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DANM 210 Class Homework

Final Documents for DANM 210

Final Documents

October 8th Homework

draft proposal document

"The Robot is the garden"

Project name functions to identify artistic and aesthetic intent in internal computer design. "Designing the inside" was the old working title for this project and is still relevant to this project idea. Large-scale interactive project.

Build a “garden” from an internal computer design that people can walk into and sit on and observe the way information (and electricity) move through the system. Instead of grass, people walk on the green motherboard, instead of benches, people would sit on computer chips, instead of trees, there would be cables and video cards – there are many possibilities here. I see this as an art display that could be in a children’s tech museum or Digi Barn?-type setting.

!High level areas for research include

• What are aesthetics?
• What is artistic intent?
• What is a Computer?
• Black Box theory
• Design theory/Bauhaus Theory
• Empirical Requirements
• Deconstruction
• metaphysics of presence
• Aesthetic Response
• Aesthetic Perspectives
• Aesthetic Intent (see Panovsky)
• Contradiction
• Rhythm (in relation to industrial design)

bibliography

A typology of design space explorers, Robert Woodbury and Andrew Burrow, 2005

iWoz, Steve Wozniak w/Gina Smith, 2006

Inside the Machine: An Illustrated Introduction to Microprocessors and Computer Architecture, Jon Stokes, 2006

Digital Design Principles and Computer Architecture, Edward Karalis, 1996

And the following via Google Books:

Computer Architecture: Fundamentals and Principles of Computer Design By Joseph D. Dumas, Joseph D. Dumas, II

The Design Dimension of Planning: Theory, Content and Best Practice for Design Policies By John V. Punter, Matthew Carmona

Art, Design, and Visual Culture: An Introduction by Malcolm Barnard

A History of Architectural Theory: From Vitruvius to the Present By Hanno-Walter Kruft

Modern Architectural Theory: a historical survey, 1673-1968 By Dr Harry Francis Mallgrave

The ABC's of triangle, Square, Circle: The Bauhaus and Design Theory By Ellen Lupton

Art, Design, and Visual Culture: An Introduction by Malcolm Barnard

Iconography and Electronics Upon a Generic Architecture: A View from the Drafting Room By Robert Venturi

Design Theory and Computer Science: Processes and Methodology of Computer Systems Design By Subrata Dasgupta

Advances in Environment, Behavior, and Design: Toward the Intergration of Theory, Methods, Research, and Utilization By Moore, Gary T. Moore, Environmental Design Research Association

Is the Brain a Digital Computer? John R. Searle http://users.ecs.soton.ac.uk/harnad/Papers/Py104/searle.comp.html

• Project Proposal (v2)
• CV (v2)
• Narrative Bio (v2)
• Artist Statement (v2)
• Contextual Statement (v2)
• Exhibition Proposal

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