Complexity Theory
This assignment is based on complexity theory.
For this assignment you will create a system of some sort and then letting that system loose to create on its own. You will come up with rules or a plan and then letting it morph and change without influencing it. Let the piece of art be in the hands of something else to be able to make it into whatever it needs to be. Embrace the unpredictable.
Ideas:
Traveling the Postal Service
Drawing machine
https://www.mi.sanu.ac.rs/vismath/jaynew/index.html
ARTIST EXAMPLES:
Learning to Love You More is both a web site and series of non-web presentations comprised of work made by the general public in response to assignments given by artists Miranda July and Harrell Fletcher. Yuri Ono designed and managed the web site.
Participants accepted an assignment, completed it by following the simple but specific instructions, sent in the required report (photograph, text, video, etc), and their work got posted on-line. Like a recipe, meditation practice, or familiar song, the prescriptive nature of these assignments was intended to guide people towards their own experience.
Since Learning To Love You More was also an ever-changing series of exhibitions, screenings and radio broadcasts presented all over the world, participant's documentation was also their submission for possible inclusion in one of these presentations. Presentations have taken place at venues that include The Whitney Museum in NYC, Rhodes College in Memphis, TN, Aurora Picture Show in Houston, TX, The Seattle Art Museum in Seattle, WA, the Wattis Institute in San Francisco CA, among others.
From 2002 to its close in 2009, over 8000 people participated in the project.
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