With LAN, American artist Brennan Wojtyla (2001, Florida) turns TICK TACK’s iconic brutalist home, De Zonnewijzer, into a site-specific sculpture and an active Local Area Network Party.
The stripped-back form of TT’s brutalist architecture insists on the rawness of utility—a refusal of ornament in favor of an unapologetic clarity of purpose. Reflecting this ethos, Wojtyla pairs down and rebuilds computer towers and networks until every vent, cable, and chip is subordinated to the singular function of having visitors play classic Counter-Strike together.
In parallel, through a DIY approach, TICK TACK’s architecture and environment get flipped into a manipulable 3D digital map free for people both locally and online to explore and wreak havoc.
Lan’s technological brutalism echoes early 2000s LAN party nostalgia and reveals the beauty of intentional reduction, where efficiency, necessity, and directness become the aesthetic of a social gathering.
Discover the shifting border between online experience and offline imagination where infrastructure is the artwork, architecture is the map, and the audience becomes the team.
OPENING NIGHT
Friday, September 19, 7 - 10 PM
BRING YOUR OWN CHAIR!
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