Marble~ish was developed as part of the research from the 2016/17 Harry der Boghosian Fellowship at Syracuse School of Architecture. Conducted by Maya Alam in collaboration with her students “~ISH: Stages Before the Real” is an installation exploring questions concerning the in-between: site specificity/site-less, object/landscape, analog/digital, distinctive/similar and flat/flat-less.
The exhibition represents the culmination of a yearlong design research effort conducted at the School of Architecture. The investigation as a whole deals with 'speculations on social dreaming and experimental preservation in consideration of new media and its effects on our perception'.
Amidst the chaos of the contemporary world, many architects seek the certainty of absolutes. Yet, everything about the contemporary world tells us that it is not governed by certitude. Instead, ours is a world where everything exists in a radical state of the “in-between,” where nothing, not even architecture, has a fixed, certain, or absolute identity. In such a world, architects must adjust or risk becoming irrelevant.
The images of the Marble Room are based on a LiDAR 3D scanner project from Daniele Profeta’s seminar at Syracuse University in 2016.
While the project, “Digital Slocum,” aimed to create a digital, three-dimensional documentation and archive of the School of Architecture, ~ ish focuses on the exhibition as site for activism and investigation. Through a variety of digital operations the installation is transformed into an active landscape which questions the scanner’s ability to accurately document — and thus produce — a definitive “picturing” of the real.
As such, the installation allows us to speculate on the potential of many new depictions of the real all brought together in a single, mediated space.
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