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.

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. All non-alphabetic signs, numbers and white spaces are deleted from the final output.
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
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 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
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.
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)