This evening's speakers will explore the fields of architecture and lighting.

Trends in Architectural Visualization Technologies
The desire to visualize architectural design has been one of the primary motivations behind the research and development of computer graphics techniques. Stuart Feldman, a co-founder of Lightscape Technologies and currently a design visualization product manager at Discreet, will discuss recent advances in relevant computer graphics technologies and discuss the practical impact these technologies can have on the practice of architectural, interior and lighting design.

Lighting Design, Simulation and Control
Axel Morgenthaler is an internationally appreciated lighting designer principally influenced by architecture, multimedia works and also by film and video. Since settling in Montreal, he has collaborated on major creations by La La La Human Steps, Ô Vertigo Danse, and Marie Chouinard, among others. In his presentation he will talk of his experiences as a lighting designer, and the technology behind some of the works he has done, such as various computerized lighting control systems (ex. DMX protocol boards) and software tools that are available to simulate lighting (ex. WYSIWYG by Cast Lighting, Toronto; Martin SHOWDIRECTOR, by Highlight, Holland). Also, he will present the lighting simulation of a proposed architectural project.

Computer Architectones
Recently introduced computer techniques allow architects and designers on one hand to define new architectural geometries and on the other to discover a new and sophisticated order in urban environments previously qualified as random, like traditional villages, shanty towns, and the médina. However, these places are treasures of space, unique and invaluable assemblies, complexities in close dialog with the communities which live in them.

Nicolas Reeves is an architect and a full-professor at University of Quebec in Montreal. He his also the head of the NXI GESTATIO Design Lab for research and creation in Computer Science, Architecture and Design, and a member of the board of the Society for Arts and Technology. His dual training in Physics (University of Montreal, 1985) and Architecture (MIT, 1988) can be seen through all of his works and research.

Data processing proposes today particularly effective instruments of space and formal composition for the exploration of space. Nicolas will present various results obtained thanks to these instruments, largely inspired from the field of the artificial life.

These results are brought into real life with a stereo-lithographic apparatus: the Computer Architectones, translucent, amber-like sculptures, which will be exposed during this session.