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Fields

Architectural projects and artistic researches have explored the potential of isotropic spaces, by definition: territories where the conditions are equally distributed. Hierarchy is abandoned, the distinction between figure and ground disappears and the available land is evenly covered, being it a piece of paper or a territorial plot. In some projects the idea of field is a metaphor, the ever-expanding territory of capital materialized by infinite urban development, in other it is merely a condition, a potential to be explored.
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Emma McNally’s Fields, Charts, Soundings Cartographies

March 15, 2012 by Fosco Lucarelli 3 Comments

Emma McNally's work is an artistic cartography of imaginary nodes, network topologies, noise patterns, musical notations. Traces and scatters shape an … [Read more...]

Stan Allen: Diagrams of Field Conditions, 1996

August 27, 2011 by Fosco Lucarelli Leave a Comment

“All grids are fields, but not all fields are grids. One of the potentials of the field is to redefine the relation between figure and ground. If we … [Read more...]

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