User:SN/Essay 3

Plan:

uniqueness/essentialist versus rules/structuralism, a witness in between that converts one to another

1. description of my background and things I came with to PZI
generative art

Project Muse
Interactive sketch created to visualize text and explore its possibilities regarding the meanings in its reflections.
The graphical structures are based on the basic text characteristics such as length of sentences and words, word frequencies and punctuation, ratio of vowels and consonants. The outcome tends to reflect 'text tune (mood)’ in a certain level.
The purpose was to research and observe how different types of information representation could transform and affect each other.

2. Sketches: transformation between different medias
Exercises to learn programs, expand my knowledge. The formal approach, creating tools for the future rather than research project.
The interesting thing is that in this experiments I didn't change the source. Only its representation. And on representation depends the readability of the source.

Image to text conversion experiment.
The Script converts RGB values of each pixel of the image to its binary representation and maps each digit combination with the letter.
Text to image conversion experiment.
The script creates an image where RGB values of each pixel correspond to the binary representation of each letter in the text.

3. Project for EYE
description how my interests in transformations within different medias are presented in this project
There is the same formal approach, that transforms specificities of one media to another. The difference is context. Formal approach of the transformation process reflects the formalities of the indexing and archival system.
The piece is an outcome of several stages of manipulations of silent films which mimics the formalities of the indexing methods within the archive. The categorisation processes distort the understanding of the narrative content of the silent film the same way the formal characteristics of the video distort the sound. Motion vectors and histogram data were isolated from the source to generate an audio track and reassociate it with the footage.
My project is a creative point of view on the specificities of the storing and preserving methods and its influence on items that are stored.

4. Internet poetry
Short description
Originally the project was a performance made by Pleun and me during the thematic seminar "Chain reaction". Pleun and I played on the field of combinatory literature, machine art and chain reactions. We looked at the way Youtube autoplay and Google method of crawling the internet works and took it as a starting point. The process is based on the loops of chain reactions, where the error plays a role of 'a decision maker' where to stop poem. The result is a list of words with or within a connection among them. The project states the role of the reader and its subjective interpretation. He is the one who creates connections between words. The computer pretends to be a human; human pretends to be a computer and in between, there is a spectator who creates connections and interpretations. During the performance, I was operating the computer and played the role of a coupler between audience, computer, and Pleun. Pleun was operating the printer. The performance starts with providing the link to the Python script.

The script follows the link, extracts all the text and links that are on this page.

I ask a random person to feed me a number.

The number determines which word to extract.

I ask Pleun to print this word.

After she finishes, I ask one more time a random person to feed me a number.

The number determines which link to follow.

Process repeats.

The failure to follow a link or extract a word causes the system to finish "the poem."

The second version of code uses the random function to generate numbers. I ran the code several times, using different sites as a starting point. Here are some results.

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combinatory literature and art
Relationships between author computer and reader
People pretend to be a computer (performers and auditory, yet the choice is very subjective). Computer to which we are giving the role of the poet, but the sense of the poem is produced by a spectator.
The question of who is the author (computer? spectator who creates meaning?)
Aesthetics of the error that becomes part of the creative process in the chain reaction. "Performed failure" that plays a role of the decision maker that ends the poem.
A mistake in the first version of code caused the script to run an infinite loop. The Code was running for half an hour until my computer ran out of memory. The result is a hypnotizing video. This is an unexpected result of the error, that was unseen until I ran the code and unpredictable until the last moment.

Goldsmith found creativity, not in texts but in the way, his students choose what and how to reframe, Basically how to steal.

In "the Death of the Author" Barthes writes that the text provided by the author is not original, "the text is a tissue of citations, resulting from the thousand sources of culture. The author is a mediator.

In my project, the author is a piece of code that scrapes the Internet and provides resources for the people who pretend to be a part of the code (subjective random) from one side. But from another side, the author is the reader, who creates sense out of distinct words.
The artist plays no role at all in the judgment of his own work; the spectator brings the work in contact with the external world by deciphering and interpreting its inner qualifications and thus adds his contribution to the creative act". Marcel Duchamp. There is no art without spectator. The perception of the art piece differs and depends on subjectiveness of witnesses. Each one has its own authentic view, outside author's intentions. This way the unique piece is created and spectator steps on the author's field.

to mention:
Oulipo, look at what n+7 is...
Combinatory literature,
Zaum,
Calvino?
"The work of art in the age of digital recombination" Jos de Mul
"Uncreative Writing: Managing Language in the Digital Age" Kenneth Goldsmith
"the Death of the Author" Barthes
"What Is an Author?" Foucault Michel
"Creative Act" Marcel Duchamp
"Writing Machines" Katherine Hayles
"Aesthetics of administration." Buchloh
"Aesthetics of the Error" Timothy Barker
"The Glitch Momentum" Rosa Menkman

To check works:
Vuc Cosici Lev Manovich (contemporary Ascii, Ascii art Essemblance)

Artists: Hollis Frampton, Michael Snow, Robert Breer
Exhibition, Big Bang Data when it was at Somerset House
Fischli and Weiss (the way things go)
Riyoji Ikeda (music and animation)
Keith Tyson's art machine
Ellie Harrison (artist, vending machine work)