Basic Concepts in Creative Computing II
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Basic Concepts in Creative Computing II. Imagination and Technique : Process Based Art and Minimalism. Recap. Experimental abstract film and animation Looks like stuff we can do in processing Explores ideas of the relationship between visual movement and music
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Basic Concepts in Creative ComputingII Imagination and Technique : Process Based Art and Minimalism
Recap • Experimental abstract film and animation • Looks like stuff we can do in processing • Explores ideas of the relationship between visual movement and music • Dada – Absurdist political art – activism • Op-art • Materialism • Richter, Eggeling, Man Ray • Early ‘systems based’ art i.e. Tristan Tzara – “The Cut up” • Bauhaus – Gropius, Kandinsky, Klee, Moholy-Nagy, • Early Computer Graphics - Whitney
Kandinsky • Synthesis – “Point and Line to Plane”, Kandinsky (1926) • Fundamental elements of design – • The Point • Line (force between connecting points) • Plane (The Background) • For Kandinsky, Lines of different orientations had different subjective meanings – or ‘tonalities’
Constructivism • Moholy-Nagy “Lichtspiel” • Constructivism ? • Emphasis on Technology in Creative Acts • Importance of the Machine – mechanisation • Engineering principles as the basis of Art • Is this the basis of Art? • What about Duchamp? • What about Kandinsky?
Oskar Fischinger • Experimental Animator • “Absolute Cinema” (non objective) • What do we mean by non-objective ? • What is the point? • “Grandfather of the Digital Arts” • “Fantasia” (1940)
Whitney • John and James Whitney • “5 Abstract Film Exercises” 1940-45 • Early Minimal, process-based art • Pantographs of Moving colour with sound • What is a pantograph? • Winner, First International Experimental Film Competition in Belgium, 1949
Minimalism • Strip back all elements to basic form and technique • Deploy ideas in the most simple way possible • Make ideas and concepts visible in work through simplicity • Movements in Music, Painting, Sculpture and Animation. • Is Fischinger Minimalist? • Is Whitney Minimalist? • Bauhaus ?
Sol Lewitt • Artist whose work is characterised by minimalism • Unit Shape – A basic shape for the extension of a set of ideas or works. • Lewitt’s Unit Shape == Cube. • Serial Project – “Incomplete Open Cubes” • Variations on open cubes can be used to generate lots of interesting shapes : Think about how simple this is. • What is a ‘Permutation’ ?
Cubes • What is special about drawing a Cube? • How many dimensions does a cube have? • How many dimensions do we draw in? • What problems does this present? • Does this change the way we have to think about drawing?
Escher’s Impossible Cube More about Escher later