Kitchen Experiments

Visual Studies II

Spring 2022 ( 1GB ): Visual Studies II

Instructor: Matthew Au, David Freeland, Zeina Koreitem

“Receipts and recipes were strangely interchangeable and presented themselves with a source of value: they were evidence, records, and documents used to organize and transfer. They were indexes of sorts. Like scientific experiments, the most important goal of recipes is duplicability. In theory, a good recipe should provide precise steps and enough information to allow one to reproduce a dish, in the same way, every time. Yet recipes are not regarded with the same respect or power as scientific experiments. Recipes in contrast with scientific experiments need to be replicate to a degree. A certain level of interpretation is necessary, trial and error, tweaking, re-tweaking, and repeat. Errors and accidents are welcome in recipes but less welcome in scientific experiments. In V.S II, we will expand upon this knowledge by working focally on images and surfaces as opposed to vectors or lines. We will address the difference between two forms of representation that have historically defined architecture’s relationship to culture–the documentary and the experimental. Students will be exposed to a diverse set of techniques, from recording and tracing to re-meshing and building digital as well as physical artifacts. Additionally, the course will introduce representational methods of disruption by studying the underlying structure of computational color in images.”

1. A Cuneiform from the Met Museum was provided to us that we worked on throughout the entire semester. These images are a set of what would end up being our theme with color extracted to find different variations throughout the Cuneiform.

4. These 3d Renders are of the Cuneiform after it has been manipulated with mill path lines as well as 3d height field mapped.

3. On each of our cuneiforms there was a grid system that was embedded into the cuneiform that would be merged with the lines of our mill path. This we would eventually end up getting milled.

1. This is a 3D Rendering of the mill path that we would eventually be pouring silicone over. This was created with a Grass

2. During this class there was also a digital component where we were asked to create a website via Cargo.Site in order to document all of our Kitchen Experiments. This can be located in order to view this gif that carves into my digital Cuneiform. Kaila.Cargo.Site