A Musical Suite Composed by an Electronic Brain: Reexamining the Illiac Suite and the Legacy of Lejaren A. Hiller Jr.

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 19-24 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tiffany Funk
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Performance Art ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
John Cage ◽  
Computational Experimentation ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Conceptual Performance ◽  
The 1950S

In 1956, Lejaren A. Hiller, Jr., and Leonard Isaacson debuted the Illiac Suite, the first score composed with a computer. Its reception anticipated Hiller’s embattled career as an experimental composer. Though the Suite is an influential work of modern electronic music, Hiller’s accomplishment in computational experimentation is above all an impressive feat of postwar conceptual performance art. A reexamination of theoretical and methodological processes resulting in the Illiac Suite reveals a conceptual and performative emphasis reflecting larger trends in the experimental visual arts of the 1950s and 1960s, illuminating his eventual collaborations with John Cage and establishing his legacy in digital art practices.

scholarly journals Arte y videojuegos. Reflexiones sobre lo lúdico, el arte y la tecnología en Asturias

Liño ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 23 (23) ◽  
pp. 175
Author(s):  
Marcelino García Sedano
Keyword(s):  
Video Games ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Digital Art ◽  
Music Festival ◽  
The World ◽  
The Relationship

RESUMEN:La apertura de LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial y el lanzamiento del primer festival sobre música electrónica experimental y artes visuales LEV Festival en el año 2007, coloca a Gijón y al Principado de Asturias en los puestos de cabeza de la reflexión y exhibición de las cuestiones relacionadas con la tecnocreatividad. Semejante despliegue institucional, arranca con fuerza y con propuestas arriesgadas, entre ellas, la programación de varias grandes exposiciones sobre la relación del videojuego y la cultura en el corto periodo de dos años. Lo que podría considerarse un debate pertinente aunque arriesgado, devino en muestras históricas, discusiones importantes y la presencia no sólo de grandes artistas, programadores y diseñadores de videojuegos, sino también de grandes teóricos del medio. Este artículo pretende ahondar en la profundidad compleja del videojuego como manifestación artística y cómo esta disciplina se relacionó con los sucesos artísticos de la región asturiana.PALABRAS CLAVE:Nuevos Medios, videojuegos, Asturias, interactividad, arte digital.ABSTRACT:The opening of LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial and the launching of the first experimental electronic music festival and visual arts, LEV festival, in the year 2007, places Gijon and the Principado de Asturias in the top of the rankings in exhibition and reflexion about techno-creativity. This huge display of institutional efforts, begins with a bang and innovative proposals; among them, the programming of a couple of big exhibitions on the relationship between video games and culture in just a short two-year period. What could be considered a pertinent but risky debate, turned into historical exhibitions, important discussions and the presence of not only important artists, programmers, videogame designers, but key theorist specialized in the field, placing this way, Asturias and LABoral in the top of the world rankings on the debates about artgame. This article aims to explore the complexity of the videogame as an artistic manifestation and the ways in which it got linked to artistic events in Asturias.KEYWORDS:New media, videogames, Asturias, interactivity, digital art.

From Site-specific to Site-responsive: Sound art performances as participatory milieu

2017 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lauren Hayes
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
Sound Art ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Relational Aesthetics ◽  
Third Order ◽  
Site Specific ◽  
The Social ◽  
Live Electronic Music ◽  
Three Stages

This article concerns context-based live electronic music, specifically performances which occur in response to a particular location or space. I outline a set of practices which can be more accurately described as site-responsive, rather than site-specific. I develop a methodological framework for site-responsive live electronic music in three stages. First, I discuss the ambiguity of the termsite-specificby drawing on its origins within the visual arts and providing examples of how it has been used within sound art. I then suggest that site-responsive performance might be a more helpful way of describing this type of activity. I argue that it affords an opportunity for music to mediate the social, drawing on Small’s idea of music as sets of third-order relationships, and Bourriaud’s relational aesthetics. Third, I suggest that with the current renewed trend for performances occurring outside of cultural institutions, it is important to be mindful of the identity of a particular site, and those who have a cultural connection to it. I make reference to a series of works within my own creative practice which have explored these ideas.

Libraries working together: a Scottish perspective

1995 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 12-16
Author(s):  
Ann Matheson
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
National Database ◽  
National Library ◽  
25Th Anniversary ◽  
Research Libraries ◽  
The United Kingdom ◽  
Working Together ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The 1950S

Cooperation between libraries is time-consuming, but is both ‘worthwhile and essential. Scottish research libraries commenced active cooperation in 1977: the Scottish Confederation of University and Research Libraries now has 15 active members. More recently, libraries in Scotland have been encouraged to work together following the creation of the Scottish Library and Information Council. The National Library has a key role to play, but in partnership with other libraries rather than invariably taking the lead. Cooperation between Scottish art libraries can be traced back to the 1950s and to the development, under the auspices of the National Library, of a union catalogue of art books in Edinburgh. This project is being extended and it will eventually become a national database. The group of libraries responsible for the project has taken on a wider role and an expanded membership as the Scottish Visual Arts Group, one of several subject groups under the umbrella of the Scottish Confederation of University & Research Libraries. The Group will work closely with the Scottish Library and Information Council, and with ARLIS/UK & Ireland in the wider framework of the United Kingdom. (This article is the revised text of a paper presented to the ARLIS/UK & Ireland 25th Anniversary Conference in London, 7th-10th April 1994).

scholarly journals «The Great Neurosis» of Jacques Loysel and Alfred Kubin

2020 ◽  
pp. 144-149
Author(s):  
D. O. Martynova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Illness ◽  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Lost Generation ◽  
Disciplinary Power ◽  
Graphic Artist ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Pathological Image

On the example of the work «The Great Neurosis» by the French sculptor Jacques Loysel and «Europe» by the Austrian graphic artist Alfred Kubin, it is described and analyzed how artists gave characteristics of changes in their eras, using the same visual image associated with a mental illness. It is proved that while Loysel’s artwork was associated with the latest discoveries in medicine, then Kubin’s artwork was reinterpreted in a new way, reflecting the problems and experiences of the «lost generation». From this it follows that the example of the works «The Great Neurosis» and «Europe» by Loysel and Kubin can be traced not only to evolution, but also to the introduction of the pathological image of the “hysterical body” both in the art of the XXth century and in contemporary art practices. Such a study demonstrates the relevance and signifi cance of studying the links between, as well as the analysis of the impact of mechanisms of institutions of disciplinary power on the visual arts of various eras.

Electronic Music

Artful Noise ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 107-117
Author(s):  
Thomas Siwe
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Electronic Music ◽  
John Cage ◽  
World War ◽  
Karlheinz Stockhausen ◽  
Edgard Varese ◽  
American Composer ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Musique Concrete

With the end of World War II came the rebirth of European radio. Government stations in both France and Germany established experimental studios for research, from which arose a new kind of music, “electronic music.” The station in France, Office de Radiodiffusion Télevision Française (ORTF), was directed by the engineer/composer Pierre Schaeffer and his partner, Pierre Henry, who called their musical creations musique concrète. In Germany the Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR) studio produced music through the process of “synthesis.” This chapter will explain the difference between the two approaches used to create electronic music with examples from the percussion solo and ensemble repertoire. Early experiments using wire recorders, test records, and tape recorders by composers Halim El-Dabh, John Cage, and Edgard Varèse precede the major electronic works of Karlheinz Stockhausen, Mario Davidovsky, and the American composer Stephen Everett, whose use of computers in “real time” brings the reader into the next century.

Haidar, Kadhim (1932–1985)

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nada Shabout
Keyword(s):  
Visual Arts ◽  
Fine Arts ◽  
Theatre Design ◽  
Religious Symbolism ◽  
Standard Textbook ◽  
Modern Thought ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Coups D'etat

Born in Baghdad, Iraq, Kadhim Haidar studied art at the Institute of Fine Arts in Baghdad after receiving a degree in Arabic Studies from the Higher Institute for Teachers in 1953. Later, in 1961 and 1962, he pursed a BA in theatre design and graphics at the Royal School of Art and Graphics in London. After his return from London, he taught at the Institute of Fine Arts in 1962 and the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 1968. He founded the Design Department at the Academy of Fine Arts in Baghdad in 1974 and chaired the Visual Arts Department there in 1981 and 1982. He was a contributing writer and a poet for various publications including Al-TakhtitwalElwan [Sketching and Colors], which became a standard textbook at the academy. Haidar’s work explored key political shifts in Iraq during the 1950s and 1960s through a re-imagination of popular religious symbolism, which was seen in opposition to the new secular modern thought favored by his generation of artists, and thus had been absent from the work of modern Iraqi artists. His most noted series of work is Melhamet al-Shahid [The Martyr’s Epic], which is based on a poem he wrote in Baghdad in 1965. Through his negotiation of the martyrdom of the Prophet Mohammed’s grandson, al-Hussayn, at the battle of Karbala, Haidar’s work gained added significance for contemporary Iraqis within the turbulent political years of coups d’état and unsettled affairs.

Toward a Total Work of Art

Art Scents ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 158-177
Author(s):  
Larry Shiner
Keyword(s):  
Electronic Music ◽  
Total Work ◽  
Work Of Art ◽  
Experimental Art ◽  
Music Score ◽  
Theater Production ◽  
The 1950S ◽  
Successful Integration

Chapter 9 begins with the idea of the total work of art (Gesamtkunstwerk) and considers examples of odors in theater from the Renaissance to the present, arguing that the inclusion of odors in some types of theater production is appropriate. In the case of film, the chapter discusses the difficulties faced by the first serious attempts in the 1950s and the handful of recent efforts, arguing that the combination of images with sound is able to suggests odors, whereas actual odors are likely to create more puzzles than they are worth, except in the case of highly experimental “art house” films. In the case of music, the chapter focuses on Green Aria: A Scent Opera, presented at the Guggenheim in 2009, a work that combined narrative, odors, and an electronic music score and marked a decisive step toward the successful integration of actual smells with music and narrative.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carrie Rohman
Keyword(s):  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
John Cage ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
Merce Cunningham ◽  
Isadora Duncan ◽  
The Aesthetic

Rather than looking primarily “beyond” ourselves to understand animals and aesthetics, I suggest we must also look “within” to identify a deep coincidence of the human and animal elaboration of life forces in bioaesthetic practices. A “bio-impulse” at the root of the aesthetic itself connects human artistic propensities to animality through strategies of excess, display, and intensification. Re-envisioning the aesthetic domain itself as trans-species in scope is ethically charged because our species must acknowledge the shared status of art-making, one of our most hallowed and formerly “exceptional” activities. In examining the work, theories, and art practices of Isadora Duncan, D. H. Lawrence, Virginia Woolf, Rachel Rosenthal, Merce Cunningham, and John Cage, I articulate ways to recognize and assess the entanglement of human and nonhuman aesthetic forces.

Poetic Tension

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan Antliff
Keyword(s):  
John Cage ◽  
Nuclear Bomb ◽  
Abstract Expressionist ◽  
The 1950S

This essay examines the politics of New York's Living Theater, from its founding in late 1940s to the mid-1960s. He will outline Julian Beck and Judith Malina's anarchist-pacifism, their involvement in anti-nuclear bomb protests during the 1950s and early 1960s, and the increasingly confrontational tenor of their theater productions. Topics to be discussed include the abstract expressionist paintings of Beck, Malina's interest in the Gestalt theories of Paul Goodman, and the group's collaborations with composer John Cage, poet Jackson Mac Low, and the artists of the No! Art! movement. The chapter will close with group's departure for Europe in1964.

The gestures of participatory art

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sruti Bala
Keyword(s):  
Collective Action ◽  
The Netherlands ◽  
Visual Arts ◽  
Civic Life ◽  
Institutional Critique ◽  
Community Theatre ◽  
Participatory Art ◽  
Art Practices ◽  
The Subject ◽  
Critical Investigation

The gestures of participatory art offers a critical investigation of key debates in relation to participatory art, spanning the domains of applied and community theatre, immersive performance as well as the visual arts. Rather than seeking a genre-based definition, it asks how artists, audiences and art practices approach the subject of participation beyond the predetermined options allocated to them. In doing so, it inquires into the ways that artworks participate in civic life. Participation is the utopian sweet dream that has turned into a nightmare in contemporary neoliberal societies. Yet can the participatory ideal be discarded or merely replaced with another term, just because it has become disemboweled into a tool of pacification? The gestures of participatory art insists that the concept of participation must be re-imagined and shifted onto other registers. It proposes the concept of the gesture as a rewarding way of theorizing participatory art. The gesture is simultaneously an expression of an inner attitude as well as a social habitude; it is situated in between image, speech and action. The study reads the gestural as a way to link discussions on participatory art to broader issues of citizenship and collective action. Moving from reflections on institutional critique and impact to concrete analyses of moments of unsolicited, delicate participation or refusal, the book examines a range of practices from India, Sudan, Guatemala and El Salvador, the Lebanon, the Netherlands and Germany. It engages with the critiques of participation and pleads for a critical reclaiming of participatory practices.

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