Event 1
This week I attended the Color Light Motion event that featured Ryszard Kluszczyński.
This event explored digital culture and Ryszard’s thoughts on the role of cybernetics and contemporary art.
One artist mentioned is Wen-Ying Tsai. In Superimposed Painting Blue & Orange, Tsai created an optical art exhibition. When people moved around the exhibition, the art interacted with the audience’s eyes and recreated the object’s perception. As explained, this is Wen-Ying’s version of cybernetics. By using a technical engineering approach, Tsai’s artwork separates itself from the work of other cybernetic artists. His artwork is not only sensory, but it is technical, which demonstrates a rather scientific and technological approach to art.
In addition, Bill Vorn also demonstrates his neuro art with sensory systems, a motor system, and a control system that function autonomously. The hysterical machines have a primary goal to induce empathy of the viewers, although the machines are not alive, neither human nor animal, it tests our inner emotions as the machine was specifically crafted to challenge our senses through its autonomous function.
I enjoyed attending this event because it reminded me of the previous lectures on Robotics + Art. In the third week, there was a greater focus on the emergence of machines. As we learned, machines emerged from influences of mathematics and later expanded into computer science. Bill Vorn’s Hysterical Machines is a great example of the use of cybernetic art. Vorn created about a dozen autonomous machines, which could not have been created without the use of both art inspiration and technological doing. Additionally, the optical illusion exhibited by Wen-Ying shows his creation through being both an artist and techno scientist, engineer. One thing that I have noticed in this course is that creations of both art and science go hand in hand with one another, neither art nor technology are what they have become without having interconnectedness.
Cited Sources
Vesna, Victoria. “Robotics, Part 2.” DESMA 9, April 2024, Los Angeles, UCLA
Vesna, Victoria. “Robotics, Part 3.” DESMA 9, April 2024, Los Angeles, UCLA
Vorn, Bill. Bill Vorn Homepage, billvorn.concordia.ca/menuall.html. Accessed 27 Apr. 2024.
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