Andreas
Angelidakis
“Hotel Blue Wave”
15 January 2006 –
14 February 2006
Opening Reception:
Sunday, January 15th, 2 – 5 PM
Regular Hours: Saturday
– Tuesday, 11 AM – 5 PM
INMO
Gallery presents Hotel Blue Wave,
an animation by Andreas Angelidakis that incorporates the notions of beach and
squat into the concept and structure of a hotel. Also included in the
exhibition are drawings and paper models from recent projects, Cloud House and Superneen.
Angelidakis
is one of the first to treat the internet as a real place, a site where he
designed and built online communities such as the Chelsea Project and Neen
World. His involvement with the internet expanded to offline
projects, such as Teleport Diner,
where he used an online library of free objects to furnish a real space in Stockholm, in a process
that could be described as a conceptual 3D print. He also designed and built
spaces that were intended to appear as computer renderings, sparking a
discussion as to whether they were ever built (Pause pavilion, Stockholm 2002)
and spaces that included a garden of mummified plants used as a virtual horizon
for a laser beauty clinic (Forever Laser, Geneva 1998 and 2003).
Born
in Athens, Greece,
Angelidakis studied architecture at Sci-ARC and Columbia, where he began exploring the
relationship of clandestine haphazard construction and ad-hoc computer network,
drawing a parallel between hardware and life.
INMO Gallery
114 West Fifth Street
Los Angeles, CA 90013
213.626.5225
info@inmogallery.net
opening photos by Nanette Sulano
more photos here