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This paper uses language as a tool to measure and evaluate infinity within book works. Inspired by Mel Bochner’s systematic approach to analysing painting and photography, this paper utilizes a systematic process in order to evaluate fifteen book works made from 1958 to 2012. Drawn to the paradox of using such a rigid and systematic method upon the evaluation of book works that are measureless, fluid and changing, it is delivered in two parts: ‘Cohere’ (Practice in Context) and ‘Disperse’ (Context in Practice).
Cohere uses language, images and continuums to deconstruct and examine each book work’s constituent elements: starting with material composites, to a basic description, through to imagery, followed by an exploration of the book works’ wider context and finally evaluating the book works according to an adapted version of Josephine Machone’s Scale of Immersivity. Due to the nature of infinity, a non-conclusion is formulated which discusses the inescapable subjectivity of language and the disposition of infinite and changing book works.
A more appropriate conclusion illustrating the fragility and dynamic nature of language is demonstrated by clicking ‘Disperse’, which will reconstruct ‘Cohere’ by subjecting it to a randomizing algorithm written in collaboration with Michael Murphy. In doing so, it illustrates one of the infinite variations of this paper.
www.rebeccajanejones.com/coheredisperse was designed and built by Michael Murphy, 2013.