Holographic Universe : book
project duration : one semester
Throughout the first month of senior graphic design seminar my original project had become somewhat fluid in its evolution. It began with an interest in making a book which would ultimately double as a hiding place for other information. During the initial research phase of this preliminary idea, my focus began to shift from the actual planning and making of the book to the research itself. I became enveloped in ideas of how and why information is concealed.
Realizing the faint presence a book has in a gallery setting, and knowing this setting would be where my final presentation would take place, the idea of a book became less and less attractive to me. I realized that any book that I could make about codes, coding, and deciphering would, in the end, be only about itself and perhaps how clever I could be with it. I needed for my final project to have more of a presence than that. It was at this point that I began to look for other means of presenting my ideas. The poster format became attractive to me due to its upfront and almost instant readability.
In my ongoing research, I realized that I needed to get to something more. I needed for my project to have meaning. I realized that my interest in codes and ciphers stemmed from my need to be able to successfully decode and solve problems myself. I realized that it was not the act of coding but rather the unraveling of answers that pulled me toward this topic. At this point my research hit the key information that I needed to find the true topic of my seminar work. I came across the philosophical and scientific theories surrounding the idea of a Holographic Universe.
For my senior seminar in graphic design, I choose to relay information about the Holographic nature of the Universe through book as well as poster form. I want to, with a combination of text, images, and holograms themselves, allow the reader to fully realize the implications a Holographic Universe would have on our perception of the world around us.
The book will have several chapters that all touch on the same information with increasing complexity and depth. The chapters are tentatively as follows:
1 The Rules of Perception
2 An Unusual Discovery
3 The Universe as A Hologram
3a The Undivided Wholeness of All Things
4 Consciousness as The Key to The Universe
4a Enfolded Orders and Unfolded Realities
5 The World in a Grain of Sand
The book will not only show the reader exactly how a hand made hologram functions, but it will make the connections necessary to illustrate the complexities of the holographic model of the universe.
17 october 04
initial proposal
Some of the first books ever created are still with us today, and
most of the books being produced now will be with us forever. Printed
in mass quantities and distributed on a global level, books are more
abundant now than they ever have been. With the new technology of
on-demand printing, the option of bringing a book to press is open to
anyone who wants to.
It was once said, "sometimes the best place to hide, is out in the
open."
For the fall semester of 2004 I wish to explore the possibilities of
a book as a hiding place for secret information. I plan to utilize
many different forms of concealment including, codes, ciphers, and
physical camouflage. The books that I create will offer a reward for
people who pay attention to details. Upon further inspection of
these books, an entirely new bulk of information will be available to
the viewer. The final presentation of the work will be various stages
of these books being decoded.
The issue of format and binding structure for the books will be
decided upon when some basic information is collected about the
content for both the original book and the book after it is decoded.
In the end I hope to have a body of work that will successfully
engage the viewer to look closer at not only the books I create, but
also items in their every day life.
Corinne Back
Eric Bailey
Dave Blank
Brian Cannon
Nathan Hayward
Paul Kinchla
Curtis Levesque
Meghan O'Connor
Nicole Pivirotto
Brian Savignano
Matthew Sexton
Luke Shover
Ron Theriault
completed projects (fall semester)
Dave Blank
Kerriann DiLeo
Rene Dolabaille
Ben Jenness
Hedwiga Kulig
Joseph Lambert
Chung-heng Liu
Nicole Pivirotto