Grosz + Rocker Readings

The introduction of Project II relates to Grosz’s idea of space-time continuum.  The capture of movement or spatial types over a course of time is the pursuit of this exercise.  The discussion of past and present as a continuation of time clarifies this concept.  Grosz argues that the present instantaneously becomes the past, so immediate that we cannot differentiate with time.   The past-present relationship renders one infinite phenomenon that in this project we are attempting to separate.   Grosz explains that the relationship and coexistence between the present and past is crucial for the functioning of each other.  

By capturing still motions of a video of movement, we are “throwing oneself into the past, to seek events where they took place-in time, in the past; to experience any other space is to throw oneself into spatiality, to become spatialized with all of space.”   Representing the past through still frame photos or drawings with help us understand the past action in one cohesive graphic. 

Grosz relates this concept to spatial types;  “Space is understood, according to Deleuze, as a multiplicity that brings together the key characteristics of externality, simultaneity, contiguity or juxtaposition, differences of degree, and quantitative differentiations.”   

Rocker discusses digital media coupled with human design.  He explains, “Versioning manages complex co-authorial information systems, merging the design's projection with its production.”  It is the co-authorship of the human with the machine that drives this design process; the person operates the computer as a form of medium.  Some programs mentioned in the article include CATIA, Maya, and Rhino.  I see these programs as a means to an end, or part of a method to reach an end goal or design.  There fore, versioning is a non-linear process as the engineer and the program work simultaneously.