Datement
Datament, a monumental installation presented at the Polish Pavilion for the 18th International Architecture Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, will allow visitors to experience data in its ‘physical’ form. The space of the pavilion is filled with the frames of four life-size houses. These seemingly chaotic and absurd structures faithfully reproduce the source data. The exhibition is intended as a starting point for a discussion about how, while new technologies may not offer us ready-made solutions, they can help us ask better questions.
“數據”(Datament)是第18屆威尼斯國際建築展波蘭館裡相當重要的裝置藝術作品，它將讓參觀者能夠以「實體」形式體驗數據。展館的空間充滿了四棟等比大小的房屋架構。這些看似混亂且錯位的結構明白地呈現數據來源。此展旨在討論新科技的起點，雖然新科技可能無法提供我們具體的解決方案，但它們可以幫助我們提出更好的問題。
In architecture, urbanism and spatial planning, statistical data analysis and the use of algorithms in design are having a significant impact on how we live now and will in the future. However, we are less and less concerned with raw data. Information processed with new technologies creates a distorted picture of reality. Based on this digital illusion, we make decisions with very real consequences.
在建築學、城市學術與空間規劃領域的統計數據分析及設計中的演算法使用，對我們現在和未來的生活有著重大影響。然而，我們對於原始數據的關注度卻越來越少。新技術處理過的資訊創造出對現實的扭曲圖像。我們參考這種數位幻覺作出了決策，而這些決策卻帶來了十分真實的後果。
At the Polish Pavilion, the viewer have the opportunity to experience data in its ‘physical’ form. The impressive installation will reproduce the spatial forms of houses from four countries on a 1:1 scale. Made up of almost two thousand metres of coloured steel profiles, the structures are based on averaged, generalised data on the shape, size and functional layout of houses in different geographical zones. The countries have been selected on the basis of how much statistical data they produce and collect. The installation faithfully reflects this information, but it has no bearing on the actual housing situation in the places from which the information is derived. A tool that was supposed to bring order to reality becomes a source of error.
觀眾在波蘭館將有機會以實體形式體驗數據。這個令人印象深刻的裝置將以1:1的比例重現四個國家的房屋空間形式。這些結構由近兩千米的彩色鋼材構成，參考平均值、一般化的數據，描繪出不同國家區域的房屋形狀、大小和功能佈局。這些國家是根據他們產生及收集的統計數據量提供的。裝置明白地反映了這些信息，但與信息來源實際的建築狀況無關。原本應該為現實帶來秩序的工具卻成為了錯誤的源頭。
Datament is the record of a dialogue between an artist and an architect. Anna Barlik works in visual art, local contexts, colour and composition. Marcin Strzała is an architect who explores the relationship between digital data and their physical manifestation in design. Together with curator Jacek Sosnowski, they have developed a structure based on digital data analysis. The title’s neologism, Datament, conveys the idea of the ubiquitous ‘data establishment’ that is constantly shaping the reality in which we live, create and dwell. “We share a world with data. Believing in their infallibility, we let algorithms calculate and design our houses and cities. However, without a sensitive and conscious designer, digitally processed data can create distorted solutions, such as those presented in the Polish Pavilion,” say the creators of the installation.
"數據"是一位藝術家與一位建築師之間的對話記錄。安娜.巴利克(Anna Barlik)從事視覺藝術、在地文化、色彩和構圖的工作。馬欽.斯特札拉是一位建築師，他擅長探索數位數據與其設計中具體化之間的關係。他們與策展人雅賽克.索斯諾夫斯基共同開發了一個以數據分析的結構。作品命名為”數據"，傳達了無所不在的「數據制度」持續塑造我們生活、創造和居住的實際概念。裝置的創造者表示：“我們與數據共享一個世界，相信它們的準確度，讓演算法計算與設計我們的房屋及城市。然而，如果不具備敏感度以及有意識的設計師，數字化處理的數據可以創造出扭曲的最終狀態，比如在波蘭館中呈現的那樣。”
