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i m p l i c i t . m e m o r y . g e n e r a t e d . s p a c e  is the digital architecture generated from real body movements: repeated and performed motion by a glass artist Luke Holden during the process of producing analog.glass lights becomes the morphogenetic driver of form    ---   




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Implicit Memory Generated Space is a digital drawing sequence work exploring the concatenations between the virtual, the analog, and the digital. Through a dynamic and virtually accessible simulation, body traces and gut reactions expressed by a glass-blower in motion are preserved and revitalised. By inscribing these memories in digital space – not just as a projection, but also a binary imprint - self-referential transformations are introduced as spatial folds and resonating envelopes. A thin envelope of ‘potential space’ is introduced and virtual space generates itself from body memory.


The artwork is an access point into the virtual world from the pragmatic position of tracking the symphony between body and tool. In this work, the chapter ‘On the Superiority of the Analog’ in Brian Massumi’s Parables for the Virtual is closely reflected upon to challenge the idea of superior physicality into a case for égalité between machinic and human (sense)abilities.

The artwork is an architectural inquiry in the context of Tacit Dialogues, a research project initiated around the craft of glass-making. It opens up the conversation on the potential and imminent necessity of qualitative [digital] architecture, its mode of production and alternative modes of rendering, outside the aesthetical confines of crypto-art in 2020. 


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artwork // Elaine Bonavia

collective - note // Implicit Memory Generated Space was created and exhibited as part of Tacit Dialogues. Tacit Dialogues is an artistic research collaboration initiated by Philipp Weber, Verena Bachl, Elaine Bonavia, Wint Design Lab (Robin Hoske, Felix Rasehorn) and additive.addicted (Babette Wiezorek). The group worked collectively to establish the conceptual ideas behind the project and produce the exhibition, conversations and other work.

support // Berlin Glas e.v. , analog.glass