Virtual technology makes no real impact - Monocle Monocolumn / affairs

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Standing in the Czech pavilion last week at the 13th Venice Architecture Biennale for the first time in my life I felt old, realising that technology was defeating me. Where other pavilions had opted for the more traditional forms of installations and exhibitions, by which I mean showing something physical and real, the Czechs dispensed with any models or sculptures, or even film or text. Instead they handed visitors an iPad at the entrance. The lady who handed it over thought I was mad when I asked how it worked. She dutifully pushed the “on” button, which brought up a list of exhibits and the camera function. She tapped one, held the iPad up to the empty pavilion space and there was a small avatar of a model on the screen, floating a few metres away. “Shake it to get it to move,” she said. Many taps, swipes and shakes later, my iPad was cluttered with shapes and boxes of...

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