For this project, I knew I wanted to base my topic on the resurgence of women fighting for liberation in Iran.
“Jin, Jiyan, Azadi”
“Woman, Life, Freedom”
The idea here is to gather handwritten notes of “Jin—Jiyan—Azadi” as a means of digital activism and a sort of “fuck you” to the Iranian government (they have taken down the internet there basically to stop the media spread)
I first tested out the grid layout Tega provided and generated the collected data just to see how it was starting to look.
https://editor.p5js.org/lm4523/sketches/MdOz_5W5G
I do like the big grid here, but after speaking to Tega, I have updated my idea to only have the words show up 3 at a time and have it in rotation so that every time the words are displayed they come from a different person. This version better translates my idea of a more collective form of protest. However, now I’m having trouble with the design/layout of it. How is this going to look when printed?
I started with formatting and editing the images to make them look a little more unified. I decided to keep some of the dots and lines from the paper on some of the submissions mainly because I like the addition of the little hints of textures.
Another thing I changed was having the grid be 3×5 (3 columns + 5 rows), because I want this to be printed on a tabloid-sized paper and this number made sense to me. The idea here is still having the audience interact with the 3-worded combinations at a time (so you’re basically reciting the 3 words row by row).
https://editor.p5js.org/lm4523/sketches/igfFRbtHD
One thing I hadn’t thought about was the repetition of words in different languages, which was a nice surprise. So, each generative outcome would put an emphasis on one or two of the three words (ex: women, freedom, freedom! life, life, freedom! etc)
I generated the posters, exporting the three best outcomes (using my best judgement) with the intention of layering them with different colors. Here are the exports:
Here are Riso prints:
I decided to only layer 2 of the generated outcomes, because otherwise it would completely look like gibberish. However, with more time to think about it now, a way to combat that would be to maybe adjust the opacities of each layer.
Repeating this phrase over and over in the past couple of weeks reminded me heavily of one of the ways to pray in Islam, so I wanted to relay that in the print. The layering makes it look like echoes of the word, in different languages, saying the same thing from all around the world. A collective form of prayer for the Women in Iran and everywhere.