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Anticipating the Digital: The Game of Supersurface

Author(s) -

Jovanovic Damjan

Publication year - 2019

Publication title -

architectural design

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 0.128

H-Index - 22

eISSN - 1554-2769

pISSN - 0003-8504

DOI - 10.1002/ad.2466

Subject(s) - architecture , relation (database) , grid , trope (literature) , video game , computer science , space (punctuation) , arc (geometry) , software , visual arts , computer graphics (images) , architectural engineering , multimedia , engineering , art , geography , programming language , operating system , literature , mechanical engineering , geodesy , database

One of the many legacies left by the work of Superstudio was their iconic grid, which stands not only as a visual trope but as a prescient prediction of the way digital tools organise space. Damjan Jovanovic – an architect, educator and software designer based at the Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI‐Arc) in Los Angeles – discusses the importance of Superstudio's grid in relation to his computer‐game environment Supersurface, which is a virtual re‐creation of the Italian group's proto‐digital collage environments.

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