An exhibition that addresses the limits and potentials of generative drawing, emerging from data through mathematical and mechanical operations; raising questions on automation, reproducibility, and the role of the arbitrary or accidents as sources of creative experimentation.

The research was developed in the framework of Machinic Protocols, a research line directed by Edouard Cabay, in IAAC's Master in Advanced Architecture.

auto-matic is an exhibition developed in the Machinic Protocols research line from the Master in Advanced in Advanced Architecture of the Institute for Advanced Architecture of Catalonia.

Project director: Edouard Cabay

Project Team: Rodrigo Aguirre, Keesje Avis, Mehmet Berk Bostancı, Kunal Chadha, Peter Geelmuyden Magnus, Lili Tayefi.

Visual identity: Mara Sylvester

Project - Plots 2018
Researchers:
Project 1: Tal Dotan & Martin Garcia-Miro Zaldumbide with Rodrigo Aguirre
Project 2: Aman Jain & Hayder Abdulameer Mohammed Mahdi with Relja Ferusic
Project 3: Gayatri Harikrishana Desai & Ewald Jooste with Roger Paez
Project 4: Bhakti Vinod Loonawat & Matteo Proaño Albuja with Marco Ingrassia
Project 5: Soroush Garivani & Elena Kavtaradze with Isabel Witt
Project 6: Gabrielė Liuda Jurevičiūtė & Deepak Sivadasan with Lluis Viu Rebes
Project 7: Xu Jiang & Takeru Osoegawa with Rebeca Font
Project 8: Arman Najari & Baran Mostafa Tehrani with Crissant Romans
Project 9: Yingxin Du & Ardeshir Talaei with Alex Mademochoritis
Project 10: Marc Bou Assaf & Alberto Emil Holguin Martinez with Ana Isabel Cajiao

Project - Scripts 2017
Machine #1: Valerie Frey
Machine #2: Mehmet Berk Bostanci
Machine #3: Gelder Van Limburg Stirum, Pablo Agustin Vivas
Machine #4: Hsin Li and JengRung Hong, based on original work by Nasser Ghannam, Mohamad Rachid Jalloul, Ceren Yildrim and Guolang Zhang
Machine #5: Cagan Izgi
Machine #6: Athanasios Zervos, Keesje Avis
Machine #7: Kathleen Bainbridge, Irene Ayala Castro, Yasmina Wery, Krati Gorani
Machine #8: Anonymous

Project - Traces 2016
Pedro Levit Arroyo Ventura & Lina Salamanca
Dirk van Wassenaer & Naitik Shah
Tobias Deeg & Martin Hristov
Peter Geelmuyden Magnus & Utsav Mathur
Vishnu Jadia & Khushboo Jain
Hong Jeng Rung & Ekaterina Simakova
Sidharth Kumar & Goutham Santhanam
Jean Sebastian Munera & Lili Tayefi
Chenthur Raaghav Naagendran & Varsha Subba Rao
Connor Stevens & Mercedes Swiecicki

IAAC
Areti Markopoulou, Academic Director
Silvia Brandi, Communication Director
Mathilde Marengo, Head of studies
Marco Ingrassia, MAA01 Coordinator

Special thanks to: Olga Subirós, Vicenç Altaio, Laura Pérez Lupi, Teresa Cheung