Lesson 3

Experimental action

-chance operation - free association

-open work

Rules [Open work]

-important in open work

-Turn out endless action

-Breakdown a continuous scene and combine it again with some rules

-Montage

Linda's video work

-one lomg shot 6 mins

-with feeling of being edited

-play with white balance, shutter...

-shake the camera horizontally

-play with intervals

-pure randomness

-how to switch it to an open work?

 -instead of intervals, use the household's sound?

Ada's video rule (閉路電視)

Combinations

Permutation

MATTHEWS ALGORITHM

-rules and rules about rules

EG. 2 Third Sonata for Piano

-Francis Schacffer

-plays with tape recorder

Sea Organ - music instruments played by the sea

               - how the water hot the shore

Film projection + performance

eg. film runs when someone enter the room

eg. everytime when someone walk inside, the screen turns off

NEW WAY: 360 degrees projection

Found Objects (Readymade)

-existing manufactured object turn it into a new work

Photomontage and collage

-all material have equal value

-contrast in perspective and texture (ultimate rule)

Lesson 2

1)Automatic writing in Group of 6 (automatism)

-process-oriented

-->with narrative logic

-->turn whatever you write to a story

-->lastly, step out, tell you more about the story

-->not really a full circle

SURPRISES AND AMAZEMENT

*Interactive between different materials

*not isolated

*multiplying what you already have **Gaming important!

Many different selves, not only one

-always there -unconscious mind

John Cage - "4 minutes 33 seconds"

-Silence? What music is?

-Silence is also a form of sound, "anxiety of audience"

-Empty sound?Constructed Silence?

INITIAL STEP!

Paul Klee (1879-1940)

-childhood drawing

Presentation:

John Cage

*Pushing the boundaries

Divergent of thinking

*Ursonate Kurt Schwitters

*Open work

**27 sound manufactured in a kitchen

**Water Walk

Comments:

After watching John Cage's Videos,

-What is the different between sound and music?

-Although it is impossible to perform perfect silence, we can feel and experience silence... then is silence a kind of music?

Fluxus

-to flow

-international network of artists, composers and designers noted for blending different artistic media and disciplines in the 1960s.

-Intermedia [Dick Higgins]

-Valued simplicity over complexity

-Strong current of anti-commercialism and anti-art sensibility

-Work with whatever materials were at hand

Event scores

-performances

-brief and simple

-attitude

-fun, humor have always been an important event and element

NAM JUNE PAIK

JOHN CAGE

Da-da

-cultural movement began in Zürich 

-anti-art

-non-sensial word

MY PRESENTATION

-find linkage between image(still) and sound

-Can sound be captured within an limited boundary?

-Can we feel sound if we are not really hearing them?

-mood board: emphasize what feeling I want to express

Lesson 1

Contemporary art opens up the meaning of "representation" = activity to represent

(show once again differently)

Automatism "da-da"

*Discovery

*Adventure

*The display/performace of the artist's subjectives

*Gaming

*Generate

**Manifesto of surrealism

John Cage's picture

-open more diversity of sound

-don't make sound always be music

-sound as sound performing itself

-not entertaining, not emotions

**Forcing us to think of sound as sth else

**Sth less than pitch/dynamics/durations

Question: WHAT IF SOUND IS NOT BOUNDED TO THOSE IMITATION?

*Think about sound beyond the creation of musical instrument

Divergent thinking exercise

*In term of lines/dots

*Space?units?association?representation?

*Think beyond the original usage of some 'basic things'