There is no future or past; everything remains always in the present. The Order of Time by Minimaforms
05/05/2023.
[LON] UK 28.04 > 03.06.2023
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“The Order of Time” is an immersive installation by Minimaforms, the practice of Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos, (Theodore Spyropoulos; Artist & Architect at Minimaforms and Director of the Architectural Association’s Design Research Lab) at the Architectural Association School of Architecture Gallery (AA Gallery) from Friday 28 April to 3 June 2023.
It features three sculptural works as the highlight of the exhibition, that reveal the ordering of space and our constructed relationships through direct experiential discovery, aimed to connect the preoccupations of physics, art, and architecture by revealing the ordering of spaces and constructed relationships through direct experience.
Organizations of spheres deployed through mathematical logic and designed to extend space within reflective lightboxes. An experiment vs installation to know how it influences the creation of spaces, buildings & cities.
It features three sculptural works as the highlight of the exhibition, that reveal the ordering of space and our constructed relationships through direct experiential discovery, aimed to connect the preoccupations of physics, art, and architecture by revealing the ordering of spaces and constructed relationships through direct experience.
Organizations of spheres deployed through mathematical logic and designed to extend space within reflective lightboxes. An experiment vs installation to know how it influences the creation of spaces, buildings & cities.
Minimaforms "The Order of Time" installation at Le quadrilatère_2022. Photograph by Salim Santa Lucia
Minimaforms "The Order of Time" installation at Le quadrilatère_2022. Photograph by Salim Santa Lucia
Minimaforms "The Order of Time" installation at Le quadrilatère_2022. Photograph by Salim Santa Lucia
Minimaforms "The Order of Time" installation at AA_2023. Photograph by Theodore Spyropoulos
Minimaforms "The Order of Time" installation at Le quadrilatère_2022. Photograph by Salim Santa Lucia
Minimaforms "The Order of Time" installation at AA_2023. Photograph by Theodore Spyropoulos
Minimaforms "The Order of Time" installation at AA_2023. Photograph by Theodore Spyropoulos
Minimaforms "The Order of Time" installation at AA_2023. Photograph by Hanjun Kim
Minimaforms "The Order of Time" installation at AA_Architectural Association School of Architecture Gallery_2023. Photograph by Yifan Yang
Memory Cloud_Detroit. Photograph by Jireh Hinton
Theodore Spyropoulos and Carlo Rovelli_2022. Photograph by Yifan Yang
In 1969, George Spencer Brown published his seminal book "Laws of Form "– an attempt to straddle the boundaries between mathematics and philosophy in which he declared: "Draw a distinction and a universe comes into being." This brief statement outlines the paradoxes of world-building and our relationship to these processes. If our understanding of the world is ours alone, then without action this understanding remains inaccessible to others. Rather than something shared and mutually understood, the "world" is plural, situated and in a process of continuous formation. Worlds within worlds are made legible through a cosmology of observations.
Physicist and author Carlo Rovelli reminds us that in physics, there is no future or past; everything understood remains in the ever-present. "The Order of Time" speaks to this understanding of time(s) as something situated and relational, examining world-building at infinite resolutions from the subatomic to the cosmological.
The three sculptural works shift scales and magnitudes, revealing this dynamic interplay through direct experience: everything you see is your own invention. The installation bridges art, science and technology, examining the forces of algorithmic structuring and simulation of life.
Building on John von Neumann’s research into self-replicating machines, the invention of cellular automata and John Conway’s Game of Life, the resultant three sections of time speak to the complex interactions of these associative rules within the construction of a model, in the spirit of Charles and Ray Eames’ seminal short film "Powers of Ten".
The exhibition includes a conversation between Carlo Rovelli and Theodore Spyropoulos, drawings, films, and a series of generative studies that further expand on the installation.
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Authors
Curators
Curators and museum directors Sylvie Boulanger, Keren Detton, Lucy Hofbauer and Marianne Friedman-Polonsky.
Collaborators
Lucy Hofbauer for the commission to explore the synergetic aspects of their work in dialogue with Yona Friedman.
Dates
Friday 28 April – Saturday 3 June 2023, Monday–Saturday, 11am–7pm BST.
Location
Architectural Association, AA School of Architecture, 36 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3ES, UK.
Photography
Salim Santa Lucia, Theodore Spyropoulos, Jireh Hinton, Yifan Yang, Hanjun Kim.
Stephen Spyropoulos, Theodore Spyropoulos. Minimaforms
Minimaforms was founded by brothers Stephen and Theodore Spyropoulos as an experimental practice that straddles art, design, science and technology, fostering frameworks that foreground human and emotive experiences. Their work has been acquired by international art and architecture collections that include the FRAC Centre, the Signum Foundation and the M+ / Archigram Archive in Hong Kong. They have been exhibited internationally including at MOMA New York, the Barbican Centre, the FRAC Centre Orleans, the Onassis Cultural Centre, Somerset House, the Detroit Institute of Arts, the Leonardo Da Vinci Museum of Science and Technology, the National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm, the Guangdong Science Centre and the Institute for Contemporary Art (ICA) London.
Theodore Spyropoulos is an architect and educator. He is the Director of the Architectural Association’s world renowned Design Research Lab (AADRL) in London and a resident artist at Somerset House. Theodore has previously chaired the AA Graduate School, was a Professor of Architecture at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt and co-founded the AA’s New Media and Information Research Cluster. He has been a visiting Research Fellow at M.I.T.’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies and taught in the graduate school of UPENN, RCA Innovation Design Engineering Department and the University of Innsbruck. Theodore has previously worked for the offices of Peter Eisenman and Zaha Hadid. In 2013, the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture awarded him the ACADIA Award of Excellence for his educational work directing the AADRL. Theodore received his BArch with honours from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, his MArch from the Architectural Association and his PhD from UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.
Stephen Spyropoulos is an artist, educator, and design leader who brings over twenty years of experience in building and scaling world-class teams, creating culture, designing innovation, and solving complex human-centred problems. Stephen has built and led design teams at hyper-growth technology companies such as Compass, Gilt Groupe, HBC, and Heavy. He has directed projects for clients such as Samsung, Matador Records, The Beggars Group, and XL Records. Stephen was named Creative Review’s One to Watch and has exhibited and lectured about his work internationally. He has taught Design Thesis at Mason Gross School of the Arts; Rutgers University and currently is a resident artist at Somerset House. Stephen received an MA in Communication and Interaction Design at Central St. Martins School of Art and Design in London and his BFA with honours from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.
Theodore Spyropoulos is an architect and educator. He is the Director of the Architectural Association’s world renowned Design Research Lab (AADRL) in London and a resident artist at Somerset House. Theodore has previously chaired the AA Graduate School, was a Professor of Architecture at the Staedelschule in Frankfurt and co-founded the AA’s New Media and Information Research Cluster. He has been a visiting Research Fellow at M.I.T.’s Center for Advanced Visual Studies and taught in the graduate school of UPENN, RCA Innovation Design Engineering Department and the University of Innsbruck. Theodore has previously worked for the offices of Peter Eisenman and Zaha Hadid. In 2013, the Association for Computer-Aided Design in Architecture awarded him the ACADIA Award of Excellence for his educational work directing the AADRL. Theodore received his BArch with honours from the New Jersey Institute of Technology, his MArch from the Architectural Association and his PhD from UCL Bartlett School of Architecture.
Stephen Spyropoulos is an artist, educator, and design leader who brings over twenty years of experience in building and scaling world-class teams, creating culture, designing innovation, and solving complex human-centred problems. Stephen has built and led design teams at hyper-growth technology companies such as Compass, Gilt Groupe, HBC, and Heavy. He has directed projects for clients such as Samsung, Matador Records, The Beggars Group, and XL Records. Stephen was named Creative Review’s One to Watch and has exhibited and lectured about his work internationally. He has taught Design Thesis at Mason Gross School of the Arts; Rutgers University and currently is a resident artist at Somerset House. Stephen received an MA in Communication and Interaction Design at Central St. Martins School of Art and Design in London and his BFA with honours from Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.
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