Exo [global eye(s)]: Dynamic responsive system critical review of the research project, prototype and exhibition concepts

Exo Case-Study and Prototype of the Dynamic Responsive Architectural System: The Key Attributes of Systemic Integration and Design – Part I

“…The second unfolds within the artistic context where it can be designated as a device capable of producing and reproducing the content or an effect (and experience, emphasis added) of a specific artistic and aesthetic value and impact, while also entailing a distinctive critical and speculative potential corresponding to means and technologies by which they have been mediated." [1] (pp. [462][463] The experiment tried to reconcile these separated designations by using both the artistic problematization, often deploying dramatization (mise-en-scène machine tactics and staging tactics [5] (p. 110) which can more or less alter the real conditions in favor of the artistic communication and interpretation), and the scientific rigor of the instrumental approach that has to be grounded on reliable data and precise measurements (without any kind of their refinement or altering due to the desired aesthetic effect) 1 .…”

“…[1] (pp. [462][463] The experiment tried to reconcile these separated designations by using both the artistic problematization, often deploying dramatization (mise-en-scène machine tactics and staging tactics [5] (p. 110) which can more or less alter the real conditions in favor of the artistic communication and interpretation), and the scientific rigor of the instrumental approach that has to be grounded on reliable data and precise measurements (without any kind of their refinement or altering due to the desired aesthetic effect) 1 . The attributes, in that respect being the main research subject of this study, largely influence and enable different ways for this to be achieved.…”

“…As it has been hypothesized and aimed at, the instrument has demonstrated and proved its artistic-scientific twofold character: a) artistic in problematizing and speculating certain themes and methodologies in aesthetic and critical register alongside mediating new multisensorial environmental experience through kinetic behavior, and b) scientific, regarding the primary aims defined by research program -identification, measuring and deployment of certain parameters from the environment, and their processing towards the desired answers, conclusions and active responses [1] (pp. [27][28][29][31][32], 4].…”

“…Algorithmic integration also defines possible degrees of openness considering the system's control, objectives, feedback, and relation to the environment. If one refers to specification of the algorithmically integrated and controlled systems according to the main systemic criteria of categorization 4 , then the algorithms have been planned to make the Exo system: (1) fully open (both considering the character of change and relation to the environment, based on influence that tracked systems and processed information impose on the system's operations and primary tasks),…”

“…Previously published studies have inspected its architecture-instrument concept and formal model by addressing several research issues. The first publication aimed at providing an overview on the Exo architectural system design, integration, project development through all its phases, and prototype tests with public staging, all within the indicated framework of dynamic responsiveness [1]. The second inquiry posed a theoretical and Exo Case-Study and Prototype of the Dynamic Responsive Architectural System:…”