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References beyond the current archive.

Nothing here is part of the collection. Each one is shown with the signals it holds in common with SIMULACRA and the entries those signals lead to, so the reason it appears can be followed and disagreed with. Distance is read off the archive graph, not scored.

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Three Gems, de Young Museum — one Skyspace of the many.

Three Gems, de Young Museum — one Skyspace of the many.

PHOTOGRAPH Otheralex01 / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 4.0Cropped for layout; this adapted presentation is offered under the same licence.

Skyspaces

James Turrell · 1974–

Church of the Light and Therme Vals both use an aperture to make light into the material of a room. Turrell removes the building around the aperture: a cut ceiling, a bench, and nothing else, so the sky becomes a surface. It is the archive's strongest architectural idea isolated and shown on its own.

SIGNALS

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  1. SkyspacesDISCOVERED
  2. Light5 SHAREDChurch of the LightTadao AndoSB-ARC-006IN ARCHIVE
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SOURCEjamesturrell.com

DISCOVEREDARTNEAR

Judenplatz Memorial, Vienna, 2000. House was demolished in 1994 and no free photograph of it exists; this is the same cast-void argument standing in a square.

Judenplatz Memorial, Vienna, 2000. House was demolished in 1994 and no free photograph of it exists; this is the same cast-void argument standing in a square.

PHOTOGRAPH HeMei / Wikimedia Commons / CC BY-SA 3.0 ATCropped for layout; this adapted presentation is offered under the same licence.

House

Rachel Whiteread · 1993

Negative-space is the second most connected signal in the archive, carried by eight entries, and in every one of them it is an absence composed around solid things. Whiteread inverts it: the inside of a condemned terraced house cast in concrete and the house then demolished, so the void is the only object left.

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  1. HouseDISCOVERED
  2. SERIALITY4 SHAREDTorqued EllipsesRichard SerraSB-ART-003IN ARCHIVE
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SOURCEtate.org.uk

DISCOVEREDARTNEAR

The Lightning Field

PHOTOGRAPH John Cliett / Dia Art FoundationReferenced from its source. Rights not established by SIMULACRA.

The Lightning Field

Walter De Maria · 1977

Judd's hundred concrete works at Chinati and Serra's ellipses at Dia are both grids you walk. De Maria's is four hundred steel poles over a mile of desert, and it can only be experienced by staying overnight. The same seriality, with duration added as the material. Dia holds two of the three.

SIGNALS

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  1. The Lightning FieldDISCOVERED
  2. SERIALITY3 SHAREDTorqued EllipsesRichard SerraSB-ART-003IN ARCHIVE
SHOW 3 PATHS

SOURCEdiaart.org

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