[-empyre-] ambiguous artistic strategies & critical engineering

[gh hovagimyan]

On Feb 9, 2012, at 10:18 AM, Simon Biggs wrote:

> In the case of computing this means a competency in programming.

gh responds:
There's a crossover point between computing and physical perception.   
Perhaps starting with Pascal and his discovery of the x,y matrix.
Creating an abstraction and then turning it into a program to run on  
a computer is a logical process. The core artistic question is what you
choose for your starting point in the real world that you then turn  
into an abstraction(algorithm). I tend to start with an art work I'd  
like to make or a series of perceptions
I'd like to explore or convey in the digital world.  Why choose  
digital? Because the chain of logic in the process of abstraction  
allows me to examine all the
perceptual components.  Indeed, once you are freed from the template  
of film or linear narrative or Rennaissance perspective or creating  
physical objects
you can create new vehicles for sensations and emotions in the  
digital realm.