Brief
Working through systematic and iterative exploration, in this brief you will identify a set of existing material that you can reformulate to create an entirely new meaning or interpretation of it. You should experiment with a range of processes of reformulation, such as transforming, translating, reconstructing, recontextualizing, reconfiguring, adding or subtracting, abstracting or elaborating, stretching or compressing, hybridizing, etc., thinking about how the aesthetic qualities of the work arise from its method of reformulation.
Select one of the initial prompts from the following page. Choose quickly and intuitively based on your own interests. Then get straight on to making stuff.
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SUBVERTING TOOLS
Select a piece of software or technology that you use every day and subvert its intended use to create your own system or tool for creating visual outcomes. For example, you might use Microsoft Excel as a drawing tool instead of as a database tool, or manipulate your phone camera to take imagery in a way that it’s not built to. Some other systems you might ‘hack’ could be a laser printer, a film camera, Microsoft Word, Apple’s Photo Booth app, etc.
Present your visual outcomes in a format that makes sense for your specific tool and outcomes—a book, a website, a video, etc.
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Apple Mail (macOS Catalina—10.15.7)
Apple Mail (officially known as simply Mail) is an email client included by Apple Inc. with its operating systems macOS, iOS and watchOS. Apple Mail grew out of NeXTMail, which was originally developed by NeXT as part of its NeXTSTEP operating system, after Apple’s acquisition of NeXT in 1997.
Features of Apple Mail include the ability to configure the software to receive all of a user’s email accounts in the one list, ability to file emails into folders, ability to search for emails, and ability to automatically append signatures to outgoing emails. It also integrates with the Contacts list, Calendar, Maps and other apps.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Mail
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brainstorm
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first experiments
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