OSP Plotter Station

OSP Plotter Station: slwcpp2foptwdl (still life with cobbled polysituated patchwork 2 finding our paths toward wordy dreamy landscapes)

Workshop @ Kulturverein zur Schießhalle
WS 1: Monday 24 Nov
WS 2: Thursday 27 Nov
WS 3: Saturday 29 Nov
14:00 ‑ 17:00

Project Description

For this Plotter Station workshop, OSP invites you on a griddy and tortuous adventure of making collective pen-plotted poster using their DIY tool named Cobbled Paths. Cobbled Paths is a web interface that brings multiple tools together to allow experimental and direct collaboration on pen-plotted drawings through the making of Ascii art on etherpads.

At d*signweek, we will use Cobbled Paths to make point-of-view drawings from a still life that will be joined together into a collective pen-plotted poster.

The first step is in Ascii art fashion, to draw shapes and lines using Ascii characters such as ( ) / \ | ' - . _ = + on etherpads. An SVG vector interpretation of the shapes and lines is rendered in a side view, that can later be translated to HPGL to draw them with a pen plotter using normal pens.

It makes a way from the blocky discontinuity of Ascii drawings, to the smoothness of bezier curves, to an analogic pen-plotter interpretation.

Like cobbled paths, none of these technologies are new, and we've been walking on them for years. Like cobbled paths, it is a reminder of the permeability between the discrete and the continuous; how regular stones can form tortuous paths.

Registration Link

https://umfrage.servus.at/index.php/639133

OSP (Open Source Publishing)

Artist Bio

OSP is a graphic design collective based in Brussels. We work on typography, websites, web-to print tools and plotters. We exclusively use free and open source software (F/LOSS). Through our projects we question software as cultural objects and modes of collaboration between graphic designers, artists, cultural institutions and schools. We question the influence and affordances of digital tools through the practice of (commissioned) graphic design, teaching and applied research.

Doriane Timmermans(BE)
Vinciane Daheron(FR)
Simon Browne(AU)

Online Links

web: https://osp.kitchen/