Something simple applied with rigour, and repeated. This is how you simply, and elegantly, build complex patterns and/or structures:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/29/finnish-facades-architecture-helsinki-in-pictures
This is, in the language of our studio, a machine for noticing, recording, and making facades. What becomes elegant is that it also becomes an engine to notice differences by concentrating on the same. It reveals, discloses, rather than tells. This is a very different way of approaching documentary than feeling like you have to tell a story (and it most certainly is not a story).
Simple Rigour
Something simple applied with rigour, and repeated. This is how you simply, and elegantly, build complex patterns and/or structures:
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2017/mar/29/finnish-facades-architecture-helsinki-in-pictures
This is, in the language of our studio, a machine for noticing, recording, and making facades. What becomes elegant is that it also becomes an engine to notice differences by concentrating on the same. It reveals, discloses, rather than tells. This is a very different way of approaching documentary than feeling like you have to tell a story (and it most certainly is not a story).
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Adrian Miles
Adrian Miles is a Senior Lecturer in New Media and currently the Program Director of the Bachelor of Media and Communication Honours research studio at RMIT, in Melbourne, Australia. He has also been a senior new media researcher in the InterMedia Lab at the University of Bergen, Norway. His academic research on hypertext and networked interactive video has been widely published and his applied digital projects have been exhibited internationally. Adrian's research interests include hypertext and hypermedia, appropriate pedagogies for new media education, digital video poetics, and the use of Deleuzean philosophy in the context of digital poetics. He was the first or second person in the world to videoblog.
March 30, 2017
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machines, making, pattern