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Basic Concepts in Creative Computing II

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 Computing II

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  1. Basic Concepts in Creative ComputingII Imagination and Technique : Process Based Art and Minimalism

  2. 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

  3. Bauhaus

  4. Bauhaus

  5. Bauhaus

  6. Gropius Chairs

  7. 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’

  8. 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?

  9. 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)

  10. 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

  11. 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 ?

  12. 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’ ?

  13. Incomplete Open Cube

  14. Incomplete Open Cubes

  15. 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?

  16. The Necker Cube

  17. The Necker Cube

  18. Escher’s Impossible Cube More about Escher later

  19. Sol Lewitt

  20. Remind you of anything?

  21. Duchamp

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