cells_various

project statement?

The most promising results from initial research on cellular systems seemed to be the slime molds + the scars. Although these two things may not have much in common, their differences perhaps begin to suggest a project that explores two distinct systems and how they interact with one another. The idea is of one group of self-similar cells that grow and aggregate which then meet a secondary group of cells that erodes, opens up, or responds to the initial group of cells in some particular way (which has yet to be determined). The first cell system will be formally simplistic, gaining any complexity through multiplication and deformation whereas the secondary group will eventually require a more sophisticated formal language depending on it’s role; whether it pulls, stitches, and/or structures the first group. This will hopefully lead to an investigation of how two systems with opposing behaviors can begin to engage and develop behaviors that react to one another, creating a dialogue, a give-and-take. The project should embrace the proposed duality. It should be about moments of unbalance and disruption, overgrowth vs dissolution, and how these moments are articulated, how the interactions are negotiated.

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excessive

This blog has been used for a few things over the past couple of years and never really used very well. Currently, I'm at the University of the Applied Arts Vienna (aka the Angewandte) in the Urban Strategies Post-Graduate Program "Excessive" lead by Hernan Diaz Alonso.
http://urbanstrategies.at/93.html
Now, for a while, this blog will become a depository for process and progress throughout the program.