Artistic Experimentation Process

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Artistic Experimentation Process
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Artistic Engineering Interaction

• Meaningful interaction
• Where both artistic and engineering
  experimentation occurs
• The engineering should not solve an artistic
  technical problem
• The art should not illustrate the engineering
  principle
• Translation, synthesis, metaphoric transposition,
  may be appropriate terms to describe the
  interaction

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What is Artistic Experimentation?

• CREATIVE IMPULSE Art is the process or result of
  making material works which, from concept to
  creation, focus on the exploration of the
  creative impulse
• NOT NECESSITY DRIVEN art is distinguished from
  other works by being in large part unprompted
• by externally defined necessity
• by biological drive
• or by any undisciplined pursuit of recreation

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Purpose of Artistic Work

• To communicate ideas that are better expressed
  through artistic methods
• To generate strong emotions (either pleasureable,
  or painful)
• To create a sense of beauty or pleasure
• To explore the structure and syntax of language
  structures
• To make visible hidden structures, forms,
  thoughts, and methods
• Kant Art is the play of the imagination
• The purpose may also be seemingly nonexistent

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Art as a Form of Cultural Expression

• To explore philosophical propositions
• To engage in political, religious discourse
• To address issues in the air
• (for instance, cinema which aims at a large
  audience, needs to tap into the collective
  anxiety, collective interest to draw audiences)
• Expressions are many times metaphoric Science
  fiction invasion during Cold War to represented
  Soviet Threat.

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Criteria Conditions of Art

• Other then originality, (the continuous invention
  of new expressions)
• There are no widely-agreed upon criteria for what
  is or what is not art
• It is a discipline in continuous debate,
• and artworks must argue their case to be
  considered as significant contributions to the
  field
• Postmodernist position the work is an empty
  sign, and the surrounding discourse defines its
  meaning

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Sol Lewitt Sentences on Conceptual Art

• Rational Irrational
• Rational judgements repeat rational judgements.
• Irrational judgements lead to new experience.
• Irrational thoughts should be followed absolutely
  and logically

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Sol Lewitt

• Concepts Ideas
• Ideas can be works of art they are in a chain of
  development that may eventually find some form.
  All ideas need not be made physical.
• Ideas do not necessarily proceed in logical
  order. They may set one off in unexpected
  directions, but an idea must necessarily be
  completed in the mind before the next one is
  formed.

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Sol Lewitt

• Material Form
• Since no form is intrinsically superior to
  another, the artist may use any form, from an
  expression of words (written or spoken) to
  physical reality.
• All ideas are art if they are concerned with art
  and fall within the conventions of art
• (or engage in interaction with the conventions)

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Sol Lewitt

• Perception (understanding, interpretation)
• Perception is subjective
• The artist may not necessarily understand his own
  art. His perception is neither better nor worse
  than that of others
• An artist may perceive the art of others better
  than his own
• Successful art changes our understanding of the
  conventions by altering our perceptions

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Sol Lewitt

• Execution
• Once the idea of the piece is established in the
  artist's mind and the final form is decided, the
  process is carried out blindly
• There are many side effects that the artist
  cannot imagine. These may be used as ideas for
  new works

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References

• Sol Lewitt Sentences on Conceptual Art
• http//www.altx.com/vizarts/conceptual.html
• http//www.ubu.com/aspen/aspen5and6/serialProject.
  html
• http//www.artseensoho.com/Art/PACE/lewitt98/lewit
  t.html
• Incomplete Open Cubes
• http//www.clevelandart.org/exhibcef/lewitt/html/
• http//www.sfmoma.org/msoma/artworks/78.html
• Matthew Fuller www.spring-alpha.org/