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Eva Sommeregger architectural research // workshops & lectures // cv // contact // horhizon |
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scale . scape . scope MAK Schindler residency Los Angeles, 2011 research project for "a cartography from a roadtrip-point-of-view" collaboration with Gregor Holzinger and Florian Schafschetzy scale. Exploring infrastructural landscapes, it becomes obvious that infrastructure not only provides the framework for moving patterns as such, but foremost informs the very patterns of perception. When passing by in a car, the view on the surroundings is rendered a cinematic experience. Landscape becomes an ephemeral and transient projection from a floating perspective, its scale becomes loose. scape. Historically landscape is a framed view on a piece of land. 18th Century English garden architecture arranged pavilions, ruins, trees and lakes in the garden, accentuating certain views on idealized nature informed by landscape painting. Current discourse treats landscape as a continuous field without distinction if man-made or natural. It is characterized by the loss of figure-ground relationships dominating 20th century urban design, which directly associated building mass with a determined function. Space is rather treated as a continuously mediated field, thus negotiable and takes into account a presence of the participant. Space is not a vessel, it is produced / practiced by its protagonists, creating their very own space-time. scope. A -scope has always been a tool for inspection, i.e. telescope, microscope, kaleidoscope. We face an age in which the human sensory organs and physical body get inextricably interconnected with their media extensions. Gadgets and prostheses allow for accessing hyperspaces. Virtual and geographical realms overlap, are even coextensive. A GPS in a car, Google Earth, Street View and such applications create their own space intersecting with the geographical. This current state exceeds the three-dimensional, redefining what falls under the scope of the architectural. How might it be mapped / drawn? What might cartography from a moving point of view be like? With the car being the tool for examination, a car-scope, what does it reveal? |
exhibition at the MAK Schindler House, opening reception September 8th 2011
360° video of 5 American Westcoast places: Morenci Mine,
Quartzsite Trailer Park,
Rio Vista Development,
Lucin Cutoff, Harry Pregerson Interchange LA 
car installation - live GPS: Claudia Slanar, live audio: Abby Lee Tee. 360° video from inside the car
Special thanks to Kogeto, NY for sponsoring the lucy 360°camera equipment |
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cityscape.at research project and 360° online application, 2010
build the city around yourself cityscape.at consists of a realtime-engine that automatically creates a city-landscape out of the user's choice from a list of cities worldwide. The collaged city imagery image orbit can be navigated and altered by the user from within. cityscape.at is virtual public space and is published under the conditions of a GNU public license - a licensing form that enables people to further develop the code on the basis of this piece of work, which at the same time is protected from proprietary usage. cityscape.at is supported by the Margarethe Schütte-Lihotzky research grant 2010 awarded through the Austrian Ministry of Education, Art and Culture link to cityscape application |
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slow scuplture , 11th Venice Architecture Biennale, 2008 collaboration with Itai Margula and Shimon Takasaki Aaron Betsky EveryVille Competition, winning project It was neither Tuesday nor Wednesday, and it was certainly not at 02:32 pm when the phone rang at her place. She was in the midst of mounting a picture on the wall, that’s why she could not pick up the phone. That night, she had decided to go to the cinema and – because she didn’t have an answering machine, she would never find out who had called that day. She took it for granted that different events were taking place simultaneously, after all, she was living in the city. Missing out on occasions has never really bothered her. Was her day-to-day life affected by construction sites growing like mould everywhere feasible? This certain digging into the ground that would unveil a series of hidden structures and traces of eras most citizens had already forgotten about, showing traces of someone else who had been there before, mounting another perspective in space time. Traces, which connect another time in space and another space in time. Traces of somebody who saw the same rays of sun making their way through the dawn, heard the same whispering in the trees, smelled the same mouldy air on the long escalators and elevators in the underground, someone who touched the same wall, the same floor, the same book or the same glass. Contributing to one sLow ScULPTure called city, a space between individuals within a material-immaterial something. Objects being formed within a broad scale of time, creating an ever-changing archive. Either one defines their space where the rain falls or builds a roof against it. Either one flows through space or space flows through them. If there are no spaces anymore, cause urbanity has swallowed them all, then at least there are stories telling about them. And the stories were not too bad, so no need to forget them. Every story sets up its own space, and likewise every space is a carrier of stories. And then, it was Monday. |
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*.scape animation 2008, 4:50 min MArch Project at Bartlett School of Architecture London, MArch 2007, selected for Architettura in città festival, Turin 2011 Piazza dell’Achitettura, Trieste 2010 Souvenirs from Earth”, independent European TV Station (F,GER ) 2009 3.Asolo film festival”, Asolo 2009 Beyond Media architecture and film festival, Firenze 2009 dislocate, exhibition and symposium, Yokohama 2008 audiovisiva, experimental media festival, Milano 2008 Anifest, film festival, Praha2008 Lost in Vienna” film festival, Wien 2008 Architecture of the Near Future, film screening, London 2008 An embodied camera occupies disembodied realities: The camera is positioned in the middle of a layered up, spherical projection containing everything perceivable from a specific point (a 360 ° x 360 ° projection). The spatial set-up is inspired by [google street view], which cartographs cities by an almost infinite number of spherical photographs. How relevant are these endless numbers of pictures to us, captured and stored within the collective memory of the www? Rather than recording the actual, this animation generates fake landscapes – imagined scapes, entirely made up. |
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avatar animation 2007, 1:00 min, loop mixed media project within the MArch Program at the Bartlett, London, UCL, shown at 60Seconds festival 2011, Copenhagen Theoneminutes belgianopen festival 2009, Gent Dislocate symposium 2008, Yokohama Lost in Vienna filmfestival 2008, Vienna AniFest festival 2008, Prague This film is neither a drawing nor a performance. It shifts between categories. The actual boundaries between various media - such as movement, video , animation and projection, which all were involved within the construction of the film - are blurred. Video is used to capture moments in time - the digital film shows three outlines, one evolving after each other and because of each other. It is about a one-directional process that is taking place again and again. |
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emmanuel day care kindergarten , design/build project, Feb/Mar 2006
Orange Farm Township, Johannesburg, construction time: 6 weeks A TU Vienna project, lead by Peter Fattinger. 19 students design a kindergarten and realise it in situ: Lina Cipan, Fabian Gasser, Ingo Grasser, Theresa Größ, Maximilian Heine-Geldern, Christoph Kronawetter, Anna Lindner, Claudia Meixner, Philipp Munz, Lars Oberwinter, Maria Pertlwieser, Jennifer Puchner, Elias Rubin, Eva Sommeregger, Esther Thomson, Marlene Wagner, Angelika Wild, Katharina Zerlauth, Johannes Zotter Awarded the Austrian Building Award 2006. project webpage sarch |
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