Postscapes

A 'post-scape' is the 'topos' where the relationships between virtuality, actuality and potentiality, and thus between energy, information and matter, change. Gilles Deleuze's concept of 'fold' is based on René Thom's mathematical model of Catastrophe Theory. Deleuze coins "per-plication," in the context of which, the dynamics of space may be altered, as the qualities of interaction are redefined. The roles of the 'visual' and the 'drawn' in and through the matter-energy flux, are thus also redefined. Scientists' attempts to 'capture' complex and chaotic dynamics in phase space, are investigated in conjunction with the latest scientific findings on hidden attractors and hyperchaos, complemented by key advancements in quantum information, materials research, philosophy of science, the relevant cases of contemporary art and architecture. Spaces of complexity emerge through the precarious bifurcations of dynamical systems. New kinds of abstraction derive from the changing relationships and tensions between numbers, data, topology, geometry and matter at the 'thresholds' of the possible and the actual.