MARTIN BYRNE

MARTIN BYRNE / PATTERNIST

Sequence of Bleeding Standard Futures and Alternate Futures: “The Geryon Matter” (in vitrine) “Another Danse Macabre”; “Feral Architecture”; “The Death of Architecture; or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Cyborg”; Patternist. (L-R), 2009-17.

Speculative design proposals from artist-architect Martin Byrne explore the scenario spaces at the intersection of modern infrastructure, emerging technology, and novel forms of wilderness. Byrne considers his work a process of examination, exploring “how deviance, novelty, and malfunction may lead to techno-social change.” For Patternist, the team proposed a “shifting alter landscape, transposing and transmutating everyday city passageways,” superimposing augmented urban reality landforms via mobile gameplay, where users interface in real space-time with an imagined speculative future narrative around cryptographictransmissions from the “Patternist Observation Mission.” Note: The Geryon Matter was created in collaboration with Chen Xinyang. Patternist was created in collaboration with Lina Bondarenko, Holly Childs, Kei Kreutler, and Jelena Viskovic at the Strelka Institute for Media and Design in Moscow, Russia. Included with permission.