Fibrous Room: Evolving Structural Logic
Garanti Gallery (GG) is proud to host the exhibition "Turbulent Topologies" by Marcos Novak between 14 June and 26 July 2008.
The exhibition explores turbulence as both a formal principle and as a condition of the global metropolis. Through a variety of means, both visible and invisible, it examines the turbulent topologies of mixed layers and crossed currents, hidden links and sudden connections, flow networks and perturbed stratifications. Using both high and low technologies, it proposes a continuum between actual, virtual, and transactive space, form, and inhabitation. Drawing upon diverse fields such as particle physics and biology, logic and geology, and lived histories as they are alternately formed by and trapped in the webs of culture, it offers a series of formal propositions in response to the critical acceptance of turbulence as a condition of twenty-first century life.
Marcos Novak is a transarchitect: an architect, artist, composer, and theorist. His projects, theoretical essays, and interviews have been translated into many languages. Drawing upon architecture, music, and computation, and introducing numerous additional influences from art, science, and technology, his work intentionally defies categorization. He is universally recognized as the pioneer of architecture in cyberspace with his use of algorithmic techniques to design actual, virtual and hybrid intelligent environments. He originated several widely recognized concepts, such as "transvergence", "transarchitectures", "transmodernity", "liquid architectures", "navigable music", "habitable cinema", "archimusic", "eversion", "allogenesis". Marcos Novak is currently based at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he is affiliated with CNSI (the California NanoSystems Institute), MAT (Media Art and Technology), and Art Studio.