Aleksandra Wasilkowska invited Michal Piasecki to collaborate on the design of “Unusually Rare Events / Distribution of Noovantgarde” exhibition in Warsaw’s Centre of Contemporary Arts (CSW). Detailed description of the exhibition, written by it’s curator, Lukasz Ronduda, is available from CSW. You can find a short excerpt below:

“Extremely Rare Events / Distribution of the Noo-Avantgarde is an experimental artistic-scientific project, a result of intense interaction between art and science. The exhibition crowns one of the stages of a unique dialogue, continuing for over a year now, between artists and scientists devoted to the phenomenon of Extremely Rare Events and generally between complexity science and art. This dialogue has become a catalyst for a generational statement by a group of young artists, curators and architects, whose practices can be termed, in keeping with the exhibition’s manifesto, as Noo-Avantgarde.”

The exhibition features interdisciplinary work by artists, scientists and architects:

Artists: Janek Simon, Agnieszka Kurant and Oskar Dawicki.

Scientists: prof. Andrzej Nowak and Luc Steels.

Architects: Yona Friedman, Francois Roche and my collaboration with Ola Wasilkowska.

Cultural theoretician: Edwin Bendyk.

Graphic artists: Kasia Korczak and Boy Verecken.

Generative design: distortions of the grid of components

Michal Piasecki developed a generative procedure in Processing. It arranged 6000 concrete blocks within the exhibition space accordingly to locations of the pieces on display and desired trajectories of the visitors. Dimensions of each component where 60 by 20 by 10 cm. The locations of the art works and visitors’ trajectories where converted into spatial actors, physically influencing the location of the concrete components. Art works attracted the components, while movement trajectories repealed them. At the end, the procedure was used not only to generate the components’ spatial configuration, but became a part of the exhibition itself.

Below are photos by Maciek Landsberg and a video depicting actor’s influence on the arrangement of components.

Science section: interviews from prof. Andrzej Nowak’s collection and Luc Steels’ works.

Architectural section: works of Francois Roche, Agnieszka Kurant and Yona Friedman.

Architectural section: work of Janek Simon.

Components spill on the CSW’s courtyard.