Final thoughts:
- impossible to find a visual artist i like (it’s mostly performance artists / choreographers / composers that i can think of – see below)
- a new program for graphic design – tear up the syllabus and write your own RTP?
- so i did a little reflection
- main thing – the idea of “form driven content” // get to know your materials // why do it
My own takeouts / thoughts from each class:
pattern (vera monar)
- hand computation vs computer
- plotter aesthetics
- how to use eyes better and not be restricted by default parameters and linear change
geometry (john and james whitney)
- threshold of perception*
- how to derive feelings from geometry
- sine wave as change engine
typography (muriel cooper)
- letters as more than static shapes
- letters interactivity
- form and animation vs. meaning
- how to read* – https://www.dropbox.com/s/vbuhevmpajcjda2/Bruno-Munari-The-Shape-of-Words-and-Poems-and-Telegrams-in-Design-as-Art-1971.pdf?dl=0
pixels (ken knowlton)
- pixel kernels (for blurring and sharpening) / dilation, erosion
- dithering
- image making technology*
image (jason salavon)
- videos / series of images / sorting images
- images as information* (titanic average frame color)
- averaging / mod
body (myron krueger)
- virtual body, reduced body
- what interaction does digital bodies allow?
- manipulation of time (delay) / space (scale)
glitch
- glitch != glitch aesthetics
- what is an image essentially*
- (still don’t understand jpeg)
- canvas to data url https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLCanvasElement/toDataURL
deformation
Final reading:
This is how one pictures the angel of history. His face is turned towards the past. Where we perceive a chain of events, he sees one single catastrophe which keeps piling wreckage and hurls it in front of his feet. The angel would like to stay, awaken the dead, and make whole what has been smashed. But a storm is blowing in from Paradise; it has got caught in his wings with such a violence that the angel can no longer close them. The storm irresistibly propels him into the future to which his back is turned, while the pile of debris before him grows skyward. This storm is what we call progress.
—Walter Benjamin on Paul Klee’s Angelus Novus from Theses on the Philosophy of History, 1940
“What new cultures are emerging through the use of these media? What does it mean to be “socially” distant? And in a socially distant society, where does the burden of social responsibility fall and fail? How will media technology, and/or the related arts, change as a result of this halt?”
Implementation from class:
- Drone Tracking – Petri Dish – https://vimeo.com/440862215 // to be developed into live tracking system for outdoor performance
- Side View – Top View – Shadow Ratio https://vimeo.com/440862128
Artists I’d like to study:
- romeo castellucci (theatre)
- striking visuals https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOv3QsyJG2I
- anne teresa de keersmaeker (choreographer)*
- algorithmic choreography https://www.rosasdanstrosas.be/en-home/
- georges aperghis (theatre / composer)
- incorporating generative visuals in live performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biTGIRROgZA
- incorporating generative visuals in live performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biTGIRROgZA
- pichet klunchun (choreographer)
- embodies algorithm / train muscle memory
- mark applebaum (composer)
- composing movement https://vimeo.com/34303981
Pending relating to class:
- learn about jpeg*
- windows of new york – generative building composition
- screen print layers (how to separate layer?)
More from class:
- pixels mode / min / max / median https://paper.dropbox.com/doc/Julius-Tarng-Recreating-Jason-Salavon–A4REwbIIrujcbNuvWEwcmux_Ag-4fZOUTs7QjrOa7z9mSk6Z
- video / drone
- pigeons (Jaroslaw Kapuscinski) https://vimeo.com/276069485
- motor bikes (hiroshi kondo) https://vimeo.com/334092219
- aerial (Páraic McGloughlin) https://vimeo.com/259989412
*important points
If I must choose: Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker
Timing
Structure and choreography
Recreation: https://editor.p5js.org/hellonun/present/XHxSMaGV3