Dangerous Circuit Board
by Yiou Wang
Contemplative travels through space, art, culture, society and human imagination.
Yiou Wang / GSD M.Arch I ‘2022 / Architect, Artist, Writer
It marks the difference between birding aesthetics and artifact aesthetics: the former is a cognitive aesthetics strongly motivated by an outward curiosity and sensitivity, whereas the latter is able to detect beauty in a much narrower scope of creatures that fall in the manmade categories of cute.
Medicine is powerful; in front of medicine, humanity manifests its bizarre, absurd, and surreal aspects.
Incessantly rubbing your nerves against the limits of cognition, she is the only one who, if fully understood, can possibly lead her audience on a self-made cult.
The boundary can be crossed with or without the door. Doors distance, deceive, provoke, manipulate, and reveal.
Towers, observatories, watchtowers, windmills, sheds, and nameless structures – the world of Minoru Nomata.
Funes has been gifted and cursed by an extraordinary eidetic memory. What he wants is to encode each number a unique name of an object, a person, a place, a sound, a smell, or another number. He isn’t the only one who attempted to name a series of things.
Monuments are made to be immortal, but they are products of their environment just as humans are products of their habitats. The creator’s intention will continue to be diluted by the changing interpreter.