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Technology

by Artists, Poets, Musicians & Dancers

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Hi.

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Creative Technology

New Media Art
Experimental Music
Conditional Design
Technology-Mediated Performance
“Code as art material”
Notable artists & history

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Sol LeWitt

Leader in the Conceptual movement.

Well known for large installations, wall drawings, and sculptures.

For LeWitt, the instructions for producing a work of art became the work itself

The Art Story. “LeWitt. “. THE ART STORY FOUNDATION http://www.theartstory.org/artist-lewitt-sol.htm#biography_header

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Some Notable Works

Sol LeWitt – Wall Drawing #8791, photo credits publicdelivery.org

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Some Notable Works

Sol LeWitt – Wall Drawing #289, photo credits massmoca.org

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Some Notable Works

Sol LeWitt, Wall Dr Wing#1152 Wirls and Twirls, MOMA, NY

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Let’s Try!

Let’s interpret these instructions for a computer.

FYI:

It’s also really enjoyable as a collaborative drawing activity with paper and pencil.

Make a mural with your students!

Wall Drawing #104

10,000 random straight lines

about four inches long.

SOL LEWITT

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Activity

Scratch: LeWitt Lines

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please visit: scratch.mit.edu

Scratch: A introductory, graphic, drag-and-drop programming language designed for students and new learners.

A great, safe option for schools.

Web-based and local install versions available.

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John Cage

Avant-garde composer and artist.�
Well known for found sound, noise, aleator, and alternative instruments.�
Aleatoric music leaves some element of the composition to chance.

WikiArt.org. “Portrait of John Cage.” Wikimedia Commons, 19 Mar. 2015, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:John_Milton_Cage_Jr.jpg.

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Some Notable Works

Sonata V by John Cage for Prepared Piano, from Sonatas and Interludes, performed by Inara Ferreira. �Recorded at the FAU Theater - Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton - FL

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jRHoKZRYBlY

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Some Notable Works

John Cage. “Water Walk”. I’ve Got a Secret. January 1960. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXOIkT1-QWY

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Activity

Scratch: Chance Melody

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OuLiPo [Workshop of Potential Literature]

Group of scholars gathers to create and play with very constrained writing techniques.�
Known for generative poetic combinations & permutations. �
Rule-driven word experiments are algorithmic, using words in precise, step-by-step, computational procedures.

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Some Notable Works

Harry Mathews

Liminal Poem

for Martin Gardner

Raymond Queneau, “Cent mille milliards de poèmes” (Paris: Gallimard, 1961)

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Some Notable Works

By Source, Fair use, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?curid=5044126

Georges Perec’s novel La disparition (published in English as A Void): a 300-page novel written without the letter “e” (an example of a lipogram).

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Some Notable Works

Portrait of Georges Perec (constraints followed: portrait in hollow, text of a page describing a person and drawing the portrait of it by the whites of the text: between the words and at the end of lines. to the negative form and composed in a fixed hunting font.)

Kyle Ruddick. “Magic Dance Mirror”. https://vimeo.com/155638552