Material Dialogues (Maurice - Phantom Demographic)
I intend to use this discussion page to host the development of one work from the 'Phantom Demographic Series'. Feel free to drop in suggestions, questions, anything that comes to mind!
Ps. I'm setting this page as 'public' for now to see how it goes.
To briefly explain further: At the moment I’m focusing on producing small-scale print works in sets of 11 pieces per work (1 each in sizes A0 to A10). Unlike previous works which consisted of 100+ pieces, I’m working with reduced numbers in order to explore working with smaller groups of people to develop a range of structures for shared ownership. The working title is ‘Phantom Demographic Series’ – which is an idea around imagining the audience/public/community that you’re making something for (which brings with it lots of questions/challenges).
To make these works, I’m using analogue print techniques to compress layer upon layer of ‘contentless’ information in the form of ink layers onto the pieces of paper which have been arranged into overlapping, taped together compositions. Each ink layer is documented as a unique record using ‘Filemaker Pro’ business database software. I’m going to try out using Loomio to post every record of an print work as it’s made.
Maurice Carlin Tue 9 Dec 2014 11:19PM
Maurice Carlin Tue 9 Dec 2014 11:30PM
The above are the first 3 database records I,ve made for this work. I've hung the same paper-to-be-printed on a wall in 3 different orientations. It has 10 pieces (1 each of A0 to A10) taped together in such a way that every piece touches every other piece, which means that all the pieces must converge in the smallest piece, the postage stamp-sized A10 in the centre.
Even though it's the same paper, hung in different orientations, the google 'search by image' results suggest that it is in #1 bathroom furniture, #2 black doors and #3 black jerseys.
Amy McDonnell Thu 11 Dec 2014 4:16PM
Hi Maurice - good to see your Material Dialogues page up and running! I am really interested in these descriptions produced via Filemaker - I'm not too familiar with it... how does it come up with the suggestions? It is interesting how you layer up these systems that appear to make arbitrary content forming strategies... ie. your 'contentless' prints, these automated descriptions, your interest in the infinity scroll)...
Maurice Carlin · Tue 9 Dec 2014 11:18PM