new york NEW YORK

Columbia University GSAPP
critic: karel KLEIN

suckerPUNCH: Describe your project.

jochen HARTMANN: Expressing techno-anxiety over the future information economy, this library proposal works by compressing the space of esoteric media into a symmetric maze-like index. Content deemed popular enough for digitization is streamed 24/7 into a series of solo and small group consumption cubes arranged in a modernist status-bar space. The subterranean graveyard is where media, whose fate is yet to be determined is held temporarily.

sP: What or who influenced this project?
jH: Riemenschneider, early Libeskind, Rick Owens.

sP: What were you reading/listening to/watching while developing this project?
jH: D&B, Hydrogenium.

sP: Whose work is currently on your radar?
jH: William Gibson & Bruce Sterling.