SPECIAL ISSUE 13 MARTIN BOARD

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For the Special Issue 13, I interpreted the essay TENSE (2018) by Simon(e) van Saarloos. With my interpretation, I amplified the author’s discourse on descriptive language by exaggerating the use of meta-descriptions through the form of HTML-tags. Normally, a HTML <tag> acts as a descriptive container, it is invisible for Web-user point of view as it is only made to be read and interpreted by the computer in order to arrange the structure of the Web-page

By looking for ways to make these meta tags visible and readable from a Web-user’s point of view, I affect the reader’s interpreation of the essay and also perception of the document accessed. Additionally to the Web, I made my three HTML documents (essay, artistic response and map) printable from the Web and included them in the Special Issue 13 book.

As part of the design team of the Special Issue 13, I collaborated with two XPUB1 students to make the project’s visual identity, including the making of Web-to-print documents such as the blank map; bookcover and colophon.

WHAT DID I DO?



  • During this Special Issue 13, on one hand, I have been involved into the creation of the visual identity of the project with the design team. Creating the blank map, the colophon, and the cover of our book all entirely with a WebtoPrint process and by using free licensed typefaces and materials. I also gave a little help on the launch page, but it remained a very small contribution on that part. Finally an even smaller but still relevant contribution to the collective work was my title suggestion: Wor(l)ds for the Future.


  • On the other hand, I have been working on the essay called TENSE, by creating 4 different HTML printable pages. In relation to my own path of research, this work amplifies the author’s discourse on descriptive language by using and overusing meta-descriptions (html tags). Meta language is undeniably descriptive, as it allows a machine to interpret content and to give the structure of a Web page. By making these meta tags visible, I wish to affect the reader/user experience and interepreation of the text.


WHAT DID I LEARN



TECHNICALY



  • My knowledge and pratice of HTML/CSS to Print improved and it felt good to finally do some printed design without any kind of Adobe software. Happy that 100% of my contents were generated with this process and looking forward to push on this eventually for the 2nd year.
  • Annotating, reading, collaborating, team decision making
  • Introduced to a crazy range of open source tools



CONCEPTUALY



  • Digging further in my own path of research



MAIN LINKS





WORKLINKS



Workshops

Collaboration, Conflict & Consent with Eleanor Greenhalgh

→ 1.  Workshop page
→ 2.  Freeze

Annotating

Words/publications to read/annotate : Tense, Practical Vision, Eco-Swaraj
Team: Pon, Floor & Martin

→ 1. TENSE PDF PADMAP
        Simon(e) van Saarloos / from Words of the Future - Nienke Scholts (2017)
→ 2. Practical Vision PDFPAD
        Moses Kilolo / from Words of the Future - Nienke Scholts (2017)
→ 3. Eco-Swaraj PDF PAD
        Ashish Kothari / from Words of the Future - Nienke Scholts (2017)

Licensing

→ 1.  Writting a General License - group work with Floor, Pon & Camillo (in Progress) PAD
→ 2.  License to Sub-License - individual work (in Progress) PAD

Mapping readings

→ 1.  Group work with XPUB1 / coordinated by Steve PAD
→ 2.  A3 MAP TEMPLATE (FOR PRINT TEST)

Creating a map of maps

→ 1.  TEMPLATE
→ 2.  PAD FOR "MAP OF THE MAPS" GUIDELINES / QUESTIONS / DEADLINES

About the notion of "Meta"

Making a image that describe itself as an image, a map that describes itself as a map, by using Ascii aalib (Keywords: reflexivity; embodied aesthetic; meta-cognitive; representation; sublime; attention; paradox; mise en abyme;)
→ 1.  The meta as an aesthetic category Bruno Trentini (2014)
→ 2.  File:RMZ ARTIST WRITING(2).pdf The eye tells the story by Rosa Maria Zangenberg (2017)
→ 3.  Leonardo Da Vinci - Paragone by Louise Farago

Design department Special ISSUE XII

→ 1.  HOTLINE
→ 2.  PAD

General Links



ALL PADS





TEXTS



https://pzwiki.wdka.nl/mediadesign/Category:WordsfortheFuture

Word Authors PDF (small)
LIQUID Rachel Armstrong, Andrea Božic & Julia Willms (TILT) link
OTHERNESS Daniel L. Everett, Sarah Moeremans link link link
PRACTICAL VISION Moses Kilolo (Jalada), Klara van Duijkeren & Vincent Schipper (The Future) link link link
ECO-SWARAJ Ashish Kothari, Rodrigo Sobarzo link link
HOPE Gurur Ertem, Ogutu Muraya link
TENSE Simon(e) van Saarloos, Eilit Marom & Anna Massoni & Elpida Orfanidou & Adina Secretan & Simone Truong link link
UNDECIDABILITY Silvia Bottiroli, Jozef Wouters link
RESURGENCE Isabelle Stengers, Ola Macijewska link
!? Nina Power, Michiel Vandevelde link
ATATA Natalia Chavez Lopez, Hilda Moucharrafieh link



Prototyping



With Pyhton



→ 1.  Generating 100 000 billions of poems
          from 100 000 milliards de poèmes — Raymond Queneau (1961)
→ 2.  Trump speeches words occurences counter
→ 3.  Computer assisted licensing
→ 4.  Making a Gradient Patch (Coordinated by Manetta and Michael)

SPECIAL ISSUE VISUAL DESIGN



Creating the map with Web to Print

During this Special Issue, I have been very much improving on the HTML to Print process. By forcing myself to use this method, I could more and more easily get to the result I wanted, and could avoid to use any kind of close licensed layout softwares. Here are a few non chronological exports of the blank map of the Special Issue. Jacopro assisted me on the text layout.

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Creating the cover and colophon with Web to Print

Same thing here, all design team collaborated together to make the cover of the book and integrating the custom typefaces made my all XPUB1 students and a few teachers.

WFTF Colophon Web To Print
WFTF Colophon Simulation
















Map preview IRL

During the launch day, I puted some phone cameras on the ceiling and started recording in order be able later to make a timelapse of the making of the map. These footages became very useful to communicate about the publication itself after the launch.

WFTF map timelapse
Final printed map IRL
WFTF map in use











































Book preview IRL

Naami and Frederico made a photoshoot of the final book, here are a few shots!

WFTF Book Final Shot 01
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WFTF book final shot 03
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TENSE

The study of the text first started with Floor and Frederico in a very early stage of the special issue 13 process. Later it became the text I personaly had to work on.

A note about the text

Because the text itself is very spontaneously written and quiet 'apocalyptic' in a way. It has different motions to adress. Sometimes personal thoughts. Sometimes philosophical thoughts. It is not an essay with a conclusion, but more a flow of ideas. After reading it we had a lot of thoughts and discussions about what it really means. The text self is not easy to understand and we needed to use the dictionairy frequently. To explain this text we would need a lot more text. The summary would count more words than the actual essay so we're currently working on alternative way(s) to make this essay intelligible.

Our process in pads

Our process in Figma

Work in progress mapping the essay with visual parts https://www.figma.com/file/QFNnwDTXWSxFIjZQC65pcr/Tense?node-id=0%3A1

Description of my work on TENSE

“What is described can sometimes even be more easily celebrated and embraced, because it appears dead” - Simon(e) van Saarloos ( @svansaarloos )

My Web to print interpretation of Tense, an original contribution by Simon(e) van Saarloos, part of Words for the Future - a multivoiced series of ten booklets directed by @nienkescholts in 2018. In the 2020 online and printed version called Wor(l)ds for the Future, XPUB1 (Experimental Publishing) students from the Piet Zwart institute reinterpreted the original material through methods such as annotating and prototyping in Python (a coding language we used to analyse text as texture). The ten booklets were cross-examined and mapped in order to find interconnections and links.

With my interpreation, I amplify the author’s discourse on descriptive language by using and overusing meta-descriptions (html tags). Meta language is undeniably descriptive, as it allows a machine to interpret content and to give the structure of a Web page. By making these meta tags visible, I wish to affect the reader/user experience and interepreation of the text.

Navigation Screen Captures

Tense main page Screeshot
Tense map page Screenshot
Tense response page Screenshot
























Tense Button Display 1
Tense Button Display 2
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Square screencapture TENSE 01
Square screencapture TENSE 02























Square screencapture TENSE 03
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Square screencapture TENSE 05
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TENSE screen capture Square 01
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TENSE Web to Print Process

Tense Essay To Print 01
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Tense Artistic Response To Print 01
Tense Artistic Response To Print 02

















Post-Launch TENSE Motion Design Process

Working from a Web interation video capture

Trying to play around with the Browser window resizing in order to create a playful animation decidaced be a thumbnail of the project. The two first screen capture will be the basis of the upcoming motion. I will first try to smooth the window movement and make the two screen capture fit togehter before synchronizing them and looping them.

TENSE MOTION Initial Screen Capture 1
TENSE MOTION Initial Screen Capture 2























Smoothing/Combining/Synchronizing Frames

Working from a videocapture and trying to smooth the quiet laggy movment of the window was quiet tricky, I got there after a while.

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Final Result Square + Rectangle Format

Tense Motion V3 - Martin Foucaut
TENSE Motion Rectangle Format Loop in the loop
































PS: It might be called a quine

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