Surrealist Aesthetics in Sensory Actuated Spatial Systems

A theoretical evaluation on Surrealism and Living Architecture under Krauss’s Surrealist Principles

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10.2991/assehr.k.211228.072How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Surrealism; Autonomous Architecture; Algorithmic Otherness; Aesthetic Phenomenon; Sensory Actuation Systems

Abstract

Continuous development in the robotic system also happens in the architecture field where the experimental of its use in designing and producing buildings becomes more and more common. The implementation of sensory actuation systems allows the building to act beyond human’s knowledge by offering a feedback analysis process regarding space-body engagement as the implication of its immediate environment condition. The hybridization of physical and cognitive behaviour through robotic actuation conveys the unconventional architecture where it starts to change the way people conceive the real. The arguments appear to result from an investigation in aesthetic performance of algorithmic intelligence applications in the architectural design process. It argues that using a sensory actuation system to produce adaptable, reconfigurable, and flexible spatialities re-articulates Krauss’s fundamental principles of Surrealism: presentation over re-presentation; automatism; and conjunction of opposites are still valid.

Surrealism has justified the idea of the unconscious other as the source of creativity detached from any rational perspective. In the 20th century, unconsciousness was understood as an authentic creative force that should be liberated to manifest ultimately. However, the recent emergence of algorithmic otherness and its application in experimental architecture has de-centred humans from most of our cultural debates. By re-interpreting Krauss’s surrealist principles within the context of otherworldliness in autonomous architecture, this research concludes that the new Surrealism is no longer based on inner unconscious otherness. However, it has shifted to the outer algorithmic otherness, making all aspects of human desires and impulses obsolete.

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© 2021 The Authors. Published by Atlantis Press SARL.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Raisya Hidayat
AU  - Jordi Piera
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/12/28
TI  - Surrealist Aesthetics in Sensory Actuated Spatial Systems
BT  - Proceedings of the ICON ARCCADE 2021: The 2nd International Conference on Art, Craft, Culture and Design (ICON-ARCCADE 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 549
EP  - 555
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.211228.072
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.211228.072
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