Generative Systems

Let computers write thier own code

2008-12-05T11:33:00.000-08:00

Going back a bit to the Words made Flesh reading, I was interested in the idea of the machine designed to write every possibly book. Such a machine seems totally useless to me. The endless possible combination of letters and punctuation seems no more realized when printed out by such a machine then when an author imagines his story, drawing from the alphabet to make meaning. The machine's endless variations must still be read and contemplated by a second party for them to be put into action. Let the writer be the editor of this babel, as the human mind and hand must intercede at some point anyway. However, a computer which prints out every possible code seems like a good idea, as a computer code like the Word of God immediately becomes action.

I drink to ___________(fill in the blank)

2008-12-04T09:23:00.000-08:00

I drink to have fun
I drink to cry
I drink to feel
I drink to not feel
I drink to forget
I drink to laugh
I drink to sleep
I drink to pass time
I drink to deal with you
I drink to deal with me
I drink to not be shy
I drink to have an excuse

Palms Out

2008-12-03T20:43:00.000-08:00

Palms Out

A. Stand

B. Look

C. Move your right hand above your head, now give us a yes and a no.

D. Tie your shoes

E. Get your coat.

F. Move very quickly.

G. Exit.

(A) I would never do that to you! (B) And you just stand there with your palms out as if I cant see all the chocolate on your hand. I'm not too sure what time she's coming home but if I were you I would suggest you wash your hands and head to the store. What time does the (C) the stores closed. No that, well... no were just done! No wait I can make it, (D) listen, ill be right back, (E) what flavor was that, (F) you don't know, OK , be right back (G).

Repeat for the other independent vessel.

2008-12-03T19:33:00.000-08:00

I saw you standing there.

I saw you.

I wasn't here.

I saw you.

Given theory of the ridiculousness, what you saw was a mere illusion, yes sir a mere illusion. You stuff your belly with so much jellybeans.

I was eating bacon,egg and cheese sandwich.

BACON!!!

yes

OH!!!

Is there some sort of issue here?

The only issue is your own magnitude of energy, I suggest following something palpable, matter will not remain within solid form. Ultimately it will grow and die.

Yes I believe thats true.

OF COURSE IT IS

Blender Array Test

2008-12-02T22:07:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umFBpnYZkYw

the stillness, lighting, speed, angles, quantity, colors, backgrounds, proximity, etc. give a certain effect to the eye.
maybe with some music it would have a different feeling and texture.

a score for Jack Burnham

2008-12-02T20:14:00.000-08:00

1. type a really long, totally original masterpiece using "textedit"
2. make the computer start reading it
3. close the window you started it in
4. do not save
5. let the computer finish reading the masterpiece to the audience
6. just that one time
7. before it is gone forever

interesting art from everyday objects

2008-11-30T21:29:00.000-08:00

http://www.darkroastedblend.com/2007/11/cool-art-from-everyday-objects.html

Darren Wershler, Superstar

2008-11-22T09:32:00.000-08:00

Got this note and thought I would share it - Good luck to you all on the final project...

Posted by: "UbuWeb"

Fri Nov 21, 2008 1:17 pm (PST)

Last night Darren Wershler shredded Kelly Writers House and lit up the U of Pennsylvania. It was the sort of tribute that one only wishes could happen in one's lifetime. In short, Darren was toasted, celebrated and worshiped by dozens of adoring fans.

The premise for the extensive art show was simple: take a concept of your choice from Tapeworm Foundry and realize it. So, for example, one girl took "andor do concrete poems in needlepoint" and actually made them. Another realized into beautiful paintings "andor use some squirt guns to paint a water colour picture"; and, of course, there was the classic response to "andor write a poem answering in order of occurrence all of the questions posed by ron silliman in sunset debris."

There was a long reading of the work by Darren and then an extensive group reading of sections of the piece by participants in the show.

There are photos online of the event and of the art works:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/promohthree/sets/72157609613911151/

If you haven't read The Tapeworm Foundry, you can download it here:

http://www.ubu.com/ubu/wershler_tapeworm.html

--
UbuWeb
http://ubu.com

Final Presentation Schedule

2008-11-21T09:54:00.000-08:00

Thursday, December 4 from 4pm - 6pm
Roy James Brown
Julia Romanskaya
Caelin White
Alexandra Valle
Barney Patterson
Thomas East
Rachel Kennedy

Thursday, December 11 from 4pm - 6pm
Jack Heard
Allison Haggerty
Leticia Alcuran
Josie Adams
Ryan McGuffin
Bryn Cohn
Robin Newman

2008-11-20T15:14:00.000-08:00

An interesting artist who's work correlates with the Situational Aesthetics article, is Olafur Eliasson. I saw his show last year at the SFMoma, and was a great example of light, space, time, and the object. I think it is extremely important for artists to think about the time and place they are in but not necessarily making work for it.

2008-11-20T12:55:00.000-08:00

Guy Debord's book and film La Societe du Spectacle (Society of Spectacle) were very important parts of the situationist art/theory movement and very influential on the May 1968 riots in Paris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g34XVscFkIs

Christian Marclay mini documentary

2008-11-20T01:06:00.000-08:00

video

2008-11-19T23:51:00.000-08:00

Ok, so below are some sea creatures composed of letters and symbols found on the keyboard
and this is called Ascii art, and basically what i did was take this images and reproduced
them but with out every five steps so what you end up with is what is found below each of
the images.  



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Dance...Taken There

2008-11-19T22:19:00.000-08:00

Michael Cole, a former Merce Cunningham dancer created this animated dance film which I find to be quite stimulating.

Merce Cunningham is internationally renowned for the way he integrates computer software into the dance sphere through the Life Forms (now DanceForms) program. He has employed DanceForms since 1991 as a tool to generate and choreograph his masterpieces without relying on the physical aspect of the creative process. Perhaps when I am ninety, recovering in the hospital from my 4th hip replacement there will still be hope for artistic gratification....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=wZO-Ss2gTKk

also of interest

2008-11-19T20:50:00.000-08:00

and as a counterpoint to some of the utopian techno-rhetoric:
Zombo.com

2008-11-19T20:01:00.000-08:00

Inventor: Lines are blurring between humans and machines

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IfbOyw3CT6A

Tianamo BETA demo -- 3D Information Visualization

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i4Njh1w8DU

Week 10

2008-11-16T14:35:00.000-08:00

For Class Week 10:
Various Articles...
Situational Aesthetics by Victor Burgin
The Future of Responsive Systems in Art by Jack Burnham
The Aesthetics of Intelligent Systems by Jack Burnham
Aesthetics of Information Visualization by Warren Sack
5 principles of new media (excerpt) by Lev Manovich

Note - You have to register on the site linked to with the last four articles - if anyone has troubles please contact me.

Post an Artist's Response to the Generative Blog by noon the day of class and print out your response to turn in during class.

2008-11-13T12:06:00.001-08:00

I don't mean to be rude or smug or anything, but it seems that Eno uses the generative model to write his lectures. He seems to have several different ideas/references that he rearranges and recombines to make the same points in different ways again and again. This perhaps points to a problem with the generative system as a creative strategy. As he says himself there are no real surprises only subtle variations based on your inputs. This means that a generative piece can remain consistent and self contained like any other art work, but rather than capturing a moment in time, it lives in time. Maybe this is not really a problem, but it forces us to look at the art object in a different way. If algorithms can really be expected to challenge the traditional art object than we can't simply present little chunks of them. These arbitrary selections of potentially infinite or really long sequences are just like any other dead, captured objects or sounds. I don't want my ipod to play 20 minuets of 'its gonna rain' I want it programmed in there so that each time I hear it I've plugged into a different section of its endless march through time.

po em

2008-11-13T02:49:00.000-08:00

this poem is a mixture of a recipe from the 50s and human embalming instructions.

Celestial Ham Satellites

Cut each ham slice into 6 wedge shaped pieces.

Undress the body and place it on an embalming table.

On each of twelve 6-inch skewers thread a sausage link and one ham wedge.

Shave and set the facial features.

Drain Crab apples.Raise the carotid, femoral or brachial artery.

Cook stirring occasionally.

Inject the embalming fluid into the artery and drain from the corresponding veins.

Place bacon on rack in pan.

Puncture and aspirate all of the major organs in the torso by using a trocar.

Remove bacon to absorbent paper and immediately wrap 1 slice of bacon around each of 12 crab apples.

Wash the body.

Thread on skewers so as to secure ends of bacon.

Seal the incisions by stitching and applying liquid adhesive to the area.

Brush ham wedges with syrup and place on pizza or jelly roll pans.

Dress the body in preparation for viewing. Brush ham with syrup before serving.

maybe i should stop listening to music

2008-11-13T01:55:00.000-08:00

What if you couldn’t keep our eyes in our head
What if you lost five years
What if you found yourself working in a graveyard
What if you determined the fate of criminals
What if every one is better of dead
What if all vandals died
What if life is actually hard
What if you aren’t playing the real version
What if you could take it back
What if women made a George Jones out of you
What if the rumors in town have to do with you
What if you broke the DNA chain
What if memories don’t exist
What if there is a plan
What if she’s dumb
What if there was a queen
What if you went to art school
What if you were telepathic
What if you had a shotgun
What if you found yourself in charge of a Vietnamese baby
What if you were really captain
What if they talk about your baby
What if you couldn’t stop looking at the sun
What if you got horse fever blues(what ever that might be)
What if it wasn’t that way anymore
What if you were fucked up on amphetamines
What if your feet were all of a sudden off the ground
What if you were sung a lullaby every night
What if you got it made
What if high noon never ended
What if found yourself in underage sexual intercourse
What if it’s not because of evolution
What if your generation sucks
What if you get that germ caught in you eye
What if you grow old and become stuck on the inside looking out
What if Todd kills you
What if its not circumstantial evidence
What if you had to live in a funeral home
What if you got to move
What if you never come around
What if it jumps out of the dark
What if you tie a lie on me
What if zombies attack
What if you don’t love anyone
What if you breakdown
What if you know how it feels but it really doesn’t matter
What if perfume gets in your eyes
What if you get in a BMX crash
What if you just get drunk
What if you can’t climb out
What if you’re not brave to the new world

Internally Generated Sequence

2008-11-12T23:47:00.000-08:00

Walk into the room and inhale.

Listen. All around to the universe bigger than yourself. Close your eyes and follow the warmth. Concentrate on your breath. Follow where the senses lead you. Never holding back, move forward. Feel alone yet not empty. Swallow the flavor of panic. Touch the concentrated air above you. Be still. Be.

Cellular Automata Sounds

2008-11-12T14:58:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-wbH0vXYz_Q&feature=related

This is a video using sounds that are generated based on the average cells per neighborhood of a living cell.

an examlpe of the noises i hear in this music:
bleep
bloop
blop
blip
blop

Week 9

2008-11-10T16:30:00.000-08:00

For Class Week 9:
Brian Eno, Generative Music and The Long Now.
Lecture Video
Summary of above Lecture
Further Development of above Lecture
The Long Now
Generative Music
more on Generative Music
Interview with Wired
Lester Bangs piece on Eno
Long Long Lecture on Games and Music

Post an Artist's Response to the Generative Blog by noon the day of class and print out your response to turn in during class.

This is a conceptual paragraph

2008-11-06T14:37:00.000-08:00

begining

middle

end

sentences et al

2008-11-06T14:15:00.000-08:00

The specific function of modern didactic art has been to show that art does not reside in material entities, but in relations between people and between people and the components of their environment. Dread of space a common binary - a geologic conspiracy doesn't profit from words; it's another material, subject. An outmoded disavowal lingers, sidestepping nodes. An aesthetics beyond representation utilitarian , but unnecessary to demonstrate circuits. Geneological speed hybridized the immediate, making space for more boring art, or spatial analysis.

Conceptual Conceptuality

2008-11-06T02:33:00.000-08:00

Conceptual Conceptualised

Enforcing a certain obstacles in the world of art is not something that can be evoked through just technique. It has something to do with the abstract nature of our society that we continue to leave unexplored. having not practiced this in my own art i am a hypocrite with these statements but that doesn't make them any less true, I'm retarded enough to know all the answers yet do the exact opposite of what is write, my conceptuality.
Keeping me from danger: Setting a rule for your playing space, then perform.

Project of Language

2008-11-06T01:42:00.000-08:00

Project of Language : Science

"Hit a lope, running down the slope. Can't get back can't go ahead, look down the barrel and you dead dead dead." Almost as if having a mall table spoon, construct a small circle.

I've derived this method from a morning of fire.
From a wind of suffering.
From 1/2 cup of sugar spreading lightly upon the mussel.
End with a cup of oil, simmer lightly upon the scalp.
There is were you may find your rotted, beautiful, unowned, admired, empty self gratification of ones own insecurities named body.

W722

2008-11-06T01:16:00.000-08:00

W7A22

What concepts the world as having to do with one image loosening it to describe something that resembles that of simplicity one real factor of this life is that for more then two decades I have had a thought No not a dream but just a thought that can be carried out carried into carried with and finally passed on throughout this time of great need of a game board and a breath a relaxation a chill set of marijuana I'm using that word because you are the world and you need to sleep Sleep on something without thought tonight meditation instead of a pill a substance for anxiety in other words fear acceptance the fear of acceptance of being accepted to be rejected through its most human sincerity It reaches far beneath the pain of struggling to find that word find that term in which one describes to be that of welcome to bullshit bullshit words your bullshit beliefs your bullshit face that only gives me the information of your abundant inability to tell me the fucking truth of the pupil in your eye that nods your head in agreement with what I speak paying no attention to a w0rd I say I say unto thee.

conceptual rhythm project #1-3

2008-11-05T23:19:00.000-08:00

Count: 1 2 3, 1 2 3, hold-hold.

1-2 1-2 1-2 1, 1 2, 1-1-1.

1 2 3-1-1 2. [Fast]

1-1-1, hold-hold. [Everyone]

Conversation: 1. Follow me. Stop you, you constantly become aware.

2. You, are not, a warrior.

3. Believe in the power, of love.

4. You have. Seen all of this before.

5. You are a disgrace to mankind.

6. Spiritual, harmonious universal.

7. Dangerous times.

8. Putting in, squares.

9. Satisfy, your words not your ears.

10. Taste the rainbow.

11. Carve it out. Of chocolate.

12. Take, no for an answer.

Rolling Sequence: Part 1. x x x x x

Part 2. x1a> xa

x3b> xb

x5c> xc

Said and Done

2008-11-05T22:04:00.000-08:00

She has been in here for like two hours.
Pinning the clothes to hangers.
He was in here for like 5 min.
Labeling the boxes.
Oh look, a kitty cat.
Talking on the phone.
Is it a boy or a girl.
Putting on silly hats.
Oh you should wear this.
She takes a picture.
hahahahahahahahahahahahahaha.
A visitor came in the room.
I love John's music.
Cutting pants.
This song makes me happy.
Writing down the size.
We defenitely need a lot of those.
Hanging the shirts on new hangers.
It smells like onions.
Taking a break.
Oh you smell good. Is that you?
I sent and recieved text messages.
Oh no, he recorded over it.
Looked in the mirror.
Ooooo I like that.
And now its time to get out of here.

TV bores Me

2008-11-05T20:36:00.000-08:00

"...Helping you buy better more pushup than ever before are we gonna talk all night the golden army how was your chicken sandwich after that it goes blank its the wrong chicken sandwich you always take her side its way better than fast food its wendys what is that green stuff the real deal favorite exiles is it always like this and answer the biggest question it all starts saturday at one on mtv 5 minutes i cant wait to get out there and show paris what we got im getting nervous for them whats up las vegas here tonight for a very special performance famously gorgeous showgirls newest additions stack up now on with the show marilyn monroe is a size 14 and im not i would always get mixed up i love performance it felt right at home ewww im really proud of the girls who else needs a hat this is really fun its just too hard of work i was like sweating i dont think paris is looking for us to hit every move right on schedule i forgot a lot of the dance moves i was ready with a smile on my face and worked it
im so impressed with all of you you all look beautiful the person who made me most proud was kayley you had confidence you look great and congratulations you will be immune from elimination and now heres the bad news the two of you up for discussion will be
attention everybody move it move it funniest family movie of the year motherfucker big pizza taste in a bitesize roll for your lighter days shift into something comfortable so youre always covered you make everything alright enjoy millions of songs and experience the freedom of rhapsody music without limits i never take my pants off damnt run because you did it hi i love submart you have four savory flavors kind of scratchy loaded with features my best friend the two of you up for discussion with be kiki and lauren, i have no idea why i should be up for elimination i dont know what i did wrong, i know im a good friend to people thanks everyone in order to be Paris' BFF, you cant get embarrassed and freak out, oh my god hi girls cute dress you all look beautiful love it we talked about this before sometimes you get just a little out of hand clowns and cotton candy manage the limelight at the spa it is not easy to grow thick skin but in this town it is absolutely necessary you completely broke down i am a completely genuine person im on my period right now it was just a really bad time to get that note you didnt take it seriously why should you say i just dont think you are taking this seriously it was about how you carried yourself, i guess i did lack confidence, you can be a real bitch sometimes like a really big bitch she could see right through me it caught me off guard and kind of hurt my feelings i have to be perfectly honest here i had gotten into the bed first kind of complaining about it i know her more why do you think kiki should go home there is really no reason why she should go home i dont know this is really hard for me just like if someone told me i know what i want i think ive heard enough the reunion of the island gives everybody differences you fucked brains just one i fucked you over never before seen footage on november 26 save your life transporter 3 where should we eat tonight urbanspoon nearby not tonight yah that sounds good thats the iphone solving life's dilemmas one app at a time on tuesday here i come rule breaking chicks superhero during this special edition if you like flavor dipped in bbq sauce the unique academy fashion and entertainment also offers classes in photographer personal styling and runway call me gym fitness including gymnastics, rock climbing, dance you could even hold your next party my best friend i think ive heard enough and this is such a hard choice for me i learned i love you both a lot you would let the media eat you alive you lost your composure yesterday are you as fragile as you seem i really want to get to know you better and i know i would be a good friend do you even want to get along with the rest of the girls this is a very hard choice to make but i can only i promise you have to laugh off the rumors its time for me to get back to my life still i feel another challenge coming on who wants to add boys to the mix next time i see you at the mansion i want to see wall to wall boys..."

39 text messages

2008-11-05T20:04:00.000-08:00

So in the sprit of conceptual writing I have created a system for writing a critique on my social life through a compilation of sentences that google news produces when I enter in the first word of the 96 text messages I have in my phone in chronological order. So each sentence is the first sentence in the first search result of my google notes input of first words of text messages. Note all names that occur will be switched to my name or pronoun referring to myself. Oh yeah I will filter the search by only searching in the year of my birth.

The celebration of Christmas in the churches of the city will begin tomorrow noon with a traditional carol service in Trinity Protestant Episcopal Church at Broadway and Wall Street. The brother, Ryan McGuffin, had sought refuge in the United States Embassy after the revolt ended his family's rule. At 2:10 P.M. play was resumed in the international chess games between Congress and the House of Commons. The first paragraph is not available for this article. Add Ryan's name to the growing list of 3-year-olds heading for Baltimore for the 133rd Preakness Stakes at Pimlico on May 17. He has allotted France a ratio of 1-7-5. Few here believe that the McGuffin will bring back the America's Cup, but many hope that he will do so. With the Israeli and Palestinian publics exhausted from the violence that has torn that region for the last two years, their leaders have once again turned to negotiation. Ryan had a conference for two hours with President Roosevelt to-day. The submarine K-5, which was lost to her companion ships in a fog off Cape Romain, S.C., at one o'clock Sunday morning, was tonight reported to the Navy Department at 10 o'clock tonight as having been sighted twelve miles north of Jupiter Inlet, Florida. Giving advertising a macabre twist, Pacific Air Lines is seeking to lure passengers by selling spoof instead of frills. In many ways it will be the same. The following list of Business Firms are among the best and most reliable in the City of New-York. American and Foreign Silks. The infields of the Giants and Yankees, which will be on display in the big series opening at the Polo Grounds on Wednesday next, unless the Yanks fall down completely today and tomorrow, furnish an interesting study. A big vote is predicted at the special election tomorrow, when, after a bitter threecornered contest, which will long live in the political annals of the Badger State, the seat in the United States Senate which became vacant through the death of Paul O. Husting will be filled. Each Thursday at 2:30 P. M. the Aldermanic Committee on Public Thoroughfares is scheduled to meet in City Hall to consider what's in a name. Discovered in the wake of the Ryan's popularity and the subsequent garage rock revival, New York's art punk trio the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are comprised of singer Karen O, guitarist Nicolas Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. The object of the investigation of the affairs of the Erie Railway by the representatives of the English stockholders, Messrs. J. Westlake and Ryan, has not been understood. At yesterday's hearing before Justice McAvoy on the perjury charge made against Him. The Royal Air Force this morning attacked the heart of Berlin's governmental center. His, swarthy, but pinched of face and clod in garments which were but he merest apology for protection against he grip-breeding weather of yesterday, walked timidly down the few steps that lead to the People's Restaurant. Under May skies that made the muddy Danube seem truly blue, Vienna last week relaxedly awaited its important visitors. The long-range guns bombarding Paris, according to a Vienna dispatch received here, are of Austrian manufacture, having been built at the Skoda factory. Ryan, the Food Administrator, was assured by the Railroad Administration tonight that all shipments of foodstuffs which he authorized would be handled by the railroads. The steam yacht Natalie, which was purchased in New-York and which sailed from Savannah Jan. 19 with arms and ammunition to be used by Gen. Mcguffin in an attempt to overthrow President Hippolyte of Haiti, has been captured by the Haitians and taken to a Haitian port. Discovered in the wake of the Ryan's popularity and the subsequent garage rock revival, New York's art punk trio the Yeah Yeah Yeahs are comprised of singer Karen O, guitarist Nicolas Zinner, and drummer Brian Chase. The first paragraph is not available for this article. An increasing number of fugitives were bursting out from behind the Iron Curtain with their clothes on fire. About a mile from this village is a small cottage-house, painted white, standing by the side of the road leading to the town of Sudbury, and looking like any house in the open country. But few expected to see the weapon that was called in last week. Whether the drug was administered with felonious intent the jury said in its verdict it was unable to determine. The North China Daily News declares it is established virtually that General McGuffin, leader of the Imperialist forces, is in German pay, says a Reuter despatch from Shanghai. Just days before Americans could expect to eat dinner without interruptions from unwanted telephone pitches, a federal judge handed a reprieve to telemarketers. I cut down 11 lbs of stomach fatevery 2 weeks by obeying this rule! We drive through the Coast Range toward the Oregon shore. If the silver men carry out their plan to-morrow the Republican Party will no longer have a majority in the United States Senate.

Week 8

2008-11-03T14:56:00.000-08:00

For Class Week 8:
Sol Lewitt's Paragraphs on Conceptual Art and Sentences on Conceptual Art, Systems Esthetics by Jack Burnham, Sentences on Conceptual Writing and Being Boring by Kenneth Goldsmith.

Post an Artist's Response to the Generative Blog by noon the day of class and print out your response to turn in during class.

Making & Magic Words

2008-10-30T11:27:00.000-07:00

abracadabra
abracadabr
abracadab
abracada
abracad
abraca
abrac
abra
abr
ab
a

OPEN SESAME

In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful

RECITE thou, in the name of thy Lord who created;—

Created man from CLOTS OF BLOOD:—

Recite thou! For thy Lord is the most Beneficent,

Who hath taught the use of the pen;—

Hath taught Man that which he knoweth not.

-From The Qur'an

I just need time to relax

2008-10-30T00:07:00.000-07:00

I just need time to relax
I just need to relax time
I just need time relax to
I just need relax to time
I just need relax time to
I just need to time relax
I just relax to need time
I just relax need to time
I just relax time need to
I just relax to time need
I just relax need time to
I just relax time to need
I just time to relax need
I just time to need relax
I just time relax to need
I just time relax need to
I just time need to relax
I just time need relax to
I just to need time relax
I just to time need relax
I just to need relax time
I just to time relax need
I just to relax need time
I just to relax time need

Yaffital

2008-10-29T20:16:00.000-07:00

Yaffital nesnala shtoa delat. Ya sprasila shtoa slutchilas, y ana prosta pavirnulas v'dragoy storanu. Ya apyat sprasila iyoa ili f'syoi harasho, ya ana nachila plakat. Patom ya padumila. Ili eta bila zavisit kakoyeta malchick ili ana prosta hatela plakat. Ya neznala shtoa skazat y delat. Patom ya pridumela: kajde deyn mi delayam y deleyam fsyoa... mi zadahnayim. Mne nravistza kada ya magu prosta pasidet sama na vostduch, bes tilifon y bes fsye. Yaffital pasmatrela na minya y sprasila katori vrema. Bila syem chisov. Patom ana nachila gavarit shtoa ana zagrustilas y shtoa nichivo bila harasho. Dojde natchilos ya ana pasmatrela na dver. Ya scazala shtoa ya znayu kak ana chustvila. Ni nada grustista. Nada smatret na nebach y dumat na haroshimu. Kada mi chustivayim kak bleen y fso shota mogla plho slutchitsa slutchilas, nada pomnat zafrta novye deyn y fsyoi budit luchyi. Eta prosta.

Random, arbitrary, hmmm

2008-10-29T19:57:00.000-07:00

All beauty
careless daunting elementary frankness
giddy harming illness
jarring
kinda loopy man
never-ending opium
patriotic queens request secrecy
tantalizing unbelievable victory
wailing xylophones
you're zealous

Week 7

2008-10-27T13:40:00.001-07:00

For Class Week 7:
Florian Cramer's Words Made Flesh. You can use the link in the sidebar to go to the html page or you can download the pdf directly by clicking right Here.

Post an Artist's Response to the Generative Blog by noon the day of class and print out your response to turn in during class.

Mystery Wish List

2008-10-23T14:27:00.000-07:00

A list of wishes that has been coded in webdings font

a man

a billion dollars

lots of clothes

love

sex

smarts

power

inspiration

to be the ruling artist of the art world ,fuck you dmien hisrt

romance

talent

Jada's writing constraint poetry

2008-10-23T00:30:00.000-07:00

You're about to read, as often happens, a passage the author did not write, although a world participated in it. And what does that matter?

Why they sellin' niggaz CD's for under a dime
If it's all love daddy why you come wit your nine
Why my niggaz ain't get that cake
Why is a brother up North better than Jordan
That ain't get that break
Why you ain't stackin' instead of tryin' to be fly
Why is rattin' at an all time high
Why are you even alive
Why they kill Tupac n' Chris
Why at the bar you ain't take straight shots instead of poppin Crist'
Why them bullets have to hit that door
Why did Kobe have to hit that raw
Why he kiss that whore
Why.

quotes from a show

2008-10-23T00:12:00.000-07:00

words taken from quotes of the show "the office" and jumbled together to make one long sentence.

Wait a minute Hold it I'm gonna take a great Stupid joke and a case of Diet Coke she broke And Pam's always the Pratt Institute When Michael told us We're all going to die So how Can you give Ronnie a monsoon That wasn't a tapeworm And you got zero pounds On the brighter side so then society made me clap at Phyllis And I don't care I guess Because you're kind of doing community service and I know how to pay you any amount But you know how rude of me because I want him.

that turned out quite interestiiiing...

cut up text converted to binary

2008-10-22T23:24:00.001-07:00

Just about all the air you breathe is completely resolved into the stars.

01001010 01110101

01110011 01110100 00100000 01100001 01100010 01101111 01110101 01110100 00100000 01100001 01101100 01101100 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100001 01101001 01110010 00100000 01111001 01101111 01110101 00100000 01100010 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01101001 01110011 00100000 01100011 01101111 01101101 01110000 01101100 01100101 01110100 01100101 01101100 01111001 00100000 01110010 01100101 01110011 01101111 01101100 01110110 01100101 01100100 00100000 01101001 01101110 01110100 01101111 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01110011 01110100 01100001 01110010 01110011 00101110

multiple quotes from the radio combined:

It isn't unusual to become extinct it's actually normal.You don't have to spend the rest of your life with ED. Slumps make you question every single thing in your life. Remember, time lost is brain lost.

A-z (well kind of)

2008-10-22T20:39:00.000-07:00

Ok so this is a poem composed of rap song lyrics and each line is a line from a different artist starting with an artist that begins with the letter A and then continuing in alphabetical order in till the last line is of an artist that begins with Z. So thourgh the archives of gangster rap I go, to find lines of rap songs that work in this system.

A-Z

Shut your face homeboy, yo it's on
Take time to listen, I'll explain how it goes
I've been out of the game for way too long
To find a resting place so her soul can roam

What's your definition of dope?
Materialistic shit makes me sick
Hell no I won't smoke no coke
Its the biggest nigga you know eyeing your chick

As all my opponents get fucked
Y'all fuck up it's worth your life
Ya'll just ran out of fuckin luck
I'm grabbing, hugging it tight

You know what you feelin'
She already off to a good start
Just beep me, when you be tweaking
Put a skip in my hood heart

Ok well, I think you get the idea. I would finish but the website with the archive just quit working, so yeah.

Week 6

2008-10-19T13:18:00.000-07:00

For Class Week 6:
The Tapeworm Foundry by Darren Wershler-Henry

Toronto-based Wershler-Henry's last book of poems, Nicholodeon, was a seemingly exhaustive survey of the possibilities of concrete and process-based poetry in the Nineties, organized like a paper database with icons to guide the wary reader toward conceptual handles. The Tapeworm Foundry is, in some ways, the opposite: a single unpunctuated sentence of pro-Situ proposals that resembles a social virus more than a functioning data-organism, its litany of avant-garde projects linked only by the seemingly innocuous, but progressively more imperative-sounding, "andor."

Post an Artist's Response to the Generative Blog by noon the day of class and print out your response to turn in during class.

Research and Design Experiment: Due October 23
Primarily, this is a research project that will consist of a 1250 word essay (roughly 4 double spaced pages). You should pick two or three things we have talked about in class and reference one or two things you have discovered on your own. Think of this as an opportunity to research, design and experiment with systems you are interested in exploring for your final project.

If I were famous you might want to read this

2008-10-16T11:53:00.001-07:00

To the future and beyond:

endless

end game

endtimer

If I were dead I couldn't stop you.

John Cage

2008-10-15T23:26:00.000-07:00

(or Flaubert's psychotropic organ)
sentimental teleology, an attempt to track intellection back to the embryo: compositional time doesn't posit itself as a deferral, but as present enactment thereby registering a bifurcation of its occasion, achieving a static display in a cosmic "Fragmentation. We began by increasing the differences between the sounds making a klangfarbenmelodie. More and more we left openings in our space and time. What changed matters radically was the willingness to stop work altogether before the structure was complete. After that there was no longer any fixed structure: just parts in any number, superimposition, and duration. Time-sense changed. Now he says: The permeation of space with sound." Synthesis of matter and anti-matter; commitment dial.

More Persons In You Than One

2008-10-15T23:10:00.000-07:00

(A) scribbles works classified by truth and splendor, dissecting all the beauty that he detects in this world. (B) mocks (A)'s fanciful and romantic ideology, refuting all potential dreams with a case of dry and unyielding sarcasm. (C) recognizes his own hypocrisy and ignores it. (D) is easily weakened by the one he loves. (E) torments, crucifies and neglects, callous and aloof as he identifies his prey. (F) exposes his nude, scrawny body to any and all. (G) gags at the sight of his reflection as he gazes into the mirror. (H) inquires. (I) accesses the mysteries and labyrinths of the universe. (J) asks permission to execute. (K) is relentless in his convictions, disparaging the the doctrine and faith of others. (L) kisses her with undying passion. (M) cannot recall the name of (L)'s "her." (M) believes. (N) cannot recall his own name. (O) oxidizes. (P) combs his hair in a side part and eats crumpets during teatime. (Q) initiates the party and leaves shortly after. (R) utters the faintest whisper and clutches her arm as if it is his divine right. (S) smokes Parliament light cigarettes while chewing Nicorette. (T)

A Duchamp

2008-10-15T22:21:00.000-07:00

The glasses. She picks them up off the floor. She puts a cigarette in her mouth. The computer on the couch. She puts on her headphones and plugs the cord into the computer. The glass of water on the floor. The bag leaning against the wall. She opens the refrigerator. She throws away some old fruit. The sunglasses on the counter.

The jacket on the floor. She scratches her neck. The smell of rice cooking. She picks up the trash bag. She switches on the light. The bag of apples. The pen on the floor. She closes the door. Her hands smell like cigarettes. The unfolded shirt. The notebook on the table. The water is boiling. The fan has stopped working.

One shoe is missing. The melon has gone bad. The oven is still on. An hour has gone by. Her eye is twitching. My cell phone is off. She puts on a sweater. The house still smells like rice. The odor coming from the trash is distracting.

Smell

2008-10-15T08:45:00.000-07:00

The streets glaze themselves with personality.
The sun beams professionally to your liking.
A building on ever side of you, in your pose, you clothes, your walk and talk.
The brisk air
The Humidity in summer.
Fall
Fashion, fashion, fashion has taken its own and taken by its best of the world.
My approach is careful, tactic. My wits are about me being young.
Shopping for Love and all of the above.
"Hi how are you. Oh thank you so much, yea I got it from Pink. Yea. I know, I know. Well thank you, enjoy your day.
Did I buy that tie for him?
Do I buy anything for anyone anymore.
Glancing past work I resit the temptation for coffee.
Shopping for Love.
I looked for an angel today. I found one. Brooks bros.
LA Couch.
Polo.
Looks like I should shop some more.
Break my heart Christian Dior.
You are much more trustworthy then the fabric that itches more of me being alive. Can you imagine. You could never come in comparison to my things, there much more important then you.
Shopping for Love.

Week 5

2008-10-14T18:44:00.001-07:00

For Class Week 5:
Selections from Silence and from A Year From Monday: New Lectures and Writings by John Cage.
Reading packet handed out in class.

Post an Artist's Response to the Generative Blog by noon the day of class and print out your response to turn in during class.

conceptual writing

2008-10-14T18:19:00.000-07:00

TEARS TRIHEDRAL COLONY
CONCERTO VERMILION VERISIMILITUDE FOSTER
CONFERENCE ACAPHALIA VESTIGAL CORONERS
RAVENOUS FOSSIL DIRECTIONARY RELAY
ANTHROPIC LAUREATES PARSING FLARES
ZYAZOGETON OLYMPIC SCRIVENER
LAMINATE TIDES CREASE FRICTION.

The Sound of One

2008-10-09T11:33:00.000-07:00

My machine took a liking to me. But what does it mean to love, the sensing of love?
Lets take Vogue. If Vogue were able to construct itself in the manner of "model", ( Advertisement specialist) and recreate thought process through that of marketing, we could begin to figure out Vogue + "model" = lucubration. I'm going to begin using terms that only make sense to me. I will not try to explain it because I will in term do a terrible job communicating these ideas to you. I am retarded! Because I am retarded, I refuse to continue this conversation. Do you think I'm pretty? Yes, you do!
FIVE PLUS FIVE IS TEN! That's just so cute that I can count isn't it.
Random play breeds success. You make so much sense to my big brain. Why have I not worked the way I was told, now I look stupid! Now listen very carefully....Because I have such a big brain, I do extremely armature shit. Yes, I'm embarrassed, my pride is getting the very best of me, I shall stay ignorant, And some more news (Pause) I will never change! Isn't that so cute, I think it is.
Ma man!

collage inspired by John Baldessari, Donald Burgy, and Michael Harvey

2008-10-09T11:10:00.000-07:00

This vision from Book 20 is still to come. Her defenses nonetheless still just stand, and she asks the stranger for some proof of his story, not so much doubting it perhaps as asking for fuller confirmation of what she is coming to believe. In flexion, the posterior longitudinal ligament absorbs the thrust from the disc nuclei. Darrow spoke for more than 12 hours. The judge deliberated for a month and then sentenced Leopold and Loeb to life in prison. In the next land we found were Kyklopes, giants, louts, without a law to bless them. There on the beach we lay, and slept till morning. It is a weak wrist flexor and takes no part in abduction or adduction because of its central location. But if the body if physical and the mind in nonphysical, how is this interaction possible? Faced with such a trenchant and unyielding critic, Descartes was out of ideas.

I Need Direction

2008-10-09T10:37:00.000-07:00

I loved you all the way till yesterday.
Help me understand why you be sexin with another man!
Stay in between two over sized buildings.
Have them look at you.
Have them scare the shit out of you.
If this does not happen, please do not panic, although it is encouraged.
Don't mess with a little girls dream!
Walk in between two walls.
Closing in on you, gently step out of the way of the walls.
If this does not happen, please do not panic. In case of this, you will die.
Do not pick up any phone calls, they will only confuse you.
Vacation for five min and take a walk to her resting place.
She will give you something.
Take that something.
Smoke that something.
Now hide!
Look to the sky, do not take your eyes away from sky, she will be very angry with you as well as the something, as well as the someone who GAVE you the something, that you should have already smoked at this point.
Take a breath.
Continue.
Does she love you as much as you love her.
Mommy.
Pay no attention to that voice of protection of want.
Look ahead.
There's everything you've ever wanted.
Success, happiness, destruction.
I loved you all the way till yesterday.

I Love to Dance by Alison Haggerty

2008-10-09T00:21:00.000-07:00

This was inspired by Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, and Robert Smithson.
oh and of course, dance.

I love to dance
Love to dance I
To dance I love
Dance I love to

Dance to love I
To love I dance
Love I dance to
I dance to love

I love to Dance
I love to
I love
I

Love to dance I
Love to dance
Love to
Love

To dance I love
To dance I
To dance
To

Dance I love to
Dance I love
Dance I
Dance

Dance
Dance I
Dance I love
Dance I love to

To
To dance
To dance I
To dance I love

Love
Love to
Love to dance
Love to dance I

I
I love
I love to
I love to dance

An Ode to John Baldessari, Bruce McLean and Lawrence Weiner

2008-10-08T23:35:00.000-07:00

Art
new
splendoured
still
specific
1st
suburban
spatial
shallow
black
bad
Make Art
wild
domestic
quick
Scottish
lovesick
Funny
Universal
fresh
multi
facial
visual
mixed
wearable
easy
Boring
relaxay
disposable
throwaway
kickaway
torn
crimble crumble
large
I Make Boring Art
bonny
some
glass
little
icarus
eclectic
constructional
I Will Not
floataway
polished
washed
present
young
dying
blue
white
super duper
super
slow
big
Make
greatest
twelve
12
retrospective
early
high
major
late
falling
Not Boring
nude
modern
four
shifting
6
middle class
minimal
modifiable
Any More
vacant
gullible
gold
unfinished
first
last
fun
wet
dry
revived
looseleaf
I Will Not Make
Contemporary
Grand
Temporary
industrial
torrid
draped
light
dark
front
standard
cycling
recent
Will
freeloving
pot smoking
fine
ordinary
abnormal
normal
cylindrical
confined
Art
cliché
controlled
gilded
round
outside
stink
obsessive
underground
I
semi porn
linguistic
transmedia
cotton
trendy
experimental
fantasy
serious
red
brown
Not
medical
stained
aromatic
instant
Plastic
Equestrian
crazy
oral
edible
fresh
Subterranean
flashing
fat
concealed
long
sad
I WILL NOT MAKE ANY MORE BORING ART.

Fluxus

2008-10-08T21:31:00.001-07:00

LETTERS
put nivea on hands and massage the microphone
1968, 1999
WATER
discover that urban locations are assemblages
1927, 2006
SUBLIMATION
spell names of terrorist groups backwards
1988, 2005

letters and number value

2008-10-08T21:20:00.000-07:00

Alright,
So basically as a response to the reading for this week I will post my own sort of conceptual writing system/ analysis of weather statements made are good or bad. Basically you start with a statement heard or said, and then each individual letter is giving a value in number form, and then added up with other letters in a word. Then the value of the whole word is added or subtracted from the statement based on its part of speech. But yeah its a little confusing to explain so here are some examples:

1. A joke, without the punch line can be determined good or bad based on the initial question.

>What did the Ocean say to the boat?
Each letter is given a value>4102/111/210/00001/002/20/210/2002
The letter values are added to give word values>7/3/3/1/2/2/2/4
The numbers are put into an addition subtraction equation based on the words part of speech>
7+3+3-1-2+2+2-4=10
The statement equals positive 10, so in conclusion the joke is good.

2. A statement

>I went to school today.
>3/4012/20/001001/20102
>3/7/2/2/5
>3+7+2-2-5=5
This concludes that it was good to go to school on that day.

3. Another statement

>The Devil ate my shorts.
>210/10211/020/12/010120
>3/5/2/3/4
>3-5-2+3-4=-7
This concludes that this was a bad occurrence.

But yeah this makes sense in my head and I’m pretty sure that’s all that matters.

Something of Interest

2008-10-06T11:47:00.000-07:00

Hi All - here's something of interest
http://arsonism.org/portfolio/

Week 4

2008-10-05T11:20:00.000-07:00

For Class Week 4:
The UBUWEB :: Anthology of Conceptual Writing :: introduced and edited by Craig Douglas Dworkin.
Focus your attention on 3-5 different artists and base your Artist's Response on their work.

Post an Artist's Response to the Generative Blog by noon the day of class and print out your response to turn in during class.

Obstruct traffic

2008-10-02T11:55:00.000-07:00

Okay, so you start with two to four teams (or as many as you want) each consisting of one to five participants.
Then map out a grid of busy city intersections, which will become the space in which the event will take place.
Dress as astronauts, keeping you identity concealed. Make sure while you are dressed up that you have weights tied to you making in harder to walk. Carry flags (each team having there own color flags), cross busy streets and claim various cross walks by putting your flag in the way of cars.
The team with the most intersections claimed wins.
Continue your daily routine in costume.

2008-10-02T08:44:00.000-07:00

Blow bubbles while pouring hot fudge on ice cream

let ice cream melt or give to old woman

Chase a rainbow

Chase a falling star

random things that were in a dream.. not in order.

2008-10-02T01:10:00.000-07:00

A tv. A bigger tv. brother. friend. a cigarette? 4 cigarettes? a woman named marti. a teddy bear? weird couple. old man. "i'm doing graphic design." indoors. "you can have this tv" two school nurses. desks. dark. a church. apartment. "eeew" dinner. night time. "want to get some food?" day time. internet. text messages. dorms. "this tv has more channels!" linking arms. awkward feeling. "hold on." outside. homework. bed. computer. lots of people. "what?!" "hmm i don't rememer that name.." crazy woman. breaking.

Written text from an overheard conversation

2008-10-01T23:32:00.000-07:00

Oh no. I'm gunna try to do this. Ugh, this is so... sorry. Oh my God this is so funny. It's like a book about sex. I don't like this. What are you reading? Mine says you have a way with words, this is so random! This is like, perhaps i should choose something slightly... wait can you take this off the record?

What? Each letter of what, the alphabet? By the way don't come into the kitchen I'm chopping onion. What words start with z? The word sex appears quite frequently. This is a huge chicken breast. It's all squishy. You wanna bite? Shit, I got to chop up mushrooms.

Tonight, tonight, tell me I'm the only one. Salt! Me tight, tonight, it's youuuu... Are you supposed to wash mushrooms? I'm missin you like candy....

I think I really wanna switch the book. I'm so indecisive. Make a decision. Switch the damn book. What's that N'sync song in A Bug's Life? Remember that camp-out story I told you about? We chose some N'sync song. Yeah this isn't working. This will be good. See what are you supposed to do?

Work Katao. I'm so excited we're down to the final 4. She made it look like a fools outfit. Shut-up bitch. There is no one to talk to. It was fun at first but then it got kinda lonely.

Then don't.

Your model was Katerina, what do you want to do? Afeterzein! Only three will compete at fashion week. Tim is waiting in the lobby. I just don't know what I want to do. I am nervous.

Funny this is so typical of me. I don't know why I even care. Follow me. Oh! Here we go one more time, N'sync has got the flow! Yes, yes, yes here we go, N'sync has got the flow...

Oh my God Ashley. You're singing some of the most random shit. Something has to stop. No Gloria Estefan. No it's Michael Jackson. I was trying to block it out. Too much, too much. Bobby D! My ass is sore.

Where's the Raid?

Acrostic Chance

2008-10-01T23:08:00.000-07:00

Many people feel like a one-night stand is something to be ashamed or embarrassed by

You have a real way with words

Her running furiously

One of the finest bodies our ecosystem has ever created

Rolled each and every morsel of it into finely rolled joints

In the basement

Zz cut

Of Jersey trash

Name is Cincinnati

Toilet paper, with my pants around my ankles

At that age I had heard about sex but had no idea what it looked like

Look back at that experience

Life than macaroni and cheese and The Brady Bunch

In the basement

Food and cuddling

Everything was very quiet

Week 3

2008-09-29T15:52:00.001-07:00

For Class Week 3:
Fluxus Performance Workbook edited by Ken Friedman, Owen Smith and Lauren Sawchyn.
The link above is a direct link to download the pdf. The same link is also in the sidebar on the right. Focus your attention on 3-5 different artists and base your Artist's Response on their work.

Post an Artist's Response to the Generative Blog by noon the day of class and print out your response to turn in during class.

My Poem to you all

2008-09-27T13:24:00.001-07:00

Kate, a love I've always know.
Hudson, my father and me.
Shrink this down to something normal.
Hollywood was my real father.
Goldy is the blessing, I am her.
Marriage didn't really work so well.
Water under the bridge.
Taken by 2000 Cigarettes.
Passion is all I've got left.
Flowery, this place.
Find the comfort within this life I'm given.
Herself, I love her because i am her although extremely separate reality from.
Fashion, I would rather see it stay then go.
Suit the sky mommy has set for me.
Mom.
Hawn is not all that I am or intend to be.

Chance Imagery

2008-09-27T12:51:00.000-07:00

Chance Imagery is used on stage when an actor is told to use a prop they have never worked with before yet be able to wear it as if you've had this object your entire life. Much of your unconscious mind must be an element to this performance. In a totally conscious state of being i can imagine it being very difficult to make that specific object look like something of your personal. Free writing...Given the direction, " you may not stop moving your pen or pencil for five minutes, don't think about what your about to write just write from whatever state your in now", is method to the idea of chance. A fine artist seems to constantly work this way, more at cal-arts then anywhere else I would assume. I'm not sure how I feel about the term "Subconscious". When under consciousness you are simply unconscious, no "pre- gaming" necessary. Being able to use non technical ways of expression reforms a method to creating art, theater, music, dance, creating. It's freer, much more exciting things are allowed to happen making its own sort of mechanism, developing this new language. The idea of chance imagery is allowing one to use other senses rather then those within a conscious state.

Freedom To Do Whateva

2008-09-27T12:20:00.001-07:00

The freedom to express oneself in a totally free state yet with some sort of grid allows a new form of art. Chance- I think I want to explore the idea of contact improve being purely from the lack of space within New York apartments. If I kept bumping into other dancers while working I'd say this, " Guys, we gotta come up with some kindda plan for this shit. What are we gonna do about running into each other, I mean we should just make that a dance or something right? We'll call it, "contact improve", you like that?" No, the idea of saying, leave it to chance, is a bold way to work, working through what you should not expect.

2008-09-26T01:20:00.000-07:00

Hello aaaaaaallllllllllllllllllllllllllll.

DANCE MOVES

2008-09-25T15:14:00.001-07:00

Bang your head against the wall 2 times

Fall on the floor

wiggle around

Get up

Bang your head twice on the wall

Have someone roll a dice and however much the number is sit down and get up accordingly

Repeat

Guitar Drag, Christian Marclay

2008-09-25T13:57:00.001-07:00

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2795402948568743834

Judson Dance

2008-09-25T13:49:00.000-07:00

Avante-garde culture, 1, 239, 294
Sure, I tell myself, it'll all be over soon ... whew! ... we have
time! We thought we'd catch up on our connections ... the
dance hall! ...the grocery store ... and maybe run into
bombing too hard, we'll come back ... listen!
"You didn't light your candle?"
"Centuries, Ferdie! centuries!"
all night in the dark!"

Being and seeming, 252
properties through which to assert your rarity. The demand which is
terms of a distinction which always defines itself negatively in relation to
properties through which to assert their rarity. The demand which is

radical juxtaposition.

2008-09-25T12:41:00.000-07:00

I think one aspect postmodern dance has only begun to absorb is technology. Physics in its vast field has a place in dance with its universal guidelines like how to trick the human vestibular system by spotting while spinning. We begin to gain an understanding of the laws of physics as soon as we're born, and by the time we learn to walk we've mastered basic center of gravity concepts. Electrodynamics and electrical engineering may be the most distant relative to this relationship, but when analyzed their example of movement could be used in the process of choreography. One example would be the Ring Modulator which is commonly in the form of an effects pedal for electric guitar or organ. One way a ring modulator works is it takes the input from an instrument (sine wave) and heterodyns, or more specifically, convolutes it with that of a built-in oscilator (convolution in the frequency domain is the same as multiplication in the time domain). The resulting output is two new sine waves, the sum and the difference of the two inputs. This circuit could be mutated into a process for chroeography in many ways, one idea is to use a video camera to record one dancer in a guided improvisation. The feed would be analyzed by a computer, which could then output wave form data based on certain movements. This wave form would be then processed through a ring modulator, the resulting signals fed back into the computer. This could then be used to animate two different computer generated 3D models of a dancer or perhaps a automated marionettes. The more this type of process is repeated, the more distorted the dance would become. If the process uses more than one variable, like more than one human dancer, patterns directed by the subconscious may emerge as the resulting images or actions are combined. There are many other simple electrical circuits that we use every day that could influence conceptual movement processes, like RC circuits, OP-AMP circuits or even something as simple as a battery. Electrical engineering is not unlike any other part of the Physics world, it is only foreign and confusing because we cannot see it happening.

aleatory composition

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generative data for dance choreography
based upon gossip column highlights
a dance for charlie sheen
born 1965
1981-marijuana possession on his mother's birthday. judge, who was a friend of the family, dismissed the charges.
1982-arrested for illegally charging merchandise from stolen credit card receipts.
1990-accidentally shoots fiance Kelly Preston in the arm
1992-Heidi Fleiss trial

1997- quoted comparing himself indirectly to Caligula
1998-hospitalized for drug and alcohol abuse; after a short-lived stay in rehab 2002-marries Denise Richards 2006- divorces Denise Richards

year ------age ----difference of previous age=number of Shimmy's per measure

1965------0----------------16

1981------16---------------1
1982------17---------------8
1990------25---------------2
1992------27---------------5

1997------32---------------1

1998------33---------------4

2002------37--------------4

2006------41

excerpts from -Universe of the Mind: A Semiotic Theory of Culture By Yuri M. Lotman

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defining the concept of the semiosphere
"the semiotic space necessary for the existence and functioning of languages, not the sum total of different languages"(123)
"In this respect a language is a function, a cluster of semiotic spaces and their boundaries, which, however clearly defined in the language's grammatical self description, in the reality of semiosis are eroded and full of transitional forms"(123-24)
"In the center the metastructure is "our" language, but on the periphery it is treated as "someone else's" unable to adequately reflect the semiotic reality beneath it: it is like the grammar of a foreign language. As a result, in the center of the cultural space, sections of the semiosphere aspiring to the level of self-description become rigidly organized and self regulation. But at the same time they lose dynamism and having once exhausted their reserve of indeterminacy they became inflexible and incapable of further development. On the periphery... the relationship between semiotic practice and the norms imposed on it becomes even more strained. Texts generated in accordance with these norms hang in the air, without any real semiotic context; while organic creations, born of actual semiotic milieus, come into conflict with artificial norms. This is the area of semiotic dynamism. This is the field of tension where new languages come into being"(134)
shift of language into an area of indeterminacy challenges hegemonic centers
generating new centers , competing centers
eroded and transitional forms

Yvonne Rainer Trio A

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One of the organizers of Judson Dance, Yvonne Rainer has created many games and tasks used to make dance peices. Her use of repetition and patterns in her pieces show new ideas to the world of modern dance.
An example of her work, Trio A, which is a part of The Mind is a Muscle, goes against what was traditional modern dance. Her use of everyday movement in the piece became a dance. Playing with natural weight and time created its own rhythm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Yo7XeRVSrc

I find that the "collage" technique can be very helpful and entertaining when creating a piece. You can expect the unexpected and it can be treated as if it were a game. Taking parts and phrases from a dance and mixing them up in a different order can be an exciting way to create choreography. Yvonne Rainer used this technique and it has become a great technique for many artists today.

Week 2

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For Class Week 2:
Choreographic Methods of the Judson Dance Theater by Sally Banes
The link above is a direct link to download the pdf. The same link is also in the sidebar on the right and I will be handing out a photocopy of the reading in class.

Post an Artist's Response to the Generative Blog by noon the day of class and print out your response to turn in during class.

More George Brecht

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Drip Music
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT5lgaE-qZY

Three Broom Events
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0rXp5Dc-8Q

Tellus 21: track 9
http://www.ubu.com/sound/artist_tellus.html

Flux Tellus: tracks 2 & 15
http://www.ubu.com/sound/flux_tellus.html

Tristan Tzara as mentioned in Chance-Imagery

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Here's a link to excerpts from Tristan Tzara's Dada Manifesto 1918 and the entirety of his Lecture on Dada 1922

Dadaism

chance sculpture

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I've had an idea for a sculpture build process on which George Brecht's Chance Imagery shed a new rational light. This process would begin with three generations of lab mice. Data would be collected, such as Mitochondrial DNA sequences, protein sequences - particularly residue and gaps as variables and motifs. Various columns of this data will be used as an organic but not necessarily random numbers. In order to produce a more statistically true random set, data pulled from fractal images created from exhaust gas research (jet propulsion) or other unrelated data from gas molecule movement patterns will be used. Ultimately a matrix of random data can be created, and aspects needed for 3D mapping of the sculpture (like cartesian coordinates, material density, and even cutting processes) can be derived from this information.

john cage - chance operations

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOCDSSNdWNU
John Cage used chance operations and computer technology to create music.

I have a book next to me from one of my classes, and I turned the pages, pointing to the words and phrases and picking them by chance.

docking. lines of his hometown. we faced. occasional cartoon. the cubist cat. met with such. toy soilders. extremely popular. an errand boy. freedom. mood. childlike. his homeland. It merely had an orchestra playing. strips. promised. the scrapbooks. studio. gave huge delight. death. at age sixty-two. nineteen seventy-six. sound. to this end.

Contact Improvisation

2008-09-17T23:35:00.000-07:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW6XtgMeSXE

"Random" Response to Video:

trust. sense. armpit. perception. awareness. touching. into you. me. complementing. laugh. awkward. sweat. melt. conflict. grounded. fear. smell. bobble. motion. stopping to start. all over again. compelled to do something. anything. stillness. Earth. intimacy. floppy. talking to you. knowing you, your body. in space, in time? listening. the crevices. folding. imperfect and perfect simultaneously. undress. sand. relinquishing everything and nothing. doing and donting. resolution. x the plan. momentarily. trance states are fun. gravity defies. power. swirling. initiation. i provoke you. yes?

Trisha Brown- Biography/Overview Video on chance structures

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAE8cEEAbJw

(Lines selected from my journal...All written at night, right before i went to sleep)

Feel in control hands pushing and pulling deep blade like would holding not there hungry yearning finally tired wanting to feel special gliding across guilty burns itch living every reach fall drop stop hold don't let go release until nothing is left regrets unfold and pick them apart put me together so I don't have to hold and kiss.

10 line, 1st line 1 word, 10th line 10 words... on Brecht

2008-09-17T22:59:00.000-07:00

Chance.

A system.

But not systematic.

Paint could fall anywhere.

Determined with space and paint.

Chance proportional to paint and spaces.

The point is one of many possibilities.

Pollock's paintings were full of possibility and organization.

Dadaists used techniques to create chance to create art.

Chance can be found or chance can be easily constructed.

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??? Yes, no.

Dada and Surrealism

Yes!

Jackson Pollock

No.

"... escaping the biases engrained in our personality by our culture and personal past history", to what end?

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Chance Imagery

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(a statue's eyelids lift and coins spray from its marble sockets. Gas rolls from its mouth in languid streams, revealing Maxwell's conclusion.)

It's 1957, "8 years further on the spiral". The mechanisms of overdetermination in automatic thinking continue to produce chance images. And while the sub-conscious shuffles to reconcile objects language is perpetually caught in the bottleneck of the signifier. The appreciation for complex chance images, as harbingers for the the desired chain of associations, is the fascination with viscosity found in some painting and in nature, relishing in the richness of a rational question merged with guttural intuition, perhaps referencing something primordial. Culture imposes meaning on the organs, a playful way of accepting something. If language is the body's most ancient organ then the symbolic becomes physical and the Golden Bough will show itself in chance imagery each time. George Brecht saw the critical whole - man (logos) and nature - reconciled by John Cage in 1957.*

*I have difficulty empathising with Brecht on this last point.

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Hi all.

Week 1

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Hello All - You should have received an invite to join this blog - if not, or if you are having troubles, email me and we will sort things out. Please post a quick hello to everyone once you have received the blog invite.

For Class Week 1:
Chance-Imagery by George Brecht a Great Bear Pamphlet
(a direct link is above, you may also follow the link to Great Bear Pamphlets in the sidebar under Resources – Chance-Imagery is the third from the top)

Post an Artist's Response to the Generative Blog by noon the day of class and print out your response to turn in during class.

Syllabus

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CS 412 : Generative Systems of Image / Music / Text Production
Fall / 08

Instructor:
Mathew Timmons
e: mtimmons[at]calarts[dot]edu
ph: 661 253 7716
office hours by appointment

Description:
"Generative art refers to any art practice where the artist uses a system, such as a set of natural language rules, a computer program, a machine, or other procedural invention, which is set into motion with some degree of autonomy contributing to or resulting in a completed work of art." – Philip Galanter from What is Generative Art? Complexity Theory as a Context for Art Theory

Since the atom was split, the amount of information available for consumption as textual andor visual material has grown exponentially. It has been predicted that by 2012 the amount of textual information available to a human being will double every 11 seconds leading to an ephemeralization of knowledge. At the same time, the systems we use to organize information and make it legible have increased in number and complexity.

This course is designed to introduce students to the ways in which various artistic disciplines have used organizational systems to generate imaginative taxonomies, art, and writing defined by process, as well as musical and dance compositions that deploy chance operations. Generative art can be created with varying degrees of technical skill, and can be seen as part of an ongoing exploration of pattern and randomness in the arts. We will look at some examples of complexly programmed online work, but will also be interested in art that is informed by the way technology has impacted the world, i.e. forms of art that come out of a sense of database aesthetics. We will also look at non-electronic conceptual writing from contemporary and historical sources such as “The Tapeworm Foundry,” by Darren Wershler-Henry, various works by the Oulipo, and/or theories of “uncreative” writing by Kenneth Goldsmith, and the combinatoric and permutational work from the past of Raymond Lull and Athanasius Kircher. We will also explore this type of work from other disciplines, including John Cage's explorations with the "I Ching," the Judson Dance Theater's creations of 'post-modern' dance choreography, programmatic examples from the Fluxus Workbook, the generative music techniques employed by Brain Eno, Lev Manovich's Soft[ware] Cinema, and Harold Cohen's scripted painting machine AARON.

Goals:
We will look at art being made in a world where the way information is accessed is often more important than the information itself. We will explore conceptual systems and interrogate their intrinsic mathematical constructs and relative levels of complexity. We will attempt to come to terms with new modes of subjectivity being created in/through the work we look at and reflect on how it represents/reacts to contemporary trends beyond the art world.

Attendance:
As this is a workshop/discussion class, attendance is essential and will be accounted for at each class meeting. Each student is allowed three absences. A fourth absence will result in a grade of NX.

Coursework:
Weekly reading/viewing and Artist's Responses handed in and posted to the class blog
(http://generative.blogspot.com)
One Presentation in class on reading/viewing
One Research and Design Experiment due Oct 23
One Final Project due at the end of class and final presentation

Grading:
10% Class Participation
25% Artist's Responses
15% Presentation
25% Research Project
25% Final Project

Blog Responses:
Responses to the readings, when assigned, are due by noon on the day of class. Roughly 10 of these will be assigned—you must complete at least 6 to receive any credit. These should be short responses to the work we review each week that focus on a particular aspect of interest to you. Post your response to the class blog (http://generative.blogspot.com) and print out a copy to hand in during class. You are encouraged to use the list of Exercises handed out in class as writing guides for these assignments. Also, you are welcome to do 'artists' responses—by posting media work to the class blog, or if you are doing something that isn’t easily presentable in blog format, arrange something with me beforehand and we will figure out a way for you to present work during class.

Presentation:
You and a classmate or two will lead the class in discussion of the reading/viewing materials for the week. You may work together as a group on the presentation or prepare separate presentations (if so you should check in with the other presenters and make sure you aren't focusing on the same thing). You are encouraged to use this opportunity to look closely at a particular concept or system and use the time to present a short artistic response to the work andor to bring in a short exercise for the class to participate in.

Research and Design Experiment: Due October 23
Primarily, this is a research project that will consist of a 1250 word essay (roughly 4 double spaced pages). You should pick two or three things we have talked about in class and reference one or two things you have discovered on your own. Think of this as an opportunity to research, design and experiment with systems you are interested in exploring for your final project.

Final Project: Due Last Day of Class, December 11
This project will function somewhat as an outgrowth of the Research and Design experiment, but will be more geared towards creative output. You are welcome to work in whatever medium you are most comfortable with, what is most important is that you produce work that relates to the concepts we have investigated during the course of the class. The Final Project will also include a written component consisting of a 1250 word essay (roughly 4 double spaced pages) that relates your creative output to at least three examples from any medium (at least one from our class work and others from your own research—be sure to cite these clearly and that you use different examples than those from the R&D Experiment). During the last three days of class you will be expected to present your work and some of the concepts you have engaged with in a 15 minute presentation.

The Presentation Schedule

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September 18
Josie Adams
Barney Patterson

September 25
Caelin White
Roy James Brown

October 2
Thomas East
Joe Cantrell

October 9
Alison Haggerty
Leticia Alcuran

October 16
Robin Newman
Tony Rinaldi

October 23
Jack Heard
Romney Caswell

October 30
Ali Valle
Rachel Kennedy

November 6
Matt Roscoe
Cyrus McCray

November 13
Patrick Stephenson
Ryan McGuffin

November 20
Bryn Cohn
Julia Romanskaya

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Week 0

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Welcome Everyone to The Generative Blog!

CS 412: Generative Systems of Image / Music / Text Production.

Today we will go through a General Course Introduction.
Everyone will Introduce themselves and receive a Fortune.
We'll look over Selections from Selected Declarations of Dependence by Harry Mathews.
We'll talk about the difference between Random and Arbitrary.
We'll talk about Combinatorics and Permutation.
We will Combine and Permutate.
We'll pass around a List of Exercises.
We'll all Sign Up for In Class Presentations.
Everyone will be Invited to The Generative Blog!
Everyone will Join The Generative Blog!
We'll go over how to Post to the Blog.

Writing Exercises

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Most of these are from Bernadette Mayer...

Writing Exercises

1. Pick a story from the newspaper (or a magazine, whatever-usually something from a business or science text is good; the Tuesday Science Times section of The NY Times is particularly useful). Choose 20 words from the story that you have never used in a poem before: try to pick the most interesting words you can, the ones that seem to leap out at you for some reason. Write those words down on a separate sheet of paper (so you’re not looking at the original text anymore—if you want you can burn the original text, using proper fire safety procedures). Write a poem that is 20 lines long. Each line must use one of the words you wrote down from the article, and they must be used in the order in which they appeared in the article.

2. Select a particular time of day when you know you won’t be disturbed for a few minutes: early morning, lunch time, before going to sleep, etc. At that time each day, in a notebook begin writing down whatever happens to be going through your mind. Once you begin writing, don’t stop to think, fix your language, etc. This isn’t a poem, just write about ten lines or more, then put the notebook away. Do this for five days. It’s important not to do this on a computer, but handwritten in a notebook and you should keep the notebook with you, because you probably will find after the first day or so that you feel like doing this more than once a day, when you see something interesting or just have time to kill. On a day when you have a chunk of time to work on a poem, take the notebook and write a poem using only the lines (or parts of them) that you’ve written during these sessions.

3. Think of 50 titles, all of them for poems or short pieces of writing that you have no intention of writing. It’s a good idea to carry a notebook everywhere with you when you do this. Give the list to someone else in the class. Choose a title from the list you’ve received and write a poem.

4. Homolinguistic translation: Take a poem (someone else’s than your own) and translate it “English to English” by substituting word for word, phrase for phrase, line for line, or “free” translation as response to each phrase or sentence.

5. Homophonic translation: Take a text or poem in a foreign language that you can pronounce but not necessarily understand and translate the sound of the poem into English (Ex: French ‘blanc’ to blank or ‘toute’ to toot).

6. Lexical translation: Take a poem in a foreign language that you can pronounce but not necessarily understand and translate it word for word with the help of a bilingual dictionary.

7. Acrostic Chance. Pick a book at random and use the title as an acrostic key phrase. For each letter of the key phrase go to the page number in the book that corresponds (a=1, z=26) and copy as the first line of a poem form the first word that begins with that letter to the end of the line or sentence. Continue through all key letters, leaving stanza breaks to mark each new key word. Variations include using author’s name as code for reading through her or his work, using your own or a friend’s name, devise alternative acrostic procedures.

8. Tzara’s hat. Everyone in a group writes down a word (phrase or line) and puts it in a hat. The text is composed according to the order it is randomly pulled from the hat. (On your own, pick words or lines from books, newspapers, magazines, your own work.)

9. Burrough’s Fold-in: Take two different pages from a newspaper or magazine, article or book, and cut the pages in half or thirds vertically. Paste the mismatched pages together.

10. Write a text with words cut somewhere in the middle and recombined with the beginning parts following the ending parts.

11. General cut-ups: Write a text composed entirely of phrases lifted from other sources. Use one source for a poem or other text and then many; try different types of sources: literary, historical, magazines, advertisements, manuals, dictionaries, instructions, travelogues, etc.

12. Cento: write a collage made up of full-lines of selected source poems, or texts.

13. Substitution (1): “Mad libs”. Take a poem (or other source text) and put blanks in place of three or four words in each line, noting the part of speech under the blank. Fill in the blanks being sure not to recall the original context.

14. Substitution (2): “7 up or down”. Take a poem or other, possibly well-known, text and substitute another word for every noun, adjective, adverb, and verb; determine the substitute word by looking up the index work in a dictionary and going 7 up or down, or one more, until you get a syntactically suitable replacement.

15. Substitution (3): “Find and replace”. Systematically replace one word in a source text with another word or string of words. Perform this operation serially with the same source text, increasing the number of words in the replace string.

16. Serial sentences: Select one sentence from a variety of different books or other sources. Add sentences of your own composition. Combine into one paragraph, reordering to produce the most interesting results.

17. Alphabet poems: make up a poem of 26 words so that each word begins with the next letter of the alphabet. Write another alphabet poem but scramble the letter order.

18. Alliteration (assonance): Write a poem in which all the words in each line begin with the same letter.

19. Doubling: Starting with one sentence, write a series of paragraphs each doubling the number of sentences in the previous paragraph and including all the words used previously.

20. Collaboration: Write a piece with one or more other people: alternating lines (chaining or renga), writing simultaneously and collaging, rewriting, editing, supplementing the previous version. This can be done in person or otherwise.

21. Group sonnet: 14 people each write one ten-word line (or alternate-Write a text trying to transcribe as accurately as you can your thoughts while you are writing. Don’t edit anything out. Write as fast as you can without planning what you are going to say)

22. Dream work: Write down your dreams as the first thing you do every morning for 30 days. Apply translation and aleatoric processes to this material. Double the length of the dream. Weave them together into one poem, adding or changing or reordering the material. Negate or reverse all statements (I went down the hill to I went up the hill, I didn’t to I did). Borrow a friend’s dreams and apply these techniques to them.

23. Write a text made up entirely of neologism or nonsense words or fragments of words.

24. Write a text with each line filling in the blanks of “I used to be ---, but now I am ---.” (I used to write poems, but now I just do experiments; I used to make sense, but now I just make poems.)

25. Write a text consisting entirely of things you’d like to say, but never would, to a parent, lover, sibling, child, teacher, roommate, best friend, mayor, president, corporate CEO, etc.

26. Write a text consisting entirely of overheard conversation.

27. Nonliterary forms: Write a text in the form of an index, a table of contents, a resume, an advertisement for an imaginary or real product, an instruction manual, a travel guide, a quiz or examination, etc.

28. Imitation: Write a text in the style of each of a dozen poets or writers who you like and dislike: try to make it as close to a forgery of an “unknown” work of the author as possible.

29. Write a text without mentioning any objects.

30. Backwards: Reverse or alter the line sequence of a poem of your own or someone else’s. Reverse the word order. Rather than reverse, scramble.

31. Write an autobiographical poem without using any pronouns.

32. Attention: Write down everything you hear for one hour.

33. Brainerd’s Memory: Write a text all of whose lines start “I remember …”

34. “Pits”: Write the worst possible poem you can imagine.

35. Counting: Write poems that conform to various numeric patterns for number of words in a line or sentence, number of lines in a stanza or paragraph, number of stanzas or paragraphs in a work. Alternately, count letters or syllables. Use complex numeric series or simpler fixed-number patterns.

36. Write a text just when you are on the verge of falling asleep. Write a line a day as you are falling asleep or waking up.

37. List poem: Write a text consisting of favorite words or phrases collected over a period of time; pick your favorite words from a particular book.

38. List poem 2: Write a text consisting entirely of a list of “things”, either homogenous or heterogeneous (common lists include shopping lists, things to do, lists of flowers or rocks, lists of colors, inventory lists, lists of events, lists of names, …).

39. Chronology: make up a list of dates with associated events, real or imagined.

40. Transcription: Tape a phone or live conversation between yourself and a friend. Make a poem composed entirely of transcribed parts.

41. Canceling: Write a series of lines or rhymes such that every other one cancels the one before (“I come before you / to stand behind you”).

42. Erasure: Take a poem of your own or someone else’s and cross out most of the words on each poem, retype what remains as your poem.

43. Write a series of ten poems going from one to ten words in each poem. Reorder.

44. Write a text composed entirely of questions.

45. Write a text made up entirely of directions.

46. Write a text consisting only of opening lines (improvise your own lines, then use source texts).

47. Write poems consisting of one-word lines; of two-word lines; of three-word lines.

48. Synchronicity: Write a text in which all the events occur simultaneously.

49. Diachronicity: Write a text in which all the events occur in different places and at different times.

50. Visual poetry: write poems with strong visual or “concrete” elements-including combination of lexical and nonlexical (pictorial) elements. Play with alphabets and typography, placement of words on the page, etc.

51. Write a series of poems or stanzas while listening to music; change type of music for each stanza or poem.

52. Elimination: cut out the second half of sentences.

53. Excuses list poem: Write a text made up entirely of excuses.

54. Sprung diary: write a diary tracking and intercutting multiple levels of thoughts, experiences, anticipations, expectations, from minute to major.

55. Make up more writing experiments

Combine any two of these experiments. Rewrite and recombine, collage, splice together the material generated from these experiments into one long ongoing text.