Lecture: Convergence

"the property that different transformations of the same state have a transformation to the same end state"

Our lecture revolved around the topic of Convergence. Converegence is to "change and unify" and "forceably bend together", so in the Graphic Design sense it could be merging two subject means together and creating something else. For example, converging Animation and Graphic Design together would be a prime example of convergence.

 

William Burrough, Cut-Ups 

We discussed and looked at William Burrough, who popularized "cut-ups" in the 1960s; although this orginated from the Dada movement. The concept behind the technique was to take found words/texts and cut up to recreate more a different image. The idea behind taking found images and creating something new was not unfamiliar to me, as this is usually what I end up doing in the form of digital collages and graphics.

I liked the concept behind using newspaper cuttings to create our own different interpretations into cut-ups, as this was a different way of approaching it that I'm used to. It would look less perfect than doing digital collages, however I liked going through the newspapers and creating my own different words from what we were given. Although it wasn't 100% perfect, I liked this technique immensly. My interpretation of this lecture was to place this back into my own work, by using cut-ups in the research sketchbook (which I start beginning to do in Maps etc)