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each morning, the activity lasts as long as I can perform it without stopping. | each morning, the activity lasts as long as I can perform it without stopping. | ||
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| + | The performance piece Dance, a collaboration between choreographer Lucinda Childs, composer Phillip Glass, and artist Sol LeWitt, is a work that integrates these performance strands together. Like all of the works discussed above, narrative was removed and the subject is literally movement, hearing, and seeing through variation and repetition. For three of the five sections of the performance, LeWitt created films of the dancers performing the same sequence of motions that they perform live on stage. He filmed them on top of a grid to reinforce the structure within the choreography. The film is projected onto a scrim at the front of the stage during the performance and it's synchronized to a recorded version of Glass' score. At times the projected image is enlarged and at times it is slowed down as the film echos the movements of the live performance. Glass's music for Dance features his signature style of repeating and transforming brief passages. The foundation of Dance is Lucinda Childs choreography which she has referred to as stripped down ballet. In the first and strongest movement, the dancers move along straight lines from left to right and right to left across the stage. As they quickly follow the line in a mix of running, skipping, and turning, they move through a series of tilts. The perception is they are moving through every permutation within the grammar of movements created for the dance. Like 10 PRINT, the sound and motion are hypnotic and emphasize the details of the variation rather than larger global structural changes. Unlike 10 PRINT, Dance works across multiple media to synthesize a powerful and at times overwhelming aesthetic experience. | ||
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| − | The performance piece Dance, a collaboration between Lucinda Childs, Phillip Glass, and Sol LeWitt, is a work that integrates all of these strands together. [Short paragraph on Dance?] | + | [NOTE: The text that follows below is rough, but I'm posted it so you (Mark M. and Nick M.) know what I'm thinking about and what might (or might not) follow. Casey] |
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| + | In addition to repetition, process is essential to 10 PRINT. A process-based work of art is the result of following the instructions and typically the art focuses on the process itself, rather than a result. It's about the aesthetics of the process rather than visual aesthetics. Like 10 PRINT, there are myriad example of artworks and music compositions that are based on a set of written instructions, either in English or in a specific notions for music or computer program. For example, Alan Kaprow's Work, a created in September 1969 instructs | ||
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| + | Process and repetition are often intertwined. | ||
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| + | Another frequently used term that applies to 10 PRINT is “generative”. By generative art, we mean a work that is derived from a fixed system. The most cited definition for generative art was written by Philip Galanter. It's a general definition that intentionally embraces works created with traditional media and new technologies: | ||
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| + | Generative art refers to any art practice where the artist creates a process, such as a | ||
| + | set of natural language rules, a computer program, a machine, or other mechanism, which | ||
| + | is then set to motion with some degree of autonomy contributing to or resulting in a | ||
| + | complete work of art. | ||
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== The Flow of Control == | == The Flow of Control == | ||
