XML-SVG CODE / Quellcode des Ausstellungsraums

Today, computer-generated architectural designs translate spaces into 3-D renderings. This work demonstrates the figures and sign systems employed to represent and construct the exhibition space, thus rendering its actual source code visible. Here, the inner architecture of the exhibition space at ZKM | Karlsruhe is depicted as XML-SVG code on the walls of this room, spelling out the very figures that are based on the volume of the space. If these source-code figures were entered into a computer system, the architectural body would reemerge as a three dimensional image. While the series of figures appear to the viewer as colored patterns, this readable though undecipherable language is a tangible reference to the spatial drawing which is, at the same time, a drawing of the space.

(Translation by Karen Michelsen Castañón)