syn:wall at ITNOA exhibition

I just finished my first Flex project, an interactive projection wall for the exhibition ITNOA - In The Name Of Architecture. The exhibition brings together projects of students of the three universities in Vienna teaching architecture (TU Wien, Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Die Angewandte) in a self-curated setting. While the projects coming from different universities are presented in different areas of the printed-out part of the exhibition, syn:wall brings all projects together on one surface and creates neighborhood relationships between similar projects using quantitative attributes and tags.


The result of such an exploration can be printed out on a color laser printer and taken home by the visitor as an individual page of a distributed, virtual exhibition catalog.

One thing I learned (again) in this project is how inferior projectors are as an output medium. In a single grid cell of the exhibition, measuring 120 x 45 cm, a whole architecture project can be communicated in printed form, including texts, diagrams, plans and renderings. In the same area of the projected image there are 240 * 100 pixels, which can hold a lousy, pixelated thumbnail of the same project. Therefore I really like the idea of on-demand printing, and I would like to investigate this further in future projects, including producing larger prints with a plotter (something we originally planned to do but could not realize within the given budget and time).

ITNOA will be on until the end of the week, with a closing down party on Friday, the 25th of April (unfortunately I cannot be there on Friday because of two other appointments). It is located in the "Albertinapassage", the underpass under the Ring on the Albertina side of the Opera. ITNOA is also probably the last chance to have a drink at the infamous "Gaudí Bar" there, since the underpass will be closed down shortly after the exhibition. This place somehow always inspires me to get totally wasted every time I am there...

Thanks to Rüdiger Suppin for working on the concept with me and to all ITNOA people who helped entering the project information and crop all the images.