Callum book 1

DISCLAIMER Random Process Book One is intended to be read as a kind of time based installation putting to use the skills I have learned throughout this semester with the Trial and Error paper. Following a series of technological malfunctions in the days leading up to the due date (and an overly ambitious vision on my part,) I ended up having to submit a working draft at the final presentation. Full of scribbled notes, poorly edited images, misprints and so on, this body of work was not up to presentation standards by any means.

So I locked it away in a fully sealed black box so that nobody could see just how bad it was.

Embodying the principles of risk taking and embracing errors, two fundamental aspects of this design course, Book One questions the idea of visual presentation as a means of documentation. For all the viewers know, there may or may not be any work in the box, but it conjures up imagery of the work as it once was and creates a discussion based on how it is already documented within the mind, needing only some key or signal to evoke those memories. Furthermore, viewers will always interoperate a body of work based on their own experiences and knowledge, so by stripping back any literal documentation of the exhibition the black box allows for only their own pure interpretation with no guidance of my own, producing results that can only be described as random, but a kind of documentation none the less.

Book One should be understood as key part of the overall documentation for this project; both the work itself and the content within if you should chose to open it.