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 Nicola Probst, Amir Soltani Codecity: Incrementing = True Switerland 2000 Through the format of the dynamic web site, “Codecity : Incrementing = True” tries to unveil new spaces and offer a new type of mapping, where images, the temporal dimension and sounds are integrated. Spaces that are often defined as non-places become a new planning opportunity, new places of contemporary living. The city, therefore, is no longer a place of great deeds and monuments, but a place of perceptive fragments, diachronic and transitory spaces. Technology, with its codes and its flux of spreading and invisible capital, originates these interstitial spaces, thus creating a new city, (post-metropolis?), and questioning the actual idea of corporeality. The web site is a sort of sensorial experience, in a certain way it imitates the new city. This project was set up for the competition held in Florence even though we are well are of the fact that we are only at the very beginning. “Codecity: Incrementing = True” is not yet finished, it will grow and change in the future, it will have new web pages and links. It will probably attract the collaboration of new people too. Nicola Probst was born in 1969 in Locarno, Switzerland. In 1994 he obtained a diploma in architecture at the Technical Institute of the Ticino Region and for two years he worked in Mendrisio, at Ivano Gianola’s atelier. In 1997 he won a scholarship at the University of California at Berkeley where he received his Master in Architecture in 1999. This is where he began to be interested in the analysis of the contemporary condition and new daily territories. He has recently been working with Loom Studio for projects based in San Francisco and Taiwan. Amir Soltani lived and worked in San Francisco Bay Area where in 1993 received his BA in Fine Arts from San Francisco State University and his Master in Design from University of California at Berkeley in 1999. Since early 1980 as an artist and researcher his focus has been an unexplored domain that exists, in the interstice between images and sounds. He dabbled in bridging the gaps between art and technology as well as interacting with various art genres such as electroacoustic music. Today he is thriving to bring the same intention to the web arts, creating products and experience that represent and are indigenous to that combined domain. |
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