Monday, May 12, 2008

Assignment 3: Research Composition.

Brainstorming ideas for a keyword.

Looking at 'know what' rather than 'know how'. Also the difference between the two.
*Going along with all the aspects from 'know what'
-Letting the material/software help guide the end result
-Not having a set process for how to get to the end result, not being able to visualise it at the beginning.

-knowledge - handicraft -manipulation -deformation -within
-talking about the different kinds of knowledge in design. 'know how' knowledge, working with your hands, over 'know what' knowledge which is more conceptual.

- going with 'know how' knowledge, looking at hands on, manipulation of an object through hands, strength and contact of hands on a material, substance of a matter in an object or form, through manuel hands, leaving fingerprints on the object, transforming the object with the human body, the relationship between the human body and the object, experience of hand to the world, looking at the bodies negative, positive, neutral impact on the object.
-have the material struggle, twist, turn, stretch, pull, uncomfortable, because of the hands on the form
-What is deformation or manipulation? first you need a starting point that isnt deformed or manipulated. You cant have an object that starts deformed at least relative to the end point.




Looking at:
-Cubism
-De Stijl




Finding a criteria to help decide which of the 5 media to choose from.

The final design needs to relate closely to the keyword. So it needs to relate closely back to my thesis. It needs to involve an aspect of intuition, the way craftsmen worked to create their objects. Also the process I use to create the end product needs to take the software into account, there needs to be a shared effort where both software and designer are equals. There Must be no routine to the creation.
-Photography
-Physical form
-Light
-Sound
-Water. Ice. steam

For this photo manipulation, the end form wasn't in my head at the beginning. I worked with the Photoshop software to cut out bits of a photo and paste them onto the original, I could not have perceived at the beginning what the end result would have come out like. I simply used my intuition, cutting and pasting and moving the bits around until I felt the image looked good


Pictures from presentation.











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