Author: Fred Roeske

Title thesis:

Trans-thesis van de gelijknamige thesis


Subject:

This thesis may give the impression that its focus lies on language. In fact there is no specific focus. It deals with matters outside the mechanisms of what this thesis seems to be about. A state of deposition is more applicable here. One might think “so that must be the topic, right?” Indeed, the topic of this thesis deals with a state of deposition that derives from the incompleteness theorem of Kurt Gödel, which states: “Something cannot be proven within the system of its own laws, it can only be proven outside its own system”. So therefore, besides the use of language as a medium in itself, this thesis can also being seen as a manual or an instrument designed for its interactive quality.

Investigative research can be based on a lack of skills, an inability or sheer incompetence. In other words, an investigation can spring forth from an ignorant approach. It does not necessarily have to stand for boundless naivety, yet it may well be the outcome of a conscious design choice. As a designer you have the ability to deliberately choose for such a specific strategy. Such a strategy supplies research with outcomes and insights that ordinarily will be left unnoticed.

What fascinates me are the abilities and inabilities of language. Language is a communication system that forms a representation of our proficiency (epistemological knowledge). Regarded in this sense, language then is the communicative expression of that what we know about what we know.

In the pragmatic use of language a consensus is easily met in regard to that epistemology (epistemological convention). Language is the medium of that convention.

However, this awareness or understanding is not a static given, but a dynamic, ever changing knowledge which everyone, in the course of the use of language itself can have their influence on. As designer I consider it my task to make people aware of this potential influence in their use of language. Thereby the designer casts its effect on knowledge itself. As long as we accept that we live in a self-created, fictional world of which many of the systems and regulations have gained their justification and legitimacy by means of (often unconsciously) applied conventions. With the help of imagination the consensual mechanism that determines ‘that what we know we know’, can be stretched and a conception can be made of a different logic or amendments can be accredited with an existing logic.

Title thesis:

Trans-thesis van de gelijknamige thesis


Subject:

This thesis may give the impression that its focus lies on language. In fact there is no specific focus. It deals with matters outside the mechanisms of what this thesis seems to be about. A state of deposition is more applicable here. One might think “so that must be the topic, right?” Indeed, the topic of this thesis deals with a state of deposition that derives from the incompleteness theorem of Kurt Gödel, which states: “Something cannot be proven within the system of its own laws, it can only be proven outside its own system”. So therefore, besides the use of language as a medium in itself, this thesis can also being seen as a manual or an instrument designed for its interactive quality.

Investigative research can be based on a lack of skills, an inability or sheer incompetence. In other words, an investigation can spring forth from an ignorant approach. It does not necessarily have to stand for boundless naivety, yet it may well be the outcome of a conscious design choice. As a designer you have the ability to deliberately choose for such a specific strategy. Such a strategy supplies research with outcomes and insights that ordinarily will be left unnoticed.

What fascinates me are the abilities and inabilities of language. Language is a communication system that forms a representation of our proficiency (epistemological knowledge). Regarded in this sense, language then is the communicative expression of that what we know about what we know.

In the pragmatic use of language a consensus is easily met in regard to that epistemology (epistemological convention). Language is the medium of that convention.

However, this awareness or understanding is not a static given, but a dynamic, ever changing knowledge which everyone, in the course of the use of language itself can have their influence on. As designer I consider it my task to make people aware of this potential influence in their use of language. Thereby the designer casts its effect on knowledge itself. As long as we accept that we live in a self-created, fictional world of which many of the systems and regulations have gained their justification and legitimacy by means of (often unconsciously) applied conventions. With the help of imagination the consensual mechanism that determines ‘that what we know we know’, can be stretched and a conception can be made of a different logic or amendments can be accredited with an existing logic.

Title thesis:

The Demented Blow-Up

Production of Subjectivity in Modern Imagery


Link to intro thesis (PDF)

My ongoing visual projects involve the use of images that populate the internet landscape and its hysterical transformation.


These projects are partially driven by my research on algorithms, computer-generated imagery and how they could relate to the viewer, establishing a new dialogue between these images and the viewer.


I explore and use as material selected medias relevant to the current online imagery eco system and its impact on the viewer.


Is mass art produced by virtue of the fact it’s online and easily accessible. How has mass art changed because of this development of instantly reproducible imagery? Has it always been about mimicry and repetition? If so how has the process of mimicry and repetition smoothed itself out?


I reflect on the world today using contemporary digital media to not just talk about the media itself, but to regain understanding of its impact and systems around us.

Title thesis:

The Demented Blow-Up

Production of Subjectivity in Modern Imagery


Link to intro thesis (PDF)

My ongoing visual projects involve the use of images that populate the internet landscape and its hysterical transformation.


These projects are partially driven by my research on algorithms, computer-generated imagery and how they could relate to the viewer, establishing a new dialogue between these images and the viewer.


I explore and use as material selected medias relevant to the current online imagery eco system and its impact on the viewer.


Is mass art produced by virtue of the fact it’s online and easily accessible. How has mass art changed because of this development of instantly reproducible imagery? Has it always been about mimicry and repetition? If so how has the process of mimicry and repetition smoothed itself out?


I reflect on the world today using contemporary digital media to not just talk about the media itself, but to regain understanding of its impact and systems around us.

Title thesis:

Perception, Identity and 2 Identities


Link to thesis (PDF)

I guess I can say that with my work I investigate what identity and perception are. How differently I relate to myself and that what surrounds me depending on the moment, and how limited I am as human being : it is a matter of facts. I never perceive the truth, but only what my brain allows me to perceive, depending on my needs.

Title thesis:

Perception, Identity and 2 Identities


Link to thesis (PDF)

I guess I can say that with my work I investigate what identity and perception are. How differently I relate to myself and that what surrounds me depending on the moment, and how limited I am as human being : it is a matter of facts. I never perceive the truth, but only what my brain allows me to perceive, depending on my needs.

Title thesis:

Tiles

(living the good life)

A flower or plant, pelican or cream cake can motivate a painting. Anything can be a reason to paint. So I paint everything.

A painting encapsulates its own space, its own universe. I want my paintings to exist in their own worlds while touching ours. Through recognisable associative elements, and the researching of space in the painting, I want to create tension between both worlds. Every painting creates its own set of rules resulting in a unique individual focus that forces me to research painting itself.

Each individual work demands something different from me. The treatment of the paint, the use of color, the composition, all these factors combined generate their own context within each painting.

Title thesis:

Tiles

(living the good life)

A flower or plant, pelican or cream cake can motivate a painting. Anything can be a reason to paint. So I paint everything.

A painting encapsulates its own space, its own universe. I want my paintings to exist in their own worlds while touching ours. Through recognisable associative elements, and the researching of space in the painting, I want to create tension between both worlds. Every painting creates its own set of rules resulting in a unique individual focus that forces me to research painting itself.

Each individual work demands something different from me. The treatment of the paint, the use of color, the composition, all these factors combined generate their own context within each painting.

Title thesis:

Transition into timelessness
The struggle of three artists

Subject:
My thesis is about three artists who all have their own mental problems, Willem de Kooning had Alzheimer’s, William Utermohlen too, and Vincent van Gogh had a multitude of possible disorders. In my thesis I examine the period in which these disorders come to the surface through various symptoms, and how they effect the lives and works of these artists, up to the point that where they are no longer able to work or socially function.


Link to thesis (PDF)

The common thread in my work runs through mental instability along the advancing digitalisation of our humanbody into the anatomy of our existence.

Titel scriptie:

Overgang naar tijdloos zijn.
De worsteling van drie kunstenaars

Subject:
My thesis is about three artists who all have their own mental problems, Willem de Kooning had Alzheimer’s, William Utermohlen too, and Vincent van Gogh had a multitude of possible disorders. In my thesis I examine the period in which these disorders come to the surface through various symptoms, and how they effect the lives and works of these artists, up to the point that where they are no longer able to work or socially function.


Link naar scriptie (PDF)

The common thread in my work runs through mental instability along the advancing digitalisation of our humanbody into the anatomy of our existence.

Title thesis:

The connection between spaces of a different nature

The transfer, the moment of touching and the
position of the focus



Link to thesis (PDF)

Smooth transitions


I am interested in the rhythm and the process
of perception
of
basic
everyday
phenomena of
which I am usually not aware. The construction
of the environment from a succession of
fragments, subtle eye-movements, the shifting
of the focus of looking, mental leaps and
images. The position of the point of focus and
the place of attention can be very diverse and
shift very fast. The transitions between these
spaces of different nature are perceived
amazingly coherent and smooth.


I try to comprehend physical properties like the
transitions within the retina reflected in the
space and the limit and the contrast with the
space I do not see. I would like to grasp the
transformations of the dynamic and three-
dimensional shape of the field of view when
eye-movements encounter the static
boundaries of a space.

Titel scriptie:

De verbinding tussen ruimten van een andere
orde


De overdracht, het moment van raken en de
positie van de focus.

Link naar scriptie (PDF)

Smooth transitions


I am interested in the rhythm and the process
of perception
of
basic
everyday
phenomena of
which I am usually not aware. The construction
of the environment from a succession of
fragments, subtle eye-movements, the shifting
of the focus of looking, mental leaps and
images. The position of the point of focus and
the place of attention can be very diverse and
shift very fast. The transitions between these
spaces of different nature are perceived
amazingly coherent and smooth.


I try to comprehend physical properties like the
transitions within the retina reflected in the
space and the limit and the contrast with the
space I do not see. I would like to grasp the
transformations of the dynamic and three-
dimensional shape of the field of view when
eye-movements encounter the static
boundaries of a space.