The Death of Architecture

or; How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cyborg

Pratt Graduate Studio, Vito Acconci, 2009

Independent Research

Program: POSTHUMAN PRODUCTION FACILITY

Location: Spirit Rover Colony, Mars

Sq. Ft.: 1,350

Description:

\\__] transmission received [.

[.10.010.Martian_development_Report_DR-319]// After significant research, the Collective for Martian Recovery, has the following to report_]

\\_in the early stages of the 21st Century, the now defunct Rosen Foundation (see attached dossier) had developed a highly controversial process by which humans could actively control their evolution. ]]..1001.110.1100. The occupants of Mars Colony Spirit_21x-4 were among the first to experiment with these developments. once the foundation’s endowment vanished, the building and its products were left to their own devices.

\\_at first the facility was simply used to capacity, but quickly went well beyond capacity. Additional production robots were compressed so tightly and with such density within the facility that the shell of the production room could not hold, and has buckled at the robotic platform mountings. \\_it swings loosely from the carbon fiber structure as the building flexes around the user that is being passed from one mechanical hand to another. \\ ]. 0.011.00.101 text censored _ \\_not long after this development, the facility’s stock of parts was depleted. in order to meet overwhelming demands, new harvesting spaces had to be created, one for each raw material needed; flesh and metal. \\_the technological harvesting digested material from the colony’s junkyard, while biological harvesting processed its material from the colony’s graveyard. \\_we have found these colonists in an unfortunate, yet fascinating, condition. In the name of science, we recommend maintaining an analytical distance before engagement.

\\ 0.11.001.0[_[collective_for_martian_recovery] D.K. Phillipson, assistant to temporary presiding mediator.

.] transmission end.010.0011.01. [__//