Reading #1: Conditional Design

Ken’s reading response and the reflection on the prompts 

• 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?
• The process is a product of the conditional design artwork. In this kind of design, The Conditional Design, they focused more on the processing of the work rather than the final product. Mainly because the processing was being processed by the rules and logic they had made and applied to their work. The development came out after they finished and completed all of their planned processes. Any changes in the processing of artwork are exceptional; they believe that significant instructed processes designed will lead to a new exciting product. 
• Describe how their approach differs from designs or drawings you have created in the past and what the impact on the resulting work is.
• They made a rule of the drawing and followed the instructions straightly without any changes until its final form. They used logic as a tool and also used philosophy and any form of something that needed a hard deepen to explore to understand it and create it into a form. They also mostly use mathematical structures such as straight lines, circles, rectangles, triangles, etc. When this conditional design is compared to my past work, I would say it’s a different work. I was only working on a normal artwork, which allowed me to explore anything that I wanted to draw on my paper. It was mostly an independent kind of work that didn’t need to follow any rules. 
• 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?
• I definitely could imagine those kinds of artwork being performed on the paper right in front of my eyes. The type of conditional artwork would create a new exciting and incredible artwork. Since we would never know the outcome of the final product, because we would only be following the instructions, its results will always surely amaze us. Because we would never expect anything out of it, but a great process.   
• 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.)
• When it comes to a conditional artwork, I could imagine it in my head as something with only a mathematical dimension work, which would create something big and unique. Give an example like an abstract artwork with dimensions and rules for the process. The outcome could be something similar to the stair maze.