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Beyond Entropy – When Energy Becomes Form at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini on the island of San Giorgio Maggiore, Venice


Credit: © Valerie Bennett, The ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE.

Chemical
The responsibility and issues of chemical energy are explored through the melting of the Polar icecaps and concept of personal and national ownership of air, its purity and source.  The exhibition shows images of conflict linked this region of the world.  

Architects: Territorial Energy (John Palmesino& Ann-Sofi Rönnskog)
Artist:  Nina Canell
Scientist: Amanda Chatten

Credit: © Valerie Bennett, The ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE.

Mass
The work on show is a self-balancing machine devised to achieve a state of unnatural equilibrium exploring ideas and issues linked to mass energy. Film projectors, connected by a giant pendulum continually project an image of a building being simultaneously built and destroyed. As the pendulum swings energy moves from form to disorder, from potential energy to mass.

Architect: Rubens Azevedo
Artist: Ariel Schlesinger
Scientist: Vid Stojevic

Credit: © Valerie Bennett, The ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE.

Potential
The work on show is a pinball machine in which there can be no winner.  The player charges the balls as they try to play while the balls sit in other side of the machine, stored, and ready to release their energy, unplayable until that time. Pictured are Hans Ulrich Obrist, Co-Director, Serpentine Art Gallery, London, (Grey Suit) and Stefano Rabolli Pansera, Director, Beyond Entropy, AA School
Architect:  Julian Loeffler
Artist: Peter Liversidge
Scientist: Roberto Trotta

Credit: © Valerie Bennett, The ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE.

Electric
The consequence of the transportation of energy from source to plug will be explored through a unique installation. The coalfired power plants of Marghera, Fusina, Genoa, North Torrevaliga are supplied with coal from mines in South Africa, Indonesia, Colombia and Russia. Once the power is created it flows along cables to the homes of people across Italy. The project will capture the human face of this transportation and, next year, bring together over 100 people from the various stage of the energy’s creation. All have technical responsibily for managing this complex system and help make the electric supply a pulsing body. The chairs are a promise of their arrival.

Architect: Vittorio Pizzigoni
Artist: Alberto Garutti
Scientist: Giuseppe Celardo

Credit: © Valerie Bennett, The ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE.

Mechanical
In the late 19th Century scientists and artists began to look at space and time differently. One of these was French writer, Alfred Jarry. He created a pseudo-science called Pataphysics and theorized a time machine. The core of Jarry’s machine involved a cube of gaint mechanical flywheels crafted, from ebony and copper, quartz and ivory. The team are exploring Jarry’s concepts. On show is one element of the protype to be complete next year. The team has updated Jarry’s machine but have the same aim as Jarry: to have all compolents working together at such a speed as to resesit all forces and eventually resisting our motion, through not just space but also time.

Architect: Shin Egashira
Aritist: Initial input from Attila Csorgo
Scientist: Andrew Jaffe

Credit: © Valerie Bennett, The ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE.

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Sound
The work explores the sound we all make through our own electromagnetic fields. The brass ring is a giant antenna, picking up electric signals and turning these into sound through speakers. As people approach the antenna, so our electric fields alter the sounds being created.

Architect: Salottobuono
Artist: Massimo Bartolini
Architect: Dario Bendetti and Riccardo Rossi

Credit: © Valerie Bennett, The ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE.

Thermal
The 3D printer has revolutionised the creation of materials, ideas and manufacturing. It can serve as a protype to explore issues linked to energy and reproduction and copying. However, every copy has a flaw that makes it, in some small way, original. The work presents copies of a part from a 3D copying machine, replicated over and over again - exploring the theme of when the reproducer becomes reproduced.

Architect: Ines Weizman
Artist: Wilfredo Prieto
Scientist: David Clements

Credit: © Valerie Bennett, The ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE.

Gravitation
The exhibit explores the holographic side of matter and the energy within it. When images are scanned and 3D printed, they show the history of energy in the image – how energy has shaped the picture and the items within. The presentation shows a series of prototypes of objects and sculpture that portray the forensic history of an image – i.e. taking a holographic photograph and printing it in 4D. The image of the Moon, shows the gravitational forces of energy on its surface.

Architect: Eyal Weizman
Artist: Initial input from Carlos Gariacoa
Scientist: Peter Coles


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