Modularity: Notes on the Possibility of Drawings as Modular Images.

Authors

  • João dos Santos Instituto Politécnico de Leiria
Keywords: Modularity, drawing, image, art, science.

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.

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How to Cite
dos Santos, J. (2013). Modularity: Notes on the Possibility of Drawings as Modular Images. Art and Identity Policies, 9, 49–71. Retrieved from https://revistas.um.es/reapi/article/view/191821