BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Memento EPFL// BEGIN:VEVENT SUMMARY:ENAC Seminar Series by D. Cristobal Olave DTSTART:20210429T141500 DTEND:20210429T150000 DTSTAMP:20260406T073154Z UID:31070142091c80ac45632148284972616c2e14d8d91983fb1d01f057 CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars DESCRIPTION:Diana Cristobal Olave\n14:15 – 15:00 – D. Cristobal Olave \nPhD Candidate at Princeton University / Barnard College\, USA\n\nAlgorit hmic Drawing: A Material History of Computer-Aided Techniques\n\nIn 1966\, a computer centre was formed at the University of Madrid. Linking mathema tics and computer science with disciplines as diverse as art\, architectur e\, linguistics\, and music\, this institution became one of the first one s in Spain devoted to the application of computer techniques to academic r esearch and education\, rather than management. Working under the umbrella of what mathematician Ernesto García Camarero called the “algorithmiza tion of creativity\,” the participants of this institution saw in the ne w technology the means to resolve the difference between two terms that ha d hitherto been considered antagonistic: “algorithmia” and “creativi ty.” This presentation will draw on previously unexplored archival resou rces to show how the architects working at this institution formed interdi sciplinary alliances by way of a new inscription practice that I call algo rithmic drawing. Architects used these abstract structures of interconnect ed nodes and links to transcribe private and idiosyncratic design processe s into step by step visible sequences\, seemingly unifying architecture wi th a wide range of fields. They called this transcription process “exter nalization\,” and valorized it as a moral and democratic virtue (and obl igation) that could transform architecture into a generalizable and teacha ble “method.” Thinking along the lines of media theory and architectur e techniques\, this research offers an alternative theoretical approach to current historiographies\, framed around immaterial and frictionless read ings of “data” and “digital” procedures. Alternatively\, this pres entation examines the reciprocal entanglements between the material and th e immaterial\, the digital and the analogue. It follows paper trails\, ske tches\, computer rooms and software—and its associated habits and ritual s—through the technique of the algorithmic drawing.\n\nShort bio:\nDiana Cristobal Olave is a PhD candidate at Princeton University\, where she is pursuing a joint degree in History and Theory of Architecture and the Cou ncil of the Humanities. Her research interests are situated at the interse ction of architecture\, technology\, science\, and politics\, with a speci al focus on histories and practices of computing and information visualiza tion. In her dissertation\, she theorizes the rise of algorithms during th e fascist regimes that ruled over Spain and Portugal in the 1960s and 1970 s\, and traces its applications and impacts in modern architecture and urb an design. Her work has been published in Contour Journal\, NNJ\, Bitacora \, Design Issues\, and Dialectic.\, and has been supported by grants from PIIRS\, IHUM\, and Princeton University. She holds architecture master deg rees from Columbia University (GSAAP)\, at New York\, and the Polytechnic School of Barcelona (ETSAB). She has taught in a number of schools of arch itecture\, including Barnard College\, Columbia University\, Princeton\, P ratt Institute\, and NJIT. LOCATION:https://epfl.zoom.us/j/83616931124 STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR