CALIFORNIA GUEST SPEAKERS: INSTITUTE of the ARTS Phil Bernstein 24700 McBean Parkway Valencia, California 91355 Benjamin Bratton Christina Cogdell Teddy Cruz Peggy Deamer Andrés Jaque Laura Kurgan Neil Leach Reinhold Martin Patrik Schumacher the POLITICS of PARAMETRICISM Digital Technologies & the Future(s) of Sociality A CONFERENCE CURATED AND ORGANIZED BY: MEDIA SPONSOR (evolo.us) Matthew Poole & Manuel Shvartzberg HOSTED BY: LEAD SPONSOR The MA Aesthetics & Politics Program at (autodesk.com) CalArts & The Gallery at REDCAT FRI 15th & SAT 16th NOV 2013 @ REDCAT � nd MA Aesthetics and Politics Program 631 West 2 Street • Los Angeles, CA 90012 • www.redcat.org Friday 15th & Saturday 16th, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 November, 2013 A Conference Curated and Organized By: 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM @ REDCAT Matthew Poole & Manuel Shvartzberg Panel 1: Introduction To Parametri- 631 West 2nd St., la, ca 90012 cism: Historical and Technological Hosted by: The MA Aesthetics & Politics Program at CalArts & The Gallery at REDCAT www.redcat.org Context Phillip G. Bernstein: Finding Value in Parameters: How Scripting Beyond Form Changes the Potential of the POLITICS of Design Practice Christina Cogdell: Breeding Ideology: Parametricism and Biological PARAMETRICISM Architecture Neil Leach: There is no such thing as Digital Technologies a political architecture; there is no & the Future(s) of Sociality such thing as digital architecture 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Panel 2: Parametricism, The Com- mons And Social Representation “Parametricism” has been heralded as the new avant-garde in the fields of architecture and design–the next ‘grand style’ in the history of archi- Teddy Cruz: The New Political: tectural movements. Parametric models enable digital designers to create Where the Top Down and the complex structures and environments as well as new understandings of Bottom up Meet space, both real and virtual. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 15 Peggy Deamer: Parametric Whether as tools for democratic action or tyrannical spectacle; self- Schizophrenic and community-building capabilities; a post-humanistic subject; or, the 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM mediatized politics of our various futurisms–all these themes are figured Keynote Event Laura Kurgan: The Method is within the Parametricist discourse. the Message “Architecture and politics: This conference, which includes a range of high profile international Parametricism within or beyond 4:45 PM – 6:30 PM speakers from architectural practice and theory, will explore urgent liberal democracy?” Panel 3: Designing Subjectivities, – a discussion with Reinhold Martin Curating New Models of Sociality questions that concern the social and political ramifications at stake and Patrik Schumacher in the evolution of this new design paradigm. Benjamin H. Bratton: The Always Reinhold Martin: On Numbers, Partial System: For an Inhuman More or Less Parametricism Patrik Schumacher: Thesis on Andrés Jaque: Architecture as the Politics of Parametricism Rendered Society GUEST SPEAKERS: BENJAMIN H. BRATTON is a theorist whose work spans philosophy, art and TEDDY CRUZ was born in Guatemala City. He obtained a Master in Design LAURA KURGAN is Associate Professor of Architecture at the Graduate School PATRIK SCHUMACHER is Partner at Zaha Hadid Architects and Founding design. At the University of California, San Diego, he is Associate Professor of Studies at Harvard University in 1997 and established his research-based of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, where she Director at the AA Design Research Lab. He joined Zaha Hadid in 1988 and has Visual Arts, Director of The UCSD Design Theory and Research Platform and architecture practice in San Diego, California in 2000. He has been recognized directs the Visual Studies curriculum, the Spatial Information Design Lab and since been the co-author of many key projects, such as maxxi–the National D:GP, The Center for Design and Geopolitics. His research is situated at the internationally for his urban research of the Tijuana-San Diego border, and is Co-Director of the Advanced Data Visualization Project. She is the author Italian Museum for Art and Architecture of the 21st century in Rome. In 2010 intersections of contemporary social and political theory, computational media in collaboration with community-based nonprofit organizations, such as Casa of Close Up at a Distance: Mapping, Technology, and Politics (Zone Books, 2013). he won the Royal Institute of British Architects’ Stirling Prize for excellence in & infrastructure, architectural & urban design problems, and the politics of Familiar, for advancing border immigrant neighborhoods as sites of cultural Kurgan’s work explores subjects ranging from digital mapping technologies to architecture. Schumacher studied philosophy, mathematics, and architecture synthetic ecologies and biologies. Bratton's current work focuses on the polit- production, from which to rethink urban policy and propose new models of the ethics and politics of mapping, building intelligence, and the art, science in Bonn, London and Stuttgart, where he received his Diploma in architecture ical geography of cloud computing, massively-granular universal addressing inclusive housing and civic infrastructure. In 1991 he received the prestigious and visualization of big and small data. Her work has appeared at the Cartier in 1990. In 1999 he completed his Ph.D at the Institute for Cultural Science, systems, and alternate models of ecological governance. His next book, The Rome Prize in Architecture and in 2005 Cruz was the first recipient of the Foundation in Paris, the Venice Architecture Biennale, the Whitney Altria, Klagenfurt University. In 1996 he founded the Design Research Laboratory with Stack: On Software and Sovereignty, is forthcoming from MIT Press. James Stirling Memorial Lecture On The City Prize, by the Canadian Center of MACBa Barcelona, the ZKM in Karlsruhe, and the Museum of Modern Art. Brett Steele, at the Architectural Association in London, and continues to teach Architecture and the London School of Economics. In 2008 he was selected to Kurgan was the recipient of the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship in the program. Since 2000 Schumacher is also guest professor at the Universi- represent the U.S. in the Venice Architecture Biennial and in 2011 Cruz was a in 2009. ty of Applied Arts in Vienna. In 2010 and 2012 he published the two volumes of recipient of the Ford Foundation Visionaries Award, the Global Award for Sus- his theoretical opus magnum The Autopoiesis of Architecture. His lectures and PHILLIP G. BERNSTEIN is a Vice President at Autodesk, a leading provider of tainable Architecture and was named one of the 50 Most Influential Designers essays in architectural theory are available at www.patrikschumacher.com. In digital design, engineering and entertainment software, where he leads Stra- in America by Fast Company magazine. Cruz is currently a professor in public 2002 Schumacher curated Latent Utopias—Experiments within Contemporary tegic Industry Relations and is responsible for setting the company’s future culture and urbanism in the Visual Arts Department at the University of Cali- NEIL LEACH is a Professor at the University of Southern California. He has Architecture and he is currently planning the exhibition Parametricism—The vision and strategy for technology, as well as cultivating and sustaining the fornia, San Diego, and the co-founder of the Center for Urban Ecologies. also taught at the AA, Columbia GSAPP, Cornell University, DIA, IaaC and SCI- New International Style. firm’s relationships with strategic industry leaders and associations. An ex- Arc. He is the author, editor and translator of 24 books, including Rethinking perienced architect, Bernstein was formerly with Pelli Clarke Pelli Architects Architecture, The Anaesthetics of Architecture, Designing for a Digital World, where he managed many of the firm’s most complex commissions. Bernstein PEGGY DEAMER is Assistant Dean and Professor of Architecture at Yale Uni- Digital Tectonics, Digital Cities, Machinic Processes, Swarm Intelligence, Script- teaches Professional Practice at the Yale School of Architecture where he re- versity and a principal in the firm of Deamer Studio. She received a B.Arch. ing the Future, Fabricating the Future and Camouflage. Leach has been co-cura- CONFERENCE ceived both his B.A. and his M.Arch. He is co-editor of Building (In) The Future: from The Cooper Union and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. Her dissertation tor of a series of international exhibitions including the Architecture Biennial Recasting Labor in Architecture (2010) and BIM In Academia (2011). He is a Se- on Adrian Stokes emphasized the relationship he explored between vision, the Beijing. He is currently a NASA Innovative Advanced Concepts Fellow working ORGANIZERS: nior Fellow of the Design Futures Council and former Chair of the AIA National body, and craft. Articles by Deamer have appeared in Assemblage, Praxis, Per- on robotic fabrication technologies for the Moon and Mars. Contract Documents Committee. specta, Architecture and Psychoanalysis, and Harvard Design Magazine, among other journals and anthologies. The work of her firm has appeared in Dwell, MANUEL SHVARTZBERG is an architect and writer. He has worked for, among The New York Times; Architectural Record and House and Garden, among others. REINHOLD MARTIN is Associate Professor of Architecture in the Graduate others, OMA/Rem Koolhaas, and was project architect for David Chipperfield She is the