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    Nicole Eisenman: Conscious Razing

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Grid Index

Grid Index is the first comprehensive visual lexicon of patterns and grid systems. It is an essential reference book for designers, visual artists, architects, researchers and mathematicians. From the simplest grids made up entirely of squares to the most complex irregular ones with infinitely unpredictable patterns of growth, the book itself is a work of art.
All visual information and forms, whether illustration, graphic design, painting or architecture are compromised of two dimensional grids and patterns, much like the way that computer information is made up of zeroes and ones. Based upon years of research, artist and musician Carsten Nicolai has discovered and unlocked the visual code for visual systems into a systematic equation of grids and patterns.
A CD accompanies the book and contains all of the grids and
patterns featured in the publication as editable vector graphic data files. This multifunctional and universal tool can be used effortlessly on virtually any platform, operating system and graphics software such as Autodesk and Adobe Illustrator, and applied to every field of visual culture.
Grid Index can be used to map out the underlying grids of any single image or form and to create recurring geometrical grids in graphic design.
One of the most renowned German contemporary artists, Carsten Nicolai has continued to work at the intersection of art and science. He has exhibited internationally at Documenta X, the Venice Biennale and New National Gallery, Berlin. He has also released albums and staged performances with Ryuichi Sakamoto at the Guggenheim, New York, San Francisco MoMA and Centre Pompidou, Paris.
With Grid Index, he has unlocked our world by formulating a universal index of the foundations of visual language. Comparable to Ernst Haeckl’s Art Forms of Nature, this book is an indispensable tool for designers and scientists or anyone interested in the basic structure of the visual world.
Die Erfassung zweidimensionaler geometrischer Muster und Raster ist von großer Bedeutung in visueller Kultur, nicht zuletzt bei der Visualisierung von Daten. Grid Index dokumentiert anschaulich wie Carsten Nicolai basierend auf mehrjähriger Forschung systematisch ein Alphabet der Muster, von simplen bis zu hochkomplexen Strukturen, freigelegt hat. Grid Index ist als erstes umfassendes Lexikon visueller Raster das maßgebliche Nachschlagewewerk für Designer, Architekten, Forscher, Mathematiker und Wissenschaftler. Die auf dem beigefügten Datenträger mitgelieferten Files lassen sich in den unterschiedlichsten Bereichen visueller Kultur mühelos und programmübergreifend anwenden: z.B. bei der architektonischen Gestaltung von Häuserfassaden oder zur Erfassung und Kreation wiederkehrender geometrischer Muster im Grafikdesign.
Der Künstler und Musiker Carsten Nicolai arbeitet seit den frühen 1990er Jahren an der Schnittstelle von Wissenschaft und Kunst. In Grid kartografiert er die den visuellen Systemen zugrundeliegenden Muster. Der beigefügte Datenträger bietet Grafikdesignern, Architekten und Designern einen vielseitig und mühelos anwendbaren Index.
Vergleichbar mit Haeckels Kunstformen der Natur ist das Buch nicht auf bestimmte Disziplinen limitiert, sondern lässt deren Grenzen hinter sich, indem es eine universelle Indexierung der Grundlagen visueller Kultur formuliert.


Carsten Nicolai
Grid Index
Die Gestalten, 2009, 978-3-89955-241-6