Speculative cartography & programmed landscapes – a chat with Benedikt Groß

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Benedikt Groß's work is frequently noted here on CAN, so far in 2013 we've posted three of his projects. Since executing his inventive Avena+ Test Bed, which 'programmed' the biodiversity of a South German agricultural plot, he's teamed up with an American cartographer to develop The Big Atlas of LA Pools. With this recent project, he's leveraged satellite photography, crowdsourced offshore labour and the artist's book medium to catalog every pool in Los Angeles (across a whopping 74 books and 6,000 pages). Given our ongoing coverage of Benedikt's practice, we thought a conversation about some of the interests driving his work was in order. The following edited transcript documents a dialogue that has taken place via a Google Doc over the last several weeks.

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Building Towards a Point of Always Building – Digital Design Theory

CAN reviews “Digital Design Theory,” a recent Princeton Architectural Press text compiling writing from over five decades of thought on computation and design.

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Electrolibrary by Waldek Węgrzyn – Paper book as interface

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School for Poetic Computation – Fall 2016 Final Showcase

In the final week of the last year’s fall 10-week program at the School for Poetic Computation (SFPC), students presented their work in progress and its underly ideas in a public showcase. Here is a selection of projects that were presented.

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Speculative Sea Level Explorer by Benedikt Groß

Speculative Sea Level Explorer is an application made using Processing that explores the possible effects flooding should the sea levels change as a result of global warming.

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