Publication Experiment One
I created an initial publication experiment, bringing forward the diagrammatic elements from work in the previous unit to being to give visual form to conversation and dialogues.
In making this experiment I was inspired by Johanna Drucker’s ‘Diagrammatic Writing’ (2013).
Drucker’s visual, poetic essay emphasises the importance of the visual format of text and its appearance on the page by illustrating how the way text is arranged imparts meaning that supplements the content.
It can superimpose a rhythm, cadence and tone to the writing. It can control the pace at which information is absorbed.
The spatial organisation of text on each page of the publication I have created is therefore informed by diagrammatic compositions that mirrors the dynamic cadence of the ongoing, unresolved nature of thoughts and words shared through dialogue. This is something I will take forward more strongly in the final publication.
I have also experimented with AI generated images and found archival material from to juxtapose with the contents of the conversations. However, I believe they distract from the depth of the conversation being had. So in the final publication I will focus on the dialogues and the visual form of dialogues.
I also experimented with different paper stock, I will carry forward a slightly transluscent paper that allows the dialogues and conversation to layer and build over and seep into one another.