[WMC_4] Computational Thinking in Existing Art Forms
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Date : 30.1 - 14.1.2011
Venu: Youth Square, Chaiwan, Hong Kong
Classical art was sustained in part by a strong sense of craft. This craft element was rooted in the artist’s awareness of the intrinsic posibilities and limitations of their tools. Digital artists, however, sometimes use commercial software packages (such as Photoshop or Maya) whose internal operation is a mystery to them. Many digital art schools teach new media software but fail to teach computer programming and computer hardware. For this reason, art students often work without understanding the tools that they are using.
This situation discourages artists from exploring the full possibilities of computation. Computers have more capabilities than those of any individual package. Every commercial package predefines the range of possibilities for the user, and so limits what can be achieved. In light of this, the Writing Machine Collective – 4th edition (WMC_4) aims to present works in existing art forms to foreground the procedural operations embedded in computation. This exhibition will set an example to encourage artists to study digital tools in greater depth.
Project Objectives:
*to promote programming literacy among artists
*to treat technology as an “artistic medium” instead of a “tool”
*to foreground the procedural operations embedded in computation
*to support in-depth research and production of code-based generative art
*to rediscover the generative/computational elements in existing art forms
*to embrace interdisciplinary artistic research
*to promote the appreciation of computational art among the general public
Artists & their works:
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Enrica HO 何佩霖
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HO Yue-jin 何禹旃+ Iras TAM 譚慧心 |
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Kenny CHOW 周嘉年 + D. Fox HARRELL |
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IP Yuk-yiu 葉旭耀 |
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Linda C.H. LAI 黎肖嫻 + Gary NG 伍紀穎 [more...] |
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Hector RODRIGUEZ [more...] |
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Mary FLANAGAN |
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Vasco PAIVA (João Vasco Paiva) |
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Winnie SOON 孫詠怡 + Helen PRITCHARD |
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Zoie SO 蘇慧怡 [more...] |
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Told TO 涂業生 |
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Justin WONG 黃照達 |
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