1.2 Fast Rewind

Taken from the exhibition catalog Software

Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art

Though this is not completely intelligible to me, I do very much like the idea of developing a system viewed in diagrammatic form that can be altered on the screen to change the level of abstraction to show different levels of meaning. As I understand from the description written in the catalog (Software - Information Technology: Its New Meaning for Art), it is a method for simplifying and revealing complexity of relationships which can be applied to any given subject matter. So the work is actually the system itself and a method for "re-evaluation, re-grouping or division, at times starting with a single proposition, at others searching for the mean between two extremes."

Excerpt from the catalog:

Types of triangulations: 

- inanimate tri-groups representing all of a genus , class or category 

- re-grouping or classification

- accepted facts, perceptual or ideational errors re-evaluated, their importance re-established or denied-new ones created whenever possible 

- arriving at a conclusion derived from two propositions 

- arriving at a mean between two extremes 

- the building of one proposition through dimensional complication into trichotomies 

- the building of one proposition through divisional trisection into trichotomies 

- pure idea groups activated by controversy 

- interdependent or progressive ideas becoming effective through successive stages of advancement

- threefold theories interchangeable-threefold theories not interchangeable, and those forming argumentative conclusions

Since there was no other documentation to be found on this particular project, I also included another of her works below which is part of the same series. I believe reading this diagram will clarify the point.

Evolution II Paradox and Essence 1976