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.Eva Sommeregger

Dipl.Ing. MArch (Dist, UCL)

Eva studied architecture in Vienna, Austria before graduating Masters of ArchDesign at the Bartlett School of Architecture in London with Distinction.

Drawing influence from professional practice in both hemispheres, ranging from a DIY-voluntary project (Emmanuel Day Care Kindergarten, designed and built by 20 young architects in Johannesburg and awarded the Austrian Building Prize 2006) to building madness in the Emirates, her work seeks to relate architecture with the moving image.

We do face a world in which the virtual has overtaken the actual by far, not only in terms of speed of production - also in terms of presence and importance. Representations of built structures conquer the architectural realm before what is being represented is materialized.
How does that affect how architecture is being represented, practiced and consumed?

Digital film is believed to be able to cope with this accelerated mode of production. Digital film stands for this very threshold where present reality and future imagery meet - following the ‘Deleuzian project of trying-to-understand, and comprehend, and express all of the incredible, wondrous, tragic, painful and destructive confi gurations of things and bodies as temporally mediated, continuous events’. (Felicity Coleman)

Eva’s work overcomes the tendency of (digital) film being mere representation of architecture and suggests film itself becoming architecture. Her films have been screened on festivals across Europe, such as “Anifest” film festival Prague, “audiovisiva” experimental media festival Milan, “full pull” experimental music, art & video Malmö, “Zebra Film Festival” Berlin and at the “dislocate 08” exhibition and symposium in Yokohama, Japan.

Her lastest work, a collaboration with Itai Margula and Shimon Takasaki for the Aaron Betsky Competition, will be showcased at the 11th Architecture Biennale in Venice.

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