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...and speaking of random tangents
2007.04.14 23:00
1999.04.14
an alter-ego for Quondam
Just before going into the hospital, I started to think about creating an alternative Quondam environment, one that is accessed through Quondam's main page, and utilizes the same collection and themes as Quondam , but nonetheless affords Quondam a "place" to be much more liberal, uninhibited, and all out revolutionary(?). At first it may appear that this is borrowing the theme of schizophrenia + architectures, but that is really not the intention at all. The main objective is to apply all the new dexterity implications inherent in CAD and the digital revolution vis-à-vis architecture and representation. Perhaps the alter-ego can go so far as to present the notion of an alter-ego to architectural history as well.
...begin this "alter-ego" virtual museum through presenting any number of cad model distortions and collisions. These new "models" will in turn offer the opportunity to create and engage in new architectural environments that will come to represent a totally new and unprecedented world of architecture.
Perhaps this alter-ego museum will most resemble schizophrenia + architectures in that really anything can go on there. Actively indulge in taking up any of the more unconventional ideas and take them to whatever mean or extreme. Perhaps the correct term for this other Quondam place is super-ego Quondam, a place where architecture enjoys the virtuality of digital infinitude.
The alter-ego may ultimately produce something akin to what Piranesi continually produced through his engravings and texts...
[This note was first published online within schizophrenia + architectures toward the end of 1999. Also, there was briefly online an alter-ego Quondam via a madnouQ link. OMA's spawning of AMO was extremely coincidental.]
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