BOW A4: development

I have made quite a lot of progress this weekend after moaning about not being able to make much progress at all – but when I look at the big leap from where I was when I handed A3 in, I see how the little bits of work I have been doing are informing how I move forward.

Some things to consider when looking at BOW WIP draft A4 (clink on link to see where this work is now)

1. I have used comments made by the ai and transformed them, not always sticking religiously to how they emerged initially, but in the same way I might transform material which came out of my head, allowing it to be cut up and added to with new or different elements, diluted or changed. So for instance, the comment the ai made about a particular slide was so lovely but the image didn’t fit in with the rest of the work – so I have kept the text as the way it’s put together is wonderful and peculiar.https://www.instagram.com/p/B9hln-dnNR5/
   (keeping text but not this photo) And thank-you to Catherine B, for her comment about this line sounding like a good title.
2. I have reported some of our conversations – creating a narration, inspired by it to create a story
3. Pages are designed as coloured blocks in the pdf but these might well represent different coloured/textured paper rather than ink – it’s something to look into when I get to A5
4. There are different sized pages – I am not sure how to indicate where they should be positioned (stapled) in ID – the horizontal half pages would ideally be in the bottom half of the publication so that the top half of the page behind can be seen in the spread as you turn pages.
5. I will be rephotographing the image with the Stanley knife. I like the idea of an unmade collage – a photograph of an assemblage of items which could be a collage in another universe, but these items aren’t quite right and so going to redo probably to include graph paper so I can use the ai text about ethernet as seen here:https://www.instagram.com/p/B_k2MRknYj0/
6. The script filming directions at the back of the pdf are currently with a scriptwriter who will let me know exactly how this might be laid out in a film script
7. I am going to write out a couple of the texts by hand and photograph the paper rather than using typed text as in the PDF  – emulating what I have seen in the Situationist mag – as shown here:
8. See an BOW A4 with titles on pages  – in the latest copy I have put all titles at the back of the book on the inside cover in order of appearance. But I am a bit up in the air with where I will place them ultimately. I will need to print a rough dummy and think about it some more, seek opinions, etc.

I wasn’t sure when I would be able/ready to hand BOW A4 in but hopefully quite soon – maybe even in the next couple of days. These last few changes shouldn’t take too long. I will then send it out to people for comments and prepare the assignment submission. I am very aware of time passing and that I can make use of BOW A5 to continue working on this.

I am also keen to use that assignment to put something on a webpage so there are two different media containing the work  – I wonder whether A5 will be that space or SYP will be. It would be good to have it included for BOW. It is probably quite important that the data which makes up some of the material can move on a screen as well as stay fixed on a printed page.