for Tuesday 1 October, read (with pencil in hand)
Cameron Tonkinwise, his "'I prefer not to' : Anti-progressive designing"
which appeared in Coombs, McNamara and Sade, eds., Undesign : Critical Practices at the Intersection of Art and Design (2018) : 74-84
same article (draft? I have not checked to see if exactly same as published version) at academia.edu.
(you may need to create an account (it is free) to access.)
Some of us agreed to do a dozen Believe It or Not texts (with or without illustration) for Nicole.
I intend to do this.
Nicole mentioned Creepycatches, which parallels her interest in believe-it-or-not oddness.
see also Charles Fort (1874-1932), a "writer and researcher who specialized in anomalous phenomena"
wikipedia
wikipedia has links to books by and about Fort, including many at archive.org
Christian Marclay, The Clock (2010-11)
trying (and failing) to recall, in connection to what!
algebra
a lot of our discussion last week regarded relationships of one (or two) units of text, and a unit of image.
a few examples :
- Andrew — smaller units of text, plus images (from newspapers)
- Claire — "reaction shots"
- Stephen — need to bring text into the equation
- Zaruga — portraits (of own or others' hair), plus personal story, plus other text related to hair and race and gender
- Cailee — reduction of text into interesting factoids, with consistent design treatment, links to more information (so as to respect the agency of people encountering this material)
- Rebecca — pulling passages out of text (bibliomancy, see below), and working with those (possibly with contemporary images)
example of factoids
bibliomancy
the use of books in divination, typically by selecting a passage at random.
wikipedia
see also haruspicy, a form of divination by the inspection of the entrails of sacrified animals
wikipedia
matter that matters
Steven showed us three more sketches of three rocks. It was suggested that Steven be reading something either about rocks, or the aesthetics of rocks, or even philosophy relating to rocks (and matter generally, and what things are worthy of being pointed at (deictic function) and named.
I mentioned the passage in Plato's Parmenides (130c-e) regarding the question, whether things that are undignified and worthless, e.g., hair and mud and dirt, have their own separate Forms. (And scooped up some matter at hand, from the floor along the bookcase, to consider the question.) Socrates is horrified by the idea that they might, and returns to less difficult terrain. "That's because you are still young, Socrates," said Parmenides, "and philosophy has not yet gripped you as, in my opinion, it will in the furuture, one you begin to consider none of the cases beneath your notice." (Mary Louise Gill translation).
And so I suggested looking at that text by Plato, and as the fragments of Parmenides, and of Heraclitus (presocratic philosophers both of them), and perhaps to glance through their respective entries at the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
beginning with the SEP entry for Plato's Parmenides
will supply some of these texts on Tuesday.
cams
as in, cam-shaft. a programmable, physical memory for controlling mechanisms (by transforming rotary motion into linear motion).
I showed a cam (two cams, around the same axle) that are designed for a mechanism that can write the word "cam."
here
a design student at Massachusetts College of Art, a century and more ago, would have learned how to do this.
see wikipedia entry for cam
Ed Ruscha
mentioned this with reference especially to Andrew's "rule" phrase pairings; see Ruscha's paintings of words and phrases, against neutral or simple (e.g., mountain, clouds) backgrounds.
Do an image search for "Ed Ruscha"; see also this Guardian review of a recent exhibit (2018).
mentioned (and looked at) his (along with Mason Williams and Patrick Blackwell) Royal Road Test (1967, published 1971)
programming languages
Arielle is working with Scratch, a "block-based visual programming language and online community targeted primarily at children. Users of the site can create online projects using a block-like interface. The service is developed by the MIT Media Lab"
wikipedia
McVey mentioned Logo, which is not a direct precursor but apparently had some influence on Scratch
wikipedia
pinboard (bookmarks)
a reminder, that I bookmark items relating to seminar work (and more generally about design) at pinboard (disegno)
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