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Although diagrams can serve an explanatory function, clarifying form, structure or program to the designer and to others, and notations map program in time and space, the primary utility of the diagram is as an abstract means of thinking about organization. (Stan Allen)
Meeting Two
In two short readings for Thursday (Allen and Tufte) we find two fundamental concepts, one for notations, and one for diagrams. Note how the empirical method with accurate and direct recording allows Galileo to question preconceived notions. Note Kittler’s concept of "transposition" and how it is fundamental to the diagrammatic practice.
Rework and redraw your movement notations on the basis of today's feedback. Be very literal in your temporal and spatial recordings; leave out no detail of the source material. Consider the notations as scientific assessments of select moments within your training routine.
In a second drawing the notations are compressed to l = 18". Identify critical operations within the three notations; mark and connect specific points: trigger points, turning points, high points, nodal-, attractor-, control points, and levers. The notations can be read outside of their original context of the body's exercise. Abstract organizations emerge. (pencil on vellum 18" x 24" horizontally)
Identify moments of qualitative change, and put into words their properties and behaviors; articulate their spatial effects. Generate a list of operative terms (8 1/2 x 11 portrait, Arial 12 point), so that you can describe the observed with great and greater specificity. The terms are taken from the world of fitness, yet describe universal spatial operations (ex. crossing, stretching, racking).
In a third drawing the three organizations of the second drawing connect and form a field. Identify similar and identical moments within the three organizations and draw out their connections. 12" x 18" area in pencil on vellum 18" x 24" horizontally. Continue to use different line weight (3: thick, medium, thin) and -type (2: continuous, dashed) to account for different layers of information.
Assignment Two is due on Thursday 1/26. Three drawings, a list of terms and the readings will be discussed in class.
Ongoing research:
Crystallography is the experimental science of determining the arrangement of atoms in solids. Start light reading into one of the following areas: Miller index (notation), Symmetry operations, Lattice structures, Defects (Dislocation et al.), Physical Properties (Materials science)
.: Jonas 2:00 PM
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