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Tell me about you. Where do you find inspiration for your work? I like beauty, outlines, a face, a nose, a fabric, a painting, a word, a scent, sounds, manners, shades, stories, legends, and visual conversations…Luckily fashion consists on all of the above. What is your main characteristic and your main fault? I am very precise and have a routine in everything, my work, relationships, my diet (that’s a new one). My fault is that sometimes I step on my instincts only to be politically correct. Your idea of happiness and your idea of misery? Children are happiness. Adults can be miserable. Life makes them miserable. What is you present state of mind? Don’t mess with my food. What is your obsession? Right now, going to the gym. If not yourself, who would you like to be? Someone very very very rich. What do you love most in the world? People who ignore emails. STRIP for you is? My work. We become what we see? Depends on one’s depth.112

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LIONEL BENSEMOUN ON VILLA LENA photographed by Martina Spagnoli YOU CAN CALL ME LIONEL by Matteo Razzaguta Lionel Bensemoun, 41 years old, entrapeneur of enterteinment and free time, owner of a few of the most important restaurants in Paris, from Chez Moune to Le lautrec, from la Fidelitè to the Phantom of Paradise, going through the Nanashi restaurants and ending up in the Le Baron restaurant, one of the most famous, with it’s branches of London, New York and Tokyo; he was even the founder of the Calvì Festival on the Rocks, partner of Andrè Saraiva in the commu- nications agency and during the “La Clique” events. We went to visit him in Palaia, a location in the heart of Tuscany, before his de- parture for the Miami Art Basel 2013 with his partners Andrè, Jerome (musician of the Outlines) and Lena (Art consultant). Villa Lena is located in a 500 hectare farm in Palaia, located in the heart of Tuscany, between Pisa and Florence. It was abandoned for several years until last winter when four partners decided to create a residence with modern comforts needed such as a holiday retreat where they can share their fun, music, art, cinema and other creative experiences. So they created the Villa Lena Art Foundation, a contempo- rary no profit association, they aims at giving a two months residence in the studios in which artists can work on their creative works. New recording studios are being built and will be ready for the official inauguration in June 2014. These are only a few artists that were guests in Villa Lena: James Capper, Benjamin Clementine, Confetti System, Claudio Cassano, Bobby Dowler, Christopher Green, Kate Groobey, Ana Kras, Shaun McDowell, Nika Neelova, Jay One Ramier, Lola Montes Schnabel, Anna Skladmann, Maria Turn und Taxis and Hugo Wilson.114

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Hi Lionel, when was the first time that you entered Villa lena and what were your first impression? The first time I went to Villa Lena was in November 2012, almost a year ago. It was a rainy day in which I found myself driving through these woods without a precise destination. I felt like as I were in an unknown territory in the middle of no where, but strangerly I really liked this feeling as I liked this place. What impulse gave life to this project? The impulse came from Jerome and Lena: Lena’s family bought this residence a few years ago and until I came along they only took care of the administrative part. They asked me to work on this project with them because they wanted to create a marvellous place: the idea was not to create a simply hotel, but a residence in which artists could be welcomed and could work in this peaceful and quite place. It isn’t simply a hotel, a restaurant or a club, it’s a place where we can share your time, your work and your creativity with all your worldwide friends. It isn’t just simply place in wich you take a vacation with your family, it is also a place where you find inspiration for your art. What other projects are you accomplishing at the moment? Lots of them at the moment. I like working here: technology like Skype for example helps us a lot. I recently opened a new Bar- Restaurant in Paris called Le Phantom, and I am also organising parties for the Miami Art Basel with my agency “La Clique”. Lasly we are inviting artists, with the help of Le Baron, for the 2014 edition of Clavì on The Rocks that will take place in Moscow. How do you choose your colleagues? The first step that I take to choose my colleagues is looking at their CV because I need to know their work experiences, but I also need know they make me feel, the emotions that they give me. You can’t have an opinion of a person based only on their CV because it is insufficient and exhaustive. Do you have any favourite places in Paris? I love french dishes, they are exquisite, like italian food of course. I would like to mention the new club Nuda that had become famous last summer thanks to their dishes and also to their big balcony. In the ninth and tenth arrondissement there are lots of great restaurants. What’s your favorite piece of music at the moment? Strangely at the moment I am listening a lot of Adriano Celentano’s songs. My favourite is “Prisincolinensinainciusol”. Do you have any strenghts or weaknesses? I don’t know. (The question can be answered thanks to Clarisse Demory, french designer and a very close colleague of Lionel: Lionel’s strengh is that he is always available for everyone, but at the same time his weakness is not to be always available for everyone. What’s your obsession? I’m workaholic and so even when I’m having a drink a look around and check that everything it’s ok. What are the things that you love and you hate? I love music. I hate the chaos of the big cities: I think that this is the reason why I am here now. What does the word Strip mean to you? Nudity, being natural without superficiality. We become what we see ? Of course.116

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Tell me about you. Where do you find inspiration for your work? About me. Hmmmm. I think we all findinspiration in different things. At least I do. I find people can be really inspiring. I love that intimate exchange between me &a subject. In can in some ways be compared to promiscuity as you have this outlet to hook up with so many people. It’s hot.What is your main characteristic and your main fault? I’m pretty chill & open which allows me to connect with somany different types. I may be a tad self destructive at times. Perhaps if I did less of this and more of that type of thing. Youridea of happiness and your idea of misery? I still love to take photos more than anything & if I didn’t have this orsome other comparable outlet I can imagine it to be very miserable. What is you present state of mind? I kinda feellike I’m towards the tail end of some things & the beginning of some new times or something. What is your obsession?Not sure if I’m really obsessed with anything. It’s an extreme word. I’m a very curious person & I kinda bounce around in thatway. I’m really curious about this then that. I think I’d be a great detective because I notice details more than people mightthink & I often figure out what really went down in situations so lately I watch a lot of those investigation discovery shows tothe point where some friends may think. It’s an obsession but I can tell that I’ve kinda peaked with that. If not yourself,who would you like to be? Never had any fantasy of being anyone else. It would be a bit fake if I named someone justbecause I like them. What do you love most in the world? How do I make this not so corny? I mentioned loving totake photos earlier more than anything to do but I really love my family & friends. I mean it’s such a varied group of people.Different people touch on different spots. Even with my camera I’d hate us not all having each other. What do you love lessin the world? Assholes. STRIP for you is? Dropping the guard. We become what we see? If that’s what you want& you’re the type of person to go get what you want. Perhaps I don’t have to be what I see but I may wanna connect with it. 129

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After 100 years from the birth of William Burroughs we are publishing A wall like that divides Harlem and the central zone of Manhattan.his “Movie Project” titled Blade Runner.A science fiction play never The helicopter moves on south… ruins, falling buildings, abandonedrealise. Introduction made by Gian Paolo Serino. #Burroughs’ month territories. It looks like London after the Blitz.There aren’t no signs of rebuilding except some old fashioned patches. A lot of streets BLADE are full of rubbish and obviously it can’t be moved.There are poor RUNNER outdoor markets and vegetable gardens in abandoned territories all UNPUBLISHED WORK overthe place. Squares and crowded streets suddenly become desert, without people, with no reason. There are boats full of food supplies 4 FEB 2014 on rivers. In 1980 there was a lot of pressure to pass the National Sanitation Law. of WNR This law wan’t passed from the Medical Lobby because doctors believed that this (law) would end their carriers as a profession and asRidley Scott will only borrow the title to lend it to his Blade Runner, fea- a benefit for people too.tured by Philip Dick’s story, even the Androids dream electric sheep? Subjects, as the failing economy, started to spread.Reading again this “project” of Borroughs, totally unpublished in Italy Pharmaceutical companies spent a lot of millions to go against the law(it was published in 1983 from a little publishing industry only in and posted an announcement in the most famous newspapers becauseSwitzerland), once more we face the brilliant vision of the american they feared that changing the prices would, as a consequence, cut thewriter. The author of “The nude meal” and “The monkey on the profits.shoulder” imagines a tomorrow future of apocalypse. Near. imminent. And most of all, the street ensurance company said that the law wasn’tIn 1979 he wrote about “ a fulminating cancer” that became necessary and only it could increase the taxes for a worse service.capable of lowering the immune system. Here is a simple citizen with a normal income. The roof is ruined, even though he tried to repair it.The owner of theTwo years later, unfortunately, the text of Borroughs was “reviewed” house doesn’t do anything.from Nature with a new title: The gained immune deficiency, known The man shares the dog food with his family.as AIDS. Here we are, paying, to let the black, southern italian and beatniks people survive in hotels and hospitals.Thanks to Satisfaction for the publishing. We pay them their fucking drugs addictions, we give them money and they don’t even have a job. BLADE RUNNER di William S. Burroughs They have Reverend Parcival as a spokesperson who published an article titled: “The dog guard” on a famous newspaper, with a comicPanoramic view of Manhattan from an helicopter. strip: “A northern couple brings their baby in a hospital” .The overcrowding lead to much more governative control Their black doctor says: “What a disgraceful dirt”.on privates, not on the old stile form of oppression or terror He welcomes a young boy from Puerto Rico who hurt his hand in aof the State Police, but only in terms of work, credit, fight, by saying: “Come in boy. Nurse please give him a quarter ofaccommodation, retirement and medical assistance: all G.O.M pill”. “Heroin was legalised for the drug addicted in 1980”.types of services that can be suspended. The United States Health Service decided to give heroin to the stateThese services are computerised.No number, no service. nursing home and started a complicated bureaucracy with the policeNevertheless, this didn’t produce standardised human units and investigators who were corrupted.and with a washed brain postulated by superficial poets like A lot of people who weren’t drug addicted entered this program andGeorge Orwell. On the contrary, a large percent of the earned a lot of money by drug dealing.population was forced in the underground. Here it is, the new Mr. Medium Class Income.No one knows how many people were there in this large percent. There is a bad and painful case of dermatitis.I just finished payingThese are people without a number.New born babies howled. $50 for a visit.Lotting and constructing projects are growing. The doctor refuses to prescribe codeine: “ The only thing I can pre-Computers do buzz over Con Ed, I.R.S, Welfare, Medicare, Health scribe is the Whitefield ointment”.Insurance.Forms, announcements, accounts continue growing. A des- And now a big and happy family attended.perate citizen packs his bags and leaves his house in Levittown. Knock every Harlem door. Two people were on heroine drugs, earnedDoes a small heap on leaves, puts a pile of sheets on top and from the Health Service, a daughter in the federal leper hospital inburns it all. Carrville, Louisiana, a retarded person in Kings State, a muscularAn old lady from the other side of the street runs to call somebody. The dystrophy young kid in a special program.police patrol arrives and gives the man who burned the pile of sheets, The mother earned money, a cheque for every ungiven help.a fine.While he is leaving, he throws that fine in the ashes. Then he No jobs, no problems. A coloured TV.goes way with his bags. Some left turkey on the table.An airplane panoramic view of the Wall from the 23rd street The mother takes a good amount of cough syrup, to keep herself safefrom Hudson to East River. from winter colds. The dad is eating a strawberry ice cream.The wall was built after the Disorders of the Sanitary law in 1984. The The kids are laying on the house floor, studying turism agencies book-Lower City can be cut outside and the wall was secured with troops lets. They can’t decide whether to go to Lexington for the summer curewithin 30 minutes. (the “Country Club” is now worthy of a name with million of woods, streets for walking, horses, golf, tennis, boas, fishing, all for the interns) or to go visit the little sister in Carrville.

“My God” said the father “I have an ice cream head-ache. “Based upon these weapons and police sympathy and the NationalGive me an injection, son, quickly, it’s fading”. Guard, Christ’s Parcival Soldiers talked about conquering New YorkThe doctor gives the kid heroin recipe, without being totally happy. and kill the ethical people, beatniks, bad drug dealers and“Please don’t let me see you drug dealing” said the doctor to the boy. homosexuals.He gets the phone.“Nurse, how many leprous are out there in Car- Being honest with this ideas they scared a lot of people includingrville?”. international banks, like Wall Street and Yellow Danger.The traffic in Hansen it’s enormous. Now it’s called the: “White stuff”. Did this mean that the Jewish, the rich and Chinese are on the list?Just scratch your arm with a needle and rub it on top, six months later… Potencial and highly strong politicians established that they needed toNew leprous go in an old river boat with turn around blades singing: protect themselves from the Parcival followers.“Home Sweet Home”. Others go to desolated embankment, with frogsthat croak…“Welcome to the Hansen family. Somehow a document known as “The devil’s diary” started to spreadYou know my hand is great… you never threw me outside the program. even to the people who were threatened.They can arrest you and send you back to the normal civil life if you “ The devil’s diary was prepared as an order for the CIA in the 1960’s.don’t pay attention. It contained detailed instructions for creating weapons from material thatWell I handle the best white stuff of Carrville.Stay in the program with could be found in every drug store or ironmongery: black dust, bombs,the ointment of Doctor White”. more than a biological and chemical battery.In the bayous, lakes and rivers, covered cottages with buganville,roses, bellflower , live disgraceful leprous idle, smocking marijuana How to produce botulinus starting from a bouillon in a box: how to makeand opium in their gardens, injecting themselves with the State heroin, nerving gas from insects sprays: how to make clorine, nitro-glycerine,with oranges, mangos and avocados that grow in the yard, catching foster, ammonium, arsenical gas.cat fish, pikes and persian fish from the house porch, or openingstate boxes with food. These weapons, with crossbow, blowgun, sling and brooms, caused a lotCarrville now it’s an enormous swamp that goes from the Great Ticket os dead people.of East Texas to Everglades in Florida. In the swamp island strangerituals are being celebrated.Young naked people with alligator’s masks dance in front of theGator Gaprone God that has alligator’s head and goat’s feet.The time of Mardi Gras in Carrville.A languishing aristocratic young man passes sliding on a floral boat,a missing leg from the knee, a phosphorescent stump that thickens inthe twilight.A radioactive vital subspecies, terribly chic.Purple lagoons in which emerald fish jump to seek the moon.There, there is a marvellous young leprous masked as Cleopatra onher boat with the handsome Marco Antonio.The entire place is circled and custodied: “So we leave the happyCarrville population that, with ulterior source of strength, transformedthat terrible illness in a life system. It’s this why we pay taxes?Homosexual activities and marijuana injections?“In our splendid accommodation, given by the helpful americangovernment, we don’t have to worry about bastards like you thatwork for a living. May you fall in the shit that you are covered in”.Mafia people who spit in the face of their taxpayer.“Who are you, worke fore living? I’’ spit in your face, you idiot”.A lot of youth denounced handicap cases saying that they couldn’tlive together with some disgraceful pay taxes tramp.“They make me so nervous that I wasn’t capable of working.I’m asking for a hundred percent handicap and use of heroin”.When the third National Sanitation Law was refused by the Senateand obstruction attics, disorders in 1984 were created for the SanitationLaw: 500’000 people were dead only in New York City and othermillions of damages.Other cities had greater loss. Deaths in the US were 10 million.Ironically the high level of mortality was caused by the governmentthat tried to protect the people from explosions with severe weaponcontrols.The National Law regarding the weapon registration left out the oneswith penalty or drug dealing or mental disorders and the ones in needof public assistance, can’t buy or posses weapons of any kind,including guns. This left the Middle Class with new more weapons.

Tell me about you. Where do you find inspiration for your work? From non-sense stuff. Only from this.We see hot girls, we get nostalgic and we start writing. That’s it. What is your main characteristic and yourmain fault? I have low tolerance towards bastards. But in reality we have high tolerance. Your idea of happinessand your idea of misery? Happiness isn’t an ending, it’s an approach. People don’t understand a fuck about it.Misery is lack of feeling. What is your present state of mind? Half erection. What is your obsession? Tofuck a trainee (Pisto). Go to my mother’s house (Banhoff). If not yourself, who would you like to be? This isa fucking question. What do you love most in the world? My kids (Pinto and Banhoff). What do youlove less in the world? Fanzine, Hipsters, the cool people, intellectuals. Most most of all I would say fanzine.STRIP is for you? It isn’t a fucking thing. We become what we see? This is an fucking intellectual question.



| TROIA Tell me about you. Where do you find inspiration for your work? Troy is a fanzine. I create a frame of images that expressed the society as it really is, from my point of view: TROY. TROY is the mirror of society. We do an archeological, trashing, speleological work and a recovery of sensorial findings, it’s like seeking for porn magazines that have become incredicly hard to find in the ditches and in the abandoned countryside on the edge of chipped urban centres. What is your main characteristic and your main fault? The main characteristic is bitter and mimetic: introducing your self with non-sense vehicles like the story of the horse of Troy or even computer viruses. It’s worst defect is thet compared to the eternal and everlasting files, our meat (human body) it’s like paper that will fade, sooner or later, and this same emaciated human meat will be absorbed by the passing of time. This more than a defect it can be considered an extremely eroic action. It’s giving yourself to it, it’s squandering, it’s giving your self to the passing of time, to the fade, a city like Troy isn’t going to last for ever. Your idea of happiness and your idea of misery? Happiness is giving others your desires. Misery it’s vulgar and a form of showing off your wealth. What is your present state of mind? I fell quite good. What is your obsession? I have two obsessions: the first one is an anthropological obsession, in other words is simply seeking for the latest remains of humanity in the large format of society. The second obsession is psycogeographic, in other words is simply descovering the latest and peripheral. If not yourself, who would like to be? I’d like to be a new me. A person that can do whatever he wants to do.A geologist, a man who has a cleaning company, a barman on the road, an ethical slut, a thief of Acapulco (city in New Mexico), a man who has a cleaning business, a gunner, a farrier..but I would like just being SOMEONE. What do you love most in the world? Diversity. Curiosity. Discoveries. The people’s eyes and their skin: meaning that if a person doesn’t give me goose bumps it means that we are never going to get along. I don’t need any symbols, no pinchbeck, no strategies or attitudes, just epidermis. Only the alchemy of smells that counts. What do you love less in the world? Duties. Being nice at all costs. Everything that is opened all day 24 hours. Sluts (unisex social class). The little bosses and their little power. The status-simbol. The modern that has an ancient odor. STRIP for you is? I don’t know. It could be a comic strip, a hair removal strip, strings of the universe. Srip-teaser, Strip tease? Space-time strip? We become what we see? I think it would be better to say that we are how other people see us. Our potencial. Everyone has an idea, more or less, of what they see. Until others get to know us better they judge us only on what they think they know.Anxiety let us visible to other people, even thought our clothes become an impenetrable armour.136

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Tell me about you. Where do you find inspiration for your work? My name is Helene, I have been graduatedfrom Les Beaux-Arts de Paris in 2012. I am living in Paris currently working as intervening artist in “The Gallery” an art centernear Paris. I co-found Manuel in 2011 with others artists. Manuel is a creative platform which is produces Fanzine, Exhibition,Residency across Europe, mixing the young creative generation and well establish artists. In my art practice I am working alsowith words, creating ironic text pieces ; I am also interested in the case of the Artist’s book in order to think of a new way toexhibit it. What is your main characteristic and your main fault? I always manage to fall on one’s feet but I can bevery impatient. Your idea of happiness and your idea of misery? :) & ☹:( What is you present state of mind?Enrico Macias Le Mendiant de l’amour (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veVCIbAE0ss ). What is your obsession? Ican be obsessed with Shoes and Books. If not yourself, who would you like to be? A big Cat. What do you lovemost in the world? A nice sunny week-end. What do you love less in the world? A rainy and cold monday. STRIPfor you is? A landing’s one. We become what we see? And what we do, will dictate what we will become as well… 143

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Tell me about you. Where do you find inspiration for your work? I find inspiration in the meaning of‘subject of labor,or better from a personal interpretation of the meaning of ‘subject in question, sensations, andvisions that stem and from the attempt to transpose these feelings and images with appropriate architectural solutions.This interpretation comes from an initial concept from which you will develop guidelines for the entire project. Whatis your main characteristic and your main fault? My main characteristics, I think they are humanity, loyalty,curiosity. My faults: laziness, the laziness, latent pessimism. Your idea of happiness and your idea of misery?Happiness: first of all live in real contact with the most intimate of ourselves with who we are, with our strengthsweakness, limits, in awareness and self-respect, acceptance and fullfilment and then sharing pittance: an arid soul,unconsciousness of the world, envy. What is you present state of mind?...nowadays I feel crushed by the needsand responsibilities of daily living that limit the creative work, research for its own sake.What is your obsession?A haunting thought that everything flows around me and I remain motionless. If not yourself, who would youlike to be? Maybe I’d like to be a seeker, a traveler, a journalist. What do you love most in the world?I love the beauty as elegance, harmony and refinement and the humility, the life that flows, the diversity and uniqueness asmultiplicity, the pure intelligence, the silence. What do you love less in the world? I dont love the pettiness, the lack ofeducation, the great numbers, I’m afraid of those who never commit theirselves. STRIP for you is? Strip is: get naked, talkabout, get to know, meet each other, then a story, a road, a shortcut, a path, a road, a line.We become what we see? Webecome (are) what we see in the meaning that the images in general: direct imagines proposed or imposed, indirect image,images induced, suffered, are as point of view, as filter, as magnifying glass. In my opinion I would rather say ‘we become Whatwe Think, imagine...’ in the meaning that what we see around us, it was anyway thought and imagined by someone beforewho created that image then, or that object or structure that did not exist before. Being able to create what we think or becameourselves,what we imagine is anyway a creative action, maybe what we imagine is influenced by what we see or have seenso far...but this, once known and experienced is already passed, whereby you can imagine going over, at least with thought.



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We become what we seeWhat do we see around us then ? and yet, what we see: is it real ? In Arca Magazine N.53, 2007 “Dreams & Visions “J.Johansen with hisIf we think about what sorrounds us, we realize that, today, a space inten- project “the growing City “ puts forward the hypothesis of an architectureded as a merely physically limited, closed, bounded place doesn’t exist conceived and realized according to human DNA principles & rules:anymore, but there’s a virtually infinite dimension, in which communicating thanks to MNT (Molecular Nano Technology) products, materials will beand moving is easy, immediate and accessibile: the network. designed to be soft, folding or rigid, so that i.e. furnitures could followThe progress of information and electronic technologies has allowed us to occupant’s position changes.create virtual images, virtual lives and spaces, in which we could surf the M.Kudryashov introduces the Bio City : a project where city is not a barephotorealistic environments in real time, interacting with present objects technological city, but a living system which, through networks, internetand perceiving them as real. and automation, evolves itself, adjusting to flows, climate and light chan-More than real and virtual, perhaps it would be better to talk about phy- ges.sical and virtual, or about physical reality and virtual reality, in which the Going forward, we switched from body, through cyborg, to avatar.level of realism is given by the level of perception that the subject – during Quoting Marcos Novak ( Father of TransArchitecture, founding directorthe interaction – feels to be real (psychological realism). of the Laboratory For Immersive Virtual Environments and the AdvancedWe could also talk about “possible objects” and “virtual objects”, accor- Design Research Program at the School of Architecture at the University ofding to the specification of Gilles Deleuze : Texas at Austin) ” future design will deal with avatar and their senses, the“Possible objects are the opposite of real objects. The virtual objects inste- whole conceived in spaces equally artificial and physical ....Try to buildad are not opposed to the real ones, they already have their full reality”. hybrid and smart spaces in order to create a new architecture :Even in the physical reality, the urban space as a circumscribed, bounded, The TransArchitecture, which is able to merge the two worlds, real andclosed space, is anyway over: the city in itself has dramatically grown out virtual, into a third one: The radical HYBRID of the two worlds ( Babeleof any control: built-up areas that auto-build, others demolishing themsel- 2000) and also ...ves to re-build elsewhere. ‘I just want to recreate an “allouniverse” : an allogenetic structureI seeked the term city in “The metapolis dictionary of advanced architectu- with aware and intelligent artificial life forms in it.re“and found out that this term is not defined, but it pushes me back to It is here that the concept of “allo“ plays an essential role: a suffix that“multicity” or “metapolis “: indicates not the other of the same kind, but the other one of another kind.“city? An old world see’m. City (or multicity)” “Allouniverse “ is based on the idea of inducing a continuum between ab-“Multicity see’m. City or multicity or, better, Metapolis”. stract and concrete, with a smoothly transition from a dimension to another“The contemporary metapolis constitutes…..a reality that trascends and : this is what we are attempting to do…’comprehends, from diverse points of view, the metropolises we have known (interview to Marcos Novak, “The Future is “ by Teresa De Feo Milanuntil now, fostering a new type of urban agglomeration made of multiplied, 2008)heterogeneous and discontinuous spaces and relationships.….. A spectrum We have moved from artificializing the natural dimension to naturalizingof cities within the city”. and sensitizing the artificial dimension, so that this artificial dimensionAccording to Tanaka Jun “the grow-up of virtual architecture is linked to could behave according to the changes in external environment condi-cities and architecture decline and decay: at a certain point in our history tions. We have moved from simulating a physical reality to giving a sensewe were sorrounded by virtual architecture and detained in its cozy inte- of real to a virtual world.Nature and technology, physical and virtual :riors. It’s the condition we were forced to live in, during the late XX century, they live crosswise side by side, interacting, corrupting each other, crea-through physical, sensual and sexual meetings with computers “ – (as quo- ting new worlds.ted in (im)possible architectures, virtual architectures). After all “Reality is a question that appears in the memory of our retina...”Moreover, digital technologies have also modified the design of architectu- Cit.Enric Ruitz-Geli in “The metapolis dictionary of advanced architecture”.ral forms and their expression: architectures generated by algorithms ...which do not sketch a closed, finished path, but give the opportunity to MANUELA MARTELLIcreate other paths in an unlimited number and all different... tumescent ap-pearances in the process of transformation could be defined and drawn“ vision, from left: Binocular vision. Drawing|Digital Art Image-Fractal image compo-(cit. M.Warner,9th international architecture exhibition in venice,2004 sed of real images by Village9991|Google Glass. digital, from left : Mariko Mori,theme: methamorph). Kumano Forest|Mariko Mori, Entropy of love. holograms,from left: Interactive Re-The evolution of “advanced” technologies such as biotechnologies, na- al-size Hologram,by AirStrike|L’Atelier Empreinte.Lingerie Model 3d Hologram byno-technologies, cybernetics and so on, leads to the replacement of a logic Animatik Studio | Fast /Fast Forward Exibition at Musee de la Modè et du Texile,Pa-based on firm, pre-established appareances and arrangements, for a logic ris |Enric Luiz Geri,Untitled. hipersuperficies: H2O-XPO “Water Pavillon”by Nox.based on the simulation of morphological processes evolving day after olanda 1997.interacivity,from left: Moodwall - Studio Klink and Urban Allianceday (John Frazer, Evolving Virtual Environment): thus “sensitive”, interacti- 2009|Not So White Walls 2005,interactive Wallpaper Dario Buzzini|Next.Board,ve spaces are generated. See for example Nox’s Fresh Water Pavillon: Venice,Natural History Museum 2011.digital landscapes:Neen buildings for ahere the architectural space is not only a continuum, where ceiling and Neen World.(www.acticeworld.com).virtual spaces, from left: inside-Trans_Port-floor are a “One”-a single shape that extends itself in the space- but a s2001(web-architectura Oosrehuis.nl)|graph and view of Bio-City.M.Kudryashov,S.system capable of contextual sensitivity, which smartly interacts with the Rastorguev.person who’s wallking through it, through sensors and actuators sensitiveto human presence. In wider terms, we do not any longer talk about spaceor surface, but Hypersurfaces, that’s to say surfaces which go beyongtheir physical limits, entering the world of interconnections : simply think oftouchscreen surfaces or Home Automation **Home automation : it’s the science which deals with the application of electronicsand information technology to the organization of domesitc life ( appliances andcentralized controls ) and the employment of related devices.