Re-Grouping, Re-Sorting, and Re-Filtering as Graphic Design Techniques exhibition
exhibition Installation
2024
This research explores how to create design works based on common rules used in information processing, focusing on ‘Grouping, Sorting, and Filtering’ and proposing ‘Re-Grouping, Re-Sorting, and Re-Filtering’ as techniques that can be applied to graphic design works. In information processing, grouping, Sorting, and Filtering are commonly used to process data. The researcher studies design techniques that poetically appropriate simple data processing rules and utilize them as principles of form generation. Furthermore, the researcher considers how information processing techniques applied to design can be interpreted in terms of typography, language, literature, and art.
Historically, rule-based creative experiments have appeared in various artistic fields. In the West, experimental typography and concrete poetry have been popular since the rise of conceptual art in the 1960s, and experimental works have been produced in literature, math, philosophy, and other fields. In the arts, rule-based composition has emerged as an attempt by artists to push the limits of subjectivity by constraining their agency, spontaneity, and improvisation. In design, on the other hand, where rules have historically played a large role in practice, twisting and bending them becomes a way of breaking away from the conventions and discipline emphasized in traditional typography and information design. This research finds its significance in repurposing rules of re-grouping, re-sorting, and re-filtering as creative principles for generating new meanings, contents, and forms.
