Brianne Mackinnon

Terms for Serial Art: Mel Bochner

Tue, 26 Oct 2010 22:39:38 -0400

Certain terms, not common in an art context, are necessary for a discussion of serial art. As yet, these terms, often abused have remained undefined. Some of the following definitions are standard, some are derived from the above investigations, the rest are tailored to specific problems of the work itself:

Abstract System
A system in which the physical units that are to function as objects have not been specified.

Binary
Consisting of two elements

Definite Transition
A rule taht requires at some definite interval before or after a given unit, som other unit is required or excluded.

Grammer
The aspect of the system that governs the permitted combinations of elements belonging to that system

Isomorphism
A relation between systems so that by rules of transformation each unit of one system can be made to correspond to one unit of the other

Orthogonal
Right angled

Permutation
Any of the total numbers of changes in order which are possible within a set of elements.

Probability
The ratio of the numbers of ways in which an event can occur in a specified form to the total number of ways in which the event can occur.

Progression
A discrete series that has a first but not neccesarily a last element in which every intermediate lement is related by a uniform law to the other
(a) Arithmetic Progression
A series of numbers in which succeeding terms are derived by the addition of a constant number (2,4,6,8)
(b) Geometric Progression
A series of numbers in which succeeding terms are derived bythe multiplication by a constant factor (2,4,8,16,32)

Reversal
An operation consisting of an inversion or upside-down turn within a series.

Rotation
An operation consisting of an axial turn within a series

Sequence
State of being in a successive order

Series
A set of sequencially ordered elements, each related to the preceding in a specifiable way by the logican conditions of a finite progression, ie. there is a first and last member, every member except the first has a single immediate predecessor from which it is derived and every member except the last a single immediate successor.

Set
The totality of points, numbers, or other elements which satisfy a given condition.

Simultaneity
A correspondence of time or place in the occurrence of multiple events.

In Open Systems.

Wikipedia Races Composition #1

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 18:34:18 -0400

Wikipedia Races Composition #1

Wikipedia Race from QUT to the Irish Institute of Modern Art

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 07:08:52 -0400

Wikipedia Race from QUT to the Irish Institute of Modern Art

Wikipedia Race from QUT to Guggenheim Museum - Composition #1

Tue, 19 Oct 2010 05:23:14 -0400

Wikipedia Race from QUT to Guggenheim Museum - Composition #1

Composition Response.

Mon, 18 Oct 2010 08:57:47 -0400

Composition Response.

"Pay no attention to what the critics say… Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a..."

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:36:20 -0400

“Pay no attention to what the critics say… Remember, a statue has never been set up in honor of a critic!”

- Jean Sibelius (via livejamie)

"LeWitt: ‘although an order is immediately intuited, how to apprehend or penetrate it is..."

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:23:40 -0400

“LeWitt: ‘although an order is immediately intuited, how to apprehend or penetrate it is nowhere revealed’ - instead one is overwhelmed with a mass of data, creating, ‘a unique perceptual breakdown of conceptual order into visual chaos’”

- Bochner, M. 1995. Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism. In Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, ed. G. Battcock, 92 – 102. University of California Press: California.
(101)

"Serial Methodology: ‘the idea is carried out to its logical conclusion, which, without..."

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:22:01 -0400

“

Serial Methodology: ‘the idea is carried out to its logical conclusion, which, without adjustments based on taste or chance, is the work’

‘works of art can be made based on the application of rigorous governing logics rather than on personal decision making’

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- Bochner, M. 1995. Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism. In Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, ed. G. Battcock, 92 – 102. University of California Press: California.

"Individual parts of a system are not in themselves important but are relevant only in the way they..."

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:19:00 -0400

“Individual parts of a system are not in themselves important but are relevant only in the way they are used in the enclosed logic of the whole”

- Bochner, M. 1995. Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism. In Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, ed. G. Battcock, 92 – 102. University of California Press: California.
(99)

"consistency and continuity of application that characterises them"

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:18:48 -0400

“consistency and continuity of application that characterises them”

- Bochner, M. 1995. Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism. In Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology, ed. G. Battcock, 92 – 102. University of California Press: California.
(95)

"Systems are chracterized by regularity, thoroughness and repetition in execution"

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:15:04 -0400

“Systems are chracterized by regularity, thoroughness and repetition in execution”

- Mel Bochner. Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism. (94).

"Manipulate order on different levels creating both conceptual and perceptual logic"

Sat, 16 Oct 2010 20:13:39 -0400

“Manipulate order on different levels creating both conceptual and perceptual logic”

- Mel Bochner. Serial Art, Systems, Solipsism. (93)

Information Relay

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:48:33 -0400

Information Relay

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:47:27 -0400

Information Relay

"The essential nature of this activity is imprecise and can be located somewhere between permutation..."

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:46:16 -0400

“The essential nature of this activity is imprecise and can be located somewhere between permutation and negotiation in the field of tension described between repetition and difference.”

- Do It. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. (11)

"Everyday actions and materials serve as the starting point for artworks to be recreated at each..."

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:17:24 -0400

“Everyday actions and materials serve as the starting point for artworks to be recreated at each ‘performance site’.”

- Do It. Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist (11).

Promotional Insertion

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 21:11:01 -0400

Promotional Insertion

"NOW THERE IS NOTHING NOT RUN BY, REFERRING TO, OR BOUND BY SYSTEMICITY, IT OPERATES AS AT ONCE..."

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:45:28 -0400

“NOW THERE IS NOTHING NOT RUN BY, REFERRING TO, OR BOUND BY SYSTEMICITY, IT OPERATES AS AT ONCE ALL-INCLUSIVE AND WIERDLY OBSOLESCENT AS AN IDEOLOGICAL STRUCTURE.”

- Open Systems (77).

"Much work of the 1960s and 1970s may be understood as addressing not only the tautoligical systems..."

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:44:06 -0400

“Much work of the 1960s and 1970s may be understood as addressing not only the tautoligical systems of administration but, often under the radar, those of subjectivity and identity as well.”

- Open Systems. (74-77).

"The solipsist, by definition, cannot appropriate systems culled from outside him or herself. And..."

Fri, 15 Oct 2010 20:42:04 -0400

“The solipsist, by definition, cannot appropriate systems culled from outside him or herself. And yet, ironically, by so diligently honing methods to resist exteriority, the solipsist ultimately reveals the delicate connection between self and social.”

- Open Systems (74)