As humans continue
to re-engineer biology, systems based purely on form no longer hold as much
interest when capable of fluid malleability. Materiality and chromatics ( here
to mean both light and color-as a property of light physics ) take new roles in
informing/deforming this androgynous architecture. This project seeks to
understand how properties of light can be utilized to create, mutate and accumulate
complex forms. Local and global behaviors are considered not in an indexical
fashion limiting specific actions to specific geometries, but rather can be
seen as related to both.
Also explored is
the use of parametric and scripted systems of behavior in relationship to form
and chromatics. Cultural references include the investigation of the
transgender leading to gender reassignment. Gender reassignment operations
represent the most elective plastic/cosmetic surgery procedure and involve
entire reconstructions of a given person?s body, hormones, and physical
relationships. Gender reassignment procedures move beyond the surface
modifications that typify common plastic surgery into a territory that alters
not only the appearance, but the function as well. Examined is the whole
gradient of persons that reside in an awkward in between gender territory, including
transsexual, cross-dresser, transvestite, androgynous and drag.