Pocket Museum
Winner Entry
Competition: AI Museum (by non-architecture)
Welcome to the Pocket Museum, an augmented object collection of virtual realities available in your favourite museum gift shop.
The space we find ourselves in is in constant flux and expansion. Complementing the dizzying pace of the AI media, the spaces overlap in surprising, illusory, and deceptive juxtapositions. As you, the visitor, progress through the VR experience, you will encounter surprising revelations that you must navigate to find the new spatial media. Are you sure you have chosen the right path and are you looking in the right direction? Scrolling through art is the journey. Better be quick and explore.
These artefacts are multiscale architectural totems of new technology, new modes of visuality and art history. They encompass the past, present and future art of societies with unparalleled speed and inclusivity. Through collective curation, selection and exhibition; customs, rituals, traditions, stories, and unheard histories find their audience. The totem collection grows as new stories are created.
The Flag of Transformation responds to the idea of objects as tools for spatial sensing. It lets the digital space to be touched and felt. It ruptures the two-dimensional representational surface. The intervention appears as an object in flux; always becoming, much like the architectural space it is representing itself. This gesture reflects the dynamic nature of spaces, turning them into fleeting moments. The visuals on the flags respond to the complexity and politics embedded in representation. As spatial signifiers, the flags evoke presence, resistance, and transition defending representation as a democratic tool that expands architecture’s material and visual language.