Version 3a (in progress)
The third, minor iteration (3a) of Drift Interruptions reexamines the shape of narrative. It envisions the narrative not as a linear path constantly departing from its former self, but instead as an undulating architectural form that folds onto itself. This visualization borrows the western notions of story as both a constructed form and a kind of textile that unfolds. Here narrative is structural, intentioned, but also as colloquial as spinning a yarn.
Visualization |
The Visualization
Drift interruptions, Version 3a, digresses from the theme of visualizing choice in narrative. Instead, Version 3a seeks to visualize differences in structure by varied readers.
In real time, the current narration is drawn as an architectural ribbon. The ribbon winds toward its center, changing size based on the density of language of the speakers narration.
Three dimensional visualization was chosen because it affords for a few fundamental advantages when compared to two dimensions:
- Space is represented* as more than absence. In three dimensions space emphasizes distance and its relationship to space.
- Three dimensional representation* does not rely as heavily on abstractions and translation as 2D presentations. Where, for example, a 2D map of a terrain requires extrinsic knowledge of standards in color, hue, and flatland translation, the 3D presentation relies on intrinsic knowledge about the relationship of one object to another (often the space between them)
The Installation:
Version 3 revises the design as a small screen projection for museum audiences. Visitors read the following statement, posted before the installation.
"The word winds wistfully over meaning, but blissfully through intention. I want to know the shape of what I say, and not its meaning. If I were another person, you might wonder what I am saying, but I am who I am, and this is what I said."
Reference and Related Reading:
- Drift Interruptions Version 2 (.pdf)
- Edward Tufte's Envisioning Information
- Narratives of Space, Time, and Life Barbara Tversky
- Algorithmic Architecture : Images and Samples
- Natural Born CAAD Designers
Technical and Sketches:
- The audio listener (done in processing) (2mb, Windows, Mac, Linux)
A few places from which I derived motivation and ideas:
- GSAPP at NYU: Graduate School of Architecture
- http://www.enohenze.de/
Related:
- Extreme Textiles
- Punkmill: Data as material (virtual textile)
*Here emphasizing re-presentation or the projection of a sense of three-dimensions.