PROPAGATE

Publication/identity for Catalyst Arts. Artist texts were text mined to create graphs visualising the the artist's ideas. We then blurred the graphs to represent the dispersal of ideas.

Propagate was an art publication for an exhibition for Catalyst Arts. This work was undertaken under the design collective Models and Constructs with the co-collaborator Jamie Smyth.

For the exhibition a group of 3 artists were exhibiting, The show was about the spread of ideas. The contributor's text based works, publications, exhibition statements and artist biographies were categorised into three separate groups. We text mined the works to create three separate groups of data points relating to recurring words and glyphs. Since there were three artists, we were able to split these data points into three separate columns denoting an X, Y and Z on an axis. We used Excel to create these columns to format for a graphing software to be capable of reading which created 2 dimensional graphs.

These two dimensional graphs gave us a general position for each of the points which then were tightened up using the coordinates. We could contribute a position from (0,0) bottom left of the axis to produce an X and Y to give the rise and distance of each point from (0,0). Each point on the Z axis had to be manually placed from above.

This produced a graph fixed in 3D space. A simulation was produced of these points exploding from there centre point. This represented the dispersal of ideas. These animated explosions were used in online digital promotion for the exhibition.

Once this work was produced digitally we created a printed variation. To create this we took the already dispersed graphs and using forced perspective and depth of field we were able to produce the illusion these graphs were blurring together. This represented ideas interlacing into one another after dispersal.

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