Workshop Schedule

Friday
3:00 - 5:00
6:00
7:00 - 9:00

Saturday
10:00 - 12:00
12:00 - 4:00
4:00

Sunday
12:00 - 2:00

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Workshop Introduction
Public Lecture from Outpost Office
Pattern Experiments in Groups


Check In
Collaborative Session
Final Check In


Closing Conversation with Guests

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Process

Part One - Pattern Experiments

Working in teams of two or three, you will translate an existing precedent pattern into a spreadsheet format. You should use the template spreadsheet provided, sized 100 X 100 square cells. Using techniques demonstrated, prepare a rasterized version of your precedent image. While you should be interested in replicating some pictorial effects, the composition will inevitably change as you translate the image. Consider carefully elements of color, scale, and proportion. Pay particular attention to the embedded relationships in the original image. Close scrutiny of the patterns should reveal the logic or system behind the composition.


Part Two - Collaborative Session

Working in your same teams, you will work to manipulate the other five compositions produced by your colleagues. The process will follow the schedule below, with each team proceeding through compositions in alphabetical order. Each team will have 30 minutes to open, manipulate and save a version of the composition. All your manipulations to the compositions should be consistent and based on a set of predetermined rules. The trick is to develop a ruleset that is consistent, but produces different effects based on the initial drawing.

You should develop a "pseudoscript" or a set of written rules that explain in natural language the rules and steps of your process.

For example:

1. Open the composition
2. Select 25% of the rows using random numbers.
3. Shift all selected rows 12 columns over
4. Save the composition

The rules are at your discretion. Forms of manipulation include redaction of areas, inversion of colors, shifting rows or columns, stretching patterns, etc. The level of manipulation is completely at your discretion, but the process must be able to be complete in 30 minutes or less. Since you have two members of your team, you might even think about performing two processes back-to-back. Whatever you decide for the process, keep in mind that each composition will be transformed five different times. You should select a process that produces subtle shifts that might be amplified by other groups, rather than obliterate a given image.

When you have completed your work, navigate to File>Version History and give the version a unique name using your group name.

Some helpful links: https://www.random.org and https://onlinemathtools.com/

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Composition Links

Composition A
Composition B
Composition C
Composition D
Composition E
Composition F
Composition G
Composition H

Each team should add their Psuedo-script to the shared document here.

Team A
12:30 - 1:00
1:00 - 1:30
1:30 - 2:00
2:00 - 2:30
2:30 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30
3:30 - 4:00

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Composition B
Composition C
Composition D
Composition E
Composition F
Composition G
Composition H

Team B
12:30 - 1:00
1:00 - 1:30
1:30 - 2:00
2:00 - 2:30
2:30 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30
3:30 - 4:00

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Composition C
Composition D
Composition E
Composition F
Composition G
Composition H
Composition A

Team C
12:30 - 1:00
1:00 - 1:30
1:30 - 2:00
2:00 - 2:30
2:30 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30
3:30 - 4:00

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Composition D
Composition E
Composition F
Composition G
Composition H
Composition A
Composition B

Team D
12:30 - 1:00
1:00 - 1:30
1:30 - 2:00
2:00 - 2:30
2:30 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30
3:30 - 4:00

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Composition E
Composition F
Composition G
Composition H
Composition A
Composition B
Composition C

Team E
12:30 - 1:00
1:00 - 1:30
1:30 - 2:00
2:00 - 2:30
2:30 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30
3:30 - 4:00

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Composition F
Composition G
Composition H
Composition A
Composition B
Composition C
Composition D

Team F
12:30 - 1:00
1:00 - 1:30
1:30 - 2:00
2:00 - 2:30
2:30 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30
3:30 - 4:00

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Composition G
Composition H
Composition A
Composition B
Composition C
Composition D
Composition E

Team G
12:30 - 1:00
1:00 - 1:30
1:30 - 2:00
2:00 - 2:30
2:30 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30
3:30 - 4:00

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Composition H
Composition A
Composition B
Composition C
Composition D
Composition E
Composition F

Team H
12:30 - 1:00
1:00 - 1:30
1:30 - 2:00
2:00 - 2:30
2:30 - 3:00
3:00 - 3:30
3:30 - 4:00

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Composition A
Composition B
Composition C
Composition D
Composition E
Composition F
Composition G