Laboratory for New Media 10th Exhibition
“Design a Letter Yourself, with Algorithmic Thinking!”
Laboratory for New Media Permanent Exhibition periodically updates contents of exhibitions to introduce the various possibilities of expression provided by information science and technology. The 10th exhibition witnesses a collaboration between FURUKATA Masahiko, whose research focuses on the relationship between computers and design, and the Dainippon Type Organization, the graphic design unit known for its unique typography. This exhibition will make us reconsider the letters and words that we use in our everyday lives to convey information to one another.
By dismantling, rotating, expanding, and combining the elements that we understand as comprising a letter or by actually making our own through a variety of algorithms (calculations), we will experience the information contained in it. This will allow us to see letters for what they are: Combinations bound by prescribed rules. We will discover new facets to this everyday tool of the written word by thinking about the construction of letters, the personality or individuality of letters and characters, and the unique nature of handwritten words compared with those produced by a computer.
Laboratory for New Media 10th Exhibition “Design a Letter Yourself, with Algorithmic Thinking!”
FLAT-TYPE
- Look at what characters are displayed on the screen.
- Assemble the pieces “P,” “L,” “a,” and “y” along the grid to make the word displayed.
- Push the button to enter them into the computer.
HANG-TYPE
- Look at what characters are displayed on the screen.
- Draw the characters that appear on the screen. The pen, however, will prove difficult to write with . the top and bottom and left and right side of the screen are inverted.
- When you have finished, push the button.
3D-TYPE
- Look at what characters are displayed on the screen.
- Turn the ends of the cube sitting on the desk; the white and black areas can be switched.
- Look at it from multiple angles to find the same perspective as the original character formed from the white sections.
- Once you find the same angle as the displayed characters, stepped the switch.
Cooperation: Masuki Co.,LTD / toumei
GET-TYPE
- Look at what characters are displayed on the screen.
- Look for what letters can be used to construct them.
- When you have found them, move, rotate, and expand them to make the displayed character.
- Up to five letters can be combined.
- Once you decide the position and size of all the letters, push the button.
Cooperation: Morisawa Inc.
SCENE-TYPE
- Read the text that appears on the screen.
- Look for the letters you made!
Term | February 1 (Wed.), 2012 – June 25 (Mon.), 2012 |
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Exhibitors | Dainippon Type Organization ∩ FURUKATA Masahiko
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