the out of context diagrams you post for ersatz are so mezmerizingly strange
thanks! im sorry but im now gonna spoil them by explaining them.
This one's based of Fredric Jameson's cognitive mapping and Benjamin Bratton’s The Stack, a direct reference to a illustration used in Bratton's Stack . But the joke is how at the very top of what's meant to be a "stratified assemblage", is Humber, represented by a giant platform shoe. Ersatz is a personification and cartoon of this sort of theory, of systems, platforms, etc, so there's the double layer of putting my own figurative project, here represented as a shoe, about Bratton's diagram... so another snarky joke.
This one's more abstract, but a reference to web platform architecture like tumblr, wordpress etc, but crushed under a traditional printing press, which is a nod to medium as a container and organiser of knowledge, but how under digital systems, are centralised to platform capitalists, as seen with Humber logo in the centre of it. I should have had, within the process of the press crushing the platform, itself crushed too, which would match how it's interconnected today, (im not a physical medium romanticist, the press is more a metaphor for history)
This one's just a straight up illustration of reflective practise
Although this is clearly a illustration of Interpersonal ties, which ties into the theming of structure/systems theory, it's also a little nod to the "new" character Panina and her dynamic and relationship to daisy and Lauren. so used the diagram more as a literary device for my own project than it as an illustration of the diagram.
it was about time i did a play on the classic "the art happens here" net art diagram. but in mine it's drawing reference to platform control and a criticism of persuasive technology -- how net art under platforms just serves as content to enable these systems. I was so captivated by this short clips of James Ferraro's the plague where a fictional steve jobs is basically the Antichrist, laying out how digital design was gonna be used to enslave humanity. if anyone has a video of the full performance i would LOVE to see it.