Modularity: Notes on the Possibility of Drawings as Modular Images.
Abstract
This text evolves as an exploration of drawing and its complexity as a media integrating and creating reality and its experience. To a beholder, a drawing is an image that must be perceived as a drawing to preserve its constructive power. This approach allowed distinguishing four interconnected characteristics constituted as an interface between these two territories: independence, integration, persistence and repetition. The research developed around the reading of “Modularity – Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex systems” and some texts; including Lev Manovich; in which the question of modularity in the context of creativity in a digital environment is central. The main purpose of this exploration is the opening of the door to possible places for a new kind o drawing, contemporary and trans- contextual, based on the power of digital media.Downloads
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