recipe for a project

Post-Humanism: decentering the subject (Animal Farm)
CTheory.net Cyborgs: Katherine Hayles, Donna Haroway ("The Cyborg Manifesto")
UN Studio (Ben Van Berkel), El Croquis
Paul Virilio, "The Over-Exposed City"
Deleuze & Guattari
Other readings: theory of the Other, theory of automata.
Digital practices as a move away from nostalgia, human-centered hierarchy or sacredness (humanism); very loose distinction between object and shadow in digital world - they are perceived as equal. Process-based explorations, do not focus on the object or product> build the machine, the tools to touch the unknown/the imagined. Think in abstracts. How to make presence digitally? Map the presence of our being?
Start here: map 100 diff. ways of digital mappings presently used (ultrasound, infra-red, etc). Process will focus on: 1. Primary>Maya or other, 2. Secondary>X-ray/Ultrasound, 3. a translator/mediator between the two (can I import 2. into 1. to generate architectural form?)
Most importantly, follow my hunches!!

ultrasound of a city?

my personal starting point

Solitude: what does it mean to be alone?
---emptiness, nothingness, absence, silence, negative space?
>>(urban life>public: Tehching Hsieh, http://www.one-year-performance.com/ )
>>>Empty urban spaces: Gordan Matta-Clark & Anarchitecture


>Void>unfamiliar>uncanny>hidden.
Rachel Whiteread

Giacometti

>>>Precedent spaces: dark room at Libeskind's Jewish Holocaust Museum in Berlin (http://www.juedisches-museum-berlin.de/site/EN/04-Architecture/02-Libeskind-Building/06-Holocaust-Tower/holocaust-tower.php)

Zumthor's Thermal Baths at Vals, Switzerland

here goes nothing...

Starting with a blank page is the hardest thing to do...the beginning of a very long journey. Hope I look back at this and say, what were you so worried about Darcie? See, that wasn't so bad!
The proposal passed, why don't I feel relieved or happy? After seeing the other thesis students working away today in studio, the thought of doing this alone in New York doesn't appeal to me right now. I hope my plan of throwing myself 100% into Columbia courses this summer will work - either I'll get totally off track or I'll create a valuable body of work and learn a lot too. No one said this would be simple! Please please let it all work out in the end...