A Call for Drawings
24 Jun - 12 Jul 2015
A CALL FOR DRAWINGS
24 June – 12 July 2015
“Thought is impossible without an image.”
–Aristotle, On Memory and Reminiscence (450a)
A Call for Drawings presents drawings made by artists, scientists, and other practitioners within the context of an interdisciplinary research project that investigates the role of visual thinking and visualization in cognitive and creative processes. The exhibition is the outcome of a procedure analogous to the practice in the academic world of “a call for papers,” in which knowledge and research are both presented and shared. The exhibition is inaugurated by Drawing Conclusions, a symposium with international artists and scholars convened on this subject of the role of visual thinking in knowledge production.
In scientific and technological disciplines, sketches, maps, drafts, diagrams, and other kinds of drawings are essential to the understanding of problems and the communication of thoughts towards their solutions. When probing into the unknown, drawing is an ideal tool. In making things present, drawing is thinking, pointing, it is a mode of inquiry. Drawing represents the seen and presents the unseen, the known and the unknown.
If artists, scientists, and other practitioners share drawing as a methodology, might then we find a common ground between diverse fields of practice? Might we also discover correspondences between the creative processes in different fields of activity? Could we, this way, mutualize the knowledges and collaborate in more genuine ways in envisioning collectivity and solidarity between them?
For A Call for Drawings, scientists, artists, architects, musicians, football coaches, carpenters, chefs, and other professionals each sent two drawings: first, a drawing made to try to understand a problem and possibly gesture towards a solution; the second submission is a drawing made to articulate the problem to another person, marking the direction or import of what is discovered.
The exhibition is inaugurated by Drawing Conclusions, a symposium to discuss and evaluate the outcomes of the eponymous interdisciplinary project. With a focus on the meaning of drawings for various forms of knowledge production it considers: How do drawings relate to visual thinking? What role do they play in creative and cognitive processes? And what is the significance of drawings when solving problems and communicating possible solutions?
A Call for Drawings is a project initiated and organized by Klaas Hoek. He is core-tutor at MaHKU MA Fine Art, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and lecturer, Head of Print at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL London. Hoek introduced the A Call for Drawings project with the symposium Lines of Thought at the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW), on 2 February 2015.
24 June – 12 July 2015
“Thought is impossible without an image.”
–Aristotle, On Memory and Reminiscence (450a)
A Call for Drawings presents drawings made by artists, scientists, and other practitioners within the context of an interdisciplinary research project that investigates the role of visual thinking and visualization in cognitive and creative processes. The exhibition is the outcome of a procedure analogous to the practice in the academic world of “a call for papers,” in which knowledge and research are both presented and shared. The exhibition is inaugurated by Drawing Conclusions, a symposium with international artists and scholars convened on this subject of the role of visual thinking in knowledge production.
In scientific and technological disciplines, sketches, maps, drafts, diagrams, and other kinds of drawings are essential to the understanding of problems and the communication of thoughts towards their solutions. When probing into the unknown, drawing is an ideal tool. In making things present, drawing is thinking, pointing, it is a mode of inquiry. Drawing represents the seen and presents the unseen, the known and the unknown.
If artists, scientists, and other practitioners share drawing as a methodology, might then we find a common ground between diverse fields of practice? Might we also discover correspondences between the creative processes in different fields of activity? Could we, this way, mutualize the knowledges and collaborate in more genuine ways in envisioning collectivity and solidarity between them?
For A Call for Drawings, scientists, artists, architects, musicians, football coaches, carpenters, chefs, and other professionals each sent two drawings: first, a drawing made to try to understand a problem and possibly gesture towards a solution; the second submission is a drawing made to articulate the problem to another person, marking the direction or import of what is discovered.
The exhibition is inaugurated by Drawing Conclusions, a symposium to discuss and evaluate the outcomes of the eponymous interdisciplinary project. With a focus on the meaning of drawings for various forms of knowledge production it considers: How do drawings relate to visual thinking? What role do they play in creative and cognitive processes? And what is the significance of drawings when solving problems and communicating possible solutions?
A Call for Drawings is a project initiated and organized by Klaas Hoek. He is core-tutor at MaHKU MA Fine Art, HKU University of the Arts Utrecht and lecturer, Head of Print at Slade School of Fine Art, UCL London. Hoek introduced the A Call for Drawings project with the symposium Lines of Thought at the Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (KNAW), on 2 February 2015.