Notes for Urban Drift
Wednesday, January 14, 2004
View from an undisclosed site: Image sizes
The colour image can be printed easily at 30cm*40cm. This suggests that any other material (for example a b/w map) should also be of this size.
[example images now on http://www.ambulantscience.org/projects.html]
Source for digital colour printing
Davies Colour, Cardiff
Pricelist from: http://www.daviescolour.co.uk/
30*40cm image = £33
Monday, January 05, 2004
An Ontology of George Perec's 'A space without a use'
From the collection of George Perec's work , 'Species of Spaces and other pieces' - p. 33 'A space without a use'.
The Rules
Copy the text;
Extract nouns and verbs, keeping their original order;
Delete duplicates;
Perform a search of the SUMA database for each noun and verb;
Represent each entity in a hierarchical chart.
The Text
"A space without a function. Not 'without any precise function' but precisely without any function; not pluri-functional (everyone knows how to do that), but a-functional. It wouldn't obviously be a space intended solely to 'release' the others... but a space, I repeat, that would serve no purpose at all."
[not enough nouns or verbs!]
The Ontology
Space
GeographicArea; Region; Object; Physical; Entity.
Function: hasPurpose; BinaryPredicate; BinaryRelation; Relation; Abstract; Entity.
knows
Remembering; PsychologicalProcess; BiologicalProcess; InternalChange; Process; Physical; Entity.
do
IntentionalProcess; Process; Physical; Entity.
intended
IntentionalPsychologicalProcess; IntentionalProcess; Process; Physical; Entity.
release
Removing; Transfer; Translocation; Motion; Process; Physical; Entity.
repeat
Communication; SocialInteraction; IntentionalProcess; Process; Physical; Entity.
serve
hasPurpose; BinaryPredicate; Predicate; Relation; Abstract; Entity.
purpose
IntentionalProcess; Process; Physical; Entity.
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Why Perec?
Considering that Perec often used Oulipo devices to produce texts, or other methods to provide a structure to write into, using his text to reveal a structure - ie. the object-hierarchy of the Ontology - makes sense.
