Month: August 2004

Aesthetic Experience

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2004-08-11

(From Aesthetics-L)

Aesthetic experience is reflective awareness of the discovery or rediscovery of an engaging pattern in chunked sensory input combined with memory by right-brain abstract global pattern-matching systems.

Reflective = awareness of consciousness available to consciousness.
Engaging Pattern = one that appeals to the organisational principles of the brain, rewarding its work.
Chunked Sensory Input = sensory input processed in some way by the brain, anywhere from properties to signs. This may involve different “levels” of perception, but is still perceptual.
Brain Structure = Whatever the brain does to structure information.
Right Brain Abstract Global Pattern Matching System = See any bad left/right brain self-help book.

Free Culture

Reflexive Consumption

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2004-08-09

In Quality Assurance, the product (work) should delight the customer (consumer). In art, the artist is the first viewer (consumer) of a work. What of a Jeff Koons work, made by artisans for the artist? In QA, what of the sweatshop workers who make the product? Are they its first consumers? Does it delight them?

Projects

1968 – Almost There

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2004-08-08

1968 is almost finished. I’ve realised that it can be regarded as a distant relative of Sarah Morris’s project. 1968 isn’t grids and capital, it is biomorphism and militarism. I like Sarah Morris’s work very much, but it wasn’t a conscious influence.
I’m looking at the images for 1968 on a CRT and there are a few colour changes I can see I need to make. 1968 has been made mostly on LCD. I did San Jose on LCD back in 2000, so it isn’t a first for me, but that was some time ago and I don’t yet trust myself to get the screen at the right angle. I suppose I should fiddle with ColorSync more.
Apart from the colour changes I’m working on a Makefile (a computer script) to generate the different formats, archives and web pages for the work automatically. This will allow me to put this work and future projects online quicker. It used to take hours to format up a project. Now I’ll just be able to type “make”.

Projects

Minara

Post author By Rhea Myers
Post date 2004-08-08

I lost some code for Minara to not backing up. :-/ I’ve just about remade the lost functionality, and it should be in CVS soon. I didn’t finish 1968 using Minara, so no dog food for me.

Aesthetics