DAD is very busy at the moment mulling over ideas about audience engagment. All much more emotional than it may seem as Sharon’s blog will testify.
I went to the “thinking through drawing” conference yesterday. Ana Leonor Madeira Rodrigues has a theory that mirror genes (think that is what she said) govern the pleasure associated with recognition when looking at drawings of recognisable things – somehow the brain recognises the physical gestures that make the marks that form the drawing and this is why we enjoy such drawings. I’m sure I’ve oversimplified.
Speaking on observational drawing, Eduardo Corte-Real, said that observational drawings formed part of an archaeology of knowledge, which I thought was nice.
