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Monuments + Bits dramatizes the event of collective monuments and their tense relationship to the immediacy of individual experience. Khoury Levit Fongs work takes up the vexing problem of monuments and collective form. What is the form of the contemporary collective? Within and through the monuments and environments of collective life how to be free together and how to make real the forms of collective life? The work recognizes the pleasure in the binding form of the total figure and sees in this figure the impress of institutional life. But, the press of individuals, the unruly thriving of difference also unsettles the forms of KLFs work: counter forms inhabit and disrupt the monumental shape of their public buildings and spaces. Responsive media register the input and actions of individuals and produce sensuous events within and upon the body of their buildings. Conventions are recast through new parametric capacities in the production of architectural form, while current developments in interactive media refashion perceptions of the fixity of the built environment. The work documented in this book ranges from gallery installations to urban plans. It reflects in a variety of scales and media the tense relationship between community and individual. It inscribes this tension, between the one and the many into the body of architecture and the city.

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