A transparent planar array

Big thanks out to Nate for an inspiring art ref: the works of David Spriggs. I bought a couple pads of large acetate sheets today to do dimensional experiments with. The next step will be working out a scaffold/framing to space them out.



Will an array of planes provide a reasonable medium to flow between stereoglyphic and an augmented latin alphabet? I'm a little skeptical that the loss of depth resolution will be of an order such that character legibility is acceptable, but I'm nonetheless excited to try it out.

Sprigg's Archaeology of Space (2008), a work of hung sheets (catenary curves presumably), seems to be Sprigg's sole violation of flat planar arrays. Though the flat grid approach seems perhaps most "invisible" or ignorable, adjacent cylinder surfaces (or concentric) may be another workable approach, particularly considering that many of the stereoglyphic letters I designed are constructed of helical skew curves.

A secondary idea about possible variants of this approach include the consideration of A) having the sheet spacing be dynamic via some mechanism, either trivial (multi-sheet edge connection "spine"; allow the viewer/reader to tangibly move the sheets) or complex (automated), and B) variable lighting.

thanks

Thanks to everybody for the feedback!

Besides thinking of scaffolding ideas for the string script and increasing the alphabetic inventory of the stereoglyphs, I plan to spend time this week experimenting with some 2D pseudoenglish and seeing if any new sorts of ideas for component integration come out of that.

I forget who brought it up, but the idea of each script encoding descriptions of the others was intriguing.

featural scripts

This hierarchy represents the granularity of morphemic and phonemic symbolism:

pictograph >
logograph >
syllabary >
alphabet >
abugida >
abjad >
featural

Of these, Hangul (Korean) is usually attested as the only featural script (It was a deliberate construction, dating from ca. 1443). Contesting this view is the following article:

Primus, Beatrice. 2004. A featural analysis of the Modern Roman Alphabet. Written Language and Literacy, 7.2, 235–274

It's super interesting and one has to give the professor credit for trying to be systematic in her analysis. So I give it an A for effort, but…it's nonetheless unconvincing and historically naive.

The granularity of a formal (non-representational aka digital decomposable, not analog) script usually correlates to graphmic complexity in that characters that symbolize less granularity tend toward greater visual complexity; an inverse relation.

castles in the sand (1965)

Cool review (mostly) of a 20-artist exhibition in Chicago a year back:

Dimension and Typography: A Survey of Letterforms in Space and Time

imaginary trip to an imaginary art museum

Upon entering this museum, the check-in person had me sign a form promising that I not laugh at one of the musique concrète audio installations ("Don't laugh at it, it has a lot of car noises," she says).

Then I get to choose from small menu of different re-dressing options: jackets and pants and shoes that better match the art on display.

Anachronisms (in both directions); Steampunk

Thematic realms:
Steampunk: Alternate-history sci-fi; cyberpunk and information-technology themes applied to past.
Post-cyberpunk: cyberpunk without dystopian assumptions, more technologically optimistic.
“Postliterate” society in fiction.

Why this interest?
1)Because I'm interested in our prehistory, history, our present state, and how little time is between them.
2)In concepts made manifest in unexpected substrates.

The central idea here would likely translate to a piece sculptural in nature, and it's possible to merge this with the more developed ideation I've worked out for my proposal on asemic writing/haptic poetry.