IDAT 210 - Related Research

There are a number of projects that are linked to the keywords I have chosen that demonstrate possible ways of developing and investigating digital art, and could provide inspiration for my project.  Below are a few of these related projects:

lewis laCooks flash poetry generator 3.0
laCooks flash poetry generator allows users to input their own choice of nouns and verbs which then generates a poem.  This ties in with generative art and dadaist poetry as it is constructs the poem via a process.  This is quite a basic project but does demonstrate a technilogical development of the original dadaist poetry. http://rhizome.org/artbase/11499/pogen3.html

Steven Read Internet Noise 1
Internet noise 1 and other pieces produced by Steven Read are based on the collation of found sounds that are then generated into a musical piece using software.  Internet Noise 1 is based on a collation of found internet sounds that are then randomly strung together using software.  This closely links to generative art as the music is being generated using code.  Also this is closely linked to process as art as these projects are much more based on the creative process than the final product.  This is interesting as in some ways the results can make a comment on the content and diversity of the internet. http://www.stevenread.com/music

Jason Freeman Piano Etudes

Piano Etudes is a collection of musical pieces that are created using small fragments of music pieced together alike to a flow diagram, in which the performer of the etude can choose the route trhough the fragments they wish to take according to the diagram.  The etudes are also available to the public to create their own version of an etude for others.  This is a very process based piece of work focusing on the ways in which the music is created rather than the end product that is produced.  This is an interesting project as it is a very dynamic way of producing a piece of music and has many different possibilities.

http://turbulence.org/spotlight/pianoetudes/net.jasonfreeman.pianoetudes.PianoEtudes/wordpress/

 Boris Muller Poetry on the Road entry 2006

In 2006 Boris Muller created an information visualisation for the Poetry on the Rad festival based on the transformation of a piece of poetry from text to image. This is created by calculating a value for each word, representing it by a position of a circle, and then drawing lines to connect the words together realtive to the poem.  This is generative art as it uses software to generate something from an input of data.  This is interesting as it provides an abstracted view point of an item of text, in which text is re-represented by an image.

http://www.generatorx.no/20061015/poetry-on-the-road/