On the discussion about visual image and language, analog vs. digital.

1. VASE7200 Extended Context/Extended Media
Class 02
Art & Language
Analog vs. Digital

2. Schedule
Medium
Autographic vs. allographic
Analog vs. digital
Machine
Code
Image and text

3. Exercise
Portrait of a young artist
Describe your favorite classmate in English text.

4. Artistic medium

5. Communication medium

6. Autographic art

7. Allographic art

8. Allographic art

9. Visual art
Painters -> paint -> paintings

10. Musical art
Composers -> compose -> scores
Musicians -> perform -> music

11. Notation

12. Laban notation

13. Performing art

14. Performing art

15. Notation
Musical notes – visual symbols
Are they art?
Are they visual art?

16. Painting about music - Kandinsky

17. Handwritten music notes

18. Diagram

19. Diagram

20. Are they the same?

21. Picture

22. Picture vs. diagram
What is the difference between a picture and a diagram?

23. Pig

24. Pig

25. Pig

26. Pig

27. Pig

28. PIG
Pig

29. PIG
Pig

30. Analog vs. digital
Analog – dense
Digital – each symbol can be distinguished

31. Analog vs. digital

32. Old vs. new

33. Notation
From the discussion of analog and digital, we come back to
our notation system.

34. Notation

35. Ashley’s master project

36. Instruction art

37. Instruction art
Instruction Paintings
By Yoko Ono, 1961
A + B PAINTING
Cut out a circle on canvas A. Place a numeral figure, a roman letter, or a
katakana on canvas B on an arbitrary point.
Place canvas A on canvas B and hang them together.
The figure on canvas B may show, may show partially, or may not show.
You may use old paintings, photographs, etc. instead of blank canvases.

38. Instruction art

39. Yoko Ono – Cut Piece

40. Douglas Huebler

41. Douglas Huebler
Variable Piece 4, Douglas Huebler
Visitors to the SOFTWARE exhibition are invited to participate in the
transposition of information from one location to another by following
the procedure described below:
• Write or print on this paper an authentic personal secret you have
never revealed before: of course, do not sign it.
• Slip the paper into the slot of the box provided at this location.
Complete the exchange of your secret for that of another person
by requesting a photo-copy of one previously submitted.

42. Sol Lewitt
No matter what form it may finally have it must begin with an
idea and when an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it
means that all of the planning and decisions are made
beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair.
The idea becomes a machine that
makes the art.

43. Sol Lewitt

44. Sol Lewitt

45. Sol Lewitt
THE LOCATION OF A CIRCLE
1. From the center of the square, draw a line halfway toward
the upper right corner.
2. From the end of this line, draw a line to the midpoint of
the right side.
3. A point halfway between the midpoint of the right side and
the midpoint of the bottom side is the center of a circle.
4. The diameter is the length of line 1. Draw the circle.

46. Desktop publishing
Postscript
%!
%% Draws a one square inch box and inch in from the bottom left
/inch {72 mul} def % Convert inches->points (1/72 inch)
newpath % Start a new path
1 inch 1 inch moveto % an inch in from the lower left
2 inch 1 inch lineto % bottom side
2 inch 2 inch lineto % right side
1 inch 2 inch lineto % top side
closepath % Automatically add left side to close path
fill % Fill in the box on the paper
showpage % We're done... eject the page

47. Context Free
startshape Drawing
background {b -1}
rule Drawing {
20 * {r 18 x 3 y 3} Fire {}
}
rule Fire {
100 * {s 0.999} Part {x 1 r 5 h 60}
}
rule Fire {
100 * {s 0.999} Part {x 1.5 r -50 h 0}
}
rule Fire {
100 * {s 0.999} Part {x 1.5 r 10 h 180}
}
rule Part {
CIRCLE {sat 1 b 1}
Part {y 0.9 s 0.99 r 2 h 0.9 a -0.01}
}
rule Part {
CIRCLE {sat 1 b 1}
Part {y 0.7 s 0.99 r -2 h 0.7 a -0.02}
}

48. Drawing with codes

49. Space Odyssey 2001

50. Playing with codes

51. Pantograph

52. Harmonograph

53. Drawing tools

54. Henri Maillardet

55. Jean Tinguely

56. Computer
With the use of computer hardware and software, here are
more experiments with the drawing machines.

57. Harold Cohen

58. Harold Cohen

59. Jurg Lehni – Hektor

60. Jack Pollock

61. Gabriel Orozco

62. Casey Reas

63. Fractal graphics

64. Generative Art

65. Glitch art

66. Glitch art

67. Generative art in 3D

68. Visual Poetry
Give an expressive form of visual presentation for poetic
language, and constantly enrich typography.

69. Summary
Artist  Artwork
Artist  Notation  Artwork
Notation
Musical score
Theatre script
Instruction
Software code
Construction diagram
Can notation be art?

70. Ars Electronica

71. Ars Electronica 1999 winner