Visiting Artist Robert Lisek
posted by Lee Arnold @ 6:45 PM
Pratt Institute: Digital Arts in Context
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2 Comments:
I truly enjoyed the imagery of Robert Lisek’s “FlexText”, yet I was disinclined to understand the process of the piece because of the actual presentation. Maybe if the presentation had begun with a cup of coffee I would not have been turned off by the sounds of the piece. It was extremely difficult to understand Robert because of his accent, which like Michael I cannot hold against him, but I can hold him accountable for a monotone voice, he did not seem enthusiastic at all about his work. I understand if he was nervous in front of such a large group though. He mentioned AI, but couldn’t follow how that fit with his work. Sorry to be always critical, but honestly his presentation felt like the last 20 min of 2001: Space Odyssey, wanting to jump out of my skin. Aside from a “hacker” feel, why did he choose those noises to accompany such interesting visuals?
Although I agree with the others that Robert did not connect with anybody when he delivered his lecture, I was able to pick up the main theme of what he's saying, and it absolutely blew my mind.
I can't tell exactly what Lisek's work is about really, because it's about so many things, but the reoccuring theme is that reality is nothing like we humans percieve it. That sounds like something we all kinda know already, I mean we all have only 5 senses, and we all know that there's a lot more than we can't understand going on (once we get out and talk about galaxies and time, or in and talk about quantum physics and stuff), but I always felt like - yea, that stuff's cool and all, but at the end of the day, I'm a human, you're a human, we all are, and we should be accept our limitation and just appreciate what we CAN percieve. Ahh but Lisek had showed me differently.
I don't know what it was about it art that was so different from anything else I've seen... Maybe those sounds, or the few words he said that I was able to decypher, the thing is, u see, a different underworld became clear to me: The understructure of CHAOS!
Think about what really goes on inside a processor, on a subatomic level, all the infinit factors that affect the final "human" output! Lisek tries to break it down and make the system glitch - he then uses those glitches and composes them together to show us a snapshot of chaos! And that's whats going on really can't u see? The world is not so ordered as we would like to think, especially if we break it down and look at the micro level of existence, or zoom out to the macro level and imagine all of earth's creatures as a one big system of interrelations and constant busy activity... What about the things that happen inside the human brain?
Yes.
Sorry about that...
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