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Revision as of 10:13, 4 May 2018
>>> graduation <<<
>>> GRADUATION <<<
RESEARCH PAPER
Contents
Forward, introduction
Jeanine Verloop
Major // illustration
USER PAGE JEANINE
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.
Possibilities
DRAWING MACHINES.
GENERATIVE ART. Analog generating of patterns. If I choose to do this, the focus will be on the result (?).
GHOST MACHINES. Building new and alien mechanical systems from old machines. Revolves around the machine.
PRODUCTION LOOP. Building a machine that would have to be in a constant production loop to show result. (!) Intentionally I would be in the catagory: criticism on mass production. Is this something that I would want?
WORKSHOP. To use other people to make a collection / mix of old and new printing techniques.
FAILED TECHNOLOGY. Empower to understand new technologies by resurrecting what is "dead".
Mindmap
Will update when needed.
Questions
Whats the value of doing this nowadays? What is so special?
Whats is your goal? Wat do you want to achieve?
What is the thread you are interested in?
Without being specific or exemplary, what is the project about?
What is the focus of this project?
When the machine produces, who owns the production?
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.
How does the printing surface relate to the printing mechanism? What will it print, will it relate to the topic of failed technologies and historic value?
How does technology influence the way the imagined result?
(!) What is the name of the project? (!)
How much of my background story will I share during the exposition? Do I want to -literally- tell people what the significance is?
Interesting work
Laurie Anderson 'Technology is the campfire around which we tell stories' [1]
Zoro Feigl, Conveyor series [2] Interesting because without production there is no result, which is a nice metaphor.
Daniel Watkins, Water Printer In the collective imagination, the machine, more than anything else, is a synonym for utility and efficiency. The Californian artist Daniel Watkins has built a machine in order to overturn these convictions, leaving space for reflection: a challenge to the concept of the future based on the validity of these processes.[3]
Ralf Baecker, Crystal Set Irrational computing. [4]
Mathijs van Oosterhoudt, The Focal Camara "The Focal Camera aims to take a critical look at how cameras are constructed and how design choices influence not only our usage of them, but also the photos they create.
While many people own a camera or have the option to buy one, the choices made by commercial camera companies might not always be ones we would want or desire. Such companies first and foremost exist to create profit; in a way creating a capitalistic camera, one first and foremost to be sold, not used." [5]
Failed technology
Empower to understand new technologies, by resurrecting what is dead.
Laurie Anderson 'Technology is the campfire around which we tell stories' [1]
Kristina Anderson: "By using our crude and clumsy hands to make aspects of computational machinery we are re-inserting ourselves into a process that we are otherwise excluded from. We make technological objects in an attempt to glean understanding, to see if our naïve intuitions still functions in a world of current and solder." [6]
Mathijs van Oosterhoudt, The Focal Camara " (...) to take a critical look at how cameras are constructed and how design choices influence not only our usage of them, but also the photos they create.[5]
Who are the winners and who the losers?
Typewriter development
The Malling-Hanson Writing Ball
The Malling-Hansen Writing Ball
Simon Pummel, Shock Head Soul How new technologies can contribute to obsession, triggers, delusion and fantasies.
