Diagram // engaging the complexity of the real

September 17, 2015 by bg-martin

Simply put, a diagram is a simplified drawing showing the appearance, structure, or workings of something; a schematic representation.

A diagram is a drawing that, stripped of all superfluous and distracting data, shows the general scheme or outline of an idea or object and its parts. It is a reductive graphic representation of the course or results of an action or process.

Categories: Architecture, concept, Drawing, representation • Tags: Bernard Tschumi, concept, diagram, drawing, Fracois Blanciak, graphic, representation, Stan Allen

Hypergraphy // the artistic synthesis of writing

September 17, 2015 by bg-martin

Hypergraphy, also called hypergraphics and metagraphics, is a critical method developed by the Lettrist movement in the 1950s, which encompasses a synthesis of writing and other forms of media. Isidore Isou, the founder of Lettrism, said that “Metagraphics or post-writing, encompassing all the means of ideographic, lexical and phonetic notation, supplements the means of expression based on sound by adding a specifically plastic dimension, a visual facet which is irreducible and escapes oral labelling

Categories: Art, Art Movement, Writing • Tags: art, graphic, hypergraphy, Lettrist, Lettrist movement, method, Psychogeography, technique, text