Black Box is a parallel reconstruction project evaluating the unique by repetition, an analyse of the essential existence of unrealized architectural projects through their increasing concrete existence. We construct a database of 50 remarkable architectural projects from the last 50 years that were innovative, utopian, exploiting the social and technical possibilities of their time, and that even if there were not realized in the end, they became part of the architectural culture in Hungary. This visual database is animated by a software developed for this project manipulating the images based on the Brown-movement: the software selects randomly visual elements of the database, and it draws it on the screen. We gain this way an image slowly developing and changing in time, that is permanently overwritten by the constantly working machinery. The code unites the successive image sequences and visualises a summary of the elements. It keeps in the frame for a while the previously selected images, showing in present the past. In a certain way it can remember the images already seen, revealing not only for a moment the image, but showing the progress of the image-process. What we can see is a very slowly changing image (the progress is almost imperceptible - something like when we look at the clock hands) created with a pixel manipulator, which is scanning only certain elements on the surface of the image. The result is a hybrid between animation and still image. We imagine this work as a dual-channel projection on two sides of a black-and white box situated at the entrance of the gallery as a door to the past. We invite 12 architects to reproduce their plans from their memory on the walls of the gallery on day of the opening. We do not expect from the architects the exact reconstruction of the plans, but to recall from their memory the buildings they envisaged, and to represent them through the drawings. The drawing by hand will be documented as a performance, and the video will shown on a screen as part of the installation, parallel to the development of the animated "painting". Black Box (2008) is a rejected project by Anna Balint, Béla Káli and Joseph Tasnádi. One of the attached is screenshots from the animation realized with the software, the other is a view of the installation.
Black Box is a parallel reconstruction project evaluating the unique by repetition, an analyse of the essential existence of unrealized architectural projects through their increasing concrete existence. We construct a database of 50 remarkable architectural projects from the last 50 years that were innovative, utopian, exploiting the social and technical possibilities of their time, and that even if there were not realized in the end, they became part of the architectural culture in Hungary. This visual database is animated by a software developed for this project manipulating the images based on the Brown-movement: the software selects randomly visual elements of the database, and it draws it on the screen. We gain this way an image slowly developing and changing in time, that is permanently overwritten by the constantly working machinery. The code unites the successive image sequences and visualises a summary of the elements. It keeps in the frame for a while the previously selected images, showing in present the past. In a certain way it can remember the images already seen, revealing not only for a moment the image, but showing the progress of the image-process. What we can see is a very slowly changing image (the progress is almost imperceptible - something like when we look at the clock hands) created with a pixel manipulator, which is scanning only certain elements on the surface of the image. The result is a hybrid between animation and still image. We imagine this work as a dual-channel projection on two sides of a black-and white box situated at the entrance of the gallery as a door to the past. We invite 12 architects to reproduce their plans from their memory on the walls of the gallery on day of the opening. We do not expect from the architects the exact reconstruction of the plans, but to recall from their memory the buildings they envisaged, and to represent them through the drawings. The drawing by hand will be documented as a performance, and the video will shown on a screen as part of the installation, parallel to the development of the animated "painting". Black Box (2008) is a rejected project by Anna Balint, Béla Káli and Joseph Tasnádi. One of the attached is screenshots from the animation realized with the software, the other is a view of the installation.