ROSAMOND KEMBER :: DESIGN MODELLING :: TIME BASED: August 2011

18.8.11

WK 05 :: 150 WORDS

"MACHINES EXISTED BEFORE MECHANISATION. HERO OF ALEXANDRIA'S MACHINES WERE INEFFICIENT; THEIR PRIME PURPOSE WAS TO IMPRESS THE OBSERVER."

"THE ARCHITECTURAL OBJECT STRAINS UNDER THE BURDEN OF ITS RESPONSIBILITY TO EXPRESS MEANING THROUGH FORMAL REPRESENTATION."

MECHANISED AND MORPHING FORMS THAT AREN'T NECESSARILY EFFICIENT. CONSISTENTLY TRANSFORMING AND EVOLVING "BREAKING DETERMINISTIC EXPECTATIONS"... DELAY THE URGE TO GENERATE FORM IN ORDER TO EXPLORE THE DYNAMIC AND FLUID POTENTIAL THAT EMERGES.

EXTEND THE IDEA OF GLORIFYING THE ORDINARY AND UGLY, WHILE IMPRESSING THE OBSERVER.

JUXTAPOSING REAL TIME, OR THE PACE OF TIME AS SUGGESTED BY THE SOUND TRACK, WITH THE SLOWER PACED "PICTURESQUE JOURNEY THAT FREELY EXPLORES THE MOVING AND CHANGING DETAILS AND FORMS... " " WISTFUL GAZES ON UNTOUCHABLE OBJECTS."

MANIPULATION OF THE 3 DIMENSIONAL SO THAT IT CONFORMS TO A FLICKERING 2 DIMENSIONAL IMAGE.

DIRECTS OUR ATTENTION FROM GRAND IDEA OF VASTNESS TO THE EQUALLY SIGNIFICANT NOTION OF LITTLENESS. AS WITH THE PICTURESQUE, EMPHASIS IS PLACED ON DETAIL, NOT FORM, ON THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE JOURNEY, FREE AND DETACHED FROM ANY SPECIFIC PLACE; "EVERY HORIZON PROMISES SOMETHING NEW". THE HYPERTEXTUAL PICTURESQUE IS A "NEW GAME ON OLD GROUND", A FLICKERING 2D ARCHITECTURE.

SYSTEMIC DELAY:

IS THE TIME ASSOCIATED TO THE PERIOD OF DEVELOPMENT BETWEEN AN INITIAL IDEA AND WHAT EVENTUALLY MATERIALIZES. THE AIM OF THE GAME IS TO DELAY THE URGE TO GENERATE A FORM, IN ORDER TO EXPLORE THE DYNAMIC AND FLUID POTENTIAL THAT EMERGES FROM THIS PROCESS. MORE LIKE AN ANIMATION AS OPPOSED TO A COMIC BOOK, WHERE YOU CAN MORPH FORMS BETWEEN FRAMES AND DISCOVER SOMETHING NEW.