Exhibit Changes

[samtous]

Let me know what you think is reasonable/not reasonable from this. Hope it's not too boring. Thanks for all the help <3

[cosmicespresso]

JS

• on click of icon, bring up iframe of respective website that person can interact with.
• Put maybe an X in the top corner to exit out of it?
• multiple iframes can be open simultaneously. If this can’t work, then make them link to website rather than iframe.
• iframes in Instruction page

CSS

• font color and size
• active Route styliing
• hover state?
• image placement
• scrollable main div vs scrollable ?

[samtous]

Everything should be the google font Karla except for "archmixes" which is space (as you have it)

[samtous]

remind me to give you a favicon

[samtous]

on instruction page - organize frames relative to vertical centerline of page, and make them proportionally bigger. Twitter should be so they can send a tweet not see the tweets that have landed on archmixes - not sure if that's possible but would be really cool. like a form, assuming they've already logged in before.

[samtous]

the icon links - can we have them just on the landing page and not on the others? Sorry if that wasn't clear. Currently they don't appear to be clickable on the landing page in case you didnt' know.

[samtous]

Can icon links sit in front of the floating images? and not overlap other icons - ie they repel each other in the force network to distribute around the page? Not the biggest priority, but might help it feel more controlled. The images on that page do a good job of this.

[cosmicespresso]

• Karla
• favicon
• twitter widget to send a tweet
• bigger frames in Instructions page
• icon links only in landing page
• icon links fix overlap

[cosmicespresso]

Things left to do:

• favicon

• Karla for button

• portrait layout for tumblr iframe and landscape for the rest

• sketchfab icon

• twitter widget to send a tweet (might take longer)

• share button to open native app here

• style Tweet icon

• refine dynamics of Connect page

• icons generate an iframe (might take longer)

[samtous]

[samtous]

event page image gets stretched horizotnally

[samtous]

event page contents:
use this image but rotate it to be horizontal:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/g6v4p95w43acr4j/Card-4-01.jpg?dl=0

text:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1CiKwvCGxEjKKkAGXJZSa8fxmNRT3Wd_spDivLUyCKRw/edit?usp=sharing

Sam Ghantous
🏛🔀

04.28.2017-05.12.2017
Opening: 04.28.2017 5PM-9PM

YveYANG is pleased to announce “🏛🔀” (Arch-Mixes), a solo exhibition by Sam Ghantous. 🏛🔀 will be featured in an experimental new space: YveYANG’s Living Room. Exhibition dates are from April 28th through May 12th, 2017. The opening reception will be on Friday April 28th, 5pm to 9pm.

Tweeting from your couch, in your sweats, can be an architectural act.

Architecture’s ability to serve and shape a public has been weakened by its disciplinary exclusivity and the privatization of public space.

Hope for architecture today is found, instead, in its ability to be shared online. There, its value is in its velocity, intensity, and spread - an ability to “get around,” a newfound promiscuity. Attention is a currency and the image, a visual byte that circulates, has already replaced the building in space. Architecture exists today as images -it is on and of the web, and it can shape public there.

🏛🔀 emphasizes a collective experience of architecture through its circulation at a time when the image has killed the building. By shedding the cloak of representation, this exhibit depends on the presentation of “real things”: Twitter bots, YouTube tutorials, and screen captures, becoming domesticated objects. It distributes authorship in the making of new architectures by harvesting open source image debris found online and creating a platform for anyone to participate.

This is a call to speed up and broadcast architecture made of the web, for the web. Creativity has been democratized: now anyone with a phone and repost button can sculpt their own aesthetic universes, be it on Instagram, YouTube, or SoundCloud. Through recycling the pixel, vector, and mesh-waste that lives online, architecture has the opportunity to sustain the archive of its disciplinary history; it stands the chance to engage publics, and it might even sustain an economy of attention in an era of perpetual distraction.

About the Artist
Sam Ghantous (b. 1989) explores architecture’s tension with technology and its effects on cultural production. His work exists both online and in real life as objects, images, videos, situations, and installations. He recently graduated from the MIT Department of Architecture where he has also taught and researched. Sam has contributed to exhibitions in Toronto, Canada; Cambridge, USA; and Venice, Italy.

About Yve YANG Gallery
YveYANG is a gallery that presents emerging and newly established artists from all over the world. It is committed to carefully tracking the ever emerging technological moment alongside artists who wrestle with the conditions that this moment presents. This task requires a constant reconsideration of disciplinarity, forms of knowledge and representational modes. Yve YANG is eager to see the practice of art in turn generate its own technologies that shape the world and our perception of it. We believe great art is not just embellishment, but rather is an essential act that inspires the progression of human history.

Exhibition Team
Crucial contributions in mounting this exhibition were generously provided by the following:

Kristina Eldrenkamp
Grigori Enikolopov
Anran Li
Jason Minor
Kallirroi Retzepi
Austin Wade Smith

[samtous]

about:

Archmixes is a project by Sam Ghantous.
In 2017 it was exhibited at YveYang in New York and the Keller Gallery at MIT, while having lived online since 2016.
Its subject is architecture in a post-net condition. The archmixes twitter bot opens up restrictive form of architectural authorship through the production of images, an everyday act, leaving the objects that are created in this process to become domestic debris.
Archmix.es is a website made by Kalli Retzepi.
Archmixes would not have existed without the the direct assistance and otherwise guidance of many people; some of them are listed below.

Xhulio Binjaku, Kristina Eldrenkamp, Grisha Enikolopov, Alex Kobald, Anran Li, Jason Minor, Kalli Retzepi, Michael Rosada, Curtis Roth, Austin Smith