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ARAC Day 03
A log of today’s activities: printed from Juan Sketchbook HiRes tiff files 41 images ganged in Preview print dialogue box 9 images per sheet (layout) Premium Matte Paper (printer setting) nominally 200% scale (preview setting) Kozo paper 18″ x 12″ (Arch B) created custom paper size printed random pixel art from Juan & Beanstalk 2004…
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ARAC Day 02
Checklist: learned how to treat PlayDate handheld console as a data drive in browser on play.date I exported/downloaded PDX of Juan & Beanstalk hello world. The website (play.date/pulp) invokes a pop-up window that was blocked by Firefox browser by default. Nothing happened. I didn’t notice and thought it was my error. I downloaded again from…
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ARAC Visit Day 01
Today was the first productive day of my Visiting Artist gig at Anderson Ranch Arts Center (ARAC). After breakfast I was given a tour of the campus by Olivia Martinez. I’m still processing how amazing this place is and so I can’t go into more detail right now. After the tour I was shown to…
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Problems Posers and Possibilities (v5d ~2020)
this is a prototype for an artist’s book edition of Problems Posers and Possibilities: meditations towards a unified field of (game) design. the prototype was printed with pigment inks onto 18″ wide bond paper, trimmed, folded, and gathered into a single 8.5 x 11 inch signature 48 pages in length. the thoughts in the essay…
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Novena Navideña
This is posted in 2021 but documents a project begun in 2003 and continued in 2006. We have followed a tradition of nine-consecutive evenings of prayers leading up to and concluding christmas eve. My mother now has the prayers memorized, but always relied on a small prayer book to help keep track of our progress.…
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Self-Documenting One-Sheet ‘Zine
I’ve never been good at Christmas cards. In the last ten years or so I’ve taken to making a very small edition of books and distributing them in a spirit of thanks giving. This feels more my speed. In the last couple of years I have found myself without ink for my printer and so…
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To Read: Future of Design Education website
Donald Norman called for contributors on the PhD in design website at the end of 2020 who would participate in a very large (re)evaluation of design pedagogy world wide. Thanks in no small part to Norman’s influence as an attractor, two hundred people offered their service. Norman et al have now launched a website and…
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To Read:: Designing Design Education: White Book on the Future of Design Education
This book is published in 2021 and is the result of a significant amount of work on the continent of Europe. There is another, similar effort to trouble and tease out the future(s) of design education that is being organized by Donald Norman and which is already drawing criticisms for the US-centricity of its foundational…
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To Read: Designing Constructionist Future – MIT Press
Seymour Papert studied with – and critiqued and extended – Piaget as part of Papert’s research into early models for Machine Learning. Papert defined constructionism such that we learn through/by constructing artifacts that are meaningful to us and through/by sharing them with audiences who are meaningful to us. I have seen a relationship between constructionism…
