2021.10 Cosmic Futures
Kirkland Gallery is pleased to present “Cosmic Futures”, a group exhibition featuring work “Space Babylon” by Taeyong Kim and “Mandelbulb” by Liz Van Dyke. Cosmic Futures considers not only immediate conservation needs but also the future of preservation as it pertains to our present moment. At once a capital of extraction and vast biological reserve, two works, “Space Babylon” and “Mandelbulb” explore the possibility of synthesizing new worlds.
SPACE BABYLON
Once upon a time, the earth was considered as a single plate that has its end. But, the discovery of the round globe had a sensational impact on human history. This discovery gave people a chance to see the world in a different point of view. However, even though we discovered the true shape of the earth, we had to face the inevitable fact that the cities on the earth had to sit on a limited ground. So, the engineers and architects tried to overcome this restriction by using imagination and technology. This project is to draw an imaginative city based on this ongoing urban issue. The endless dark space can be a threshold to expand the infinite city for the future.
Taeyong Kim is a computational designer and architect pursuing the creation of novel architectural systems and designs based on emerging technology and imagination. He finished his five years of architectural education at the Kookmin University in South Korea. And he is now studying for the Master in Design Studies (Technology) degree at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. After finishing his architectural education in South Korea, He had worked in a company, MXM Architects, for two years. During that time, he had developed a plug-in, RFD(Robotic Fabrication Design), and done research about robotic fabrication in facade construction and clay 3D printing. Recently he is preparing a thesis about the optimization of plans for autonomous personal robots in buildings.
Mandelbulb
Like the elements of which we are composed, the action of these forces extends beyond us; it rusts iron and ripens corn. Far out on every side of us those elements are broadcast, driven by many forces; and birth and gesture and death and the springing of violets from the grave are but a few out of ten thousand resultant combinations. That clear, perpetual outline of face and limb is but an image of ours, under which we group them - a design in a web, the actual threads of which pass out beyond it.
Liz Van Dyke is an architectural designer. She is currently a Master of Landscape I AP (MLA I AP) candidate at Harvard GSD. Van Dyke is interested in digital and image representation through the architectural lens. In her work, she portrays a material and psychic connection towards architecture through a legibility of transformation to enhance the invisible occurrences moving in the world. She holds a B.Arch from The Southern California Institute of Architecture at SCI-Arc, 2019. Prior to attending GSD, Van Dyke worked as an architectural designer in Los Angeles and San Francisco.
