Dawn  cd-rom
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Still under de•re•construction 
                   
 
 
Dawn CD-ROM: 
  
Enhancement and de-re-construction. 
Origin 1982 / 1994. 
  
Expected release date: autumn 2000.		   In Progress: Dawn cd-rom 

Actually this is an enhancement of an existing cd-rom publication. Due to the changes in operating systems on both P.C. and Macintosh and the better average specifications on systems (ram, cd-rom speed etc.) the old cd-rom is no longer usable. 
The de-re-construction of the Dawn cd-rom project is also a content renewal of the production.
 		  
TAT - RAG 
HUMAN 
EROTISM 
LANGUAGE 
GROUP 
CREATIVITY 
ORGANISM 
TECHNOLOGY 
DEVELOPMENT 
FAITH		   About Dawn: 
 
'Dawn' originated in 1982 and has been unfinished - and won't be finished up until this date - as a project. 
It consists of various work-outs of the same set of 'scribbles' and icons which have been re-used over time (with intervals of sometimes years),  in many different occasions. The title is derived from the abbreviation of: 
 
[a] Dialectical Arrangement of Weary Notions 
 
It's not a single work or a fixed set of ideas, but it consists of 10 main notions. Initially a sign, followed by a 'mindset', was the first of these notions: 
 
TAT = 'Rag' - 'On the rags of conceptualism, political- & narrative- art, visual poetry -/ and all that's worn out heavily /- grows TAT a sign of a time that refuses to pass' 
 
The following nine notions were not (only) signs but just the words like 'human', 'language', 'erotism' etc. 
It is because of these common notions that dawn looks like a 'whole': every element (of which there's something to say) is in there and very often new ideas seems to refer to one or more of these notions resulting in new or other work-outs in different media and at later stages in time. 
It is only slightly changing and expanding. To keep this project unfinished means keeping it a living piece of / for the mind.
 		  USE ICONS (SIGNS) FROM THE NOTIONS (SMALL VERSIONS)

 
 
 
Dawn 
origination		   A method of argument for discovering the truth of ideas. 

Originally Dawn was adapted to the pop cult of the late sixties and early seventies. With the music and art of that time in mind and the consideration of in which respect some expressions of that era were truly works of art (in musical and literary terms rather than visually) - referring to works as 'Atom heart mother' from The Pink Floyd (1970) or the 'flat' but mysterious 'excerpt of a teenage opera' by Keith West (1967) - and were inspiring my world of thoughts as a young boy. 
 
It has been said that composers like Philip Glass not only looked (listened) at alien (non western) cultures for their inspiration, but also at pop music of that time. Maybe it's not a single group, composer or artist which makes this era standing out as a phenomenon, but the changes in society as a whole, indeed cranked up by the music and imagery ( i.e. ché chevara etc.).

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Album Sleeve - 1970 
Atom Heart Mother 


 
 
 
Adapted   Of course I would rather not use psychedelic imagery, in spite of how valuable and powerful it was at the time. I take a more linguistic approach where ideas, music and (song) texts are very important.   BACK

 
 
 
Work Outs   Thus far Dawn appeared in the form of printed matter (1982); videotape (1987, 1990); audio tape (1985); a bundled version (printed matter, audio- and video- tape, 1988); as an installation: 'Dawn Fascimile' (1988, 1991); in additional 'objects' (sculptural, 1983, 1985) on cd-rom (1994) and on the internet (1998). A revised version of the cd-rom is in preparation (later than October 1999) and a real-time interactive 3D-project is currently under development (1999 - 2000).   BACK
 
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