title: text/ure
type: participatory art installation based on algorithmic design
year: 2022
author/composer: Alexandros Kontogeorgakopoulos, Odysseas Kleissouras (oneContinuousLab)
funded by: Creative Europe, EASTN-DC project
first exhibition: matte(R)ealities festival: Cardiff School of Art and Design, Cardiff, UK, March 2022
In the textual world, and in each language, meanings are associated with specific geometries and their different conglomerations. Meanings have become visual entities. In a sense, ideal communication would be a frozen world of meanings, sounds and geometries. But would it be? In the text/ure participatory art installation the artists are trying to fluidly reform the relation of text and geometry. They vitalize parametric design and digital fabrication in order to re-visualize each word in relation to the phrase it appears in. In the textual world an utterance is a scratch, more a texture than a text, a text/ure.
note: Visitors are encouraged to rearrange the text/ural conglomerations. Each cnc milled block is a word, words of same phrase have same height, but their lengths are relevant to the textual form of the word itself.
The followng photos were taken during the exhibition at Cardiff School of Art and Design in Cardiff, Wales, UK.
workshop descripion:
During the workshop, participants will be invited to co-create an art installation using parametric design and digital fabrication techniques. The participants will be exposed to the whole process: from the grasp of the initial idea to the development of the computer program to milling the final object by a CNC machine. Moreover they will actively contribute to the final piece by offering words and sentences which will then be transformed by the created algorithm into real elements of the exhibition. No special skills are required to attend.
The video presents the design and fabrication process of the piece.