TELE-PRINTING
“Unlike photographs, in which scenic light is made visible during chemical exposure, all imaging today is a process of detecting energy emitted by an environment and chopping it into discrete, measurable electrical charges called signals, which are stored, calculated, managed, and manipulated through various statistical methods. … Images are data, and all imaging is, knowingly or not, an act of data processing … Because signals are energy transmitted from detectors to storage formats, signalization is inseparable from telematics: the electrical transmission of images (or, more precisely, of the data comprising any image).”
John May, Log 40 _ “Everything Is Already an Image”
Tele-printing starts with redrawing and extruding floor plans (either in their entirety or as fragments) from Eisenman’s drawings and diagrams of House VI. In this phase, I'm tasked with developing a set of extrusions to be used as the material in which I “model” with. Then, I develop some familiarity with 3D projection and gestural modeling techniques in ZBrush. The aim is to create a “model of a model”; formed through a process of loose oblique projection. The re-projected version will then be rendered out in 4 views. This process allows to develop and establish a set of render conditions based on light direction and reflectivity. The 4 renderings then are processed from an image to a drawing; translating raster graphic information to vector linework.
