Sound relationships

From my years at Art college i remember doing a module based on sound and its relationship with imagery. Timbre rekindles in my mind so this is also something to reference and consider whilst planning on my visualisation for my chat application.

In music, timbre is the quality of a musical note or sound or tone that distinguishes different types of sound production, such as voices or musical instruments. The physical characteristics of sound that mediate the perception of timbre include spectrum and envelope. Timbre is also known in psychoacoustics as tone quality or tone color.

- wikipedia

Examples of how this will be incorporated into my works:

• Red = Anger, Hatred, Rebelion etc
• Blue = Complacent, Relaxed, Moody, Subdued
• Yellow = Happy, Bright, Enthusiastic

Shapes can also be included to further emphasize emotive responsives.

What is adaptive Behaviour?

Adaptive Behaviour:

Adaptive Behavior explores mechanisms, organizational principles, and architectures for generating action in environments, as expressed in computational, physical, or mathematical models.- ISAB

I really want to explore the implication of adaptive behaviour within generative art and how this affects user ownership and more specificly intellectual ownership. If people are acting to meet the demands of a system symbolized by my output visualisation, then they are merely a contributor and nothing more. They are puppets within my system. I would also investigate both conscious and subconscious activity by allowing them to see the output in 1 experiment and then have it hidden from them in a 2nd experiment.

Futurism – the predecessor to dada!

Futurism was an art movement that originated in Italy in the early 20th century. It was largely an Italian phenomenon, though there were parallel movements in Russia, England and elsewhere.

The Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti was its founder and most influential personality. He launched the movement in his Futurist Manifesto, which he published in the French daily newspaper Le Figaro on 20 February 1909. In it Marinetti expressed a passionate loathing of everything old, especially political and artistic tradition. “We want no part of it, the past”, he wrote, “we the young and strong Futurists!” The Futurists admired speed, technology, youth and violence, the car, the airplane and the industrial city, all that represented the technological triumph of humanity over nature, and they were passionate nationalists.

The Futurists practiced in every medium of art, including painting, sculpture, ceramics, graphic design, industrial design, interior design, theatre, film, fashion, textiles, literature, music, architecture and even gastronomy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Futurism_(art)

Its the first art movement that becomes anti-art and at the time where there was only traditional art, it had nothing to hold it back. The birth of new age technology added momentum to the movement and emphasized “technological triumph over nature”.

Surrealism

Surrealism was developed by the 20th-century literary and artistic movement. The surrealist movement of visual art and literature, flourished in Europe between World Wars I and II. Surrealism grew principally out of the earlier Dada movement, which before World War I produced works of anti-art that deliberately defied reason; but Surrealism emphasis was not on negation but on positive expression. The movement represented a reaction against what its members saw as the destruction wrought by the “rationalism” that had guided European culture and politics in the past and had culminated in the horrors of World War I. According to the major spokesman of the movement, the poet and critic André Breton, who published “The Surrealist Manifesto” in 1924, Surrealism was a means of reuniting conscious and unconscious realms of experience so completely, that the world of dream and fantasy would be joined to the everyday rational world in “an absolute reality, a surreality.” Drawing heavily on theories adapted from Sigmund Freud, Breton saw the unconscious as the wellspring of the imagination. He defined genius in terms of accessibility to this normally untapped realm, which, he believed, could be attained by poets and painters alike. This movement continues to flourish at all ends of the earth. Continued thought processes and investigations into the mind produce today some of the best art ever seen.

http://www.surrealist.com/

A literary and art movement, dedicated to expressing the imagination as revealed in dreams, free of the conscious control of reason and convention. Surrealism inherited its anti-rationalist sensibility from Dada, but was lighter in spirit than that movement. Like Dada, it was shaped by emerging theories on our perception of reality, the most obvious influence being Freud’s model of the subconscious.

http://www.artmovements.co.uk/surrealism.htm

My interpretation of this definition is:

“Where art becomes the canvas for the merging of the rational and irrational, the convergance of the real and surreal“

Avant Garde

I will be referring to this term a lot throughout my research so I went and found the best definitions I could for the term “Avant Garde” and then to summarize my interpretation of what it is.

Avant-garde refers to people or works that are experimental or innovative, particularly with respect to art, culture, and politics.

Avant-garde represents a pushing of the boundaries of what is accepted as the norm or the status quo, primarily in the cultural realm. The notion of the existence of the avant-garde is considered by some to be a hallmark of modernism, as distinct from postmodernism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avant-garde

My understanding of what Avant Garde is, is a term used to describe artists or pieces of work that are experimental in nature to the current art styles of it’s time. Avant Garde is not a style but a label given to artists and work that challenges traditional and current art movements.