Δ1: Week 2
First Triangulate Project
Based on the previous week’s feedback:
The diagrams created based on the images were more illustrations than diagrams (they follow the image visually).
Diagram: A simplified illustration that represents something in graphic form.
Illustration: A visual interpretation/explanation of a text.
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What makes a diagram, an actual diagram?
SYSTEM – FUNCTION – DATA.
It is more practical.
It is not a visual representation.
It represents something unseen (visual reduction).
It has instructions.
It has a purpose.
If I want to combine diagrams and illustrations, I have to convince the viewers. Define the terms first.
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How can an image be translated into a diagram?
THIS WEEK
Experiment 1
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Use one or more images as a starting point.
Translate the image into an illustration and a diagram (individually). See and understand the difference.
Experiment 2
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TURN IMAGES INTO DATA!
Data can be the color codes, pixels, scale, size, space, material, content, etc.
Recording data associated with the image(s), then creating a diagram.
Use an image as a starting point and build on it. What’s unseen? What kind of data is associated with it and how can these be translated into diagrams?
Restrictions
– Black and white.
– Use a b&w image(s) as a starting point.
– Convert the data into diagrams using only lines, shapes, and text.
Format
A 52-page print publication – black and white.
In the previous week, I was translating images I have taken while I was walking on a specific road (Rawstorne Road, Clerkenwell), into diagrams that looked more like illustrations. This happened because I was following only the visual part of each image.
During this week, I wanted to continue my research on things I do/find, etc. while I am walking. That’s why I have named the publication ‘walk with me‘. This is the time when I think the most, meditate, relax and observe; An urban journey.
In contrast with the previous week, this week I have tried to extract data and information from the image(s), focusing on data that will help me create diagrams and not illustrations. This data/information comes from things that are not noticed in the image(s) but are highly associated. Consequently, the image is used as a base; the starting point; the inspiration. A background to build on the rest of the research.
After doing an experiment with an image of a building (analyzing the windows and balconies through a diagram), I have continued with an image of me walking. Walking as an act is the main energy behind this publication (everything is happening while I am walking). So, I have decided to record my outdoor walking routes for one week and then create diagrams of my thoughts, what I smelled and what I felt during one(1) of my outdoor walk.
Have a look at the final book
Fresh out of the printer..
References
1. Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec – Dear Data
2. Walid Raad – Let’s be honest, the weather helped (future reference)
Information Design Artist
– David McCandless
(Inspiration on types of information visualization).
Identify a new reference and bring it. How does this reference influences your practice?
Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec – Dear Data
http://www.dear-data.com/theproject
“On the front of the postcard there would be a unique representation of our weekly data, and, on the other side (in addition to the necessary postage and address), we would squeeze in detailed keys to our drawings: the code to enable the recipient to decipher the picture, and to fantasize about what had happened to her new friend the week before.“
“We prefer to approach data in a slower, more analogue way. We’ve always conceived Dear Data as a “personal documentary” rather than a quantified-self project which is a subtle – but important – distinction. Instead of using data just to become more efficient, we argue we can use data to become more humane and to connect with ourselves and others at a deeper level.”
I usually find myself being interested in topics that have to do with life; my personal thoughts, stories, and memories. The above reference articulates for me a way to introduce such personal information in my own practice. Even if my starting point of recording data is an image or a series of images, dear data is a project associated with my practice as similarly, my work has to do with reconfiguring data in a more graphic and visual way. The artists of the project though follow a more illustrative and colorful approach to represent the data visually in contrast with my approach that could easily be described as more strict and organized.
My aim is to find a way to combine these two areas of interest.
My thoughts/worries, personal memories, etc., and information/data visualization (diagrams).
Cross Year Tutorials (12.10.21) – Feedback
The strongest experiment is the one in which I was taking data from the image and making a diagram (block of flats, week 2 – experiment 1).
The other experiments are interesting as well. I have to think about what topic/subject I want to explore, and which of the experiments I will use.
I CAN LET THE NATURE/ URBAN MAKE THE DECISIONS FOR ME!
– Focus on a specific topic
– Having a series of photos to work on (same subject, archive, etc.)
References:
– Land Art – Richard Long
– Derive – Guy Debord
– The shadow – Sophie Calle
– The missing voice – Janet Cardiff