What is your work? What is your work? What is your work? Yes, my first work was on the idea of sex, of abstracting sex from biological bias, biological grounds. So I was trying to work between questions of sexual difference and gender differentiation, but find a space between to really work with biology and through biology to actually argue for a model of sex that
was not enclosed within an organic form or any kind of cultural discursive form neither so I embarked into rethinking materiality through sex as information transmission as coding, as mutation, to achieve or to experiment with an understanding of feminine subjectivity, of feminine macro politics that would not be represented by a specific body. So to think corporeality in terms of lateral nonlinear transmission of information and also to argue for a question of the
feminine or trans feminine or macro feminine that would be the first level of destratifying from biological and cultural sex and gender determinations as were. So, whilst that work was very much arguing for a politics of eminentism, whereby by looking already at the biological stratification one would have to rethink the body through the strata of the body, I guess my second work because was much more concerned with the media, with mediation, or thinking mediation beyond imminence or beyond the biological model of
imminence I embarked into studying of computational theory, cybernetics more closely and information theory because I was dealing with digital media or kind of post-digital media or computational media and the reason why I I moved from abstract sex to contagious architecture. The idea of contagiousness for me was not just to remain on the level of biological contagion or viral bacterial contagion, which I'd elaborated before, but to think about contagion in terms of abstraction. So how, for instance,
models of design used in architecture were for me just a starting point to think about how computation has become contagious. So computation becomes this kind of infrastructure to think media in terms of codes and in terms of programs, in terms of incompleteness of logic and so I saw architectural design as an opportunity to look at the aesthetic that could be produced through this kind of
new media modalities which were infrastructurally based on computation. So contagious is almost like a misunderstanding because contagious seems to maintain a level of biological continuity or the level of architecture. I hear that instead of looking at design models and planning or logic, one is to look at the contagious of the kind of biological substrate of our modelling. Actually, for me, it was an opportunity to think about aesthetic beyond, as it were,
the biological. to really think about the concreteness of architectural abstraction and how that was operated or had been operated through computation already since the late 80s, early 90s. What is the connection between the computer and computer? It's a very difficult connection. It's a working through. I don't have by means any sort out model for it. But architecture, I guess computational architecture was interesting because it looked at or argued for an understanding
of space based on morphology or no standard geometry so opening up kind of the Euclidean space or the kind of ground the kind of mathematical ground to movement or to intensity or to transformation or to this kind of topological continuity or a process philosophy so thinking sex in terms of process rather than thinking in terms of identity but that is just it was just a first step for me then to go ahead and actually articulate or try to articulate how the conceptual the abstract the theoretical could rather create
intervene onto this material level and could not just reduce, could not just be reduced to the material level. So the material level of morphology or no standard geometry was just the first step from where one could elaborate then an aesthetic that is not just reusable to the morphological but that demanded an abstraction and that's why computation and computational architecture creating models is actually a production of abstract thoughts and not just a kind of representation of the material morphologies through which one can think of space in a non-Euclidean way.
What is the architectural design of the summer school? The architectural design of the summer school is, I think, is kind of heterogeneous to the extent that I can see how much different levels of work are actually employed here, how you have made out a school out of your commitment to critical thought. So the architecture for me is a critical architecture that is open to be challenged in terms of methodologies and parameters or school of thoughts.
and tries to engage with them and incorporate and expand. So the architecture, although it's very local, it feels completely resonating across the kind of debate that we have in critical thinking on gender, and women, gender and transgender studies. And it's able to cut across different kind of methodologies. That's what I find interesting, methodology or the thinking how, how to produce critical thought is a proliferating architecture, but it's also a way for you to archive or to produce certain kind of direction, give certain kind of direction in this very irregular
mutating field of intervention, especially vis-a-vis sexualities and politics. So I think it's a building up architecture and it's not just a... I don't see it as only breaking down architecture, it's actually an architecture that breaks... it's able to construct out of the little kind of fragments but yes it's an experimental project and I can see there's a lot of work in it and it's loadable.