Temp Ex Daily: 4; Jaycee, Electric Green / Space – Black

Day four of my event score:

  1. When programming visual digital art, at the first point where you decide to use a color, ask someone else to pick the color for you.
  2. Have them explain their choice.
  3. Dedicate the color to them.

I reached out to my friend Jaycee over Facebook Messenger in order to pick my color.

Event Score Daily Practice: Day Four Jaycee

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Temp Ex Daily: 3; Barrett, Sex Lasagna Blue

Day three of my event score:

  1. When programming visual digital art, at the first point where you decide to use a color, ask someone else to pick the color for you.
  2. Have them explain their choice.
  3. Dedicate the color to them.

I reached out to my friend Barrett over Facebook Messenger in order to pick my color. Here is an edited transcript:

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Temp Ex Daily: 1; Lola, Gray

Daily practice time! For Temp Ex, we’ve been asked to do a constraints-based exercise for one week. We need to *make stuff* in relation to our topic. Make make make!

For this week, I have developed an event score. In order to get comfortable with event score ideas, and put my money where my mouth is, I have decided to perform my event score every day.

  1. When programming visual digital art, at the first point where you decide to use a color, ask someone else to pick the color for you.
  2. Have them explain their choice.
  3. Dedicate the color to them.

This is based off a piece I recently made (“Green Apples”, for The Poetics of Space), and I want to make variations on it to explore the idea.

Here is my day one:

Event Score Daily Practice: Day One Lola

Lola picked a neutral shade of gray: RGB 164,167,167

Temp Ex Checklist pt2

Contexts/calls for my work:
Rhizome Microgrants

This is a call for a Rhizome Microgrant from this past summer. I’m hoping to have artists, coders, and the general “creative technologist” population as an audience for my work, so I can easily imagine some of my outreach or platform to be web based in some way or another. The small, contained nature of event scores lend themselves to this kind of “microgrant” program.

http://rhizome.org/editorial/2017/jul/18/open-call-rhizome-microgrants-2017/

“Since 2014, the Rhizome Microgrant Program has awarded small grants for the creation of new artworks, online exhibitions, and other web-based projects. This program is run as an open call, and awards range from $500 – $1,500. Past funded projects have included a website critiquing a notorious internet misogynist, an excavation of the emails left behind by one of the largest corporate frauds in history, an exploitation videogame inspired by the Kardashians, and an analysis of the use of language in Egyptian social media during the 2011 revolution. This year, we invite proposals for online artworks and exhibitions from artists of any nationality. We aim to support a diverse range of experimental practices, and we particularly encourage proposals that engage with gender and internet culture.”

In this posting they stated a 150 word limit, but I’ll go for the 25 word approach as originally assigned in class. My project description would be the following:

Combining event scores with computer programming to imbue more meaning to less technical work, inspire creative technologist practices, and challenge requirements of mastery in tech-art.

(…if “tech-art” counts as one word I made it to 25…)

Thought Map
This the thought map I’ve come up with to start (click to view full size):

Temp Ex Checklist pt1

There are a few more Temporary Expert checklist items that I will have to come back to in separate posts, but I wanted to get some of the fundamentals up now.

Goals:
• Know more about the history of events scores
• Investigate a potential theory of creation for event scores
• Highlight links between event scores and computer programming/creative coding/tech art
• Provide a new context for event scores in the creative technologist community
• Help other creative technologists create art within this context

Questions:
• What is a practice theory for creating event scores?
• How can this process be used in a 21st century context in regards to technology? (If it should at all?)
• Can using this process in current tech art practices bring a more personal, human, and soulful perspective to art practices?

Identify precedents:
• Dada, Surrealists, Situationists
• Exquisite Corpse
• Happenings (not sure the timing of this, might have developed alongside event scores)

Analogies:
An orchestra score, source code for a program, pattern for clothing, cooking recipes, a play script (kind of hard to make analogies… because these could also literally be event scores)