04 W MAT 594 George Legrady                                                                      1.5.2004

 

 

 

 

Project Guideliens

 

 

Course is experimental and research based. Projects are to reflect this approach

 

Teams:

-        small teams: 1 engineer with 1 artist

-        instruct each other

-        be open to any idea (simple ideas can lead to interesting results, complex ideas can also lead to unsuccessful results)

-        brainstorm, decide and produce together

 

 

Artist and engineer team work together to:

-        identify a topic of interest

-        do research about the topic

-        see what the possibilities are for creating a project/artwork

-        develop a concept/ project definition

-        realization of the project

-        evaluation with references

 

 

Project/Artwork Conditions

-        project to come out of an investigation of a scientific topic of interest covered in the class

-        The project can be based on a methodology of procedure or analysis

-        Visual design/arts focus: Still or moving image or 3D (in space or time)

-        project to address a particular theoretical, technical, or aesthetic problem

-        Should be a visual expression of a principle (innovation and aesthetic exploration rather then illustrative scientific visualization)

-        Innovative approaches to producing images from algorithms

-        images to have conceptual and aesthetic relevance

 

 

Evaluation

-        Portfolio with conceptual, technical documentation (The project must exist and has to be documented) online at course website

-        It should be compelling, meaningful, or interesting: go for innovation

-        The project should be based on a scientific principle

-        and reveal aesthetic consideration or resolution

 

 

 

 

 

A few examples: Arts Architecture (mostly Waves and Fluids motion)

 

 

Paul de Marinis:waves property (umbrella Ð swatch exhi, fireflies (harmonics)

http://www.well.com/~demarini/

 

Fluids visualization: Garden design:

http://www.reiser-umemoto.com/projects/water/up.html

 

Aegis Hyposurface (The Birmingham Hippodrome Theatre)

http://www.sial.rmit.edu.au/Projects/Aegis_Hyposurface.php

 

Ned Kahn: Wind Veil

http://nedkahn.com/wind.html#windVeil

 

Algorithmic design: (Gl projects)

http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~g.legrady/glWeb/Projects/algo2/algo2.html

 

Baurmann, Brooks, Coersmeier art + architecture design for World Trade Center Memorial uses layers of sine waves as the basis for their design proposal:

http://www.wtcsitememorial.org/fin2.html