PRESENTATION: Wednesday, August, 27, 2014. Greene Gallery. 6pm.

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The Aug 27 presentation of two faculty traveling fellowships began at 6pm in the Greene Gallery, where both faculty members lectured on their experiences abroad.

Demetrios Comodromos, Synesthesia

“With computation’s ubiquitous role in the design, fabrication, and construction (execution) of the built environment, we have arrived at an intensive threshold. The virtual environments that afford us limitless power to impose geometry and configuration on materials and systems have simultaneously disconnected us from the organizational and computational potentials of those materials and systems. Know How Know What seeks to identify, document, and analyze historical design methodologies – namely analogical modeling utilized by 20th century architects and engineers – in order to speculate on comprehensive virtual practices that have the capacity to embody and simulate the resistances of geometry, material, and assembly.”

Zbigniew Oksiuta; The Clap with One Hand

“Clapping with one hand is a famous Koan in Zen Buddhism. Koan in Zen practice is an abstract, almost absurd, question with the help of which Zen master asks the student to open his mind. There is no rational answer to these questions. This is particular exercise of the mind, which cannot be understood by rational thinking but may only be accessible through intuition.”

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