The Reader Digested - M. Claudel, C. Ratti & G. Ricuperati - USA

The contours of a unique composition emerge from an individual’s process of reading and annotating – whether the motifs of a novel, the inspiration of a biography, or the concepts of a textbook. The project analyses how the collection of data from e-books can become a collective curatorial process – an immersive and interactive exhibition that will visualize echoing highlighted sentences – how they connect, merge and finally weave the resonant harmonics of literature.
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Curate Award
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DIGITAL: Part one is a room-scale datascape of hypertext literature. As the world reads, words flow into the exhibition in real-time and are processed through statistical analysis. Visitors step into a dynamic visualization and interact with, explore, manipulate and graphically represent new literary Big Data. CREDITS: Concept: Carlo Ratti; Gianluigi Ricuperati; Matthew Claudel Graphics: Chris Green; Carlo Ratti; Matthew Claude
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Gianluigi Ricuperati, 1977, has published four works of non-fiction and two novels, published and translated in various languages and by publishers such as Mondadori, Rizzoli, Gallimard. His writings appeared on La Repubblica, Il Sole 24 Ore, and art & architecture magazines, Domus, Abitare, Flash Art, and many others. He currently serves as director of Domus Academy in Milan.
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Carlo Ratti, an architect and engineer by training, practices in Italy and teaches at the MIT, where he directs the SENSEable City Lab. Ratti has co-authored over 200 publications and holds several patents. His work has been exhibited at the Venice Biennale and MoMA in New York. At the 2008 World Expo. He has been included in Blueprint Magazine's 25 People who will Change the World of Design, Forbes Magazine's People you need to know in 2011, and presented at TED 2011.
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Matthew Claudel, 1990, Matthew Claudel studied Architecture at Yale University, and has presented at TEDx, designed and authored several books, and is actively involved in 89plus. His work has been published in the Architectural Review, El Pais, Project Syndicate, Il Sole 24 Ore, and World Economic Forum, and featured in exhibitions at Yale. He is currently a researcher at MIT’s Senseable City Lab
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WRITTEN: Part three is an infinite printer that transforms humanity’s text into written word. Fed by a Twitter-like stream of quotes, a room-scale plotter unceasingly churns out the manuscript of ONE BOOK. Collective text becomes concrete, recomposed as an infinite scroll then sliced once again into ‘posters’ for each visitor, to be disseminated around the world. CREDITS: Concept: Carlo Ratti; Gianluigi Ricuperati; Matthew Claudel Graphics: Chris Green; Carlo Ratti; Matthew Claudel
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ORAL: Part two is a terrain of thematic zones communicated through the aural tradition. Spoken phrases are projected into precise cones that resound with deep literary themes – love, war, death, faith, knowledge and identity. The vast single space is differentiated by sound and light, reverberating with personal and emotive atmospheres in a larger thematic ecology. CREDITS: Concept: Carlo Ratti; Gianluigi Ricuperati; Matthew Claudel Graphics: Chris Green; Carlo Ratti; Matthew Claudel