Move over, Moroder

[Wednesday 5 November]

Slightly exhausted from thinking about all this, I give Matthias a call. Here are my scattered notes from our phone conversation:

Sameness/difference. Need contrast. Chaos is just chaos.

How go beyond this simple state of affairs?

Work on both the detail and the global system so that when the detail changes, the whole thing changes, and vice versa. Not just a simple parametric relationship, but a super-fluid system...

How mix systems? How, if you have a regular grid and you move one dot it changes, but if you change all dots, nothing stands out? Figure vs gestalt...

Breaking out of the grid? An aggregate of grids? How treat the grid?

If you have a packed system and then you have a void, all of a sudden you have something that you see but at the same time don't see... Work with contrasts?

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I hung up, thinking: was that a collection of good ideas or "good ideas". Hm. And then a question was formed in my mind:

Can the shape of the corner control the trajectory of the grid?

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It's good to talk. Thanks, Matthias.