Virtual Australian Pavilion

RESEARCH BACKGROUND
This polemic virtual exhibition was held in the absence of a funded exhibition for Australia's pavilion at the 2004 Venice Architecture Biennale. It displayed a virtual exhibition curated by Andrew Benjamin, featuring work by leading Australian architects. Hosted by RMIT's Lab 3000, the collaboration united Tom Kovac's architectural pavilion design with a virtual exhibition designed by David Pidgeon and John Gollings and organisational support from Davina Jackson. Pavilion interiors/images/web were designed by Daniel Flood and David Liao.

RESEARCH CONTRIBUTION
Although Australia did not receive government funding for its own pavilion at the 2004 Venice Biennale, this virtual composite was a convincing substitute. The project forges a strategic position for architectures of uncertainty, mediating between actual and virtual forms. The exhibition illuminates architecture as a creative cultural form that is not necessarily reduced to physical components or expected programmatic requirements. This is evident in the provocative guerrilla tactics by which the pavilion commandeers the site - itself a place of experimentation - and literally pushes the parameters of the built form, as well as in the content of its virtual exhibition. The pavilion robustly advocates architecture's re-engagement with a greater dimension of public meaning.

RESEARCH SIGNIFICANCE

The work exhibited at the 9th Venice International Architecture Biennale. It was reviewed by peers in several industry journals: by Martyn Hook in Monument magazine, by Andrew Mackenzie in the Architectural Review Australia and by Dale Jones-Evans in (inside) magazine. Davina Jackson featured the work in the acclaimed publication 10x10_2: 100 Architects, 10 Critics by Phaidon Press. and also featured in the Melbourne Masters Architecture exhibition, curated by Leon Van Schaik.

研究背景
本次兼具争议性的虚拟展览，是因2004年威尼斯建筑双年展澳大利亚国家馆未能获得官方资助实体展览而筹办的替代方案。该虚拟展览由安德鲁·本杰明（Andrew Benjamin）策展，展出了澳大利亚顶尖建筑师的作品。本次展览由皇家墨尔本理工大学（RMIT）3000实验室主办，整合了汤姆·科瓦奇（Tom Kovac）的国家馆建筑设计方案、大卫·皮金（David Pidgeon）与约翰·戈林斯（John Gollings）打造的虚拟展陈，以及达维娜·杰克逊（Davina Jackson）提供的组织支持。国家馆内部空间、视觉素材及网页界面均由丹尼尔·弗拉德（Daniel Flood）与大卫·廖（David Liao）设计。

研究贡献
尽管2004年威尼斯双年展澳大利亚国家馆未获得政府拨款支持实体展览，但本虚拟复合展陈是极具说服力的替代方案。本项目为不确定性建筑搭建了战略定位框架，在实体与虚拟两种形态之间建立了中介联结。该展览阐释了建筑作为一种创造性文化形态的本质：其并非必然局限于实体构件或既定的功能程式要求。这一点可从两方面得以印证：其一，展馆以极具挑衅性的“游击战术”征用了这片本就作为实验场域的场地，并切实拓展了建筑形式的边界；其二，其虚拟展陈的内容也佐证了这一核心观点。该展馆有力地倡导建筑应重新回归更广阔的公共意义维度。

研究意义
本次参展作品亮相于第9届威尼斯国际建筑双年展。该作品获得了多本行业期刊的同行评议：包括马丁·胡克（Martyn Hook）在《Monument》杂志、安德鲁·麦肯齐（Andrew Mackenzie）在《澳大利亚建筑评论（Architectural Review Australia）》、戴尔·琼斯-埃文斯（Dale Jones-Evans）在《(inside)》杂志上发表的评论。达维娜·杰克逊还将该作品收录于费顿出版社（Phaidon Press）广受赞誉的出版物《10x10_2：100位建筑师，100位评论家（10x10_2: 100 Architects, 10 Critics）》中；此外，该作品还曾亮相由莱昂·范·沙伊克（Leon Van Schaik）策展的《墨尔本建筑大师展（Melbourne Masters Architecture）》。