Recent technology and software rapid development has taken over all aspects of what is defined as art, architecture and image space. 

Simulations have become part of a culture that extend way beyond the realm of the computer, one that is spread across generations and striving to interfere with the future. It expands on all platforms, acting as a tool for architectural experimentation. 

Once simulations start populating the world of digital creativeness, all other media almost fades away. Its behavior is unpredictable and this is exactly what makes it so mesmerizing. 

The project focuses on creating a world is about 'nothing' and 'everything' at the same time. It allows the viewer to emerge in this garden of space and make up his/her own meaning, which vary based on time, character and existence.

The work consists of a series of self-playing, open ended simulations of a world imbued with characters and objects. GOFAI models are used such as behavior trees to run decision making within the world. 

The project explores the convergence of AI agents and an artificially construed natural environment. 

A series of code based iteration were developed within Unreal engine in order to produce and design the simulations, that allowed to bring to life the AI agents. NPC brains within the behavior trees were created, that were responsible for the way the agents would act within the game. 

Simulations are a shifting and potentially infinite aesthetic format where probability and randomness produce a formless, intractable pictorial space. Within this project, realistic figuration of the landscape can coexist with these cartoony characters, supported by filmic elements. The result is an infinite play for the human mind. 

Encoded Existence

Within today's globalize art world, ideas about what and how museums of modern and contemporary art and design collect, exhibit and address their audiences and art are changing. These institutions are critically discussed and problematized as Eurocentric and the way in which they interact and intersect with other concerns of critical discourses. 

Pompidou Art Factory project uses the construction site offered by The Pompidou in Paris and addresses the issue of private vs public art display and how it affects the museum typology in the architectural field. It does so by using a new medium of research questioning the sufficiency of digitality, introduces and explores techniques of presentation that shift established hierarchies between image and object. 

The project kickstarts with a series of script manipulations to obtain a singular, geometrical and functional composition. It examines modern art display as an artistic intervention that could restore and bring the imbalance between public and private to a zero. What is private and public manifests into the idea of 'seen' and 'unseen', 'thesis' and 'antithesis', object vs partial object within the architectural composition. 

The project frames the discourse between the Main Museum on the left (public art display) and the Hidden Museum on the right (private art display). The Ground plane space is divided between the right and left platform. Some of the tiles on the right play a Game, only this time, each flip of the asset reveals a hidden part of the private art collection to the public, letting the user define the lines of communication, revealing them and thus transforming the public-private relationship.

What is unseen becomes seen but only for a split second. The user is able to visualize the art but is unable to interact with it. 

POMPIDOU Power Game

The project examines the future of the museological institution as a centralized architectural apparatus that evolves and continuously expands as a response to contemporary catalysts. The projects focuses on the impact of NFT's, art curation and machine learning on the museum building typology, contemplating its potential transformation amid the rapid progress of AI tools. 

The project is a comprehensive exploration involving discussions with the then-developing AI tool, OPEN AI: ChatGPT. As a result, the project looks beyond one binary or the other, beyond a physical world limit, beyond public/private, digital/physical, natural/artificial.

IWA a 'Digital"  Art Museum for Tokyo

Surbiton Hill Series explores our relationship and reconnection with the concept and physicality of 'home' in both its tangible and emotional states-created during lockdown where home has finally been accessible to many of us who have failed to experience its rewards and challenges with such intensity in 'normal' everyday life.

Image details

Image 1 Bushy Park . Ink and Acrylic. 40" x 48"

Image 2 45 . Acrylic , ink and organza 32 " x 40"

Image 3 : Home . Acrylic, ink and organza. 34" x 34"



Surbiton Hill Series 

A/PART OF ME navigates the longing and skin hunger for love and touch in the pandemic isolation, worldwide, through the power of correspondence. 

To create this project, we held an open call for letters of love, loss, and longing in the COVID-19 lockdown, which gathered 349 submissions from all over the world in as little as seven days. 

In this digital publication, we have curated the letters that embody a collective tactile memory, which overcomes emotional distance, physical borders, and the passing of time.

Some of the most significant messages received are borne by sculptures reminding that feelings triggered by touch in our bodies and brains create unbreakable emotional bonds.

Our aim is to translate this collective voice of loneliness into a hopefully sustainable avenue for people to find healing in the togetherness digital mediums and art can offer. ⠀

A/PART of Me was created within the residency ARTISTS ROOMS in April and May 2020, in Berlin. The entire project can be seen here https://www.fundatia9.ro/proiect/apart-of-me

©Ioana Cristina Casapu & Ileana Pascalau


A/PART OF ME - A PROJECT BY IOANA CRISTINA CASAPU AND ILEANA PASCALAU

“Heart Beats – A Memoir of The Millennial Generation on Social Media” is a deep X-ray of the Millennial Generation, a vivid depiction of the way Social Media has re-wired the way we think, feel, love, act and connect with each other in our relationships, friendships, daily lives and in our work.

Written by the time the author was 21 before Facebook had become the giant social network it is today, Heart Beats captures the end of an era: the exact moment when social networks protruded into the Millennial generation's life and changed the history of connection as we know it. This body of work has an underlying love story as a theme, developed within the lives of the many characters who hustle their way through post-university jobs, in advertising agencies, and in cafes in European cities, painting an evergreen picture of the young clubbing culture and the dating culture just before Tinder disrupted sex and courtship. 

A psychologically charged memoir, which bridges or breaks the connections between its characters through Social Media mishaps, Heart Beats manifests the way our lives have profoundly changed as of the end of the 1990s, with the rise of modern communication technology.

Heart Beats - A Memoir of The Millennial Generation on Social Media

Covering less than one percent of the ocean floor, coral reefs sustain approximately 25 percent of all known marine species. And the variety of species that live on coral reefs is greater than anywhere else in the ocean. Scientists estimate that more than one million species of plants and animals are associated with coral reef ecosystems.
I feel that I must make this personal exhibition in process, of 20 materic paintings on masonite and canvas, in which I pay tribute to our corals, islands, fauna and protected islands, such as the wonderful  Coco Island in my country, Costa Rica and I wish that a percentage of the sale of my work is destined to a project of salvation of our marine flora and fauna, and I hope the public will join my intention to benefit ecological initiatives to clean the oceans at the same time that I wish to emphasize in the awareness in the public of the need to take care of our beaches and our oceans.


SAVING REEFS

intercultural project , 
theatrical readings,
exibition
stories written and interpreted by: Marzia Alati
Music composed and performed by: Alberto Carozzi
illustrations: Cristina Pareschi

Sixteen were the interviews that have been transformed into stories by Marzia Alati, in drawings by Cristina Pareschi and into sounds by Alberto Carozzi. 
A project that contains music, image and words in a single dance.


THROUGH LAND AND SEA WOMEN AND MEN IN MIGRATION

moods,sketches, collages for the collection "A caso skirt"

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