In his book; Idoru, William Gibson throrises buildings constructed from communities of nanobots - insectlike automata manufactured to build or provide raw materials solely for this task.
In his New York City Series, H.R. Giger realises cityscapes constructed by and for biomechanical species.
The result is an uncomfortable but strangely familiar environment. These two subjects are linked, and form the basis for Nanocity, and as a concept, nanotechnology interests me both in terms of the possibilities of this evolving science, and also because of just how wrong it could all go given a bit of old fashioned human intervention.
Or not given a bit of old fashioned human intervention.
Root structures in Type:Evo by Joost Korngold. Originally photographed around Moorgate, London one sunny afternoon in June. Original pieces reworked for the launch issue of Fireworks Magazine. Originally presented with music by Neil Sharkey.
