Brief me!!

Your task is to produce a proposal for a new edition of Flatland that doesn’t necessarily engage with the conventions of ‘the book’ as we understand them, although it may have text matter, pages and a cover – or not. It could be a pamphlet, a chapbook, a poster, a landscape, a happening, a dream, an installation, a text, a sound piece, an animation, a moment.

Interpret the text typographically – you can be as ambitious as you wish to be, but you must deal with the full contents of at least one chapter and show how the rest of the text would develop.

There are no restrictions, no conventions, no rules, no given formats. Static work, moving image, physical, virtual, ephemeral are all up to

you, as is the navigation of the piece, its viewer/ reader/user engagement, its scale, simplicity, complexity, composition.

What can it become? There is a quote in the film Amadeus that says if you have four people talking at once, then that’s an argument . . . if you have four people singing at once, then that’s Opera.

Make an opera, not an argument!

i liked this brief because it basically leaves it wide open for me to do whatever i wish, for this module it allows me to experiment and take risks. Both these are favoured in the module. Also the subject is interesting and the book is also very interesting and could make for a great piece of work if i do it correctly.