Structural Patterns

Photos are not allowed in the Futurist exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, however, I needed to document the work of Forunato Depero, purely for research and academic reasons. At 22 Depero discovered the Futurist Manifesto that inspired his career as an artist and designer. I was not familiar with Fortunato Depero, now I’m amazed at the work he was doing throughout the first half of the 20th century.

I did not document who made the work below, it’s more of a personal note, however, it is as well part of the Futurist exhibition and across from the Futurist stage constructed in one of the galleries of the Guggenheim.

Hunter Honors student Cialina Ngo has completed her honor’s thesis – “AccioBook” a book discovery website built on WordPress to discover and learn about young adult literature. What is significant about this literature site is that Cialina along with other editors has created a taxonomy for the site based on the reading of the books and careful consideration of how a book may be indexed and easily found by the site’s users.

As Cialina describes the project:

Unlike other book discovery websites that are based on algorithms, my website will be based on metadata created by a human who has actually read the book. AccioBook will be similar in format to Pandora. Users will be given a list of recommendations based on the title of a book that they recently enjoyed. The list of recommendations will be based on a database of metadata. I will develop a database of book metadata based on plot, characterization, setting, and romance using approximately 100 young adult novels.

As I continue to play with WebGL and the three.js library, I will generate compositions from photographs taken in Helsinki (until I run out of photos that I like). Check out the latest page and click through all the sketches.