Places generate stories: “It's just not true that stories happen anyway...”
Paris, Texas
Jasper Johns "Map"
Wim Wenders "Entrance"
Friday, October 29, 2010
Place – Time - Story
Transforming places into time is what Wim Wenders does when telling a place. Christine Buci-Glucksmann attests the same quality to land art. But there are more intersections between Wender’s philosophy and land art: the uniqueness of a place, the ephemeral of time and the limited possibilities of transporting a place’s qualities in media.
Places generate stories: “It's just not true that stories happen anyway...”
Places generate stories: “It's just not true that stories happen anyway...”
Thursday, October 28, 2010
what are we looking for?
IMAGE-FLUX - a synonym for THE image of our time - fluid, ultra-thin and light.
A culture of flux and instabilities needs a new kind of image. This new image is rhizomatic, virtual and curved. It´s smooth, topologic, ultra-fast and infinite with knots, folds, spirals and inflexions.
The Image-Flux replaces the old modernist image, this crystal-image raised by a culture of glass - straight, transparent, metric and hierarchic.
The passage from a culture of stabilities and of objects, with it´s Fordism and it´s industrial standards, to a culture of instabilities and of flux with it´s cyberspace and it´s instantaneous communication is looking for a new type of image.
IMAGE-FLUX.
Tuesday, October 26, 2010
improved: different aspects of cartography:
1. Changing views:
There was a new perception in the 16th century. It was Pieter Bruegel's "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" which turned the balance to more and more scientific atlases and maps.
He brought a new plural view into being, a synthesis of "site" and "non-site" (cf. Robert Smithson)
It was a real alternative to the idea of Leonardo Battista Alberti, which says that a picture allegorise "a window opened onto the world", a construction of a plateau. Standing on it, you got a typ of an nomadic view.
At one hand the map is the territory, like Jorges Louis Borges descripes in his short stories "Del rigor en la ciencia" 1946, at the other hand it is only an alternate.
The idea of the blank map, by Lewis Caroll is another utopia, the map as a model of an "in-between".
Current the view changed to a model of the virtual, a new typ of picture, an image-flux, which detaches the modernist, crystal image.
2. New Visibilities
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From medieval times to the present, the content of cartography changed. Whereas in medieval maps the whole world was centered around Jerusalem, in the 16th and 17th century, maps seized the real and became a mere artefact.
Alfred Dürer - map
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From then on, maps became diagrams with different possibilities of reading it. The diagram shows a Rhizome structure in which the reader get the chance to explore the diagram continuously and to evolve new thoughts beyond it.
Paul Klee - Siebzehn
Thus the diagram connects two different space times developed by Deleuze and Guattari in Mille Plateaux. The striated space (as the city, metric, with a hierarchic tree structure) and the infinite smooth space (as the sea, an open surface with no bounderies, just with connections and a rhizome structure).
tree structure Rhizom structure
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These diagrams with their rhizom structure and multiple possibilities of reading them, are an appropriate instrument to represent or analyze todays interconnected social structure.
3. «Folie du Voir»
The text defines the passage from a culture of stabilities and objects, with its Fordism and its industrial standards, to a culture of instabilities and of flux with its cyberspace and its instantaneous communication...
We consider the part in the text where the comparison of the crystal-image in the 20th century and the flux - image is mentioned.
The crystal, with its sharp edges and its coalescences of the present and the past, the allegory of the entire culture of glass of the 20th century.
Examples from Marcel Duchamp, Bruno Taut and Mies van der Rohe.
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The image-flux with its new fluidities and its diaphanous transparencies
would be the allegory of a present marked by a plane of global immanence that is screen-like.
In reference to the flux-image as a example for the processing of architecture on the basis of virtual diagrammes. (Greg Lynn; NOX)
Thursday, October 21, 2010
image – sign – relevance
Contrary to Foucault´s position concerning the radical distinction between the visible and the readable, the map is immediately both readable and visible. It functions like a non-mimetic image, an image-index (Pierce), that lies at the origin of a pragmatic of expression. A toponym, such as Paris or Berlin, is localized, and corresponds to a referential and contextual territory, a country, a fragment of a country or a planisphere.
From then on, the map became a mere artifact, and it is easy to understand the fascination it inspired in the first artist cartographers, Leonardo da Vinci or Dürer. The map seizes the real, masters it, and allows a glimpse of an unconscious quality of vision with its folding and unfoldings, within a weightless plane. A map takes possession of the limits and the borders of the unlimited.
This is why these new visibilities that are distinct from the perspectivist schema with its point of view, combine several heterogeneous elements. It is a “descriptio” connecting images and signs, a new kind of abstraction, that views the diagram as abstract, and that allows for the pluralism of the direction and the displacements characteristic to a world regard, projected onto a continuous or fragmented plane, with all its variations of scale.
Wednesday, October 20, 2010
crit
please reference your ideas, topic to the text of christine buci-glucksman. ARE THEY REALLY PART OF IT? the construction of your work should be an extraction of the text. use images as reference. Start to construct these relations (for mapping see edward tufte)
see projects:
ocular-flux
IN-BETWEEN MAPS & DIAGRAMMS
see projects:
ocular-flux
IN-BETWEEN MAPS & DIAGRAMMS
Tuesday, October 19, 2010
Cartography's evolution
The topologies
After the Metaphysic was turned down, the contemporary science schemes took control of the world. This interest in rediscovering the truth within, lead through new science theories, such as Heidegger’s theorie of Caos, with its dynamic systems. This way, new mathematic models were discovered such as: Moebius Strip and further on Klein’s bottle which both reflected the continuum (the continuous overlapping space-time). This would be carried on as ideas for new architecture, developing new abstract possibilities bearing deeply inside the idea of continuum and fluxes.
An Esthetic and Political Model of the Virtual
The improvements on technologies are also reflected in the way We represent the space. We've gone from an immovable reality, with unmodifiable limits, to another in which the only constant is the existence of the changing flux itself. It turns the cartography into a wide complex tissue that is ment to show the different aspects of existence.
New Visibilities
We have always tried to know the unknown, maps turns to be a tool to solve this, abstracting the infinite reality to make it finite and measurable, this way the problem appears when we don’t get an answer and we need to create a language of diagrams to understand what we are looking for, although sometimes can take us to new problems, and new maps in an exponential way, is a matter of reality interpretation.
After the Metaphysic was turned down, the contemporary science schemes took control of the world. This interest in rediscovering the truth within, lead through new science theories, such as Heidegger’s theorie of Caos, with its dynamic systems. This way, new mathematic models were discovered such as: Moebius Strip and further on Klein’s bottle which both reflected the continuum (the continuous overlapping space-time). This would be carried on as ideas for new architecture, developing new abstract possibilities bearing deeply inside the idea of continuum and fluxes.
An Esthetic and Political Model of the Virtual
The improvements on technologies are also reflected in the way We represent the space. We've gone from an immovable reality, with unmodifiable limits, to another in which the only constant is the existence of the changing flux itself. It turns the cartography into a wide complex tissue that is ment to show the different aspects of existence.
New Visibilities
We have always tried to know the unknown, maps turns to be a tool to solve this, abstracting the infinite reality to make it finite and measurable, this way the problem appears when we don’t get an answer and we need to create a language of diagrams to understand what we are looking for, although sometimes can take us to new problems, and new maps in an exponential way, is a matter of reality interpretation.
Constant Changes
1. The Topologies.
Due to the change of mentality on the twentieth century and the introduction of new technologies, there was a new conception of space: from the limited to the flowing, from the straight line to the curve.
In addition, a new form of architecture appeared, more concerned about human life; not focused only on structures but on psychological problems.
The most important exponent of this new concept in Spain was Gaudí, creator of a personal style based on observation of nature, which led him to use geometric rules, such as the hyperbolic paraboloid, the hyperboloid, the helix and the conoid.
2. New Visibilities.
The idea of Cartography has suffered a substantial change in recent times.
There has been a movement from the idea that the map was just a representation of reality to a wider concept which introduces new abstract representation forms that generate new ways of reading the map.
It’s now time to represent items that we had not even dreamed with.
3. From Artifices to Artefacts.
We understand artifice as something based on visual perception that alters the reality through mechanisms, generating sensory illusions.
We understand artifact as a functional element with a specific objective (a machine).
Following this line of thinking, we could associate the idea of an artifice to palatial architecture, and the idea of an artifact to a factory.
Nowadays, the Author-Architecture is overly formalistic, moving away from the precepts of the functionalist of early 20th century, going back to artificial palatial architecture of the 16th and 17th centuries.
developing our cognition
The cognition of maps and diagrams has been changing throughout the medial change from mono-directional to multidirectional. Meanwhile platforms like Google are trying to canalize the stream of cognitional thinking again. Is this a step backwards, or is it still a more open and even better way of absorbing our environmental context? Where are we going in terms of graphical perception?
different aspects of cartography
1. The Icarian view & the cartographic view, an accord:
We looked at different arguments about icarian eye & cartographic eye and try to connect them. We pose the question if it's possible or not. Not only Christian Jakob claims in 'L'Empire des cartes' the intimate complexity of the two views.
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2. Crystal-image/flux-image
We consider the change from the past glass culture in the 20th century (crystal-image) into the flux - image. The allegory of the present with its virtual paradigm. In reference to the flux-image as a example for the processing of architecture on the basis of virtual diagrammes. (Greg Lynn; NOX)
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We looked at different arguments about icarian eye & cartographic eye and try to connect them. We pose the question if it's possible or not. Not only Christian Jakob claims in 'L'Empire des cartes' the intimate complexity of the two views.
2. Crystal-image/flux-image
We consider the change from the past glass culture in the 20th century (crystal-image) into the flux - image. The allegory of the present with its virtual paradigm. In reference to the flux-image as a example for the processing of architecture on the basis of virtual diagrammes. (Greg Lynn; NOX)
3. The diagramme during the change from an hierarchic tree structure to a Rhizom:
As Deleuze differs in Mille Plateaux in the striated space and the smooth infinite space we got to the differentiation of the social structure in a past hierachic structure and the present Rhizom structure. During this social change, the cartography changed. We consider the diagram in terms of this Rhizom structure.
universalization
A toponym, such as Paris or Berlin, is localized, and corresponds to a referential and contextual territory, a country, a fragment of a country or a planisphere.
If we reflect about this sentence, in a short time we notice that it can’t be true in this way. For sure every city and every village is localized strictly on the map, but if we analyze the thoughts of the architectural stream we come upon to another problematic: Merely every famous city has his landmark – a landmark that normally stems from a historical important époque – but the landmarks out of the recent building-years are highly exchangeable. It means that the architecture has made a relatively deep switch – the sites are no longer identified by their “important buildings”, contrary these “important buildings” are the medium to identify the sites.
The possibilities of a map to abstract every type of information related to a limited territory are really broad, but it seems that in future the abstraction, the universalization of our environments is getting more and more important too. (f)
The cartographic Cogito is thus that of a voyage in space-time and of a plural subject: being here and elsewhere, being near and far, being multiple, up to immersing oneself into all the possible utopias of a Space Art.
Franz Kafka- the metamorphosis. The focus is on the evolution of a fantasy interspace, universalization and adaption mechanism. The transaction to "beam" to another place and another time as break out of reality. Topic is to analyse the process of transformation from map and real space to fantasy. (g)
Mapping 2.0
In 2008 9,6 million people in britain took advantage of social networks like Facebook, Twitter and Myspace. Britains scientists talk about 27 million social embedded people until 2012, thats nearly half of the united kingdom.
What can we make out of this explosive developement? How big are the similarities between social networks on the internet compared to those we have to face in our real live and would it be possible to give some sort of forcast for our future social activities?
A "feeling lucky" Button ( -Google-) how to gain new relations?
The Atlas of Cyberspace
What can we make out of this explosive developement? How big are the similarities between social networks on the internet compared to those we have to face in our real live and would it be possible to give some sort of forcast for our future social activities?
A "feeling lucky" Button ( -Google-) how to gain new relations?
The Atlas of Cyberspace
THE CHANGE OF & THROUGH DIAGRAMS
NEW OUTLOOK
_from the 16th century pictoral to contempory virtual
_it´s getting more and more scientific
_from 1-angle viewports to multiple angles and more dimensions in virtual reality
NEW VISIBILITIES THROUGH DIAGRAMS
_the diagram allows to explore virtual volumes created by movements
_plural subjects: beeing here and elsewhere, beeing near and far, being multiple
_beeing in a continous space with different scales, directions, positions, places and movements linked together
ocular-flux
In order to digest and absorb the text, each paragraph was visually translated in a series of related images. It became apparent that some aspects of the text could not be directly translated into images, so the next step in this process is to produce a method of representing these concepts in another visual format.
A Sense of Place
Monday, October 18, 2010
IN-BETWEEN MAPS & DIAGRAMMS
1. New Visibilities.
Definitions of Maps & Diagramms
.multiple information in diagramms. G.Deleuze "Rhizom"
.making prozesses visible -
2. The Contemporary Cartorama
.blur relation of information in maps / diagramms
.generate perspective and define boundaries
.power and effects that can be generated out of master conditions.
3. An Asthetic and Political Model of the Virtual (Surfaces)
.capturing the ephemeral - snapshots
.smooth and striaded
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Definitions of Maps & Diagramms
.multiple information in diagramms. G.Deleuze "Rhizom"
.making prozesses visible -
2. The Contemporary Cartorama
.blur relation of information in maps / diagramms
.generate perspective and define boundaries
.power and effects that can be generated out of master conditions.
3. An Asthetic and Political Model of the Virtual (Surfaces)
.capturing the ephemeral - snapshots
.smooth and striaded
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perspective anamorphose
new visibilities unconsciously seeing of tipical parameter
- gillez deleuze "floding a room"
- mophogenes: developing a form (transformation)
contemporary kartorama
- tautologie: a pictural or structural message of not interpretable circumstances in arts
- entropic eye: confronted seeing with non-seeing
an aesthetic and political model of the virtual
- hermeneutic
topologie
- gregg lynn: animated forms
- ebner, kornexl, zimmerle: non animated forms
surfaces
- floating space: transformation of the real
Reading the world through a map
Sunday, October 17, 2010
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