SVG-RE-DRAW
An iterative and collaborative drawing app focusing on 're-use'
TOOLS & MATERIALS
- Smartphone or laptop
- https://draw-it-with-others.org/svg-re-draw/re-draw/last
STEPS
- Scan the QR code below: |QR>https://draw-it-with-others.org/svg-re-draw/re-draw/last|
- Iterate the drawing by re-positioning and rotating the strokes
- (SUGGESTION) Make a simple line drawing for others to re-use
THOUGHTS EMERGED ALONG THE WAY
- How can we re-think authorship by re-using others' drawings?
- Does this drawing method provoke anything? If so, what is it?
- How does this method influence what we draw?
- Drawing as living beings by reactivation, rather than inert matter
STORY ON THE SIDE
The starting point of this drawing app was "Magical Button", a simple webpage made by Chaeyoung Kim. It was the result of the workshop facilitated by "a free software enthusiast", Raphael Bastide. Participants were invited to create "small but radical web pages under specific constraints such as time, content, connection, public, etc. The goal of those exercises is to consider the creative context, react to it, and experiment with coding as a performing practice." Chae's constraint was only re-using the strokes of "Mamang" to make a new drawing. By re-using and re-positioning the same ten strokes made with a scissor and paper, Chae made nine different drawings.
REFERENCES & INSPIRATIONS
- "Magical Button" is a small, handcrafted, intimate webpage iterating the drawing of Mamang. Made by Chaeyoung Kim
- "Evasive.tech" is a daily artworks by Raphael Bastide in quarantine times through coding "a new chapter of his hybrid narrative, between a poetic website, graphic journal, and programming challenge..."
- "CC4r* COLLECTIVE CONDITIONS FOR RE-USE" is a collective commitment, considering authorship to be part of a collective cultural effort and rejecting authorship as ownership derived from individual genius
- "Coordinator" is a free and open source project that turns SVG into XY coordinates. Made by Aliza Aufrichtig