Archive Agency

Abstract

The essay, Archive Agency asserts a new “scenic” by examining the concept of the productive as a fertile and evolutionary space across multiple didactic environments. Technology and the Internet shift and guide our gaze, recalibrating familiar regimes. From 19^th century “prefilmic” acts of virtual travel via a room to an imaginative elsewhere, to the implications of modern post-disciplinary educational models, to the addition of a digital archive within a Master-level design-research curriculum – these environments shape other kinds of interiors and coincidental micro-relationships in the production of meaning.

Keywords:

• Productive
• archive
• scenic
• panorama
• machinic
• gaze
• knowledge
• network

Notes

1 The MIARD Archive is an initiative by Alex Augusto Suárez. It is designed in collaboration with Daphne Heemskerk and Olivier Otten of the studio High Rise (high-rise.nl). Thank you to our students, alumni and staff for their work.

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Alex Augusto Suárez

I am an architect and educator with a Master of Architecture from the University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA and a Bachelor of Architecture from the Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia and Rome. My work has been awarded, exhibited and published internationally. Exhibitions include; Drawing Out: Material Dialogues with the Boyarsky Collection, deSingel Internationale Kunstcampus, Antwerp; Architecture in the Expanded Field, Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, Gyeonggi International Ceramic Biennale, among others. I am the founder and Course Director of MIARD, a multidisciplinary design-led research Master of Interior Architecture program at Piet Zwart Institute, Willem de Kooning Academy, where I am also Graduation Project Chair and a Hoofdocent. Email: [email protected] Website: http://alexaugustosuarez.com/