Marshall Islands Stick Charts

Micronesian stick charts show wave patterns and currents. The shells represent atolls and islands. Using stick charts (also called rebbelibs, medos, and mattangs) ancient mariners successfully navigated thousands of miles of the South Pacific Ocean without compasses, astrolabes, or other mechanical devices. Working Title/Artist: Stick chart Department: AAOA Culture/Period/Location: HB/TOA Date Code: 11 Working Date: 19th-early 20th century photography by…

Interactive Print: Control and Chaos in Narrative + Maps

What make a legitimate narrative? Who writes them? Mapping is the assertion of physical and intellectual control – but the internet resists that….

Schedule To Oblivion

A little schedule to keep me organized throughout this chaos.

Research Round-up: Question + Focus

In the course of my research for this class, I found that my interest in post-colonial narratives was inherently linked to hypertext and weaving. Hence I think the following question sums up my research thus far: How can I materialize a non-linear and collective narrative? Hypertext for me is a great inspiration for structuring my…

The Quipu: Materiality + Code

A quipu, or knot-record (also called khipu), was a method used by the Incas and other ancient Andean cultures to keep records and communicate information. While the quipu used knots, it had similar flexibility and adaptability as our contemporary alphabetic system and it was portable. It was first used for keeping records then moved to telling more community-oriented…

The Cyborg & The Nomad: Thoughts on Control and Hypertext

Control and the Cyborg: Written and Being Written in Hypertext “If we can…begin to see the colonialist tendencies in our own approaches to other cultures, we can also begin to gain awareness of the ways in which we may be colonizing ourselves and others as we begin to write, read, and live with (and within)…

Quotes from “Conrad and The Straits Chinese” by Agnes Yeow

The Chinese are everything: they are actors, acrobats, artists, musicians, chemists and druggists, clerks, cashiers, engineers, architects … cultivators of pepper and gambier … merchants and agents … opium shopkeepers, pawnbrokers … rice dealers, ship chandlers, shopkeepers … carpenters … seamen … grocers, beggars, idle vagabonds or samsengs and thieves. The Chinese are everything. They…

Narratives, Essay and Hypertext Weaving

What is a Narrative? What is an Essay?  Perhaps, they could be seen as tapestries or clothes – as weaving. Narrative: Essay:   In doing research about post colonial construction of identity, I have decided to research on methods of portraying my research and presenting it in a way that is reflective and parallel to my…

The Fold by Gilles Deleuze: A Greater Design and Our Fate

I read chapter 1 and 2 of “The Fold” by Gilles Deleuze along with an essay “Digital Design of Molecular Sculptures and Abstractions” by Edgar F. Meyer, and found his sculptures to be very complimentary to the chapters: Deleuze’s concept of folding as the building block of matter is, to me, similar to molecular structure,…

Post-colonial Identity | Relevance of Labour | Risk and Craft

In this class, I want to research about the intersections of Dutch and Southeast asian culture to begin/attempt to tackle this notion of a ‘post-colonial, global culture’– a simultaneously homogenous and heterogenous phenomenon; a tapestry of conflict and collaboration. At the same time, in conjunction with the digital and traditional weaving that I will learn more…