ARTICLES ON DRAWING

Two articles on drawing that I came across and want to share with you.

The first is by Sam Jacobs and the article is titled Rendering: The Cave of the Digital.  This is published at the site titled e-flux architecture.  This is another installment in the Post Digital Drawing movement, which was covered previously in these pages.  The author spends some time in shaping their view of the history of drawing.  They do make an interesting, if, to me at least,  somewhat perplexing statement, regarding transparency:

“That’s to say, when looking at—or making—a perspectival drawing, the medium itself is expected to be entirely transparent, just as the world through that window is real. To accept these “truths” means forgetting the prejudices, complexities, and ideologies of representation itself.”

The second article is by Swarnabh Ghosh, titled Can’t Be Bothered: The Chic Indifference of Post Digital Drawing.  This is published at the Metropolis site.  The unique contribution of the article is their inclusion of the term “hauntological“.  This means a sort of content which is removed from it’s origin.   The quote below is from the article:  I guess that language in this form is written by people who are smarter than me, as I really don’t understand what this is saying.  But it sure is beautiful.

“The ontological promise of an architecture borne out of post-digital material ecologies and social relations is evacuated as are the radical political impulses of those early hauntological projects.”

At any rate, here are two articles on drawing!  Read the articles.  Celebrate that the articles on drawing have been published!  Enjoy.