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Complexity & Abstraction

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Posted by: Tara Krause

Katarina Miljkovic of New England Conservatory of Music and I are working on a NKS music and art project that is scheduled to debut at the The Guarnerius Center for Arts in Belgrade this May.

You might find my recent film experiment of interest. It is a series of close-up shots of the details of my paintings of acrylic polymer pigment and emulsions on canvas. See http://tarakrause.com/Probing_The_Eddies.htm and http://tarakrause.com/More_Eddies.html

I was surprised by the complex images these photos seem to represent, and would welcome anyone else's observation. Is this complexity? What class might it be, or are we still NKSesque? Is turbulence a factor here in the sense of the gravity and the flow of polymer materials of different viscosity and temperatures?

Almost serendipitously last week, I read new media theorist Lev Manovich Spring 2004 essay on Complexity & Abstraction ( http://www.manovich.net ) He observes that software artists are increasingly pursuing complexity as content. He uses the word "paradigm."

Has anyone else know of other artists tackling complexity and abstraction?

Tara


Posted by: MikeHelland

If you scan through the message board here, you might get a good idea.

Also, above my computer screen right now are some paintings I bought by Sara Pollock:
http://www.snpollock.com/paintings2001.htm

I know that a few years ago she was reading NKS and anticipated working the concepts into her art.

What he's actually done, and whether or not it related to your ideas, I don't know.

Also, because I write software and play music, I myself have been dabbling in computer generated improvisiational music, but nothing beyond the brainstorming stage.




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