Table of Contents "Algorithmic Art & A.I."       IAAA       



Course "Algorithmic Art & A.I."   
 

Natural Phenomena as Works of Art



Yves Klein: Peintures de Feu (1961)



Andy Warhol: Copper Oxidation. ("Piss Painting.")



Robert Morris: Untitled, 1968/1969. (Steam.)





Hans Haacke: Condensation Cube, 1963-1965.

Marcel Duchamp: "3 Stoppages à l'Étalon", 1913/1914. (Cf. also: Readymade Malheureux, 1919.)


Arman: White Orchid (1963), een witte MG sportwagen die met behulp van drie dynamietstaven is opgeblazen.

Charles Eames: Blacktop (1952). 10'47".

This film shows the shapes produced by the movement of soapy water across an asphalt surface. Don Albinson controlled the hose and movement of the water. Eames edited the film and synchronized it to Bach's Goldberg Variations on the basis of visual cues from the film's optical track.

Charles and Ray Eames: Slide Collection.

Jan Henderikse: The San Pedro Art Project, 1973. (Three artificial lakes.)

Jan Henderikse: Steam in the Street, 1976-1982.

Wolfgang Mally: Paper in Water 0-58 Days, 1977/1978.

Mally legde 365 velletjes papier in water, aarde en lucht gelegd, en haalde er elke dag eentje uit. (Dorothea Eimert: PaperArt, Geschichte der Papierkunst. Wienand Verlag, 1994.)

Jan Henderikse: Ice, 1981.

Jan Henderikse: Snow, 1981.

Yukinori Yanagi: Wandering Position, 1995. Ant, steel frame, pastel, 530 X 430 cm. Installation at Power Plant, Toronto, Canada.

"The plan for Wandering Position, which will be executed on-site, is to set an ant free within a square area surrounded by a steel frame. The artist will follow the ant and trace his own footsteps in pastel. Only the size and position of the enclosure are to be determined by the artist. The rest will be drawn according to the ant's "will."

Asa Elzen: Communiejurkje, 1998.

Een glazen bak met water en zout. Na verloop van tijd is er een patroon van zoutkristallen ontstaan. (Uit de catalogus van Flexible 3, close to the body. Nederlands Textielmuseum, Tilburg - 2000.)

Norman McLeod: The Rattle in Seattle. Earthquake as Artist. (Trace of pendulum in sand during earthquake.)

Ken Goldberg, Randall Packer, Wojciech Matusik and Gregory Kuhn: Mori, 2001. Ongoing display of earth movements in Berkeley, CA.

Patrick Bulas: Modern physics as art.


Simulaties

Stoom: Kevin Newman: Smoke. (<5k Flash 5, 2002.)
Erosie: Bit-101 Laboratory: 01 dec 08/12/20; 02 dec 23-25
Explosie: Bit-101 Laboratory: 01 dec 11


Quotes

"La mer est plus belle que les cathédrales."

Paul Verlaine. (Cited by: Theodor W. Adorno: Ästhetische Theorie (Frankfurt am Main, 1973), p. 103.) [Cf. Andrew Bowie: Aesthetics and subjectivity: from Kant to Nietzsche (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1990), p. 134.]

Man könnte sagen: die Kunst zeige uns die Wunder der Natur. Sie basiert auf dem Begriff der Wunder der Natur. (Die sich öffnende Blüte. Was ist an ihr herrlich ?) Man sagt: "Sieh, wie sie sich öffnet!"

Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1947. (Vermischte Bemerkungen, p. 109.)

Wittgenstein verbindt de natuur-esthetiek met de concept-kunst, door de wiskunde bij de natuur te trekken:

Der Mathematiker (Pascal), der die Schönheit eines Theorems der Zahlentheorie bewundert; er bewundert gleichsam eine Naturschönheit. Es ist wunderbar, sagt er, welch herrliche Eigenschaften die Zahlen haben. Es ist, als bewunderte er die Regelmässigkeiten einer art von Krystall.

Ludwig Wittgenstein, 1942. (Vermischte Bemerkungen, p. 83.)

"Ce nÕest pas si naturel que cela de peindre, et si le peintre peint, cÕest parce quÕil est un homme, et non un animal sŽcrŽtant des morceaux de toile colorŽe de diffŽrents formats, comme lÕhu”tre la perle, ou la seiche la sŽpia."

Raymond Queneau: "LÕamour, la peinture", 1948.
In the Japanese canon, (. . .), there are eight methods of painting rocks, each based on the use of a highly adaptable unit of design, gathered from some phenomenon where it is clear and striking, such as axe strokes on a tree, the shape of alum crystals, hemp leaves, the wrinkles in a cow's neck.

Susanne K. Langer: Mind: An Essay on Human Feeling, Vol. I. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1967, pp. 173/174. (Based on: Henry P. Bowie: On the Laws of Japanese Painting. New York: Dover, 1951.)

Bibliography

Jan Henderikse: Photo. Installations 1960-1992. Almere: Directie Kunstzaken / Amsterdam: Galerie . Apunto, 1992, pp. 15, 18-19, 47.

Walter de Maria: "On the Importance of Natural Disasters." (1960) In: La Monte Young and Jackson MacLow (eds.): An Anthology. 1963. [In Reader 1985]


Zie ook:

Fire

Animal Art.

Mark Boyle's vloeistof-dia's en de lava-lamp.

Microfotografie.


Muziek: De Aeolus-harp e.d.

Howard Dearstyne: Material Compiled on the Subject of the Aeolian Harp from Various Sources. Williamsburg, VA: Colonial Williamsburg, Inc., 1954.
Stephen Bonner: The history and organology of the Aeolian harp.
Stephen Bonner and M. G. Davies: The acoustics of the Aeolian harp. Bois de Boulogne, 1974
Mins Minssen et al.: €olsharfen: der Wind als Musikant. UniversitŠt Kiel, Institut fŸr die PŠdagogik der Naturwissenschaften, 1997.

Opdrachten:

  •    Maak computersimulaties van een aantal natuurverschijnselen.

  •    Het is al vaak opgemerkt dat Kant's analyse van de esthetische ervaring in de Kritik der Urteilskraft zich concentreert op de schoonheid van de levende en de dode natuur, en dat de esthetische status van kunst in die analyse problematisch is. Bespreek tegen de achtergrond van Kant's theorie het "Nature as Art" genre in de kunst van de zestiger jaren. Betrek in elk geval Duchamp's readymades in de beschouwing. Denk ook aan algoritmische kunst en Artificial Life.


Some works and links suggested by Chris Alderliefste, Jorn Baas, Maja Brouwer, Daniel Marcel Joosse.