Day: March 18, 2009

Low-complexity art and matrix of sensations.

I found two of prominent scientists that develop a framework that is instrumental to what I do. They push forward the idea of aesthetics of information and aesthetics as information. One of them is renowned American art critic, curator and professor of art history at the State University of New York at Stony Brook and professor of art history at the School of Visual Arts and Andrew White professor at large at Cornell University – Donald Kuspit. He comes up with a term – “a matrix of sensations”. He posits that there was a transition from analogous to digital art at the end of nineteen century when a flow of perceptual sensations corresponding to an object gained independence from representation of that object and the very matrix of sensations became codified in works of pointillists.
And another one is Jürgen Schmidhuber who since 1995 has been co-director of the Swiss AI lab IDSIA in Lugano, since 2004 also professor of Cognitive Robotics at the Tech. University Munich, since 2006 also in the faculty of the University of Lugano. Jürgen develops a theory of “low-complexity art” among another exciting things. That is, the art that feature best compressibility and novelty. Note link on demo scene in wikipedia article. Exciting!