2. Ghost Chess
Architectural Drawing and Representation II, Spring 2017
Critic: Farzin Lotfi-Jam, FarzinFarzin
Ghost Chess leaves a record of the game by way of ink contained within the pieces. The hollow pieces are made of clear resin, so the color of the ink provides the only indication of which pieces are white and black. Though the marks left by the pieces as the game is played show moves, they leave an incomplete record of the match, since the accumulation of marks from the pieces does not show the order in which the moves were made, aside from showing a gradual depletion of the inkiness of the mark.
The marks left are at once a direct and analog recording of movement, and simultaneously a failure to capture complete information about a complex game. The most direct mark does not always capture all of the information we need to re-create past events. Sometimes traces and lines are just clues.
