Digital Art
I have been reading Christiane Paul’s Digital Art and I have found it a very useful book. It is like having a quick navigation through the history of digital art. Although it is pretty basic I like how the author describes some of the characteristics of the digital art. (It is participatory, dynamic, and customizable). I am really interested on the idea of customization of information and also on how it can enrich experiences for users, especially in the signage and information design filed.
I also found very interesting the work of Jeffrey Shaw and more specifically the Legible City project . “In The Legible City the visitor is able to ride a stationary bicycle through a simulated representation of a city that is constituted by computer-generated three-dimensional letters that form words and sentences along the sides of the streets. Using the ground plans of actual cities - Manhattan, Amsterdam and Karlsruhe - the existing architecture of these cities which is based on actual maps, entirely consist of texts, which are projected on a large screen in fort of the user. Traveling through these cities of words is consequently a journey of reading; choosing the path one takes is a choice of texts as well as their spontaneous juxtapositions and conjunctions of meaning.”
This project also reminded me find that the idea of “representation” is a subject that I am very interesting in and how it has been always my concern during all my work with signage. What I like about Shaw’s project is the idea of navigating the city through its representation giving the user a different approach and a different reading of it. The city is a map of the city made by words.
It this case, the representation of the city with text is equivalent as the act of “translating the characteristics of the hypertext into architecture, and representing a city using a different codification”.
I also like the idea on how this projects deals with the idea of customization. In this case, the reader-walker constructs his own narrative while choosing a path in the virtual city.
I also found other interesting projects on Digital Art book that create virtual environments and sensations on a space that doest exist; virtual architectures that change and respond to the user inputs. ( Erwin Redl, Polar Project, among others) .
I also found very interesting the work of Jeffrey Shaw and more specifically the Legible City project . “In The Legible City the visitor is able to ride a stationary bicycle through a simulated representation of a city that is constituted by computer-generated three-dimensional letters that form words and sentences along the sides of the streets. Using the ground plans of actual cities - Manhattan, Amsterdam and Karlsruhe - the existing architecture of these cities which is based on actual maps, entirely consist of texts, which are projected on a large screen in fort of the user. Traveling through these cities of words is consequently a journey of reading; choosing the path one takes is a choice of texts as well as their spontaneous juxtapositions and conjunctions of meaning.”This project also reminded me find that the idea of “representation” is a subject that I am very interesting in and how it has been always my concern during all my work with signage. What I like about Shaw’s project is the idea of navigating the city through its representation giving the user a different approach and a different reading of it. The city is a map of the city made by words.
It this case, the representation of the city with text is equivalent as the act of “translating the characteristics of the hypertext into architecture, and representing a city using a different codification”.
I also like the idea on how this projects deals with the idea of customization. In this case, the reader-walker constructs his own narrative while choosing a path in the virtual city.
I also found other interesting projects on Digital Art book that create virtual environments and sensations on a space that doest exist; virtual architectures that change and respond to the user inputs. ( Erwin Redl, Polar Project, among others) .
1 Comments:
No había leído este post al escribir mi correo. Vamos parejo. Me parece que te saltaste en la descripción: "interactive" que es otra característica clave y aunque al principio no es claro, es distinta de "participatory".
El proyecto de la bicicleta es muy importante para mí porque yo lo ví antes de que todo este arte digital siquiera existiera para mí, era el 92 y yo estaba de paseo por Barcelona. Y me monté en la bicicleta. No creo que sea "customizable" porque al fin y al cabo uno no adapta nada (finalmente es como un juego pero no como un juego en el que uno crea su "personalidad"). Aunque no es claro todavía bien qué quiera decir "customizable" (y no he encontrado una buena palabra en español).
By Alejandro Martín, at 6:36 PM
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