computer Art

I wanted to see what computer art was like and then when I went to moca.com I saw interesting designs of human forms, faces, reformed machines, and other objects that seems to be retouched, reformed, and recolored to come out in a totally different way. Charles Csuri is a master of programmed art. He made up a program in 1964 to create digital computerized art. And with this program is a professor at the age of 83 at Ohio State University. His piece of art that I looked at and am studying at the moment is very interesting. It shows two horses and a man lasso-ing one of the horses. This particular piece of art reminds me of the program called lifeforms, that a certain famous dance choreographer, Merce Cunningham uses. But in Charles Csuri's piece of very colorful piece of art, it looks like very thin pieces of ribbon are used. Hundreds of pieces of ribbon are joined together to form the shape of the outside of the man, and horses. This makes it very interesting because you can see through the images to the background of the piece. In certain parts it almost looks like an illusion because the horse in the background has less material, therefore the rest of the image almost comes with imagination. But the use of shadow is also very creative at the bottom of the objects knowing that these objects and background were created on the computer.
I found looking at computer art was very interesting and know that it could take as long or sometimes longer to create than on a regular convase.

Video Games

Video Games today are a growing trend in America. Not only do people from ages 8 to 15 play these video games since they were first put on the market and started selling but a growing population are starting to play. Since the 1960's video games have affected the way people live, act, and even how wars are fought. Games aren't only a way of life but people have started to play video games a way to make money. But in other means, because the video game world is changing more and more over time, it will probably also change the future.
In actuality people in their 30's and 40's are starting to play these video games. And since these people could play into their senior years, the game industry will try to accomidate the prices of the games to fit the consumers' needs and wants. Every person in the world has their own opinion about what will happen in the future of games. That the world could possibly be more voilent and more wars might happen. Or that this will be a good market for the artist, because growing famous artists like Steven Spielberg are starting to animat for new and up in coming video games. The video games could also take place for the television because now that this virtual world can be shared between millions of people live, then there could be contests for the next renowned person like a next american idol. Or people could also share a tour of their home and show a model of how the ideal beautiful modern home is supposed to look.
This shows how much our world is changing and wants to make new advances. This could actually make a huge difference in our world and our society as we know it.

Poetry

Today I decided to look at specific types of poetry, and since we have looked at Hai' Ku's in class and I understand them farely well I would like to focus on Ouilipo's because I didn't understand them quite as well. I looked at them a little closer and know that there are 10 different written lines, and each of them are cut up as a single sentence. These sentences are put together with other sentenses to add up to a poem. This poem is different everytime because of each sentence. And because there are so many varieties, the probability of the poem being even close to similar or exactly the same is slim to none. I found this very interesting because it is just like the Hai' Ku idea except that it is used with a sentence and the original text is in french which makes the text much more complex.

Computer History

After researching on computers, the history and just wanting to see if any general information would be given on the internet, knowing that there is very detailed history about computers, I was hopping to find a general piece of information about the history of computers and this is what I came up with:… I have realized that our history of computers essentially started with numbers and using devices to help calculate and remember bigger numbers. Such devices are called: abacus. This specific device came from china and it isn’t really an automatic machine. Abacus is set on a block with rods set horizontally and little bolts that can slide back and forth. These rods help with calculation of numbers. The next big invention was by Herman Hollerith who invented the IBM (international business machines) or the punch card. Since this machine became so successful IBM decided to design a machine to the Harvard Mark 1. This machine could calculate to 23 decimal number places and could compute letters as well. This machine could also do trigonometric functions as well as handle logarithms. It’s output went on punch cards. Harvard Aiken’s invention (the Mark-1) stayed at Harvard until 1959. Von Newman then showed that you could do all of these things in a smaller machine that the Mark-1. He showed that the outcome could be faster. This was called a high speed digital computer.

Web art

There was one specific web page that I visited it was www.mowa.org. There are many different kinds of web art. One of them you move your mouse over the image and it changes one-way or another if it is minimized, or gets larger. Another way is with a mouseover the art can change completely, the specific one I looked at disappeared with moving the mouse over the image. One other type of web art is while moving the mouse across the screen images will appear, like little blue dots. There was one that I found very interesting a piece of art that has many layers, like a forest. While you run your mouse over the plants it shows you the process of growth. This certain piece of art, while you scroll over it, it goes from a blank screen to a full forest of plants and trees. There is another type of web art. Although this particular one is similar to the third one that I observed where the art in the picture changes except in this one it uses geometrical shapes. When you move the mouse over the shape it changes.
I had never noticed that there were things like this on the internet. I knew that we use things like javascript and other types of software that is used to make art like ones I obserserved and analysed today. I find it also very interesting that people use different types of shapes and what they can to create things like this.

Generator List

Plie
Leap
Jump
Pique
Chasse
Pirouette
Por de bra
Passe
Contract
back bend
attitude
battement
chaine
coupe
releve
saute

Left
Right
Double
Tripple
First
Second
Fourth
Fifth
Avante
Devant
ecarte
efface
en face
en l'air
en dedans
en dehors

I decided to do another I CHing post

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Ts'ui indicates the condition of union or being collected. We have in it the trigram for docile obedience going on to that for joyful satisfaction. There is a strong line in the central position, and rightly responded to. Hence comes the idea of union.
'The king will repair to his ancestral temple': with the utmost filial piety he presents his offerings to the spirits (of his ancestors).
'It will be advantageous to meet the great man, and there will then be prosperity and success': the union effected by him will be on and through what is correct.
'The use of great offerings will conduce to good fortune; and in whatever direction movement is made, it will be advantageous': all is done in accordance with the ordinances of heaven.
When we look at the way in which the gatherings here shown take place, the natural tendencies of heaven and earth and of all things can be seen.

I rolled: one tail=8, 3 tails=6, 6, 8,8, and all heads=9.

I'm so glad that I learned how to do I ching partially, because I have always wanted to and because I know that I will want to someday relate to my art in someway when I leave this school.

Video Games vs. everyday life

And what just happened today? I love debates but it seems to me like people liked picking on a certain individual. Today in class we talked about video games, computers, and television. Someone brought up how each one of these could be pretty useless. With television people could spend a lot of time watching anywhere between 9-24 hours at a time and get nothing out of it. With computers business is handled through the computer, it is true that a people could spend 9 consecetive hours on the computer doing work. And with video games a person could also be testing out games for other people and rating them, finding out the code to get to the next level, and finding ways to cheat. In the other hand computers and video games could be used in the other way. More than likely video games could be played to have fun and get out of reality we call the world, but it was said today (pretty interesting but very different) that hooking up with a girl on the video game is the same thing as the real life event probably better than the real life for the person who doesn't like person to person interaction as much. It was also said that certain people live to play and other people play to live and there is a greater difference in living to play. The point is that living to play is a waist of time.

Mormons

Why is that mormons wrote their bible with a man reading from inside a hat and another listening to him and writing it down word for word of what the hat man was reading. Very interesting.... I will remember this silly story forever! I thought it would be very funny if there was a dance choreographed in a way that depicted this story. A person with their face in a top hat, showing and dancing out what it is saying, and another person resaying/dancing and writing that down. As I heard this story, this is exactly what I was thinking. It sounds very funny in my head as you can tell.

Generator

I would like to make up a name generator. I thought it would be a good idea to make up a generator that would relate to my major, which is in dance. I know that I would like to make something up that had to do with choreography because we are creating something and you can't really create a performance.
I am aware that this is a lot like the hai' ku generator. I also think this specific generator style may have been done before but I thought it was a good idea and I would like to use it. This would really help in the process of creating movement becasue sometimes choreography can get difficult with only a small vocabulary of movement. I think that this was shown in a kind of computer system that let you play with how you can manipulate a lifeform to do a certain movement. Merce Cunningham did something like this where he used a lifeform to figure out new movement and ways to choregraph movement on his dance. I would like to design my generator on that idea where you know what the movement looks like but all the other things are put to chance. I think that if you would like to choreograph a different dance put in different vocabulary or change the order of the words in the list. I would accomplish this by putting a movement term into the generator like jump, plie, curve, roll, turn, snake, right, left, and ground. (like a direction and an action). And the Generator would spit out something like right turn, ground roll. You would then figure the style but the movement would given to you.

John Cage

John Cage is a contemporary composer who has used I Ching to creat his own music. For example Cage has set up a 15 rocks from different parts of the earth, places that he has been and he has like five brushes. He would use I Ching to determine which rock to use and which paint brush to use, which hand to hold the brush in, and or where to set the brush relating to the rock.
John Cage was a composer for the Merce Cunningham dance company since 1943. His music is very abstact because he has done a piece where a person sits in the middle of the stage and the whole piece is about the sounds made in the audience. Some of his other pieces are using certain instruments together like drums and a piano, the drums have a certain beat like 4/4 time and the piano will play notes once every 16 counts. I'm sure he has used chance to also determine how often to play a certain instrument and what kind of mood he wants. The only thing that lets go to spontaneity is the personality.