A line is a dot that went for a walk – Paul Klee.
A pilot steers an airplane, following invisible acrobatic paths while simultaneously operating a smoke device, leaving temporary marks in the sky that when perceived from the ground spell out letters and words. A camera is manipulated to keep the diaphragm open over a long period of time, capturing the light of a moving source on film, resulting in traces that tell the story of the light’s motion in one image. A cat owner attaches a GPS device to their pet to capture its seemingly random explorations of the neighbourhood as data. A car driver uses the same technology to do the reverse and go on an elaborate drive that resembles a drawing when viewed on the map. A group of flâneurs follow predetermined rules to drift randomly through a location of their choosing, meticulously documenting their trajectories and discoveries, …
A thing in motion over time describes a trajectory that can be recorded and visualised in boundless ways. Technology in its ideal form serves human expression, and it is a human trait to be able to continuously find new uses for existing things.
In Oblique Trajectories, students from MA Media Design collectively explored the gestural qualities and expression of technology as the base for all time-based media as well as an extension of the human body. They then translated their discoveries into expressive and practical design applications, looking at their potential through the lens of a designer.
Trajectories as typography
Trajectories as motion
Trajectories as image
Tiki Bordin
Paul Bellon Serre
Lison Christe
Haomin Chang
Maylis D'Haultfoeuille
Simon Di Mauro
Chloé Michel
Thibeaud Goiffon
Beatrice Gorelli
Maxime Magnin
Alexandre Moura Ferreira
Alejandra Oros
Manon Waneukem
Mitch Paone
Jürg Lehni