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posted by Adrian at 12:17 PM
March 28, 2005
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I think the models are great sasha, the questions is what to do with them….On re-reading Greg Lynn’s essay “Geometry in Time” in ANYhow (MIT: 1998) I have found it to be quite useful for the studio, I will bring a copy in on Monday if nobody can find it in the library. It discusses how force could be said to inform ‘form’ in the same way that a virtual field of movement (the ocean for example or more generically fluid flow) could be said to inform a solid (for example a boat hull). Though the hull of the boat does not reconfigure as it moves, the resistance of the water to the surface is determined by a relation that is mobile and contingent on the hulls geometry. The relationship between the hull and the water could be expressed in any number of ways by varying the angle of one to another. The hull thus defines or better still affords, a range of expressive possibilities.
I bring this up because of the white paper model shown in the photo by Sasha, which at first reminded me of a boat hull. What we can draw out of the Lynn text though over and above a visual resemblance to the boat is the idea that information/force somehow determines or is fed into form. The form is then seen not just as an index of this force, a remainder or residue of its action, but more that it is therefore able to re-engage with this force/information and thus modulate it or deform it back. [again staying with the analogy of a boat, its shape is determined by a number of constraints; there would be dynamic constraints like the flow of water over its surface and the resistance this flow creates; static constraints like the facilitation of cabins etc. More than this however I imagine that the hulls are tested at various angles to the water (like a wing perhaps) and must be able to perform different functions based on different angles.] The resulting form is thus an expression of lots of different types of information, but more interestingly it is the expression of a series of possible future interactions between hull and ocean.
This is a long way of saying that the models are very interesting as potential techniques, but how will they be traversed by different forces or types of information. How could you reframe them so that they represent a field (perhaps rather than objects) that could be modulated by specific types of input and thus in turn reconfigure those inputs? Perhaps you need to combine these models into slightly more complex assemblages (so that they can register different types of information), how does repetition figure into this? Can you think about those models as components of a field 1000 of them rather than 10?
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