Description
- Abstract:
- 習字 (Graphein) is a series of visual poetic experiments dedicated to an aesthetic computational study of visual and linguistic patterns in Chinese characters. It is a repetitive computational writing practice without the intervention of the human hand. Graphein's graphological and critical attention focuses on the inner structure of Chinese characters in an attempt to bring out visual poetic patterns and defamiliarize the components of a writing system and language itself. Graphein reads in-between the gaps and by way of transitions. It allows certain human readers to re-examine their ownership (or not) of what is supposed to be as familiar and intimate as their own language, or as strange as someone else's. Graphein is the dynamic algorithmic appreciation of an imperfect system that is used by some humans to read and by others to imagine reading.
- Notes:
- Thesis (M. F. A.)--Brown University, 2019
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Citation
Chen, Qianxun,
"習字 (Graphein)"
(2019).
Literary Arts Theses and Dissertations.
Brown Digital Repository. Brown University Library.
https://doi.org/10.26300/01b8-c651
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