CROSS YEAR STUDIO, 31/10/24
Labour 1
Discussion groups: Mark, Dancy, Catherine, Flora
DEFINITIONS:
COMMON
Cultural and natural resources accessible to members of a give community
Graze animals, collect wood, harvest fruit, catch fish. Resources held in common ENRICH
Free circulation.
Something that you share
VECTOR
A vector is any value given magnitude and direction, Vectors distribute stuff
Value for distribution
Path to sharing
Vectors for disease
Carrying something
RESOURCES CONSIDERED AS VECTORS FOR DESIGNERS:
Photography
Sensory perception – sight, hearing, touch
Relationships with others – parenting, human interaction
Shared experience – issues, politics, social issues, domestic experience, specific and by group
Recording – an image, an experience, in any media, to share it
CHOSEN COMMON
Act of recording
VECTOR
Phone photography
OWNS
We own it legally, software provider, phone vector, hackers, the internet, one drive,
SOCIAL MEDIA direct it how?
Socially
Professionally – Linkedin, insta
IMPACTS
Safety, privacy
Ownership?
OTHER GROUPS EXAMPLES:
Sunlight, colour, colours codes, Pantone
Symbol based communication e.g. isotype symbols
Knowledge, archives
Information,
Common knowledge
Colour theory
Technical stuff – layout, colour
Perception is a common
Reality is a common
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VECTORS IN ECONOMICS
We see over time further abstraction in labour, resources and material. Industry is more abstract than land./
Lift, move, drop a vector, industrial example p13 reading
Applying vectoralists to copyright
Creativity as a value for distribution
Copyright law, cheap printing etc
Book – Copy This Book, good reading example
Ideas and a document hence property rights, copyright becomes PROPERTY
Tension between idea, then material expression I that idea, then copyright laws, then property law
GNU code example – author wrote a license enshrining non-singular ownership IN the code itself. A foundation for Creative Commons protocol. He use copyright law, but turns it back over into commons. Protects but a vehicle for Creative Commons too.
Vectors in graphic design – things that we do.
“Vector graphics” dependent on XY coordinates, “raster” images defined by width and height in pixels and bits per pixels.
VECTOR as a vector, RASTER/PIXELS AS A COMMON
Floppy disk example as a raster image, bigger than the capacity of what its representing!
EXPERIMENTAL JETSET project – Lost formats. Vectors showing scale, new relationships between each as they go up and down in size.
Danielle Aubert – 16 Months worth of Drawing in Excel
Che Guevara – original photo, digitised, made into Shepard Fairey she poster using vectors from a raster image,
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Exercise
Flora and I performed meeting online via instagram, we shared a printout of me but via instagram in the middle of us both (other group member, Catherine), we reacted to each other to highlight that there was someone in the middle as a gatekeeper which raised questions of ethics, bias, gatekeeping, big brother.
