Hi everyone.
Thanks to you, Victoria for the opportunity to participate in this conversation.
And, Neal, thanks for that surprising reference to "Basic English" that I never knew existed.
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Briefly, there are 2 software works in a series of mine begun a couple of years ago. They are both documented in videos on my vimeo site, vimeo.com/idiomorphics/videos
The series engages with the invisibility of code as paradoxical expression of its presence... The two works are these: "The Hole in the Sock" (2012), and "ALAALLL, a light at a level below" (2012)
Here is a list by way of a description:
1. Both these works of software appear as a generative works...Their surfaces appear to be an immaterial, formal play of lines.
2. What appear as formal movements of the lines are determined by an interaction of 2 "forces" (modalities of expression).
3. One force is a mathematical expression that generates a quasi-periodic series of numbers, i.e., the number set is given temporal-visual form...a visualization that never repeats itself exactly.
4. The second force is a representational element (excerpt from an archival film) that is invisible (in the offscreen buffer), at a level below the visualization.
5. Although you can hear the soundtrack of the cinematic excerpt that constitutes the invisible representations, it is not the sounds that affect the surface visualizations.
6. You cannot "see" the thing you hear. But the computer can "see" (in the video buffer) the thing that you hear...The computer "sees" via the code analyzing the representations.
7. The nonrepresentational mark and evidence of what you cannot see is carried by perturbations of the visualization.
8. In other words, the changes in the optically-gathered images of the archival film (along with its historical resonances) are dynamically sampled and used to aggressively contaminate, push, and pull the formal play of lines.
In this approach, the invisible remains invisible, but its presence is felt by a disturbance of the "pure" mathematical expression.
Barbara
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Barbara Lattanzi
Associate Professor of Interactive Arts
School of Art and Design
NYSCC at Alfred University
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