For your final project in Digital Studio [A5], you will work with a received dynamic painting that a peer has created (I will email this to you); you will take it in a new direction inspired by the methods of an avant garde art tradition of your choice (and that you have researched), and you will make it interactive in some way.
A4
1) Research an avant garde art movement in the library. Look at a range of art books, documentation, and critical descriptions.
- here is a list of some movements, some methods and some artists you might look at:
Dada
- Tristan Tzara's recipe for a poem (see also Burroughs and Brion Gysin on the cut-up)
- collage/ found art
Surrealism
- exquisite corpse
Fluxus
- Yoko Ono
- John Cage
- chance operations
Oulipo
- Raymond Queneu
Neo-Concrete
- Lygia Pape (see her recent catalog from the Met Breuer in the library)
- Helio Oticia
- Lygia Clark
Conceptual
- Adrenne Piper
- Sol LeWitt
Feminist Art
- Martha Rosler
Situationism
- detournement
- interventionism
Actionism
Theater of the Oppressed
- Augusto Boal
- some books that might be useful
- The New Media Reader, ed. Noah Wardrip Fruin
- Conceptual Art, A Critical Anthology, ed. Alberro and Stimson
- BioArt Kitchen, by Lindsay Kelley
- bear in mind in the final weeks of class we will learn the basics of the following:
- text and images in Processing
- interactivity using mouse and keyboard activity in Processing
- electronics and sensors between Processing and Arduino
- controlling leds and motors using Processing and Arduino
- data visualization using Processing
suggestion: look on openprocessing.org, at books on generative art, new media art projects (as well as art projects on our course website) to begin to envision what is possible.
2) Choose one movement that interests you, and which will inform your conceptual and perceptual strategy for your final assignment.
- Make notes about the characteristics and methods this movement uses to generate compelling art. a) List the
methods and the characteristics of the movement that compel you. Then, b) consider how you will employ the
characteristics of the movement to develop a final interactive work for this class:
- how will you extend the content of your dynamic painting?
- will you use text and chance narrative? images, and the unconscious? deepen the connection
between concept and software structure?
- what will be the form?
- what kind of interactivity will you use? mouse activity? Basic electronics like sensors or a kinect?
live data?
Submit your research notes and final art plan (addressing prompts and questions in step 2 above) by:
- Midnight Sunday November 26th. Post to website and post link to Slack.
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A5
For your final project in Digital Studio [A5], you will work with a received dynamic painting that a peer has created (I will email this to you); you will take it in a new direction inspired by the methods of an avant garde art tradition of your choice (and that you have researched), and you will make it interactive in some way, working from the ideas generated in A4.
Possible modes of interactivity:
- using mouse and keyboard activity in Processing
- electronics and sensors between Processing and Arduino
- data visualization
- affecting the outside world in someway (maybe a mouseclick sends an email to the white house)
Your final work should extend the given dynamic painting in significant ways conceptually, perceptually, and aesthetically. Conceptually and perceptually, you will work with the methods of an avant garde movement, and it should be evident in the final work what movement and artists you are referencing. Technically, you may change the code considerably.
Your final project is due Midnight Thursday December 14th. If your entire project is in Processing, post to openprocessing.org and post link in Slack. Otherwise, document your project using images and video, and post documentation and all code (as zip files) to your website and post to Slack.
Your final project will be presented in class on Friday Dec. 15 from 9-11a. This is a mandatory class period.
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