Stretching Materialities - Matters of Activity

Exhibition »Materiales en Expansión«, Buenos Aires, March 2023. Structural Textile Project: Miodragović, Suarez, Singer, Object Space Agency; Complex Web Structures by Daniela Castillo. Copyright: Christian Stein

Stretching Materialities | Materiales en Expansión

Exhibition Opened at Universidad de Buenos Aires | Exposición Inaugurada en la Universidad de Buenos Aires

Event | Object Space Agency | Stretching Materialities | XR | Science Communication Together with the Museo de Artes Plásticas Eduardo Sivorí we invite you to the opening of »Materials in Expansión«, on Wednesday, March 15th at 6:00 pm, where a conversation between Daniela Castillo Cortez and Christian Stein will take place, entitled »El Entramado - Nuevas Formas de Exposición Entre Tecnología, Ciencia y Arte (The Interweaving - New Forms of Exhibition Between Technology, Science and Art)«. It is an interactive experience of Virtual Reality and textile art by Daniela Castillo, participant of the 27th Textile Art Salon, currently exhibited at the museum. This performative installation could be visited every Wednesday until May 9th (extended), 2023 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. more

Poster OSA Talks. Links: Ester Fleckner: Woodbeds, brimming (more), 2020, Holzschnitt, Bleistift auf Papier, 143,0 x 109,0 cm, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. Copyright: Courtesy of the Artist und Galerie Barbara Wien, Berlin; Foto: Nick Ash | Rechts: bbildung 12a: »L’auteur«, Abb. II, Frontispiz. Gaston Bachelard und Albert Flocon, Châteaux en Espagne, Paris: Cercle Grolier, Lesamis du livre moderne 1957, hier Exemplar No. 72 (gedruckt für M. Henri Jaudon, auf Rives; gesamte Auflage 200), (S. 8, 19,5 x 14). Copyright: Marlene Militz

Stretching...Curation and ...Theory

New OSA Event Series Kicks Off on 6 and 7 March 2023

Event | Object Space Agency | Stretching Materialities On March 6th, 2023, OSA Talks, a new series of events, organized by members of the project »Object Space Agency« kicks off with a talk by Jenny Graser, Curator for Contemporary Arts at Berlin's Kupferstichkabinett, on Curating. Following on from the exhibition project »Stretching Materialities«, the series of events aims to bring together experts from the fields of collection and exhibition practice, design practice, the sciences and theory to discuss the «stretching« of materials and their agency in relation to objects and spaces. more

Anne Duk Hee Jordan, »Making Kin 3.0«, 2021, KIOSK, Ghent, Belgium. Site specific Installation, with works included »Atmospheres of Breathing«, 2020-2021, »Singing Saw«, 2018, »I am so ashamed«, 2020, »Staying with the trouble«, 2019. Curated by Simon Delobel. Photo: Paulius Sliaupa

About Clouds, Robots and the Sea – Thoughts on the Aesthetics of Metabolic Formations, Biodiversity and New Ecologies in Art and Design

Lecture and Artist Talk Now Online

Event | Object Space Agency | Air | Stretching Materialities Are there aesthetic links between clouds, robots and the sea? The lecture by Babette Marie Werner, the performative talk with visual artist Anne Duk Hee Jordan and artistic and design researcher Clemens Winkler explored relations between visual interpretations of metabolic formations, biodiversity and new ecologies in art and design. This event was part of the exhibition »Stretching Materialities« by »Object Space Agency«. Follow the link to watch the full artist talk online. more

The undesigned consequences – the rise in acidic Polar stratospheric clouds (PSCs). Copyright: Natalija Miodragović

Re-thinking Human Scale

Climate | Willow | Stretching Materialities We are our environment. To comprehend this inseparability, other than human experiences are to be imagined. Creating a new habitat of active architectures is a negotiation between conservation, regeneration and innovation. If we look at the inherited city, clothing, built and woven environment, atmosphere and techno-sphere as a multi-scale homeostatic process of conservation, other ecologies are to be included to complete the conservation. For ›matter as a condensation of response-ability‹ new perspectives of processes are needed for the innovation. more

Entering Nutritious Clouds at Phlegraean Fields, 2017. Seminar »Terranautic Instruments« with Roman Kirschner. Copyright: Clemens Winkler/ Roman Kirschner

Metabolic Formations

Air | Cloud | Climate | Stretching Materialities The exhibition space can also be understood as a space for processes metabolizing substances and forms. As a blob-like organism, a relational concept of activity and space makes it necessary to experimentally experience not only human and object-related perspectives, but also their energetic and material permeations. Hereby, it is more likely to link environments known to metabolisms from a human-scale perspective, such as volcanic grounds, to the exhibition space. Metabolic formations such as sediments or traces are in constant intentional and unintentional interaction with techniques and at the same time determine the energetic and material modes of the exhibition space. How can we make these modes more tangible for critical futures acting as systems designers? more

Material Epistemology

Stretching Materialities A museum is not only a place of objects, but also a place of practice. In its work with the objects – conservation, restoration, preparation, storage – extensive material experimentation and research take place. The material is combined with the processual and can be understood as energy potential for knowledge formation – or as a threshold for thinking. Handling different kinds of matter is part of the material knowledge of the museum. How is material activity dealt with in the museum, and what approaches are there to not only immobilize it but to put it at the center of the museum itself? more

A young XR enthusiast in the museum – using a VR headset modification with gesture recognition and stereo camera. Copyright: Christian Stein

Immersive Museum Space

XR | Stretching Materialities Looking at the virtual in the real, our museum spaces are already amalgamated of the physical and the virtual. Looking further at the virtual possibilities reveals activities that are invisible otherwise. Virtual Reality is a new medium for the interactive exploration of these activities. The idea is to digitally model the exhibition space itself and make it experienceable in virtual reality with head-mounted displays. By mapping the virtual representation onto the physical architecture, the virtual space becomes tangible – virtual columns can be felt and begin to speak when one listens to them. more

Virtual Material Definition in a game engine – defined by characteristics, not structure. Copyright: Christian Stein

Virtual Materials

Stretching Materialities Matter has always appeared as a basic physical unit in which objects are decomposed, out of which artifacts are created. If matter means primarily any homogeneity of structure, it is not necessarily physical per se. The view on virtual materials opens up a concept of material that can transcend and deceive the boundaries of the physical. Virtual materials can have properties that initially seem impossible – and they can be thought back from the properties to the structure and not vice versa. In this subproject, virtual materials will be investigated and made tangible. more