MA Musings

How to display toiles Need to create a number of 1/2 scale mannequins... Make a mould of current one and cast plaster ones? - straightforward, heavy, cheap, messy, safe. 3D print? - modelling program learn, time consuming, expensive? unknown outcome lazer cut cardboard - modelling program learn, laser cut time consuming. unknown outcome explode paper diagrams via pekala paper engineering program? https://medium.com/@CarolinVogler/fabricating-human-shapes-6854cb14aef7

Methods - specific ways of collecting the “Data”... what are the processes of discovery? Methodology - The way these methods combine or work together to give an overall view of the research or an answer to the research questions... What system are you using to get the method discovery processes to fit together to give a big picture?  Methods Creative Practice - design and making up specific garments. Filming and documenting process.  Expert Interviews  Reading/lectures  Archives Methodologies The  analysis  of the principles of methods, rules, and postulates employed by a discipline - what is cutting? What is creativity? What is pattern?  Holistic approach - looking at connections and development between science and art, man and machine. Creative Practice explores relationship between the artist and machine through physical creation and problem solving of pattern making. Qualitive analysis by looking at the documentation of the process, Using algorithm

"Kandinsky" Collaboration with Deepart (J.Hewitt 2018) Best way to get started on something is just to start. so I sat down with the DeepArt IO and doodled exhaustively, using a combination of the basic silhouettes devised with C. Peacey and some vintage pattern blocks to reference the "rules" and history of cutting. I feel there are varying levels of "success" in these. They may or maynot fulfil prerequisites for computational creativity. I think they are certainly aesthetically pleasing rather than simply novel, but how far the algorithm itself is part of the aesthetic evaluation process I need to investigate further. Many are absolutely stunning images, and were I a fine artist who had painted them or had I written the Deepart Program myself  they would easily be worthy of submission as my finished pieces. However, I am a pattern cutter and I didn't write the program, it is simply a design starting point for my 3D pattern creation exercise.

"Vintage block" Collaboration with Deepart (J.Hewitt 2018) It has been very difficult to get back to thinking about the major project after the excitement of the group project and the epic construction task in the pattern processes module. Although everything is interconnected, and many sections of the research and development of the other modules will impact on this final piece, I fear I rather suffered from cognitive overload and found getting intensly involved in several projects at once (to say nothing of working and selling my house) very draining. I really don't want to end up just creating a fashion collection based on Deepart AI drawings... the literary research I am doing on neural systems and machine learning is just so fascinating, I want to do justice to the big concepts involved. I accept this is probably just my own personal desire to do something new and meaningful, but as I am reading more of Margaret Bodens work and becoming aware of H creativity

I created the final presentation in Google Slides adding information and pictures from the website and videos and research poster, while also bearing in mind the additional information and suggestions of what to include, that were given in the last session. Google slides has been great to work with as a team, because I simply put place holders in till the others could update with the pictures or 3D motion captures that only they had access to. I also wrote a first draft "script" and uploaded to our shared drive so everyone could rewrite their sections in their own words. I tried to break it up into short sections for interest so different voices could maintain interest. We were scheduled for the end of the session and I knew peoples attention spans would be flagging by then. We had a lot of information to get through and we wanted to give people a real sense of not only our experience but the product and the brief as well. We met up on the Monday to have a quick rea