notes and recollections, 6

seminar panel reviews I
Wednesday and Thursday evening, 12 and 13 October

Reviews are 30 minutes each, starting at 6:30pm and concluding at 8:30pm.

Wednesday reviewers : John Colan, Maria Galante, Bill Hanscom, JM
Thursday reviewers : Lys Cianci, John Colan, Brian Savignano, JM

Thesis statements should be (1) current, (2) titled, and (3, ideally) accompanied by concise summary/abstract.

Work posted on this blog should be accompanied by some explanation (and even questions).
 

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scribes, reviews, window become window frame... Munsell color chip...

 

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various links, things that came up, before I forget

everyone —

1. garadinervi.tumblr.com/ / excellent typography, design, graphics blog, excellent documentation, links.
   index of subjects / scroll down
2. Thursday, October 06, 6:00-7:30pm
   THE STEREOTYPE MACHINE
   On Race, Typography, and Social Authority
   Jonah Mixon-Webster
   Introduction by Keith Jones. Part of our Typewriter Talks series, this presentation by WPR Creative Fellow Jonah Mixon-Webster (StereoTYPE, 2021) explores the racialized implications of mass textual (re)production and the methods by which typographical designs enact authoritative forms to codify the linguistic and visual structures of race, class, and subjecthood haunted by the parallel technology of slavery.
   Woodberry Poetry Room, Lamont Library (Harvard University)
   more information : link
   live streaming through WPR YouTube Channel
3. www.apublishedevent.net/ / Tasmania, scroll down for overview of various art/design/writing projects, and some interesting web typography, including
   Lost Rocks (2017-21) : link
   Tender : link
   instagram : @apublishedevent

Stacey (kindness)

1. consider so-called “extra-illustrated books” : link : wikipedia
   and books on subject, on seminar table
   
2. Less is (or can be) more. Whether or not stereotypical (American) heart shape is used as format, it need not be treated as a bulletin board for many images and pieces of text. Two images in relation is/are potentially more effective.
   Usage/deployment of text should be more considered, “designed.”
3. Pierre Vinken, The Shape of the Heart (2000) : N 8217 H53 V56 2000

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4. I spent a year meeting people who make a difference – here’s what they taught me
   The Guardian angel is hanging up her wings – here she revisits three community heroes to see how their lives have been changed by the column
   Sirin Kale. The Guardian (3 October 2022) : link
5. heart maps. and the Carte du Tendre : (appeared in the first part of Madeleine de Scudéry’s 1654-61 novel Clélie) : link

Patrick

1. think in terms of series, rather than “one-offs” — and dropping in different elements, e.g., wireless trackball mouse, winter hat... The Euphoria pieces might work better as an animation, with the colors evolving.
2. The Addictive Chills and Thrills of “Euphoria”
   The second season of the hit HBO show is a thing of beauty—a stylized, heightened, art-directed fantasia of a dark suburbia where really bad things look really good.
   Naomi Fry, The New Yorker (February 8, 2022) : link
3. On Thursday, Patrick showed some variations around [adultswim] : link. Discussion of variations, also of designing for multiple applications, on different devices/channels. Could something similar be done for other shows/networks? Discussion also of typography, clean e.g., Helvetica or Futura, to complement not compete with visuals. Madison recalled Barbara Kruger, and some controversy around the use of Futura : link

Madison — new flats (on cereal etc boxes), see

1. Mr Doodle, I painted my house : link
   instagram : @mrdoodle
2. See also the lettering/sign painting of Kenji Nakayama : link

Josh (“calculating the conscience” gesamtkunstwerk...)

1. Some discussion on Thursday (6 October), of unconventional visual scores, scored (=inscribed in wood) instruments, etc.

   Iannis Xenakis (1922-2001; architect, composer) : Pithoprakta (1955-56), for orchestra : link
   Dick Raaijmakers (1930-2013) : book on seminar table : wikipedia
   Enrique Tomás, Tangible Scores (2013) : link (Vimeo) / more
   Tangible Scores first encountered at notationnotes.tumblr.com (Gabriela Gordillo, @ladyguaba)
    

Sarah (life after death)

1. Tuesday, saw styrofoam brain stamp print experiments.

   earlier blood spatter images bring to mind:
   lithographs of blood etc micro-photographs, in various 19th-century epidemiological and other texts, e.g., several by Robert Koch (1843-1910, wikipedia): link (via ancient JM tumblr posts, linking to google and other scans)

2. Thursday, Sarah showed five body parts : brain (with eyes), lungs, heart, liver, intestines. There ensued some discussion about these components as characters (perhaps on legs?) moving around, looking for their connections/neighbors/rightful places. Five body parts in search of an author, so to speak. The idea of claymation came up.

Katie — new series of windows, see

1. slate photo above, and
2. Sigmar Polke (1941-2010) : “art”; and
   
3. John Baldessari (1931-2020) : various, lots of dots on faces, etc., e.g. here
   books on both are surely in the Montserrat library.

John (shoes)

1. On Thursday (6 October) showed sketches (on paper and slate) for an animated advertisement for Puma (shoes)
   Will use Blender (link to tutorials)
   Hadn’t realized how the Puma logo has changed over the years : link
2. Crits/discussions are more useful during process, than after (when it’s basically too late for anything more than a post mortem).