Sentences with phrase «chance operations»

Generally, the concept of chance operations as employed by Merce Cunningham and John Cage has been a major influence, as has the exploration of the «open work» in the writing of Umberto Eco, or for example in Lygia Clark's series Bichos.

features three new projects generated by chance operations.

Often the foam serves as a means to undermine the function of another object and sometimes the foam is allowed through chance operations to assume its own unpredictable and often absurdly ridiculous shape mimicking some type of organic form.

The line of a dozen or so stainless steel variations on the letter «U,» display the repetition and idiosyncrasy that run through all of Guyton's work, but these are not the result of chance operations on the machine's part.

And it has to do with relinquishing a kind of control and allowing chance operations to kick in.»

If these objects are, on the one hand, clear indications of the role that the incidental plays in Armleder's compositional strategy, they are also structuring elements that provide a foundation for the deeper chance operations at work all around them.

But the extremer losses of the forecasters tended to exceed the losses registered by the least successful of our 24 records of purely chance operations.»

Inspired by the inquiries into chance operations by Cornish legends Merce Cunningham and John Cage, the exhibition will be accompanied by a series of music, dance, and theater performances by Cornish students and faculty.

They were making art objects based on behind - the - scenes research, their methods coming out of Duchamp but eradicating the Surrealist chance operation and replacing it with this archival, obsessive work — the «CalArtification» of the object.

Utilizing chance operations, Smalley allows the work to take on a life of its own.

Building on these artists work, Webber has developed a unique approach to the creation of her photograms, integrating elements of sculpture and drawing while also incorporating chance operations.

Derived from hand drawings and digital processes combined with chance operations, found materials and printing from discarded laser cut plates from architectural models, the result is a generative series of colorful, haptic and playful works intended to express ideas about the anxieties, fears, and instability experienced around the world.

And with added emphasis, he continued, «That's why I used chance operations -LSB-...] the work will resemble more and more, not the work of a person, but something that might have happened, even if the person weren't there.»

Photographs created without a camera, these works are photograms that result from prearranged chance operations performed in a dark room.

Stella's reasoned irrationality ultimately precludes the possibility of chance operations in his works, which creates an inertia of being, an odd kind of nihilistic idealism.

From a media aspect, it is a liminal territory where printmaking meets sculpture, interaction and poems digitally composed through chance operations.

Artist Statement My work is driven by chance operation, via rolling of dice and even though I make paintings, I am fixated on contemporary drawing techniques.

Calling on ideas about technological production, language, chance operations, and systems of translation, Boursier - Mougenot's work merges multi-sensory phenomena with a cerebral investigation of the mechanisms of sight and sound in his given situations.

SR Brian Eno was an early influence, partially because he offered me a kind of primer for John Cage through his use of limitations, chance operations, and the «Oblique Strategies» to prompt creative thinking.

Stone will speak about his work and recent book, DAILY, IN A NIMBLE SEA, which explores through a collection of photographs assembled over a ten - year span the relationships connecting photography, chance operation, code and the landscape.

Ceding varying degrees of aesthetic agency to programmatic procedures that give visual and linguistic form to statistics, sociocultural phenomena, and chance operations, he is best known for large, labor - intensive, colored - pencil - and - graphite drawings that creep and sprawl across their supports in accordance with eccentric, self - imposed directives.

His poetic use of found materials, printed and reproducible images, his unconventional and inventive mark - making, and his embrace of chance operations (whether dragging a canvas on the ground, allowing a drop cloth to absorb stains of nature and of the studio, or exposing the paintings to the forces of weather) can be seen echoed within Schnabel's entire body of work as well as in the work of a subsequent generation of artists.

His poetic use of found materials and his embrace of chance operations (whether dragging a canvas on the ground, allowing a drop cloth to absorb the environmental stains of the studio, or exposing the paintings to the forces of weather) can be seen echoed in the work of a subsequent generation of artists, including Joe Bradley, Dan Colen, Urs Fischer, Wade Guyton, and Nate Lowman, among others.

, curator of modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute, discusses Cage's use of chance operations to develop works that would transform music in the 20th century.

Nancy Perloff, curator of modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute, discusses Cage's use of chance operations to develop works that would transform music in the 20th century.

Henry Flynt coined the term concept art in 1961 to describe the logic of chance operations, as for John Cage and Fluxus.

Forming is a solo exhibition of new works by Sto Len that focuses on water as a central theme within a series of personal sigils, rituals, visions, and chance operations.

She connects his work to the aesthetic sensibility of John Cage, who employed chance operations and rule - governed improvisations.

Although most of the artworks in this show were created with found objects through chance operations, they represent time capsules for the decades in which they were created, as well as self - narratives comprising personal / cultural symbols.

Seeing the choreography of Merce Cunningham changed my entire concept of what dance could be: dance could be a chance operation just as much as it could be a rehearsed and scripted movement.

Yet they are all in pursuit of the same goal - to find - through a combination of chance operation, formal intuition, and a few self - imposed rules, a new way of making and relating to art objects.

Incorporating props from the Theatre Department, such as mirrors, musical instruments, sculptures, texts and costumes, this conceptual work makes use of chance operations, improvisational methods, and choreographed actions.

Martin is a firm believer in the beauty and surprise of chance operations, in knowing and not being sure of what he is doing at any given moment.

Describing her experience as a student at Pratt University in the 1950s where she learned from Richard Lindner and Adolf Gottlieb, Knowles recalls her transition from Abstract Expressionist painting to the chance operations initiated by John Cage and Bertolt Brecht.

Inspired by John Cage's chance operations, Rigamonti travels widely, sketching scenes such as outdoor markets and shop windows, which become the dynamic, abstract collages featured here, composed of such materials as tempera, newspaper and dried flowers.

The chance operations of the Music of Changes produced results which, once Cage set them down, remained fixed.

After Cage had gone more in the conceptual direction, basing his pieces on chance operations and Feldman was going in the direction of longer and longer pieces that were guided by the ear with a few key sonorities, Feldman came up to Cage and said, «I miss you in your music.»

Most acknowledge that the performance was structured using time brackets that Cage arrived at via his chance operations technique, and that it was otherwise indeterminate and interdisciplinary.

In this interview, Zurier discusses silence in painting, the atmosphere of the San Marco convent in Florence, and chance operations, among other things that shape his practice.

During a residency at Minneapolis's Walker Art Center in 1981, John Cage and Merce Cunningham gave an interview in which they discussed the logic and methodology behind the chance operations employed in their work.

Evoking ideas about technological production, language, chance operations and systems of translation, Boursier - Mougenot converges multi-sensory phenomena with a cerebral investigation of the mechanisms of sight and sound in his installations.

The chance operations Richter employs assert that all marks and pictorial incident are equally valid and that all results are worthy of the viewer's interest.

One of the main tropes of this survey exhibition is Schnabel's poetic use of found materials, his embrace of chance operations, and his sui generis inventive mark - making.

«Chance Operation» by Dawn Kasper in Present Future and «Habite de Tabletier» by Viola Yeşiltaç with Oliver Input in Per4m