Annex has been selected to represent Ireland at the 17th Venice Architecture Biennale in 2020. The Irish pavilion, entitled Entanglement, examines Ireland’s place, both historically and currently, in the pan-national evolution of data infrastructure and its impact on architectural space and society. Annex’s exhibition will tour Ireland in 2021 following its presentation in Venice. For…
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Designing for the Unknown is a lecture series sponsored by CONNECT, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Future Networks and Communications, organised by myself and the Orthogonal Methods Group. It aims to bring critical perspectives on the political, ethical, social and environmental issues concerning the design and development of future communications and network technologies. The first lecture in…
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The Orthogonal Methods Group (OMG) are hosted by ‘The Incomputable’ project on a visiting residency at the IZK Institute for Contemporary Art, TU Graz from 22-26 October 2018. As part of the residency, OMG developed the ‘Matters of Facts’ programme, a series of workshops, talks and screenings that explore the relationship between facts, computation, algorithms,…
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Together with the artist Cliona Harmey, I am hosting a discussion on the subject of elevators, verticality, urbanism and technology. Image: Newton & Co Makers – Magic Lantern Slide – Coal Mining. Research image courtesy of Cliona Harmey.
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