CCLab Reading 1: Conditional Design

Q1: What do we learn about the process of the designers and the artist discussed in the text? What is the role of “process” in their overall activity?

A1: After reading the text, I have brief recognition of Conditional Design art. The painting itself is the form to express the process. Meanwhile, the formation of the painting also is the product of the process. “Process” in the whole activity is the most essential part. It’s the thing that the final product wants to express. It’s the faithful restoration and narration of here and now. Its expression perfectly brings the audience to flashback the feelings, the status, the ideas, and the rules that the artists hold at that time.

Q2: Describe how their approach differs from designs or drawings you have created in the past and what the impact on the resulting work is.

A2: My works focus on the knowledge that I learned before or the artistic attainments I have established before. However, their work focus on the present and now. In addition, with these limitations of rules, they are forced to focus on the progress right ahead. Another point is that the drawings I’ve created before are mostly done by myself. But their work needs to pay more attention to collective cooperation. This has a great impact on the resulting work. Not only express the intelligence of the whole group, but also it shows the influences brought by limitations and the present situation.

Q3: The text introduces the concept of the conditional drawing, where the artwork is the result of a series of instructions (rules) being performed. Can you imagine a (short) set of rules that, when followed on a sheet of paper, might produce an interesting, or unexpected, result?

A3: Provide 5 different colors (Red, Green, Blue, Yellow, and Purple) pens and 5 given shapes (lines, triangles, quadrangles, pentagons, and ellipse & rounds). Set the limitation that the players must take turns to use the specific shapes and colors in order. The painting target can be given to copy some suitable pictures or be nothing but just free painting.

Q4: Describe your thought process when devising your rules. Can you imagine the resulting image in your head, or are you tempted to act out your own rules on a sheet of paper – just to get an idea of what the result might look like? (If the latter, try to identify what part of your rules made you do so.)

A4: In my mind, the result can be a very abstract shape of the specific pictures that the players are following. Or the result can turn out to be nothing or 5 separated drawings if the players only focus on their own ideas.

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