Pierre Alferi Workshop
Linearizatin within writing tells you in one way in which the signs should be read.
"Boustrophedon"--a kind of writing which mimics how cattle plough--a prehistoric form of linear writing--later evolving into varying forms of linear writing--means & process of standardization and coding of characters.
[I need to at least try to understand at the bare bones the painterly syntax of my "linear" writing.]
-In early prehistoric writing there was an intended direction of the birth of letters in terms of shape.
-The origin of Germanic alphabet stems from Syrian images and character. For example, the image of the head of a cow: a triangle with two horns at the top of both ends of a triangle representative of the letter "A".
-Pictograph-->Phonograph as in Egyptian hieroglyphs. (Symbols were added to warn that the pictograph signifies something else.)
-Hence the saying "etched in stone."
[The concept of a page stems from the darkness of the sky; the computer screen followed the page which is a phenomenon of the sky.]
[The grid signifies distance between living beings.] [Space cannot be broken, only images and symbols and other nouns.]
Mary Shapiro "Words & Images"
-the gravitation between letters and objects.
[Alphabet letter= person. Page= room. Persons represent some kind of letter in the alphabet if every letter were considered a type of psychological state.]
-Bubble symbol in cartoons stems from early conception of scrolls coming out of the mouth.-->magical, benedictions.
[The image is a slave to language because language is the word of God.]
[I need to learn about the origins of pictographic writings to help gain understanding of the syntactical structures underlying my writing.]
[To "build" a piece of text conceptually/literally/physically.]
[Explore the sentence conceptually & physically so that: The page= Sculpture.]
[Consider the technical, grammatical, and cultural productions and mechanisms of Television and its possible traces to the origins of Language as a sacred original bond with God.
[Television as an omniscient expression of God's omniscience.]
Linear Narrative--->Pictographs. Semantic Writing. Board Games. Radio. Film. Television. Video Games. Internet.-->Non-Linear Narrative. What now is the "scene of writing"?
[We are condemned to live fictional existences in an Age of Mass Anxious Media. Our future-history is already forgotten since there is nothing real to remember. The future will look towards the multi-faceted medias as footnotes to the fiction we are producing by and through it.]
[The painterly qualities of syntax; the physicality of language as a reaction to the metaphysical digitality of culture. Language then yearns to be solid and written on stone.]
[What is this hopelessness I feel about art?]
[Everyone seems to have some kind of camera unknowingly embedded in their consciousness.]
[Does manipulation of technology make "magic" or the "divine" any more or less real if we consider the two to be sources of mimesis?]
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