ESEX Expansible Structures
http://www.macg.inba.gob.mx/enred/esex.html

Like the graphics generated from data and information; like the
statistics of population density, the works in this exhibition have been
created almost anonymously by the result of a not-regulated interaction
of the internet user. The forms created from such operations are the
work that never is finished, since the diverse parameters which limit
these forms are in constant change. The results that appear here are
freezing of these mutual relations.

In this show three different projects appear that assume a modeller
practice from very different perspective. They approach his process
assuming the digital context from where they work, treating to assume
their interfaces as a possibly real use.

Created by the artist multimedia James Peterson in the e-era and where
the work daily coexists with the Sony Play Station and the music
reproducers in format MP3, The Engagement of Architecture is a
functional work that produces, in itself another piece from the
interaction between the public, the interface and the instrument. This
assembly of drawing-programming produced in architectonic animation is
from the preoccupation by the interaction in the creative process of
spaces; where the user or co-creator becomes an integral part of the
work. The result, spaces and structures conformed by digital drawings
and music obey to the emotional movement of the human being. The audio
on these works is produced by DJ K-Rad.

Library of Information Age (LIA), created by Elena Alva, Katrin Kalden,
David Serero and Esther Sperber of the group Degre Zero is an attempt to
shift the concept of library as a fortress of knowledge and culture
toward an interactive organism organizing fields of information. The LIA
does not contain information, it is generated by information. The space
of the library is built dynamically by the user : Beneath the body of
information, a "metasearch engine" compiles the information from several
databases (online/offline libraries, databases, internet search engines,
e.g.); The nodes and relations within the information generate a 3
dimensional interface, created on the movement and relative positioning
of search parameters such as keywords, ISBN, titles, authors. The
indexing becomes one variable in the generation of space. The user
defines his field of interest, creates, manipulates, and customizes his
personal "information environment" (cross sections, flat, studies by
levels, nodes, per year, by syntactic relationships). Form mutates and
dynamically responds to the user's command. Built up from the lowest
bits of information (URLs) and from groups of keywords and concepts, the
temporal alignments of the interacting bits give structure to the
library. This structure is not fixed, it exists instead as an ephemeral
alliances of connections.

Communimage is a work in process of the group calc and Johanes Gees that
portrays, by means of images voluntarily contributed by the Internet
navigators, a moment in time. This work began to being produced in June
of 1999 and will leave the Internet definitively in May of the 2002 in
order to appear in the Expo.02. Communimage, physically appears in the
museum like a printing of which it is until the 12:00 hours GMT of 16 of
May of the 2000, the always changing geographic form. Communimage works
as a plastic work that manages to create a collective work for our time
and form of creation, not just because of what the images represents but
by the way of its production. A functional work that is simultaneously
an instrument and a product.

ESEX Expansible Structures, more than a network show, it operates like a
convoking organism of diverse projects that look forward, through the
interaction a mechanical and conceptual improvement, in the creative
processes of our daily urban life. In this sense ESEX tries to be open
to collaborations that work under the same parameters marked by this
curatorial call.

If you want to submit your project please send [title project, author(s)
name, project description (about 10 lines)] to
proyectos.macg@worldmailer.com, in order to make the link in these
pages.