WEEK 2: Line as Boundary: dividing space
Lecture
When lines divide a space they demarcate and identify sections. The most obvious example of this is a map, where borders designate where one country ends and another begins. But this principle can also identify a person or an object, and thus impact how we actually divide things and see them. Leonard da Vinci’s anatomical drawings, for example, helped people identify the body in particular ways, potentially creating boundaries of separation where there really were none. Can a line also be a connecting thread? Can it cut across boundaries and carve out new ones, porous ones? In this seminar different uses of the line and it’s relationship to space will be explored.
Discussion and the selection of assignments
During the course of the week, participants will have completed their exercises and uploaded the results onto the server. They will explain if they found the exercise helpful or not and describe what happened in their experiments. We will respond as a group to the assignments and give feedback or suggestions.
At the end of the session, people will pick assignments again, or, if they so choose, develop their line of investigation further.