Description

Emerging with blue light release the incredible amount of power: the nuclear power. WWII become the test ground for nuclear power. The world shacked. The debate and argue of using nuclear power growth with the increase amount of nuclear power plant. Each time the raise of mushroom cloud become the sign of fear: the explosion. In this video, the point of view of nuclear power constantly changing, from the normality of nuclear power: Space, to the deathly explosion and tremendous amount of clear power then back to its normality: Sun. How to evaluate the deathful accident like Chernobyl, Three Miles Island and the most current one: Fukushima. Stop investigating nuclear power? Designing a better system? Searching a replace? It is all depended on the user’s eye. Perhaps, an alternation: The Sun, nuclear fusion instead of nuclear fission. Or just the solar energy.

Both Jack Burnham and Ross Ashby describe the construction of systems as being completely dependent both upon context, and upon our perception of reality. According to Jack Burnham in Systems Esthetics, art is a result of the viewer’s perspective, and the interaction between user and art can be thought of as a system. In this system, the components can be thought of as the user, the art piece, the environment, the pre-conceived mentalities of each individual, the artist, etc. All of these components put together create a system, however each of them individually have no higher meaning or significance. The overall composition of the system, and the organization of its parts, is then judged by the individuals perceiving the system. In the end, the perception of the individuals is what determines the “good” or “bad” qualities of the system.

Ashby also says that there is no such thing as a good or bad system; it is all relative to its context. Whether a system works in one scenario (good) can change in another scenario. This idea of context can be judged as another way of conceiving perspective, as the perspective of an individual is an entirely different context to that of another individual. Therefore, whether a system is good or bad, and how we choose to organize any system, is entirely dependent upon us as individuals.

This is a simulation of a self-regulating feedback loop system involving both the perceived hues of images/objects, and tonal melody, exploring a relationship between the two. Within each cycle, the melody and object hues communicate with each other; in this case, the musical notes along a C Major scale (C, D, E, F, G, A, B) numerically correspond to hues of the visual spectrum (R, O, Y, G, B, I, V). With the feedback, the hues and tones ‘self correct’ themselves together, along their own respective ‘chromatic’ ranges, toward the set goal of reaching the ‘correct’ color and tone.

Music: Self

Image Sources:
http://blog.maseratiraleigh.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/stop-sign1.jpg

http://www.naijapr.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/fire.jpg

http://www.inforgrab.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/banana.jpg

http://www.freegreatpicture.com/rural-scenery/top-view-perspective-of-green-grass-51970

http://dharmatown.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/You-can-see-through-me.jpg

http://lawrenceperegrines.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/CF2C1018-001.jpg

https://www.almanac.com/sites/default/files/images/photo_11437.jpg

Virtual reality vs. Actual reality. Which is which in today’s society? Video displays the subject going from point a to point b back to point a. Perceiving all encounters along its way, the observer chooses whats real and what is not. In today’s society, VR is getting really close to actually mimicking actual reality the question is posed if the “observer” can tell the difference. Will society move into the realm of only wanting to exist in the virtual?

Precedent video.

Credits:

https://www.google.com/search?q=pov+nyc&rlz=1C1GTQC_enUS762US762&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjv8MqA9rbXAhVBZCYKHThQDWEQ_AUICygC&biw=1910&bih=969#imgrc=2Ws0xabQJuxskM:

https://www.google.com/search?biw=1910&bih=969&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=6SIHWvPSNsS2mwHWpazQDw&q=pov+skate+nyc&oq=pov+skate+nyc&gs_l=psy-ab.3…3179.4773.0.5036.6.6.0.0.0.0.112.609.3j3.6.0….0…1.1.64.psy-ab..0.0.0….0.7_CjDY7pWE8#imgdii=1E2jeB2r7GOH_M:&imgrc=PGNE8IjaivN7uM:

https://www.google.com/search?biw=1910&bih=969&tbm=isch&sa=1&ei=7yIHWv7uJYPBmwHpja_QCA&q=pov+central+park+nyc&oq=pov+central+park+nyc&gs_l=psy-ab.3…37169.39994.0.40104.13.13.0.0.0.0.122.1200.1j10.11.0….0…1.1.64.psy-ab..2.0.0….0.vAy2TSMjjuM#imgrc=lMuU3ZIZVBjHFM:

My assignment focuses on feedback between two systems which cannot necessarily communicate through a shared language. The subject (myself in this case) is trying to care for a flower. The flower undergoes changes based on the subject’s actions, and the subject has to react to the changes to decide if the action was useful or not.

Sources:

Most of the video was shot in my home

Lotus Flower: www.pngpix.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/PNGPIX-COM-Lotus-Flower-PNG-Image.png

A topic of constant debate today is the Media, and whether or not it can maintain the roll of unbiased observer and messenger. In the 2016 Presidential Campaign, the constant draw of media attention on candidates brought to the surface media bias and sensationalist reporting. The Media became a positive feedback loop in concert with the celebrity and sensationalist events of the campaigns. In this video, I focused on then-candidate Trump, and the media backlash to seemingly every action he took. This reaction from the media grew and grew with each new scandal or gaffe, generating more and more attention and more and more motive for Trump to perform similar actions. This ultimately played a major factor in the election, with the Media being responsible for the inflated attention on the candidates.

Credits:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jIOWE2z6ri8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p_ltuXcOH4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMTiQP8m2kc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SJxdJynH_GU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSC8Q-kR44o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WNmJNIsRXM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-RNBJFLU7Oc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiPjWUn-PUo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4MYEZbyyBJw

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtJvYdX4GKM

When discussing cybernetics and self-regulating feedback systems, it strikes me that the human element is often missing. And so, this is almost what feedback isn;t as much as what it is. While most of Freidrich Kittler’s “Gramophone, Film, Typewriter” is a pessimistic romp through the co-evolution of media technology and war, near the end he discusses the rise of computers. He makes an analogy between language, bees, and the ways in which we instruct computers to execute code. I paraphrased some of this section as voice over in the video, but the general gist is that a bee’s dance, despite its seeming complexity, is just a series of commands that regulate the bee’s position in space. It’s a sequence of “turn right, go straight, head left”.  It’s not a true feedback loop. It is like a projectile. A human is like “a cruise missile”.  People self regulate to find their way to a target (partner, etc.). It’s a continual feedback loop of evaluation and execution. A computer language has a series of commands that allow the machine to move from one instruction set to another in a non-sequential fashion. This too is where a feedback loop, or self-regulating system can come into play. The “IF-THEN” statement (as Kittler refers to it, I would prefer “if .. else”) is the basis of this. Humans, masters of “IF-THEN”, can regulate as needed, like computers. Bees, simpler  machines, only follow a linear set of instructions.

While the section on Kittler is a more about the loss of human will and the end of history engendered by computers, I found that re-contextualizing it in this way helped illustrate the difference between a system that simply reacts, vs one that adapts.

Credits

Images
http://cf.ltkcdn.net/dance/images/std/187017-415×415-dance-step-diagram.jpg
https://silvercore.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/silvercore-firearms-trainin-trajectoryzero-question.jpg
http://www.odeion.org/cruisemissile/
https://www.computer.org/csdl/trans/tp/2008/03/ttp2008030463.html
https://kids.nationalgeographic.com/animals/honeybee/
https://greatbasinseeds.com/wordpress/product/yellow-sweet-clover
www.greencoverseed.com/product/1021
http://www.buzzingacrossamerica.com/2014/08/the-language-of-honey-bee.html
http://articles.extension.org/pages/26930/dance-language-of-the-honey-bee

Audio
https://freesound.org/people/Benboncan/sounds/73370/ (bee audio)
https://www.naturalreaders.com/online/ (text to speech)

Text
Voice over adapted from p 258 259 “Gramophone, Film, Typewriter” by Freidrich Kittler