Brion Gysin

Brion Gysin (January 19, 1916 - July 13, 1986) was a painter, writer, sound poet, and performance artist born outside of London, Taplow, Buckinghamshire. He is best known for his discovery of the cut-up technique used by William S. Burroughs. With Ian Somerville he invented the Dreamachine, a flicker device designed as an art object to be viewed with the eyes closed. It was in painting, however, that Gysin devoted his greatest efforts, creating calligraphic works inspired by Japanese and Arabic scripts. Burroughs later stated that "Brion Gysin was the only man I ever respected."

Cut-up Technique

The cut-up and the closely associated fold-in techniques are literary writing styles that try to break the linearity of common literature. They are designed to be used with common typewriters.

* Cut-up is performed by taking a finished and fully linear text (printed on paper) and cutting it in pieces with a few or single words on each piece. The resulting pieces are then rearranged into a new text. The rearranging of work often results in surprisingly innovative new phrases. A common way is to cut a sheet in four rectangular sections, rearranging them and then typing down the mingled prose while compensating for the haphazard word breaks by improvising and innovating along the way.
* Fold-in is the technique of taking two different sheets of linear text (with the same linespacing), cutting each sheet in half and combining with the other, then reading across the resulting page. The resulting text is often a blend of the two themes, somewhat hard to read.

Shamar's Hamlet Video

the use of eyes in the movie is very good for conveying the insanity in hamlet. I think the video might dwell a bit too much on the insanity and murderous nature of hamlet, perhaps some other images to convey other aspects, like his literateness and cunning. To tell the truth, I thought more of Polonius than Hamlet when I saw this particular video, especially with the poison imagery, but that's not necessarily a bad thing, the two do share many traits. And of course, you may want to highlight these aspects of Hamlet anyway depending on the production. Overall, the video looks pretty clean and is aesthetically pleasing, except for the borders that Pat talked to you about in class

MASS Ensemble and o2 Creative Solutions - MASS MUSIC DOME

MASS Ensemble and o2 Creative Solutions - MASS MUSIC DOME
MASS Ensemble and o2 Creative Solutions Present Show inside a musical geodesic domefrom PRWEB



A visual and musical event at Santa Monica Pier where the audience experiences the performance from inside the instrument.

Santa Monica Pier, Santa Monica, California (PRWEB) November 11, 2005 -- The internationally renowned MASS Ensemble's large-scale instruments and kinetic performances have enthralled and delighted audiences throughout the U.S. and abroad. Now, the performance group that invented the world's largest stringed instrument has partnered with the prestigious experience design firm o2 creative solutions to create MASS MUSIC DOME, a completely immersive visual and musical performance event, in which the venue is the musical instrument.

http://www.massmusicdome.com/

The Kitchen

The Kitchen is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary art space in New York.

The Kitchen was founded in Greenwich Village in 1971 and it takes it name from its original location, the kitchen of the Mercer Arts Center. Although first intended as a location for the exhibition of video art, the Kitchen soon expanded its mission to include other forms of art (plastic and performance). Notable Kitchen alumni include Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson, Rocco Di Pietro, John Moran, Peter Greenaway, Michael Nyman, Pauline Oliveros, Ridge Theater, The Future Sound of London, Leisure Class, Brian Eno, and Cindy Sherman.


http://www.thekitchen.org/

Steina and Woody Vasulka

Steina Vasulka (born Steinunn Briem Bjarnadottir in 1940)[1] and Woody Vasulka (born 1937) are pioneers of video art, having practiced in the genre since its early days in the late 1960s.[2]

Steina was born in Reykjavík, Iceland and trained as a classical musician before receiving a scholarship at the Prague Conservatory in 1959. Woody was born in Brno, now in the Czech Republic and trained as an engineer before studying television and film production at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. The couple met in the early 1960s and moved to New York City in 1965, where they pioneered the showing of video art at the Whitney Museum and founded The Kitchen in 1971. Since 1980 they have been based in Santa Fe, New Mexico.[3]

Vasulka

Photomontage and Multigen-Paradigm

Photomontage is the process (and result) of making a composite photograph by cutting and joining a number of other photographs. The composite picture was sometimes photographed so that the final image is converted back into a seamless photographic print. A similar method, although one that does not use film, is realized today through image-editing software. This latter technique is referred to by professionals as "compositing", and in casual usage is often called "photoshopping".





Multigen-Paradigm : Company working with Modeling and Simulation
http://www.multigen.com/

Digital Design Week 6

Have a Working Production Patch:


pix_video - webcam (pc)

pdp_ieee1394 - live proection (mac)

pdp_rec~ - record (mac)

pix_record - (pc)


Art is about distraction - to break away from ordinary everyday life!

Art from simple to ornate - cultural/technological evolution!


Video PD Set up:

Metro @ 29.97


Montage:

Montage is a technique in film editing that can refer to a montage sequence, a segment which uses rapid editing, special effects and music to present compressed narrative information.


Collage:


A collage (From the French: coller, to glue) is a work of formal art, primarily in the visual arts, made from an assemblage of different forms, thus creating a new whole. Use of this technique made its dramatic appearance among oil paintings in the early 20th century as an art form of groundbreaking novelty.


Bricollage:


Bricolage is a term used in several disciplines, among them the visual arts and literature, to refer tothe construction or creation of a work from a diverse range of things which happen to be available; a work created by such a process.It is borrowed from the French word bricolage, from the verb bricoler – the core meaning in French being, "fiddle, tinker" and, by extension, "make creative and resourceful use of whatever materials are to hand (regardless of their original purpose)."A person who engages in bricolage is a bricoleur.



Character Montage


Contemporary/Historical Theatrical Person


30 secs (research) of:


History

MIndset - - - - > jpegs, avi, movs - - - > Visually Pictorialize the Character!!!

Situation

Video Art

This section may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards.
Please improve this article if you can. (May 2008)

Video art is often said to have begun when Nam June Paik used his new Sony Portapak to shoot footage of Pope Paul VI's procession through New York City in the autumn of 1965. That same day, across town in a Greenwich Village cafe, Paik played the tapes and video art was born. The french artist Fred Forest has also used a Sony Portapak since 1967. This fact is sometimes disputed, however, because the first Sony Portapak, the Videorover did not become commercially available until 1967 (Fred Forest does not contradict this, saying it was provided to him by the manufacturers and that Andy Warhol is credited with showing underground video art mere weeks before Paik's papal procession screening. Fred Forest does however stipulate on his websIn 1959 Wolf Vostell incorporated a television set into one of his works, "Deutscher Ausblick" 1959, which is part of the collection of the Museum Berlinische Galerie possibly the first work of art with television. In 1963 Vostell exhibited his art environment "6 TV de-coll/age" at the Smolin Gallery in New York. This work is part of the Museo Reina Sofia collection in Madrid.

Prior to the introduction of the Sony Portapak, "moving image" technology was only available to the consumer (or the artist for that matter) by way of eight or sixteen millimeter film, but did not provide the instant playback that video tape technologies offered. Consequently, many artists found video more appealing than film, even more so when the greater accessibility was coupled with technologies which could edit or modify the video image.

The two examples mentioned above both made use of "low tech tricks" to produce seminal video art works. Peter Campus' Double Vision combined the video signals from two Sony Portapaks through an electronic mixer, resulting in a distorted and radically dissonant image. Jonas' Organic Honey's Vertical Roll involved recording previously recorded material as it was played back on a television — with the vertical hold setting intentionally in error.

The first multi-channel video art (using several monitors or screens) was Wipe Cycle by Ira Schneider and Frank Gillette. An installation of nine television screens, Wipe Cycle for the first time combined live images of gallery visitors, found footage from commercial television, and shots from pre-recorded tapes. The material was alternated from one monitor to the next in an elaborate choreography.

Digital Design Week 5

Digital Design Week 5


Get 15 images:

2 black and white
2 color
2 landscape ------------> [320/240]
2 interior
2 exterior
1 head shot
4 random


Strategies

Content:

Ephemeral Media
Footage ------> Conceptual Continuity -----> Formats: compressed/uncompressed
Found Source
Installation djeps, tiffs, .tgas, .mmp, .gif ----> still images



Resources

Creative Commons

Creative Commons (CC) is a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.[1] The organization has released several copyright licenses known as Creative Commons licenses. These licenses allow creators to easily communicate which rights they reserve, and which rights they waive for the benefit of other creators.

Public Domain

The public domain is a range of abstract materials – commonly referred to as intellectual property – which are not owned or controlled by anyone. The term indicates that these materials are therefore "public property", and available for anyone to use for any purpose. The public domain can be defined in contrast to several forms of intellectual property; the public domain in contrast to copyrighted works is different from the public domain in contrast to trademarks or patented works. Furthermore, the laws of various countries define the scope of the public domain differently, making it necessary to specify which jurisdiction's public domain is being discussed.

GNU

GNU is in active development. Although nearly all components have been completed long ago and have been in production use for a decade or more, its official kernel, GNU Hurd, is incomplete and not all GNU components work with it. Thus, the third-party Linux kernel is most commonly used instead. While this kernel has not been officially adopted by the GNU project, some third-party software is included, such as the X.Org release of the X Window System and the TeX typesetting system. Many GNU programs have also been ported to numerous other operating systems such as Microsoft Windows, BSD variants, Solaris and Mac OS.


Edgar Varese

Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varèse, whose name was also spelled Edgar Varèse (December 22, 1883 – November 6, 1965), was an innovative French-born composer who spent the greater part of his career in the United States. Varèse's music features an emphasis on timbre and rhythm. He was the inventor of the term "organized sound", a phrase meaning that certain timbres and rhythms can be grouped together, sublimating into a whole new definition of sound. Although his complete surviving works only last about three hours, he has been recognised as an influence by several major composers of the late 20th century. His use of new instruments and electronic resources led to his being known as the "Father of Electronic Music" while Henry Miller described him as "The stratospheric Colossus of Sound".


"The present day composers refuse to die. They have realised the necessity of banding together and fighting for the right of each individual to secure a fair and free presentation of his work".



Proletcult Theater

Proletcult Theatre is a Russian theatrical tradition that was concerned with the powerful expression of ideological content as political propaganda in the years following the revolution of 1917. It was used as a tool of political agitation which promoted a culture of the factory-floor and industrial motifs, but also folk singing and avant-garde. Plot was unimportant but the goal was in shocking the audience with its style of performance, lighting techniques, props, radio broadcasts, blown-up newspaper headlines and slogans, projected films, circus elements, etc. The Proletcult Theatre attempted to affect the audience psychologically and emotionally, producing a shock in the spectator, the effect of which is to make the viewer aware of the condition of their own lives. This style is often referred to as the theatre of attractions, where an attraction is any aggressive emotional shock that provides the opportunity to raise awareness of the ideological reality of life (to “defamiliarize the familiar”), particularly the mundane material reality. Russian film maker Sergei Eisenstein was at one time in charge of the Proletcult Theatre before pursuing his film work. He continued many of the experimental and ideologically expressive elements of this theatrical form in his films and intellectual montage technique. Proletcult collapsed at the end of the civil war due to external as well as internal factors, such disputes among leaders and between intellectuals and workers, it lingered on in vestigial form in the 1920s.

77 million paintings

Eno's 77 million paintings was a really interesting piece of art.  I'm glad he is trying to and, for all I can tell, succeeding at translating his installation art into something that is transportable, and can be put into anyone's home.  The process he undertook to achieve this is remarkable.  If I had seen the 77 million paintings without the interspliced interview, I never would have guessed that any of the images weren't 100% digitally rendered.  The fact that he was using a slide projector to create some of this just blew my mind.

I like the concept that when running the program, you will never see the same thing twice.  It brings a freshness to the piece that you don't see in most art.  I would love to see art like this become the norm for unused screens as opposed to just the big blank square in the wall that tvs and computers currently provide.  

Compositing and Chromakey

Compositing is combining elements from separate images to create a new image.  Chromakey is a technique to achieve composite shots, where a specific color is removed from an image so it can be replaced by another image.  These techniques are like the bread and butter of visual mixing.  In repurposing images, one of the most effective ways of creating something new is combining images.  The synergy of these juxtapositions is a great source for artistry.  

Thomas Wilfred

In the early 1900s, Thomas Wilfred was already experimenting with moving lights. I think even more impressive than the art he made was that he constructed his clavilux despite no training in building such a device.  His compositions are breathtaking, and they remind me of the 77 million paintings, only a low tech version.  Something I found the most interesting was that he helped pioneer projected scenery as well, using it in a production of Ibsen's Vikings as early as the 1930s.  Wilfred was thinking way ahead of his time, and his ideas are just now starting to become vogue.