TWO THINGS

Describe two of your works/ projects for each work describe. What (100 words max) / How (100 words max) / Why (100 words max)

THE DOT

The Dot is a two years research-project, and my bachelor thesis, with the intent to provide the first steps to a systematic study of visual elements as a whole phenomenon. Human perception merge space and form experiencing vision and his elements as a live phenomena interacting with our everyday life. My research tries not only to express a phenomenology but also to show all the consequences of vision as life, of elements of form living in space as an ecosystem. With this intention I've tried to find out all the possibilities of the dot, as the first element of form, in space.
This research is developed by using a dynamic approach based on showing four different points of view (theory, images, animations, interactions) of the same object to provide a complete experience of it as a form of life. This path can be followed in the 3 parts of the research : the book that contains the first two parts, the theory and the static visualization as artworks, the video-animation, as a dynamic visualization, following all the steps of the book in-brief with an oral description of the concepts, and a work-in-pocess attempt to develop Processing sketches to give the possibility of experience the concepts explained in the book directly.
My personal studies have led me to search the original core of Design as a discipline, the discipline of the science of art/art of science, in the teaching of Basic Design, and follow his path from Bauhaus to his fragmentation in the doctrines of great masters and their students around the world, until now days in its total disappearance in the more and more isolated words of wisdom of Design academies. With this research I wanted to define the fundamental concepts of my practice as designer and visual artist by following the lost paths of Basic Design and by trying to re-found it with stronger roots.

WITTGENSTEIN

This project wants to provide a key for a dynamic reading of Ludwig Wittgenstein's 'Tractatus logico-philosophicus', and to create a web page dedicated to open source and educative purposes. The 'Tractatus' is an attempt to define the totality of the world as enumerated logical statements in a diagrammatic logic, with priorities of certain statements upon others. The idea is to show the 7 principal propositions with the possibility to go deeper following their diagrammatic logic. In this way you can surf inside and outside of the text maintaining the sense of priority and so improving the readability.
The first step is to create an HTML page and copy the statements inside nested tags maintaining their priorities, then provide a JS code that permits to view and hide the propositions by clicking on their parents tags. Afterwards I created a graphic dress for the website with CSS language and a simple logo that remarks the idea of diagram. In the end I extended the website with different insights as the Introduction by Bertrand Russell, the preface by the author, a synopsis of the biography with a link to its source, other useful sources, and the possibility to include different languages in the future.
When I read the 'Tractatus' I noticed that it was difficult to follow and to come back from the path of priorities interwoven by Ludwig Wittgenstein. In fact the 'Tractatus' itself enumerate the propositions as 1, 1.1, 1.2 etc. so it implies the precedence of certain statements over others, but the printed copy of the book prevents a dynamic use and shows every single proposition enunciated in its succession, as static independent blocks, thus losing the sense of priority during the reading. This lead me to provide an open and accessible support for educative purpose, helping the student and in general the reader of this complex book.