— DANIELLE —
—GRADUATE THESIS BY ALEX SETHTHESIS ADVISOR_CARO TRIGOART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGNSPRING 2018_LOS ANGELES_CALIFORNIA—
—What is a Book? What is the future of the book? This thesis investigates the nature of ‘visible language’ in relation to printed matter. It argue that language is a placeholder upon which meaning is cast or ‘made visible,’ and that visibility is an effect of the interplay between imprint and reader.—
—Slicing: digital sculpture made of everyday objects,
What is a Book? What is the future of the book? This thesis investigates the nature of ‘visible language’ in relation to a book or printed matter. I argue that language is a placeholder upon which meaning is cast or ‘made visible,’ and that visibility is an effect of the interplay between imprint and reader. That the nature of ‘visible language’ seems irrevocably bound to its translatability, to its capacity to change meaning and shape. InThe Future of Hegel: Plasticity, Temporality and Dialectic, Catherine Malabou states, "Hegel is a thinker of the future and with a future: Hegel’s philosophy announces that the future, from now on, depends on the way the shapes and figures already present can be put back into play, on the way the extraordinary and unexpected can only arise out of the prose of the well-known and familiar."
Taking from the well-known and familiar forms of everyday objects, this project imagines how ‘visible language’ can be represented as an archaeological artifact from the future. To build on Ulises Carrión’s essay, “What a Book Is,” I ask, could a book—or reading itself— be a series of slices? The project uses slicing as a form of reading, as a series of shapes ‘made visible' by a machine, a mediatory device attempting to read or translatemeaning. If the book continues to transcend time, what will its future be?
—Text by Carolina Trigo2018
—slicing diagram
—slicing still
—Catalogue
—AR translation of printed matter
—active AR trigger
—digital sculpture
—catalogue spreads
—Process Book spreads
