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Diagramming Perception (2022)

Mike Croft
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This artistic research is a contribution to a larger research project titled ‘The Observation of Perception, considered through drawing’, hosted by i2ADS. The research begins with the hypothesis that perception can be diagrammed, in this case through and as a form of drawing that indicates how perception is for this investigator conceived and works in action. One of the two visual motifs of the work is also a meta-motif, in that as an action-camera placed over the eyes, it is the means by which the investigator records himself at work on the second main motif, which is his image as viewed in a circular hand-held mirror. The investigator approaches the initiative as a question of diagramming the self-same initiative, accepting whatever are its developed implications as the aesthetic of the work. Peirce's division of the diagram into elements of firstness and secondness, with the elusive recognition of diagram as an abstract entity before any communicative purpose, keys into a working practice that in any case veers towards the diagrammatic. The investigator's tendency to audio-visually record his working process has led him to a position where the logistics of the purpose paradoxically reveal the subjectivity – if not absurdity – of the self-same process. In this case, little by little, a contingent factor of a wart takes centre-stage as blind spot; at-once a torn hole within the drawing's material surface, the action camera as an illusory obstruction, and a factor that oscillates with and as the circular self-portrait. The presentation takes the viewer/reader through the process, largely perceptual, that is diagrammed on and as the artifactual outcome, the drawing.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsperception, drawing, diagram, audio-visual media, Perception and Consciousness, diagramming, audio-visual
date03/10/2021
published04/07/2022
last modified04/07/2022
statuspublished
share statusprivate
affiliationCollaborative researcher with i2ADS
copyrightMichael Croft
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
languageBritish English
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/1380190/1380191
published ini2ADS - Research Institute in Art, Design and Society
portal issue0. Art, Design & Society
connected toOPDrawing


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1423925 1 to 3 sketch diagram Michael Croft CC BY-NC-ND
1423927 4 -5 skecth diagram Michael Croft CC BY-NC-ND
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1431234 Diagramming drawing state 1 Michael Croft CC BY-NC-ND
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1457039 Drawing diagram superimposed Michael Croft CC BY-NC-ND
1457041 Diagram 2 Michael Croft CC BY-NC-ND
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1580193 Wart clip Michael Croft CC BY-NC-ND
1580215 Wart Michael Croft CC BY-NC-ND
1580248 Wart 1 Michael Croft CC BY-NC-ND
1581411 Progress with Warts Michael Croft CC BY-NC-ND
1581415 Progress with Warts with text Michael Croft CC BY-NC-ND
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1699734 Theory paper for Fast-time mike All rights reserved

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