User:Jeanine Verloop/graduation

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>>> GRADUATION <<<
RESEARCH PAPER

Forward, introduction

Jeanine Verloop
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Starting point

First experiment with analog printing. I put some sort of analog printing device inside a box, the printer would print other boxes.

Second time around I experimented with making printing patterns and giving live demonstrations.

For me this project revolved around making, craft and fighting against the loss of knowledge. In the age of mass production I see less characteristics in our daily tools and objects, I wonder how this affects our imagination.

As Robert McLiam Wilson writes, in the introduction Wild at Heart for WilderMann, 'Plugged in, neurotically wi-fied and G3d as we are, we yearn to re-establish contact with the actual, the primal, the old. We dream of something real, something unmitigated by the filter of profit-making portals and franchises. We want the as-was, the erstwhile. We languish for the non-mechanical and the pre- or post-industrial. We are pilgrims seeking the past, the genuine, the individual.'

I believe we will find this genuine and individual part in the act of making / producing.

Questions

Whats the value of doing this nowadays? What is so special?

You talk about craft, what would have been your craft if you lived back then?
I think I would live on some kind of junkyard, collecting all the strange curious of that age.

What is the focus of this project?

When the machine produces, who owns the production?

Without being specific or exemplary, what is the project about?

Mindmap

Interesting work

Laurie Anderson 'Technology is the campfire around which we tell stories'

Failed technology

Who are the winners and who the losers?

Typewriter development

The Malling-Hanson Writing Ball

Experiments

Harmonograph

Media Archeology

Pixelprinter

Robotics

Proof of life

Program / software