exercise 3

XYLOPHONE ART: MUSIC MAKES THE ART:


Goal: To construct a random image using sound.

The first 7 keys on a xylophone…C,D,E,F,G,A,B
Each key represents a different shape
C-Straight Line

D-Circle

E-Square

F-Squiggle Line

G-Rectangle

A-Diamond

B-90 degree Angle

Process: 
A person is blindfolded and chooses a musical sequence at random which consists of the 8 musical keys on a xylophone. The notes are then drawn out with the corresponding shape associated to the particular key. The shapes are connected, a spinner is used to dictate the location of connection. An image is then created to match the musical sound.System Consists of…

Composer

Artist

Xylophone

Spinner

Musical Sequence

Image:

composer at work:

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artist at work:

exercise 3

 FOOD MUSIC

GOAL: Making beats from the foods children eat

SET UP:

1) I put particular snacks into bowls. Each food represented a sound/key from garage band

2) I placed each child in front of the food and instructed them to eat! That’s when recording time started. The recording stops when they stop eating.

http://bigrobinn.tumblr.com/

CONCLUSION: I combined both food selections into one song.
Emory was playing the drums, while Jaden was playing the piano through garage band.

exercise 3

The Making of a Complex System

Organize into groups (2-3) and discuss the terms and ideas presented in the first three weeks. Try to understand what is needed to make complexity and emergence. As a group create 2-3 demonstrations of complex systems. Use yourselves as agents and/or think of creative ways to generate and document something that is a complex system. Post your process and approach as well as your experiment online on your blog.

PROJECT #1 FOLLOW THE LINE

SYSTEM: We wanted to connect to the system of the consumer by adding our own element into the shoppers daily interactions.

GOAL: To see whether people follow directions without being told to follow directions.

SET UP: We placed blue tape starting from the outside of the shoe store to the inside with arrows pointing in the direction of the store. I recorded people through photos for an hour to see if customers followed the line.

MATERIALS: Camera & tape

CONCLUSION: People did not follow the line completely. For the most part people stayed on the line when they would stop to look at shoes. Some people followed the line for a few seconds but would quickly stop before anyone really noticed them.

complex system: self-organization

• Self-organization is a process where some form of global order or coordination arises out of the local interactions between the components of an initially disordered system. This process is spontaneous: it is not directed or controlled by any agent or subsystem inside or outside of the system;
• One example of self organization is the ant colony, which demonstrates a complex system that self-organizes without any outside force directing that organization.
• Any relationship in the natural world—bees pollinating flowers, predators and prey, food webs, eco-systems—has developed over time through the natural order of self-organization.

complex system

• A complex system is any system featuring a large number of interacting components (agents, processes, etc.) whose aggregate activity is nonlinear (not derivable from the summations of the activity of individual components) and typically exhibits hierarchical self-organization under selective pressures. 
• Instead viewing system apart, it is a system view as a whole. Systems are called complex when simple interactions between parts lead to behavior in which there is the emergence of new order and coherence.
• Complex systems are non-linear and it is impossible to predict the behavior of the whole by analyzing the parts separately. 

http://www.csh.umn.edu/wsh/UnderstandingComplexSystems/index.htm

reading 2

Cybernetics
N. Katherine Hayles

• System theory focus more on the structure of systems and their models, whereas cybernetics has focuses more on how system function, how they control their actions, how they communicate with other systems or with their own components
• The social, cultural, and theoretical impact of cybernetics has been associated with its tendency ro reconfigure boundaries.
• first, boundary separating biological organisms and machines, no observer
• second, boundary included the observer and system (autopoietic)
• third, redraw boundary again locate both observer and system with complex, networked, adaptive, and coevolving environments through which information and data are pervasively flowing.
• Media can be understood through four principal levels of analysis
• materiality - a medium is in its physical composition 
•  technology - specifies how material object works and functions
• semiotics - addresses the basic function of media, facilitation of communication
• social context - the way people use computers also the corporations that produce hardware and software. 
• cybernetics in relation to media, three general contributions; the idea of the feed back look joined with a quantitative definition of information; the idea of a theoretical framework capable of analyzing control and communication in animals, humans, and machines; and artifacts instantiating these ideas;

New Ontologies
Andrew Pickering

• Comparing two painters's work, a de kooning painting is somehow irrevocably a joint product of the human and the nonhuman. A decentered production of which de kooning was at once the author and discoverer, both active and passive in turn. 
• Second contrast has to do with temporality. Mondrian's paintings do not thematize time, almost timeless Platonic image, an image can hold clearly in one's mind and unleash in the world when ever one is so disposed. 
• Author thinks Kooning's ontology is the true ontology that reminds us of how being in the world always has been and always will be. 
• Science is itself caught up in the flow of becoming; the contents of science change emergently.
• Scientific knowledge helps to conceal becoming from us. It portrays and draws our attention to a timeless and constant world.
• Cybernetic showed that bringing to consciousness a decentered and temporized ontology can make a big difference in the world, restructuring and reconfiguring great swathes of culture and practice- it was a nomad science. 

Don't give up! Media art as an endless conversational process
Graziele Lautenschläger, Anja Pratschke

• Interactive artworks are only complete when circular relations between technical systems and contributions by interacting observers are taken into account.  
• the production of aesthetically powerful environments requires the following qualities:
   -the environment needs to offer enough variety to promote the “potentially controllable novelty” by the subject; 
  -it must contain forms that the subject may interpret, or learn to play at various abstraction levels;    -it needs to provide clues or instructions implicitly declared to guide the learning and abstractive processes; 
  -it can additionally respond to the subject, involving it in a conversation and adapting its characteristics to the dominant mode of discourse (Pask, 1971, p. 76). 
• the analysis of conversation and autopoietic aspects within the interactive installation is pivotal.
• communication is understood as a recursive and self-regulatory autopoietic system among other systems, whose operation depends on each part’s behavior. 

reading 1

cybernetics and systems science is the study of the system, no matter in what kind of world, we always can find different kinds of organizations. One overlap another, and they interact each other in order to create a certain type of system.

The system approaches almost all types of principles. However when in practices focus on the "more complex, adaptive, self-regulating system" which can be called "cybernetic".

system theory focus on structure of system and their models, cybernetics has focused more on how system function, how they control their action.

Cybernetic models are structures of mathematically related goal-directed systems, often combined with other elements such as logical operators and information storage media. 

basic premises of cybernetics, the behavior of living things and machines could be discussed in the same terms. the "feedback" was a critical control technique. 

a new form called cyborg art/ robotic art has evolved, it's concerned with simulated behavior and the building of virtual machines as artworks. 

Burnham foresaw that science and art come together create a new form, the prediction for future sculpture, combining with the cybernetic ideas.

The use of "black box" theory, the general behavior up to describe and grasp the behavior of the system, the forecast system, without the need for a large number of the details relating to the internal structure and interactions of complex systems, which is particularly useful in the study of complex economic and social systems. 

The basic concepts of the use of this information, a variety of movement patterns of the system aside from belief circulation on the regulation of the research system and the law. Sophisticated mathematical and physical methods to "load" the study of complex systems. 

The use of the feedback principle to achieve control of the system.

Basically the readings introduce the concept of cybernetics and system science. My understanding of cybernetic is the study of the process with already known input information and feedback. How the system work when we already know the input and feedback, the input and the feedback are the key to control the system.  The effective way to understand system is how an sculpture/object turns to having behaviors, then we need a outside factors to control it. Burnham vividly describes how system science and art will be. 

exercise 1

system  n. 
-instrumentality that combines interrelated interacting artifacts designed to work as as coherent entity.
 control system- a system for controlling the operation of another system,
 information system, system consisting of the network of all communication channels used with an organization

-a group of independent but interrelated elements comprising a unified whole
 ecosystem, network

-(physical chemistry) a sample of matter in which substances in different phases are in equilibrium.
physical chemistry, the branch of chemistry dealing with the physical properties of chemical substances.

-a complex of methods or rules governing behavior.
 system of rules, method, government system...

-an organized structure for arranging or classifying
 arrangement, structure classification system...

-a group of physiologically or anatomically related organs or parts
body part, immune system..

-a procedure or process for obtaining an objective
 plan of action, credit system...

-the living body considered as made up of interdependent components forming a unified whole
 live body

-an ordered manner; orderliness by virtue of being methodical and well organized
  organization

 examples of systems 

A human body is a system that supported by many other systems in order to function. each different system function as its own meanwhile interact and correspond with other systems, then form another system which is human body. The human body system can ben more than 50 elements systems and also a living, organic system.  

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water circulation 

The cycle exist in our nature environment. 

 government check and balance system 

the government system is a hierarchy, organization is whereby each level is subordinate to one above. This system is no more than five parts. 

an ideal reading system 

This one can the interdependency, if the sitting position is not right, it will result to ineffectually reading, which will not be an ideal reading system.