chance Projects

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https://www.behance.net/gallery/55440833/Blank-Architects

http://reas.com/

https://www.dezeen.com/2017/02/06/generative-design-software-will-give-designers-superpowers-autodesk-university/

So if my essay is this exploration of chance but it is based on ideas of looking into the art historys to gain maybeing some intresting techniques I would never have befor thought of. I dunno something about using history as an approach to creating within graphic design I think is super intresting and I think it can work. When you look at that ted talk by the lady who explore the history of emotions to gain a better understanding of whee we are now. Sadness used to be what we strived for because to be sad prepared you for the worse. Super intresting ideas behind this shift in thinking that could possible even make us feel more sad because we are chasing happiness.

Chance Aesthtic

What is chance?

Chance can be seen as a liberating source of unforeseen possibilities or a threatening force that could undermine human self sufficiency and moral self determination.

Chance is a reminder of the worlds instability and our uncertain position within it. 

The idea of chance has been a subject matter and theme within the visual arts due to its troubleing nature.

20^th century Avant gard adopted the method to create compositions of artwork.

1970 was a transition from high modernism to a fullypostmodern generation.

Chance has many manifestations Accident, luck, randomness and contingency. Incorporating this into the creative process questions aesthetic philosophy and sensibility.

Artists of the past have used chance to fulfil a variety of aims – anti art agendas, attempts to bypass the conscious mind and transform the way reality is perceived, statements of free will, programs to open artwork to the random flow of everyday life.

“deliberate implementation of accident and the openness to vagaries of interpretation advanced a challenge to longstanding assumptions concernsing what might constitute a work of art as well as the role of the artist as autonomous creator”

cahcne removes intentionality, rationality abd individuality .

The idea of chance can relate to. The tension between chance and control. The rejection of autonomy and originality and the reassertion of authorship.

Games and systems of random ordering.

Avant garte stratergies to subvert traditional generes and forms of expression. Bourgeois values and rationalist ideals.

Second essay

Chance marks the beginning of an overt negation of artistic autonomy in favour of a more ironic, and a seemingly casual, immersion in the realities of the modern world.

So it’s the beginning of an obvious denial of artistic independence. Creating art that is beyond there control handing it over to ‘life’. But if graphic design is created around the idea of form and rationality then this method surely would not work. However could it be tested? In the form of posters?

Chance provided a necessary means through which unorthodox aesthetic approaches, as well as alternative subject positions, could be readily explored and tested within the context of emerging systems of control and their false offer of stability in a world forever in flux.

This defo relates to graphic design as it would be a complelty unorthodox ways to create composition within graphic design. If chance can effectively do our job are we needed.

This could be applied to graphic design for sure if we wanted to explore what design can be used for. By removing my subjectivity within the process can I learn and make things I possible could not do befor?

Chance is a compositional principle. I feel a modern day equivalent to this is processing.

This author suggests that the turn to chance is a attempt to address the fundamental instability of artistic subjectivity in post war period.

Why is it instable?

What happens when you remove the graphic designers subjectivity when it comes to composition layout? Can we still create effective compositions?

 With generative design the designers are being curators

Key Quotes

“The digital revolution? A few years ago I would have said so. But now all of our students want to work in print. The digital thing is obviously huge, but there’s a whole new culture being built around printed artefacts. The letterpress workshop has never been so busy.” - Ken Garland - https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/architecture-design-blog/2015/mar/06/graphic-need-its-time-to-bring-design-into-the-spotlight

"Before social media, there was a different social media," she said. "Right now social media is on a computer platform, so it's easier and more nimble, but there was social media before there was this thing called social media. There were telephone trees, letters and a lot more paper. ...; It's a little different in the form, but fundamentally how people are doing it has not changed. They have an idea."

Individuals empowered to screen out material that does not conform to their existing preferences may form virtual cliques, insulate themselves from opposing points of view, and reinforce their biases. Internet users can seek out interactions with like-minded individuals who have similar values, and thus become less likely to trust important decisions to people whose values differ from their own.”

Newspapers, for example, have always catered to their audience. Nowhere is this clearer than in the UK, which has arguably the most partisan press in the world.

A 2015 study in PNAS found that misinformation flourished online, because users “… aggregate in communities of interest, which causes reinforcement and fosters confirmation bias, segregation, and polarisation”.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2017/dec/04/echo-chambers-are-dangerous-we-must-try-to-break-free-of-our-online-bubbles

Past and present protest Campaigns

Ateleier Populaire - 1968 - Paris protest

Ban The Bomb - 1957-60's

 

 

 

African American civil rights movement -  I AM A MAN 

 

 

 

Shepard fairy Hope campaign 

 

Occupy wallstreet 

 

Pins cant save the world -  jesica walsh

Aesthetic Revolutions Book Quotes

 P3(aesthetic revolutions) ‘avant gardes that strive to reach beyond art into “life” and aim to transform the world”

Called “extreme” “politicized” “revolutionary” “radical” “artistic-social” “poetico-political” “aesthetic-political”

The avant garde aims to “transform our ways of experiencing and sensing the world. To change the manner in which we perceive and experience reality”

Fourierste Gabriel-Desire Laverdant wrote”to know … weather the artist is truly of the avant garde, one must know where humanity is going, know what the destiny of the human race is”

“If man is ever to solve the problem of politics in pratcie he will have to approach it through the problem of the aesthetic, because it is only through beauty that man make his way to freedom.”

Similaryly, Jacques Ranciere has recently argued that “social revolution is the daughter of aesthetic revolution”

The 1960s neo-avant garde practices alternative lifestyles – including communal living. This is an idea that George promoted through soho. Can this be used today? Could it help with issues of expensive rent.

P4 “that art move from representing to transforming the world”

This was demand was there common call for art and “life to become one.

Petere Burgers Hegelian terms- “to Sublate” art: “art was not to be simply destroyed, but transferred to the paraxis of life where it would be preserved, albeit in changed form”

Cultural revolution is characterized by a redistribution of the sensible.

“American noe avant-garde artworks, he suggests, are less likely to be assertive instantiations of an ideological position than they are to be specific and singular occasions for members of the audience to experience an individual aesthetic and political awakening, thereby promoting the very sorts of diffrences that constitute the texture of freedom in society.”

Chance Aesthtic Book quotes and thoughts

Chance Aesthtic

What is chance?

Chance can be seen as a liberating source of unforeseen possibilities or a threatening force that could undermine human self sufficiency and moral self determination.

Chance is a reminder of the worlds instability and our uncertain position within it. 

The idea of chance has been a subject matter and theme within the visual arts due to its troubleing nature.

20^th century Avant gard adopted the method to create compositions of artwork.

1970 was a transition from high modernism to a fullypostmodern generation.

Chance has many manifestations Accident, luck, randomness and contingency. Incorporating this into the creative process questions aesthetic philosophy and sensibility.

Artists of the past have used chance to fulfil a variety of aims – anti art agendas, attempts to bypass the conscious mind and transform the way reality is perceived, statements of free will, programs to open artwork to the random flow of everyday life.

“deliberate implementation of accident and the openness to vagaries of interpretation advanced a challenge to longstanding assumptions concernsing what might constitute a work of art as well as the role of the artist as autonomous creator”

cahcne removes intentionality, rationality abd individuality .

The idea of chance can relate to. The tension between chance and control. The rejection of autonomy and originality and the reassertion of authorship.

Games and systems of random ordering.

Avant garte stratergies to subvert traditional generes and forms of expression. Bourgeois values and rationalist ideals.

Second essay

Chance marks the beginning of an overt negation of artistic autonomy in favour of a more ironic, and a seemingly casual, immersion in the realities of the modern world.

So it’s the beginning of an obvious denial of artistic independence. Creating art that is beyond there control handing it over to ‘life’. But if graphic design is created around the idea of form and rationality then this method surely would not work. However could it be tested? In the form of posters?

Chance provided a necessary means through which unorthodox aesthetic approaches, as well as alternative subject positions, could be readily explored and tested within the context of emerging systems of control and their false offer of stability in a world forever in flux.

This defo relates to graphic design as it would be a complelty unorthodox ways to create composition within graphic design. If chance can effectively do our job are we needed.

This could be applied to graphic design for sure if we wanted to explore what design can be used for. By removing my subjectivity within the process can I learn and make things I possible could not do befor?

Chance is a compositional principle. I feel a modern day equivalent to this is processing.

This author suggests that the turn to chance is a attempt to address the fundamental instability of artistic subjectivity in post war period.

Why is it instable?

What happens when you remove the graphic designers subjectivity when it comes to composition layout? Can we still create effective compositions?

 With generative design the designers are being curators

el lissitzky 1992 - books quotes

Every invention in art is a single event in time, has no evolution. el lissiT

zK y | 192 – Fluxus has not evoloved it has happened in time. 

With the passage of time different variations of the same theme are composed around

the invention, sometimes more sharpened, sometimes more flattened, but seldom is the original power attained. – This speaks about the neo dadas suggesting that the power is less

The so-called technical aspect is, however, inseparable from the so-called artistic aspect

What we find, more or less, in the art of printing are masterly variations accompanied by technical improvement in the production of the instruments.

In the first place it is the consumer who determines the change by his requirements; - think about the next generation of consumers will they want print? 

The idea that moves the masses today is called “materialism,” but what precisely characterizes the present time is dematerialization.

i n America there was a new optimistic mentality, concerned with the day in hand, focused on immediate impressions, and this began to create a new form of printed matter 

The traditional book was torn into separate pages, enlarged a hundredfold, colored for greater intensity, and brought into the street as a poster.

Art in Thoery George Maciunas 'Neo Dada in Music, Theatre, poetry, art.'

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Fluxus is a loosley organised group that emerged in 1961 newyork. George Maciunas was a leading figure within this colllective.

Fluxus embraced an international group of artists including George Brecht, Yoko Ono, Ben Vautier, Nam June Paik, La Monte Young and robert morris.

John Cage was an important influence, as well as his associates Robert Rauschenberg and Merce Cunningham.

Fluxus had a big impact on Joseph Beuys

Fluxus work took a variety of forms Including music, dance, poetry, performace, film, publications, multiples and posters.

The idea was life and art had been separated and fluxus was to fuse to two back together.

Notes manifesto and where it was made: Fluxus concert 'apres John Cage' wiesbaden, 9 June 1962.

Fluxus is neo - dada

The members where 'bound by the concept of concretism  The idea of concretism was to move away from the abstract. To art which is a better reflection of reality there is levels of how concrete a piece could be. This in music is how the actual pieces sounds the example given is hitting a piano with a hammer. Finding it hard to understand why this was important?

'Thus the primary contribution of a truly concrete artist consists in creating a concept or a method by which form can be created independently of him, rather than the form or structure."

The concept of concretism is art nihilism

'This requires the composition to provide a kind of framework, an automatic machine' within which or by which, nature (ethier in the form of an indepdent performer or indeternate-chance compositional methods) can complete the art form, effectively and indepdently of the artist composer' This idea seems to be similar to what creative coding is now. Generative

These anti art are against the seperation of artist and audience. Anti art is life, is nature, is true reality.The idea is to exphasis the ideas of life being beautiful and everyday life being art. There explain being stoping to look and appriciate rainfall. The anti-artists believe that art itself separated life from art.

'If man could expiernce the world, the concrete world surrounding him, in the same way he experinces art, there would be no need for art, artists and similar 'nonproductive' elements.

I do think that this idea is a very pretentious idea. considering that art being subjective
everybody experience art differently some may see more beauty in nature than art we don't need to look at a urinal to understand that. I do think that this idea of experience could have played a role in the way we set up art exhibitions however. I the Fluxus attitude must of had a influence on how exhibitions and installations are curated.

This is what anti art is I don't think its super important i think its more what George Maciunas believed.