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Rebecca Cottrell
Rebecca Cottrell
Show RCA work
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Hotel, Rebecca Cottrell 2019
Risograph print
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Swatted, Rebecca Cottrell 2019
Risograph printed publications
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Fruit bowl, Rebecca Cottrell 2019
Risograph print
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Entomologist, Rebecca Cottrell 2019
Gouache on paper
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Sceptre, Rebecca Cottrell 2019
Gouache on paper
4.1 x 5.8 in
Major project:
Emergent comic strip
Swatted is a collection of six-frame tragicomedies, based on using principles of emergent design to drive the narrative. Rules shape behaviour and outcome. A gap between rules – the absence of a rule, something that is left undefined – is an opportunity for emergence. An emergent comic strip is a computational approach to authoring a story, where a human plays the role of a computer following a programme.
An emergent comic strip uses rules to structure and partially define stories. In Swatted, each story has the same tragic outcome – the protagonist dies at some point in the six-frame narrative. How the protagonist dies isn’t defined, and a different story emerges each time within the structure of the rules, and from within the spaces. Chance plays a role in the story structure; the length of the fly’s life, already very short over a maximum of six panels, is controlled by a dice roll.
Info
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School
School of Communication
Programme
MA Visual Communication
Specialism
Visual Communication: Illustration
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Contact
- +44 (0)7590565453
- [email protected]
- http://rcottrell.com
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I'm a designer and visual artist interested in computational thinking applied within arts contexts, story-physics, and experimental narrative.
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Previous degrees
- BA Graphic Communication, Reading University; MSc Human-Computer Interaction, University College London