« PseudoproDa »: Jasen Markov showed how in Venice in the summer it will snow

In the outside of the pavilion, an installation will be built that shows how it is possible to snow in the summer through a machine powered by solar energy that produces artificial snowfall, but only to flood the panels that support it.

« This is our interpretation that architecture and nature are always in a circle. When architecture changes something in nature, it begins to fit this changed phenomenon and from then on nature changes further until we reach absurd situations, » he added.

According to his description, this experiment is on the border between nature and technology, reality and simulation and calls into question the future of stability in a world in which natural processes are increasingly influenced by artificial intelligence and human intervention. The idea for the project is inspired by this year’s theme of the Biennale – « Intelligence. Natural. Artificial. Collective », which will be held between May 10 and November 23, and the opening of the Bulgarian pavilion will be on May 9th.

« Although we have this natural disaster outside, we do not want to sacrifice just what can go wrong humanity or architects if they continue to work the same way. We do not want to show only the problems, although their display leads to some extent to their solution, so we will show the solution inside, » Markov explained.

A beautiful interior, divided into two parts, will be recreated in the inside. One will position the installation of Ivelina Ivanova, which will be able to see the visitors before they find themselves in an abstract interpretation of the traditional Bulgarian living room with a virtual hearth.

As it was once the heart of the Bulgarian home and a place for conversations, interaction and exchange of ideas, it is now rethought as a point of a meeting where natural, artificial and collective intelligence are gathering to shape new opportunities for the future. It will stand out a huge carpet made by hand by the artist Rosie Aise.

Courtsy of Iassen Markov

« In this carpet, three halls are depicted and they are a symbol of these three intellects embedded in the theme of the biennial. It is no coincidence that in the past, when man did not yet have so much power on nature, but rather, he has taken the form of different monsters. Creatures, abducted children, destroyed harvests, but one could win them on their side, and then it was believed that the year was good, « said Jasen Markov.

The three halls are connected to each other with a snake as a sign of knowledge and are somewhat an allegory of the complex and sometimes contradictory connection between human, artificial and ecological intelligence.

Once the visitors see the installations and the « natural disaster », they will have the opportunity to offer solutions on what can be done so that it does not reach snowfall in the summer or beach in the winter. They will also see in the recipe catalog for a better climate, which collects ideas from architects, designers and scientists for strategies for sustainable adaptation. They are generated with artificial intelligence after being made before the discovery of the Biennial poll, which synthes them in a shared vision of sustainability.

« Of all the recipes, he creates a constitution of how not to reach such a catastrophic pseudoprid, » adds Jasen Markov. This will show the interaction between personal experience and machine analysis, exploring new ways to deal with the uncertain climate future.