11.16.2011

day 3

This morning we're going to try to figure out smaller working groups, based on ideas that have emerged over the last two days. no easy task...
So far the workshop has been great - really challenging, hard work and intense. Learning new coding language has required high concentration. At moments everyone has been frustrated, exasperated, desperate... -and then strange moments of elation at being able to achieve something really simple like, wow! I drew a line. I made a dot. I made a circle. But when you realise the nature of the mark is totally new - that it is produced by code and maths and this is a new kind of mark-making for many of us here (we don't have coding or programming backgrounds - we are mainly makers of some sort or other) then it really is an achievement. (but you maybe have to be here to buy into that).

i'll add to this later...