What is a line?

Books Nodes & Edges from Conditional Design

BUYER
Choose a book from the grid.

ASSISTANT
Remove the cone.
Make triangles.
Draw a line to connect this node to the nearest empty node in the grid.
Connect the node of the just purchased book to as many other nodes as possible, if this will close a triangle.
The triangle must not include books.
Fill the triangle with lines pointing towards the just purchased book.
Never cross a line or a point.

MANIFESTO

WHAT IS A MANIFESTO?

September 9, 1928 – April 8, 2007
He was an American artist linked to various movements like Conceptual art and Minimalism. LeWitt came to fame in the late 1960s with his wall drawings and "structures" but was prolific in a wide range of media including drawing, printmaking, photography, and painting. His work was mainly based on lines. and various geometric forms. He has been the subject of hundreds of solo exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world since 1965.

Sol LeWitt

Clear line is a style of drawing pioneered by Hergé, the Belgian creator of The Adventures of Tintin. It uses clear strong lines of uniform importance. Artists working in it do not use hatching, while contrast is downplayed as well.

Ligne Claire

A manifesto is a set of rules. you can work with it or people can follow it. It generally has a form of a script.
In the art field, the question arised is, what art should be like and what comes out of it?

Marcel Duchamp, The Creative Act, 1957

John Cage, 10 Rules for Students, Teachers and Life, 1967

Walter Gropius, Bauhaus Manifesto, 1919

Tristan Tzara, Dada Mnifesto, 1918

Bre Pettis and Kio Stark, The Cult of Done Manifesto

She explained:In one of the annotations to my design manifesto, "Me, The Undersigned," I wrote somewhat sarcastically of the seriousness with which some of us view our profession by noting, "Design is probably not going to kill you if it falls on your head.

WHAT: What is the goal or what is the problem address in the manifesto?
WHY: Why is it relevant to the world?
HOW: How is it expressed in language/ how could it be translate into art/design/music etc.

My Manifesto to Creative Minds

1- A solid idea is a concept that lives for centuries, so use them again.

2- An effective idea is a recycled concept in which you apply your values and convictions.

3- A new idea does not necessary result to a upright idea maybe it did not catch enough attention.

A recycled idea is for example:
- Cars like, the Mini (cooper), Fiat 500 and the Volkswagen Beetle
- Music like '' This may be the last time'', traditional folk song, 1959 and Rolling Stones ''The last time'' 1965
- Clothing like the corset and the basque.

Let web activist Brett Gaylor and musician Greg Gillis, better known as Girl Talk, serve as your digital tour guides on a probing investigation into how culture builds upon culture in the information age.

1- Culture always builds on the past.

2- The past always tries to control the furture

3- Our future is becoming less free.

4- To build free societies, you must limit the control of the past.

RiP: A Remix Manifesto

The manifestation of time

WHAT IS TIME?

BACK

People drawing lines at the Blaak Building (WDKA)

Examples of lines in the Blaak building

TO ME, a line is a dot !

Assignment: What is a line?

Personal work