JAIME SALAZAR

VERB PROCESSING

Verb Matters revisa las posibilidades formales y materiales de la construcción actual. De nuevo, nuestro punto de partida es el ámbito de la era informática, caracterizado por una infinidad de datos procesados, la conexion global en red y la separacion cada vez mas difusa entre la materia natural y la tecnologia artificial. Verb Matters refleja primero los resultados tangibles de las ideas mas sofisticadas, aplicadas a la edificacion. Aun mas, plantea las posibilidades crecientes de la tecnologia actual: una materia viva artificial, que procesa informacion e interactua con el entorno organico. Habiendo llegado al limite de lo predecible, volvemos a la actualidad con una recarga de posibilidades. ¿Que es lo que realmente podemos construir? Esa es la pregunta que guia este recorrido. La que potencia del ingenio, la capacidad de respuesta y la economia de la accion para materializar arquitecturas. Obras publicadas de Diller-Scofidio, Jurgen Mayer H., OMA, Toyo Ito, Media Lab, MIT y Metapolis.

The second issue of verb iooks at the formal and material possibilities within cur- rent construction. Our starting point is the present context of the information era, typified by extensive data processing, global networking and an increasingly blurred distinction between natural matter and artificial technology. First, verb matters reflects the actual result of the more sophisticated ideas applied to the shaping of buildings. Next, it attempts to address the growing possíbilities of current technol- ogy: a living, built, artificial matter that processes information and interacts with natural beings. having arrived at the limits of the foreseeable, we return to the con- temporary world with a greater sense of what is possible. What can we really build? thats the main aspect of this survey.

Salado Creek, Texas, 1918: Thirteen black soldiers stood at attention in front of gallows erected specifically for their hanging. They had been convicted of participating in one of Americas most infamous black uprisings, the Camp Logan Mutiny, otherwise known as the 1917 Houston Riots. The revolt and ensuing riots were carried out by men of the 3rd Battalion of the all-black 24th U.S. Infantry Regimentthe famed Buffalo Soldiersafter members of the Houston Police Department violently menaced them and citizens of the local black community. It all took place over one single bloody night.In the wake of the uprising, scores lay dead, including bystanders, police, and soldiers. This incident remains one of Texas most complicated and misrepresented historical events. It shook race relations in Houston and created conditions that sparked a nationwide surge of racial activism. In the aftermath of the carnage, what was considered the trial of the century ensued. Even for its time, its profundity and racial significance rivals that of the O.J. Simpson trial eight decades later. The courts-martial resulted in the hanging of over a dozen black soldiers, eliciting memories of slave rebellions. But was justice served? New evidence from declassified historical archives indicates that the courts-martial were rushed in an attempt to placate an angered white population as well as military brass. Mutiny of Rage sheds new light on a suppressed chapter in U.S. history. It also sets the legal record straight on what really happened, all while situating events in the larger context of race relations in America, from Nat Turner to George Floyd.