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Media Architecture and Data Environment from the Perspective of Karen Barad's Agential Realism

캐런 바라드의 행위적 실재론적 관점에서 본 미디어 건축과 데이터 환경

  • Received : 2022.10.22
  • Accepted : 2023.01.04
  • Published : 2023.01.30
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Abstract

Media Architecture is an architectural phenomenon that reached a level of maturity roughly between 2000 and mid-2010s. It demonstrated multifarious ways of mediating disparate realms in data-driven environments by architectural materiality. This study casts new light on three examples of Media Architecture from the perspective of New Materialism, in particular, Karen Barad's Agential Realism. The stakes are on asking how architecture can articulate and spatialize itself through relational materiality in a generic data environment. The analyses evolve around Barad's agential realist concepts of measurement, apparatus, agential cut, mattering, intra-action, and phenomena. The architectural examples include Tower of Winds from 1986, Blur Building from 2002, and D-Tower from 2003. In each example, various modes and scales of how architecture can (re)configure and produce reality as part of the phenomenon that it measures are explored. Lastly, I discuss the role of architecture in the data age in terms of Baradian agency and ongoing historicity and propose what 'Posthumanist Architecture' might be about as future research.

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