Abstract: The DIARIUM-PROJEKT is a (literary) diary, established in 1996, which researches the question: can personal life be considered to be a poetic text? If so, how does it influence the actual and the forthcoming life?
The DIARIUM - Project is a (literary) diary, established in 1996, which researches the question:
Can personal life be considered to be a poetic text? ( If so, how does it influence the actual and the forthcoming life?)
Since January 1996 material such as events, emotions, ideas, thoughts, words, things is collected in form of entries in a handwritten diary.
1996-1998 Out of this material very condensed, assoziatively written texts were made. They look like anagrammatic, surreal aphorisms. Additional to the recent material of the day some parts of the last years´ text is integrated to provide a continuity of remembering. Thus self organizing textsystems can come into existance which continously create new images of the reality and break up the linear lines of time.
1999 only the collection of material was done. From these notes a text for each month was made with integrated pieces of reminiscences and partly associatively alienated.
2000 started a new way to work. Now texts were made without the step of collecting material. They were put together in the head daily. For this procedure no written means were used. This working method lasted until December (The daily texts were also published for WAP-Handy http://art.wapjag.com/ diarium2000)
2001 a radical change in presentation took place. Using the calendar design only the date of the days for which notes existed were published. Because now notes weren´t written daily but had to be remembered, the linear calendaric progression of time were broken up for a more cyclic-repetitive experience of time. 2001 was designed as a concrete text without content. An exception is the time from Oct.25 to Oct.29 / Nov.21 (tumor diagnosis, honeymoon, surgery, final results).
2002 s´ text is a strictly visual text. Particles of handwriting from the daily notes were isolated, edited with grafic tools on a MAC computer and put together to a picture containing one months´ information. All 12 pictures were arranged using the calendar design to a years´ picture. Thus the literary text was extended to a visual texture.
2003 again daily texts from the notes were produced. For these texts a new very reduced and restricted, haiku-like form was developed. The text consists of exactly 36 characters and is tranformed into a picture of 4x3 color squares by means of HTML (This visual transformation procedure for texts, called The Squaring of Words / Quadratur der Worte was developed by the author in 1997.) The literary text becomes a pure visual text without any literary traces.
2004, 2005 and 2006 the same method of textproduction and its visual transformation is used as 2003. What has changed is that the visualisation no longer produces a singular picture for every day but a daily growing picture in which the new text informations get integrated and extend its grafic structures. This makes the visual texture of the year more visible.
2006 additionally a daily picture is produced which has but reduced colors. By this important emotional informations for this very day stay available.
2007 text production and visualization as 2005.
2008 text production and visualization as 2005, additionally the daily text is displayed as DataMatrix (DM) mobile code and can be read by mobile code capable cell phones.
2009 text production and visualization as 2005, plus a drawing on ZINK(TM) paper weekly.
Using different ways and procedures of artistic production I try to find an answer to the question: Can personal life be considered to be a poetic text? Moreover it documents my development from a writer to a media artist. ©2009 s.holzbauer