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SPACE CONDUCTIVE Data Culture | New Human Medium | Dr Mathew Emmett AADipl BSc [UCL] RIBA ARB 01 INTRODUCTION: Data - Architecture 02 PRACTICE LED RESEARCH: Acquisition Spatial Data Psychoclimates 03 PERFORMANCE: Demonstration 04 Q/A
Data Culture | New Human Medium | Dr Mathew Emmett AADipl BSc [UCL] RIBA ARB 01 INTRODUCTION: Data - Architecture 02 PRACTICE – LED RESEARCH: Acquisition Spatial Data – Psychoclimates 03 PERFORMANCE: Demonstration 04 Q/A
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01 INTRODUCTION
In June 2016 Emmett performed at the opening of new Switch House at Tate
musician/artist Eberhard Kranemann (ex Kraftwerk). Emmett composes soundscapes for the contemporary dance choreographer Adam Benjamin with performances at the Tokyo Art Centre, Japan, ПРОТЕАТР Inclusive Dance Festival, Moscow, and the Place, London. Further collaborations include KINETICA, i –DAT, Estranged Space, Perception Lab, Charles Jencks, Kaos Theatre, and the Jurassic Coast World Heritage Sites. Emmett has a doctorate in situated cognition, studied at Central Saint Martins, The Bartlett School of Architecture and The Architectural Association and in 2007 he attended the Karlheinz Stockhausen composition course in Germany.
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YRM ARCHITECTS & PLANNERS | London
Urban Design: University of the Commonwealth Malaysia Healthcare: St Thomas Hospital London Aviation: Terminal 5 LondonGlobal Design Project: System Driven Design Multidisciplinary team:
Yorke Rosenberg Mardall YRM | London Architectural and urban planning services across Europe. Founded in 1946, working within the modernist tradition with an emphasis on simplicity, integrity and quality, the work covered sectors including:
Designing Future Healthcare
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Portello Park, Milan
Imperial War Museum North | Studio Libeskind New Urban Park: Portello Park, Milan Beijing Olympics: Landforms Portrack: Garden of Scientific Speculation
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CHARLES JENCKS | International Landform Projects
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02 PRACTICE LED-RESEARCH
The Problématique Most architects would generally understand the interpretive meaning of space, nevertheless many architectural projects have been designed without detailed knowledge or understanding of spatial perception or the consequential psychological impact that may arise from encountering the buildings. This gap in architectural knowledge and the need to develop a disciplined setting to
provides the foundation of my research.
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QUESTIONS | Defining the field
*World of pervasive virtualities, becomings and multiplicities that intersect (or knit together), which are affective, variable, in a state of flux, that emerge as a product of various forces in play in the milieu, composed and recomposed by individuals and collectives. (Deleuze, 1970, 127-8)
Immersive experience
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METHODOLOGY| Para-Architecture & Estrangement
The prefix “para-” critiques the limitations of architectural functionality by interrogating how architecture changes our behaviour resulting in alterations in perception, mood and consciousness. To be effective the methodology must be critical and exert the capacity to dislocate us by its refusal and inability to become part of the conditioned service. Estrangement creates the conditions for defamiliarization – alienation effect*
* Coined by playwright Bertolt Brecht (1898 – 1956), The use of direct audience-address is one way of disrupting stage illusion and generating the distancing effect. In performance, as the performer "observes himself", his objective is "to appear strange and even surprising to the audience. He achieves this by looking strangely at himself and his work". John Willett, ed. and trans., Brecht on Theatre (New York: Hill and Wang, 1964), 92 me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com
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HYPOTHESIS| Psychoscapes and neo-noir environments
Emmett defines architecture in terms of emergent forces, that of perception and territorial affect. Architects are highly predisposed to create order and stability, protecting us from chaos, but Emmett strikes against this, making space ring dissonant*. And in this disjunction, punctures a hole to establish the void for the virtual. This is the architecture of expanded media, super spatial senses, scission experiences and otherworldly chimera.
Emmett: Neo-noir Ballardian psychoscapes “Coefficient of adversities” - Gaston Bachelard uses this term to define more precisely the relationship between the body & the objects of the world/and or between two different aspects of phenomenon. me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com
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PROJECT 01| ARP Bunker: Cognitive-tope profiling
Para-architecture can be structured and influenced by event and situations different from our own implying different sets of cultural and aesthetic values – closer to heterotopias* – it assumes architectural associations as it manifests itself at its most complex and noticeable within interior spaces “distanced from reality, forced by reality” (Vidler, 1992). The ARP bunker has the capacity to eliminate all superfluous stimuli in order to isolate particular kind of phenomena, record and analyse them in order so as to introduce them into other contexts or to manipulate them into new combinations.
*Michael Foucault “Of Other Spaces” (1967) me@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com
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PROJECT 01| ARP Bunker: Cognitive-tope profiling
To examine the nature/rules/conditions of how space is perceived.
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Revonsuo’s model
(Revonsuo, 2006) Components of emotion (Butler & McManus 1998) Dynamic space values Felt_space taxonomy
Phenomenal consciousness Experience Tempo
EXPERIENTIAL DYNAMICS
Presence Expression Force
EXPRESSION ACCENT
Duration Cognition Syntax
COGNITIVE ATTENTION
Intensity Physiological Proportion
PHYSIOLOGICAL INSTINCT
Quality Behaviour Direction
BEHAVIOURAL INTUITION
Cognitive_tope classifjcation matrixFriction typology
PROJECT 01| ARP Bunker: Cognitive-tope classification matrix
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PROJECT 01| ARP Bunker: Cognitive-tope diagram
Time Spiraling nebulous Psychological space Physical space
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PROJECT 02| WW2 USAAF Anti-submarine Airfield, Dunkeswell: Cognitive-tope mapping
Mapping as a means of exploration, reframing static principals of architectural representation to include time and the transmission
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Project 02| WW2 USAAF Anti-submarine Airfield, Dunkeswell: Situated Cognition Mapping
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Project 02| Vection Builder: Perceptual Recombination, Roman Baths Vault
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Project 02| Vection Builder: Perceptual Recombination, Roman Baths Vault
GENERATION EVOLUTION ECHO PAUSE TRIGGER GENERATION EVOLUTION ECHO PAUSE TRIGGER GENERATION EVOLUTION ECHO PAUSE TRIGGER GENERATION EVOLUTION ECHO PAUSE TRIGGER SPACE ZONE OF INFLUENCE PERCEPTION VALUE DIMENSIONALITY TAXON LOCALE MACRO- SPHERE EXO- SPHERE MESO- SPHERE MICRO- SPHERE LOCI MACRO- SPHERE MESO- SPHERE MICRO- SPHERE EXO- SPHERE EXPRESSION ACCENT PHYSIOLOGICAL INSTINCT BEHAVIOURAL INTUITION COGNATIVE ATTENTION EXPERIENTIAL DYNAMICS LIMBIC SOMATIC AUDITORY VISUAL TEMPORAL ASSEMBLY LANGUAGE OPERATIVE LAYERS FORM SCHEMA AFFECT FIELD causation intensity duration equilibriumme@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com
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Project 02| Vection Builder, Roman Baths Vault
SPEAKER 1 PROJECTOR 1 SPEAKER 2 PROJECTOR 2 HCIme@mathewemmett.com | http://mathewemmett.com
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Project 02| Vection Builder: Max/MSP: Real-time audiovisual interaction, Roman Baths Vault
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Project 02| Vection Builder: Synthetic aperture triggers, Roman Baths Vault
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Project 02| Vection Builder: Synthetic aperture triggers, Roman Baths Vault
Focused on second-order cybernetics within the environmental dimension, the work investigates the mediation of affect between space, situated cognition, augmented reality and cross-modal
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Project 02| Vection Builder: Roman Baths Vault
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Project 03| Open State: Contemporary Dance, Sound & Space
Venue: Tokyo Art Centre Choreography & director: Adam Benjamin. Music & design: Mathew Emmett Production: Muse Company + Integrated Dance Company-Kyo Organised by Creative Arts Committee Grant: Art and Culture Promotion Fund, Arts Council Tokyo & The Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.
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Project 03| Open State: Contemporary Dance, Sound & Space
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Project 03| Open State: Contemporary Dance, Sound & Space Project 03| Open State: Contemporary Dance, Sound & Space
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Project 03| Open State: Contemporary Dance, Sound & Space Project 03| Open State: Contemporary Dance, Sound & Space
The sound files were processed in Praat, a software tool commonly used by linguists to analyse the phonetics of speech. A script was written to record the intensity of the sound signal and the frequency of sounds within the human vocal range from sound recordings of the dancers’
be used as input data to compose new sounds based on the qualities of their speech.
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Project 03| Open State: Contemporary Dance, Sound & Space Project 03| Open State: Contemporary Dance, Sound & Space
Open State developed the spectral approach to acoustic-composition by concentrating exclusively on one small sequence of the voice and by magnifying these notes an entire universe of overtones fills the surrounding space. By foregrounding the timbre and envelope, the soundscape was designed to include transitory aspects through intonation – sliding the pitch up and down perpendicular to the central position (glissando) directing the attention to the spectral sum of overtones and texture. http://mathewemmett.com/open-state/
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Project 04| Sender/Receiver performance with TIWWA, Tate Modern In collaboration with i-DAT & TATE Digital 2016. Tate Modern Blavatnik Building by Herzog & de Meuron.
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Project 04| Sender/Receiver performance with TIWWA, Tate Modern In collaboration with i-DAT & TATE Digital 2016.
Mathew Emmett’s experimental sound performance with TIWWA at the TATE, connects us to an expanded sonic horizon, from the most primitive sublanguages, to the most highly digitally developed; in each case we are confronted by the same mysterious act of
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Project 04| Sender/Receiver performance with TIWWA, Tate Modern In collaboration with i-DAT & TATE Digital 2016.
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05 Summary
The projects presented here examine the impact of psychoactive territorialisation, the colonization of spatial agency and, the manifestation of chimerical revenants as intensifications of architectural-psychological fusions within pre-existing spaces. Like a splinter in space, these virus-like prototypes examine the resonant mental state of the environment itself. The work invites co-operation and
models of psychoclimates and the neo-noir. For it is not enough to observe and decode these realities, they must be transmitted through performance and intervention, inviting the observer to dismantle habitual models that limit our understanding of architectural space.
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