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Computerising Ornamental Urban Talismans
- Location / Paris
Silicon City Dreams
The following urbanscapes emerge from the imagination of the AI upon its encounter with an Ottoman miniature of Byzantine Constantinople (c.1600).
Through 6 different city models, algorithms reinterpret the mystical representation of Constantinople. These models are rational compositions which are based on Western architectural culture. They are used as oneirogens, dream generators.
642 city models emerge during the process of transformation. Each scenario is a different oneiropolids, a dream city.
The Dusk of Data at the Hippodrome of Constantinople
Algorithmic Urban Dreams - Axonometric View
Oneiropolis Details
Algorithmic Urban Dreams - Top View
Digital Mysticism
The Ottoman miniaturist sought to reveal the hidden treasures which are concealed behind material appearances.
In this experiment, the symbolism of the invisible is used for the hacking of the artificial logic of the machine. This transtemporal fusion explores the possibility of a “digital mysticism" in contemporary architecture.
The mystical use of AI gives birth to the figure of alchemist-architect. The algorithms become the elixir allowing us to imagine talismanic spaces in the Age of AI.
Transmutating Electronic Urbanscapes inside the Silicon Chip
Oneiropolis 464
Architectural details are added with generative algorithms. Various words and phrases are integrated into the urban space.
These citations are taken from medieval Byzantine literature on the urban talismans of Constantinople.
The occult symbolism of Byzantine literature and the colors of Ottoman mystical dreams are combined to represent a suprasensbile urban space.
Constantinople 2049 - The Oneiropolis 464
Notiones constantinopolitana
KONSTANTINOPELIDEE
Second Rome (Δεύτερη Ρώμη, Defteri Romi) in Themistios, Himerios & Libanios
New Rome (Νέα Ρώμη, Nea Romi) in Gregory of Naziance, Procopius & Paulus Silentiarius
New Jerusalem
New Zion
New Athens
Ancient city of Byzas
Center of the world
City of Constantine
Rebellious City
Regent city (βασιλεία πόλη, Basilis Polis)
Florentissima urbs in the Theodosian Codex The city under God's watch (Theophylaktos Polis) in Georges of Psidia, 7th c.
The eye and the heart of Earth in Micheal Psellos, Théodore Prodrome & Constantin Manassès
Theater of the universe in Manuel Holobos, Grégoire de Chypre & Théodore Métochite
The city was named Anthousa by Constantine the Great. (Eusthate, Commentarii in Dionysii Periegesin, Geographi Graeci Minores. F. Didot, p.357)
Kotelnikov Patterns of Digital Talismans
Prophetical Towers of Neo-Apollonius
Algorithmic Urban Dreams - Axonometric View
Ρώμη Φλώρα, και Κωνσταντινούπολις, ήγουν άνθουσα.
Rome was Flora, and Constantinople Anthousa.
(Jean Le Lydien, De Mensibus, IV, 75, ed. Wuensch, p. 126, 16-17)
Χριστέ ó Θεος άτάραχτονκαΐ άπόλεμον φύλαττε τήν πόλιν σου.
Christ o Lord, undisturbed, protect your city from war.
(Inscription on the walls of Constantinople dating from the 11th century)
Σύ, Χριστέ, κόσμου βασιλεύς και δεσπότης σοί προστίθημι τήνδε τήν δούλην πόλιν και σκήπτρα τήσδε καί τό πάν 'Ρώμης κράτος φύλαττε ταύτην, σώζε δ' έκ πάσης βλάβης.
O Christ, King and Despot of the world, I added to you the slave city and the scepters of the whole Roman state. Guarded it and save it from all harm.
(Constantine the Rhodian cited by Kedrenos in Historiarum compendium)
ή πόλις σου Θεοτόκε
Your city, o Theotokos!
Της Θεοτόκου ή πόλις τη Θεοτόκω
The city of Theotokos to Theotokos
Είς άπειρους αιώνας εύόδωσον ταύτην.
Lord, let this city prosper for infinite centuries.
Παραστάσεις σύντομοι χρονικαι (Parastesis, I p57, Preger)
Constantinople consecrated to Christ
Or to the Virgin as the mistress of the City.
Urban Dreams of a Young Cyborg
Friday Sunset on the Cybernetic Square
Boulevards of Holographic Turkish Delights
Ecumenical Information Processing Complex
The Silicon Nymphaeum in Eminenu
Quarter of Cybernetic Mystics
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Low-Energy Android Slums in Levent
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Galactic Comms Towers of Neo-Seraglio
Playgrounds in the Data Land
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The Turkish Revamp of Filarete`s Ideal City
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MAKING-OF
Oneirogens : Input Remixed City Models for Interpolation
Node graph prepared in Houdini for voxel and pixel interpolation
The interpolating solver node on the right, and the interpolated model on the left
Conversion of Compositional Assemblage To A Topological Surface
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