Modulator the Algorithm?

MODULATE THE ALGORITHM?

Title of the exhibition: MODULATE THE ALGORITHM?
Curators: CINTHYA CONCARI and ROBERTO MARCATTI
Under the patronage of: ADI Delegation of Puglia and Basilicata / for the exhibition in Naples with the patronage also of ADI Delegation Campania

A 70 years since the first edition of Le Corbusier's Modulor, Cintya Concari and Roberto Marcatti thought of curating an exhibition that focused on Le Corbusier's stylized figure of man with the measurements obtained from his Modulor.

The question posed to architects / designer / artists invited and committed to the reinterpretation of that stylized human figure is if today in the era of the digital economy where everything seems manageable by the invisible hand of computers the modules of Le Corbusier is still current or is it a history of other times that must be replaced by artificial intelligence which throughalgorithm it leads us to the “best” resolution of the problem.

There are calculation procedures in common, but the stylized figure of a man is replaced by the shape of a tree diagram which allows us to find new, unprecedented interpretations starting from the information already known.

The question therefore that the curators of the exhibition ask themselves is whether today by working with the algorithm we can lay the foundations for the new architecture.

This is the challenge faced by those who participated in this project, who reinterpreted the figure of the stylized man in Corian produced by the Kubico company with material coming from manufacturing waste; I approximately 100 protagonists of the exhibition, faced with the moduler/algorithm dilemma, they thus express and manifest a personal and autonomous freedom of intervention by modifying the stylized human figure, making it become a pictorial support or a constructive/sculptural element.

ADI Campania
Andrea Jandoli- president

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