Panel Statement

Panel: Emerging Architectures

• If architecture cannot respond radically to the advent of smart materials, intelligent systems,  and nanotechnology, the vision of a sensuous city to complement our post-biological condition cannot be realized. How to accommodate the technology of consciousness, house the cybernaut, service the telematic traveller, or farm artificial life? Archiculture means working from the bottom up: seeding ideas, growing structures, harvesting emergent systems in the interspace between the virtual and the real. This applies as much to our own bionic evolution as to cyburban design.

• Roy Ascott, UK. A pioneer of cybernetics and telematics in art, Roy Ascott has initiated many global networking projects and published over seventy texts He advises Leonardo, CEC, Ars Electronica, and IMF San Francisco. Formerly Communications Theory Professor, Vienna, and Dean of The San Francisco Art Institute, he is currently Director of CAIIA in Wales.