Alex Brown is from Des Moines, Iowa. The paintings we are making at the moment would benefit by a consideration of this painter's work. Appearing "simply pixelated", they are in fact, all hand painted using a system of repeated shapes.
Notice the optical effect, the question that arises, "how much information is needed to form resolve?" What is, in fact, being seen?
Blue Tit, Alex Brown
Many of the postings for the etching class deals with (and will deal) with process as meaning and process as fact of image production. I encourage you to embrace this aspect of your work and get lost in the moment. Being too sure of your end result before you get there will only stifle you.
Posted by chris at September 1, 2004 09:01 PM
I really enjoyed the Blue Tilt. When you originally look at its completely blurry but if you take a couple steps back from the computer it comes completely into focus. Its all about the way you look at things. You can get so many different interpretations of the same picture.
Posted by: Angela Ludema at September 8, 2004 03:31 PMangela
how do you think this works?
how does the brain organize and decipher pictures?
what is the minimum amount of info that is required to form a complete picture, chris asks.
how is this learned? or perhaps innate?
any psychology majors?
Actually, a good link to get would be one that Seth showed me a couple months ago...
It was an article about our friend, the Pixel. There were interesting pics of a very simplified, pixelated grid of black and white squares that somehow instantly registered to me as a portrait of Abe Lincoln. So strange how it worked with so little information to go on. I wonder too about the mind and the way it seems to DEMAND order or recognition... why do we see shapes in cloud formations or faces in wall textures. Are we simply daydreaming or is our brain organizing the parts into wholes?
Seth, do you still have this article?
Posted by: ct at September 24, 2004 11:04 AMThat article's here. We just read it this week in Design 2.
I also just found some text from a course called "Algorithmic Art and AI," which is all about the grid and pattern recognition. It pulls from another text we read this week, "The Recognition of Faces ."
Also good is the project from issue 130 of k10k.net, the designer hipster destination (choose 130: pixelpusher from the pulldown menu at the top right).
I'm just full of Internet knowledge today.
Posted by: seth at September 24, 2004 12:59 PM