppe / escalator  

                 roll-2.mov

x-ray recognition (Dr. Sortantin)

Automatic recognition makes images more intelligent; it works because nobody has to sit behind the screen and wait until something happens, until someone understands what is happening. Nobody has to be there means: without subject
 
 
 

James Turell: another way of perception, another way of getting rid of edges

Waterpavillon (NOX / Lars Spuybroek))

Nicéphore Niépce 1827 : la plus anciennephotographie au monde 

Place de la Concorde1858 Frères Bisson

Donne nubiche1852 Benecke E

Kepler (1571 to 1630) Orbital Elements and Nomenclature 

   Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach (1656-1723)        Master Architect of the Austrian Baroque

TX_TRANSFORM
©   Martin Reinhart & Virgil Widrich

information block: normal film

Muybridge 1871

Trautenfels

Algorithms ....................        are simple rules

Sierpinski 1916

 
fractal geometry, Mandelbrot

Algorithmic Architecture

"deconstruction"

FO FU CO

game of life (HD)
John Conway´s GAME OF LIFE, which has been published 1970 in Scientific America, is a simulation of a sample "model-world", which although based on simple rules, produces complex structures and objects. This took an important role in many discussions about "definition of life", cellular automatas, artificial intelligence and hat even great importance for models of chromosoms. There are quite a lot of online sites about this topic:

Patterns, Programs, and Links for Conway's Game of Life

game of life (online)
 

DDLab / discrete dynamics lab / Andy Wünsche / Santa Fe Institute
Cellular automata / random boolean networks
Order-Complexity-Disorder
 
 

HD link to mrr
Celular automata

 production of architecture by using models of neurons and models of gen-biology.

Neuronal Architecture Processor (Prototype June 1999)

designed by Wolfgang Maass / Manfred Wolff-Plottegg

(contribution to the exhibition "real virtualities" Künstlerhaus Vienna 8/1999

spike trains = bit strings = data (coordinates, vectors)

 "integrate-and-fire neuron" or "spiking neuron".

DNA chain

         #110 from http://www.cis.tu-graz.ac.at/igi/maass#Publications
and to the article "Das menschliche Gehirn - nur ein Rechner?"
        # 108 " from http://www.cis.tu-graz.ac.at/igi/maass#Publications
and to the introduction by Thomas Natschlaeger (in german):
        http://www.cis.tu-graz.ac.at/igi/tnatschl/3gen/3genlang.html

DNA / RNA
(The following short introduction to gen-biology has been compiled by Dr. Heinrich Kovar) 99261

  The four molecules (A, G, C, T) represent the letters in which the genetic information is written. 99259

Each sequence of three of these molecules (triplet) carries the information for a word (=codon) (amino acid) or an interpunctation (start or full-stop).
 

reading a childrens´riddle
 
   99260 reading the genetic code
 

reading the binary house / Plottegg arlready 1988

NEURONS
 
 

 The extents of cabling within only one cubic millimeter of grey matter within our cerebral cortex already reaches a length of approximately 4 km.

a neuron producing spikes

a mathematical neuron producing spikes
 
 
 
 
 

Caenorhabditis Elegans (1,5 mm) decoded December 1998

Chromosom Nr 22
decoded December 1999
  99262

lisp
 
 

neuron arch generator (QT-mov 7.441 KB)

neuron demo.exe
neuron.avi

neuron.avi

REAL VIRTUALITIES
(Exhibition on advanced developements in media architecture, Künstlerhaus Vienna July / August 1999, curator: Manfred Wolff-Plottegg; with contributions by: Blasbichler Armin, COOP Himmelblau,   Egg Daniel, Emmerer Martin, Hilbert Wolfgang, Schneider Richart, Kada Klaus, Kipcak Orhan, Krautgasser Annja, Kupelwieser Hans, Maass Wolfgang, Novak Marcos, Nox / Lars Spuybroek, Oosterhuis Kas, Pakesch Mucki, Schnell Ruth, Shaw Jeffrey, Sommerer Christa, Mignonneau Laurent, Weibel Peter, Widrich Virgil, Wolff-Plottegg Manfred)

Architecture as Information Editor (2001)

universal language

back to index

ERASER 1970

BED 1972

FLAT 1971

Analoger Architekturgenerator  1987 

signed "plottegg already 1987"

Grasser/gen03 2002

Grasser/gen01 2002            Zugzoomschönschnell 1987 / mov

BINARY HOUSE 1989                       Grasser/house1 2002

hybridarchitektur 1981

Synthetische Dimension 1990

Housing competition Seiersberg 1987

Housing competition Spielberg 1991

Examples of analogue algorithmic planning

Türtreppentreppentüre 1992

Futon Construction 1997

 Fransenbad 1984 + Fransenauto 1989 + Fransenhelm 1989 

Bad Baudrillard 1996

NY

Pneumatik BAD 97

urne1 1985

urne2 1999

university 1985

randomise

Neuronal Architecture Processor (Prototype 1999)

WEB of LIFE 2001