TYPOLOGY:             ART

LOCATION:               LONDON

YEAR:                      2006

ARCHITECT: Moyang Yang

This project inspired by the painting Las Meninas from the Spanish painter Velasquez, emerges from a desire to investigate the cybernetic observation as epistemology. In Las Meninas, the viewer may believe to be actively present in the scene. An interplay of variable distances to and from an outlying space is established within the scene. For our project, we replaced all characters by optical machines who are supposed to be agent of the original figures. These machines are collecting data from their surroundings. This data combines and merged variable distances, and are sent to the room next to the doorway where Velazquez is composing his painting. In order to interrupt the normal logic of the seeing, glass boxes are places on every machine's optical devices. Viewing from inside the box, what we see is highly fragmented, it is a fantasy of space. The non-linear sequence sinks the viewers in a non-linear spatial sequence, where he is compelled to imagine what space might be.