Hallucinosis and simulation as design research tools Lecture at University of Trieste, faculty of Architecture Gorizia, 30 January 2012

1. hallucinosis
by simulationNotes for the dimensions of the possible. mirko daneluzzo
Gorizia 30-1-2012

2. The construction of an apparatus in order to analyze and then
understand a process in its development, as it unfolds.
simulation:

3. “. . . In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map
of a single Province occupied the entirety of a City, and the map of the Empire, the
entirety of a Province. In time, those Unconscionable Maps no longer satisfied,
and the Cartographers Guilds struck a Map of the Empire whose size was that of
the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. The following Generations,
who were not so fond of the Study of Cartography as their Forebears had been, saw
that that vast map was Useless, and not without some Pitilessness was it, that they
delivered it up to the Inclemencies of Sun and Winters.”
“On Exactitude in Science” or “On Rigor in Science” is a one-paragraph short story by
Jorge Luis Borges,
system and model
Relationship between the parts
Simplified representation of a
system at a given time

4. Studio for playground - 2012
A system of forces generated by the neighborhood relationship between the objects of the con-
text, generates the shape of the whole as a complex of discrete elements.
simulation
The hallucinosis: simulation is a tool for the generation of the
Other through the idea of incompleteness of the system.

5. embodiment
The system is embodiment, not just the sum of the parts.
GMOFrankenstein

6. the disappearance
of the origin
scenes from the movie “The Thing” by John Carpenter, 1982
Simulation as a device capable of recursive ouput that tend to
constitute a new source, alter the origin, in a continuous in-be-
coming (copies of copies):
The simulation becomes an engine of the mutation from within.

7. Under hallucinosis, there is doubt about the goodness of percep-
tion, there is uncertainty between real and not real, you live in
the “middle”: the critical component.
The simulation, by means of mutation allow to probe the not-
known, the non-imaginable.
hallucinosis
Incredulity of St. Thomas, Caravaggio, 1601

8. THE ‘hallucinosis materializes, become new organs, transform
your body, the flesh, to better adapt to the new context.
From the investigation on material dynamics to the return of the
simulation, new formation.
realfiction
scenes from the film “Videodrome” by David Cronenberg, 1983
FAMFloating Atoms Modeling

9. FAM
Studio aggregation FAM - 2011-2012
Physical model study for FAM aggregation
From a modeling strategy that describes surfaces to a modeling
strategy which describes aggregative dynamics. From curves to
trajectories and the Floating Atoms Modeling.
To simulate the discrete component of the universe.

10. Particulate matter, discrete and continuous systems: a contempo-
rary description of the universe.
physical world reading
scenes from the film “The Lawnmower Man” by Brett Leonard, 1992

11. Sensitive flesh - music centre Toronto - 2010
strato intermedio
sensitive flesh
The building is the meeting / clash between the internal dy-
namics (geometric interpretations of user flows) and external
dynamics (sunlight, wind, temperature). Development of a
sensitive information system.

12. Different layers make up the building, allowing smooth transitions
between the different environments. The whole layering model is a
reactive-dynamic system (particulate)
Trajectories. Physical manifestation of the trajectories (marching cubes).
physical manifestation phenotype

13. Materialization of the body.
Schematic example of the dynamic system:
a series of attractors were distributed according to the actual forces in-
volved and calibrated according to a comparative intensity pattern.

14. it’s about language
Different manifestations of the same information.
I can take a physical representation and transform it into information but it is not ob-
vious how to go from information to representation, is not an univocal operation, the
information might have other manifestations.
Yoshi Sodeoka, ASCII ROCK 2003

15. language and misunderstanding
support for the mutation
The computer is in fact unable to “read” and then “translating”
living organisms, it must learn the “poetry of the flesh.” The lan-
guage becomes the tool of the mutation by the misunderstand-
ing between the machine and man.
The power of the error, the misunderstanding in the generation
of the Other: it is no longer a man, no longer fly, is more: genetic
fusion.
scenes from “The Fly” films of David Cronenberg, 1986

16. mutation=exploration
Hungry root V3.0 - Coverage Viale G. Pordenone - 2011-2012
structural system studies: mutation from a tubular system to a stochastic plot.

17. redundancy and
differentiation ...
In the design of the natural systems
we do not find optimization and
standardization, but redundancy and
differentiation. active solutions in
adapting to dynamic systems, con-
stantly remodeling.
Shape, structure and material are part
of the same system, a complex of re-
lationships of polymorphic systems in
response to various input and intrinsic
and extrinsic influences.

18. architecture as
a device
... and an integrated
production system
The industrial culture has a top-down view. One of the most dif-
ficult tasks is to convey the technology to new approaches, for
a rapprochement between humans and devices, in a symbiosis
where the machinic become organic. The buildings we inhabit are
far away from our bodies, transforming them but are not them-
selves affected to get in touch.
The device is a machine that produces subjectifications (Agam-
ben), the architecture as a device of re-subjectivation, in-forma-
tion and containing virtuality, or the potential to generate differ-
ent effects and uses: an instrument of knowledge (non-exclusive).

19. more info:
Mirko Daneluzzo
mirko@nyxostudio.com
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