I really am working on all these projects of which I speak.
They might have been lost or burned.
November 29, 2010
Adviso
I love profound youtube comments. This I found on a classical Indian Raga vid - I'm working on a project involving such a weaving times sci-fi.
1 year ago
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
1 year ago
What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others.
November 27, 2010
"""We are our narratives"""
Article.
To contextualize CounterSchema; the stories people tell about the Test Patterns are actually stories about themselves. To a certain extent these stories match, just as individuals who share common culture share common narratives. But these stories will often diverge, especially at the level of greater detail. Beginning as a story about the Test Pattern, the path of the story diverges inward, until it merges with a main artery of self-story. For any individual the butterfly of the moment will cause a different route to be chosen, so this can never be an isolated variable experiment. But field work will still enable concrete observations about the nature of the paths.
To contextualize CounterSchema; the stories people tell about the Test Patterns are actually stories about themselves. To a certain extent these stories match, just as individuals who share common culture share common narratives. But these stories will often diverge, especially at the level of greater detail. Beginning as a story about the Test Pattern, the path of the story diverges inward, until it merges with a main artery of self-story. For any individual the butterfly of the moment will cause a different route to be chosen, so this can never be an isolated variable experiment. But field work will still enable concrete observations about the nature of the paths.
November 26, 2010
We don't want to be creative.
Guitar Hero (and now Rock Band) have sold millions.
“They are performance simulators,” Mr. Rigopulos said of his company’s current games. “There is not really a creative dimension to them.”
“Realistically, if you give the average consumer total creative freedom, it’s somewhat paralyzing,” he added. “It’s like if you just hand someone a paintbrush, most people don’t know what to do with it. It’s always striking the balance between freedom and constraint. And for your average consumer you have to give them objectives and criteria for success and failure. For many people, being creative feels like work and the creative impulse isn’t something that most consumers are motivated by.”
“They are performance simulators,” Mr. Rigopulos said of his company’s current games. “There is not really a creative dimension to them.”
“Realistically, if you give the average consumer total creative freedom, it’s somewhat paralyzing,” he added. “It’s like if you just hand someone a paintbrush, most people don’t know what to do with it. It’s always striking the balance between freedom and constraint. And for your average consumer you have to give them objectives and criteria for success and failure. For many people, being creative feels like work and the creative impulse isn’t something that most consumers are motivated by.”
succint quote - art as experience
“The product of art — temple, painting, statue, poem — is not the work of art. The work takes place when a human being cooperates with the product so that the outcome is an experience that is enjoyed because of its liberating and ordered properties.” John Dewey, Art as Experience, 1934.
November 23, 2010
November 22, 2010
November 15, 2010
Seven Generations; Biological Illustration and its problematic lack of problematization
The seventh large project on my list has to do with deconstructing visualizations of particle phenomena beyond the scale at which light is a useful tool to describe reality.
I am interested in this article about a group called XVivo that does scientific visualization at the cellular molecular level (several orders of magnitude bigger than what I'm interested in).
I'm intimidated by the sophistication used to model these forms, but I'm not interested in creating illustrations that are content with unexamined modes of communication. My goal is to question the assumptions of how data is visualized and interpreted, even at this level of sophistication. *Especially* at this level of sophistication.
Of course, they do go into this a bit in the article "Dr. McGill acknowledges that showing cellular processes can involve a significant dose of conjecture. Animators take liberty with color and space, among other qualities, in order to highlight a particular function or part of the cell. “All the events we are depicting are so small they are below the wavelength of light,” he said.
But I think I have little to worry about - these illustrators aren't interested in this process as philosophy, and don't seem to want to have the process of illustrating the unseeable be the subject of their work.
Glad there is not a conflict, especially as this allows me to fully enjoy these amazing images.
That said, I do not agree with the following testimonial statement:
“XVIVO’s animations are the ideal integration of art and science...”
Les Szabo, Pure Potential Media
Now, I know you're not supposed to take these things seriously, but, no - art and science both relentlessly question basic assumptions. These animations are "background dependent" illustration (to steal a phrase from physics) in that they take the basic substrate of illustration theory for granted.
Check out the many more on the site.
I am interested in this article about a group called XVivo that does scientific visualization at the cellular molecular level (several orders of magnitude bigger than what I'm interested in).
I'm intimidated by the sophistication used to model these forms, but I'm not interested in creating illustrations that are content with unexamined modes of communication. My goal is to question the assumptions of how data is visualized and interpreted, even at this level of sophistication. *Especially* at this level of sophistication.
Of course, they do go into this a bit in the article "Dr. McGill acknowledges that showing cellular processes can involve a significant dose of conjecture. Animators take liberty with color and space, among other qualities, in order to highlight a particular function or part of the cell. “All the events we are depicting are so small they are below the wavelength of light,” he said.
But I think I have little to worry about - these illustrators aren't interested in this process as philosophy, and don't seem to want to have the process of illustrating the unseeable be the subject of their work.
Glad there is not a conflict, especially as this allows me to fully enjoy these amazing images.
That said, I do not agree with the following testimonial statement:
“XVIVO’s animations are the ideal integration of art and science...”
Les Szabo, Pure Potential Media
Now, I know you're not supposed to take these things seriously, but, no - art and science both relentlessly question basic assumptions. These animations are "background dependent" illustration (to steal a phrase from physics) in that they take the basic substrate of illustration theory for granted.
harmit09232010 from XVIVO | Scientific Animation on Vimeo.
Check out the many more on the site.
Cognitive Metaphor
This article in the NYTimes is a very clearly written and entertaining explanation of the concept of cognitive metaphors. This is a concept that drives my work.
November 5, 2010
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