Really good talk about convergent Knowledge. Glad I’m not the only one who goes on about Gutenberg and the wine press!
‘It is not the existence of knowledge but the convergence and cross pollination of knowledge that drives progress’
Maria Popova
Here’s a screen shot of bright stems new webpage (www.brightstem.com) and a screen shot of the website I made for building blocks during my MA (www.acwood.co.uk/building%20blocks/index.html) which was presented at the same time as this montage: http://brightstembuildingblocks.tumblr.com/#7610524904.
You should be able to see clear similarity’s between the two of them. The website made during my MA was designed to explore how the relationship between the right and left hand side of the brain works. On the left of the screen you will see the contents of the page split into categories such as photographs , short stories, collections etc whilst on the right hand side images allow the viewer to navigate through the same content in an entirely different manner. The website was very sucsesfull in terms of putting theory into practice. Unfortunatly my coding skills where somewhat lacking meaning its update and expansion where not fesable. But now I’m using tumblr on a regular basis it seemed right to put this same layout to use again for bright stem.
This mind map was made for my MA graduation show. The aim was to create one unified piece of work but which communicated in a very similar way to the mind maps I was making within my bedroom and studio at the time.(see http://brightstembuildingblocks.tumblr.com/#7610061243)
On the day the show went up I arrived at the gallery very early with all the images I owned and scattered them out on hte floor. The only thing I really knew was which image I was starting with which was a 3d generated sculpture which resembled a fetus in the whom. From there I would work outwards developing relationships between the images. It was a bit of a gamble as I had never produced a mind map like this as a finished piece of work only as exploration towards something else. This was then presented with a paper exploring the main themes and a website which explored similar themes to the mindmap you can still see this here: http://www.acwood.co.uk/building%20blocks/index.html
