Anna Ursyn: Pitch and Volume
Artist(s):
Title:
- Pitch and Volume
Exhibition:
Creation Year:
- 2004
Medium:
- Vl'v
Size:
- 24 inches x 32 inches
Category:
Artist Statement:
Acutely aware of order, I try to examine what technological and human worlds have in common. Natural order, revealed randomly and regularly, infuses several levels of both worlds: some determined by humans, through buildings, windows, even cars parked in lots, and some determined by nature, through trees, branches, and leaves. Natural order guides our understanding of big datasets related to network analysis, when we employ physical analogies of the data, render the data graphically, explore them “by eye” and interact in real time. My task is to juxtapose the regularity of nature with human constructions, both physical and intellectual. The big city, for example, combines how humans affect their environment and how a city metaphor reflects rhythm and organization of big datasets, and makes data mining easier. Observers – whether artists or technology experts – perceive such relationships in different lights and from different perspectives and different points of view. Processes in nature and events in technologies inspire my images. Such processes also support my instruction in computer art and graphics, where students learn to create artwork and demonstrate what they understand of scientific concepts.
Pitch and Volume
Let’s listen to the city music. Pitch our voices in key with others without confusion of tongues and meaning. Let’s hum a tune and rejoice in laugh when we stay set in a traffic jam.
Technical Information:
Typically, my creation of art runs through stages. First, I sketch a general outline for the bigger composition, then I draw abstract geometric designs as starting points for executing my computer programs. Computers then convert my ideas into lines, with codes takin g shape as iconic images of animals (a horse, for example) or symbolic images of humans (a warrior, for example). Some of my projects are two-dimensional; others are three-dimensional, depending on my composition’s final dictates. Programmed data flow electronically into the final artwork. To vary color combinations, I convert computer printouts into photo
silkscreens, for WYSIWYG, and photo lithographs, for reversed
images. Then I add painterly markings to finish the composition. To compose, I use repetition of lines, shapes, and forms; select color combinations; transform light intensity ; apply grid patterns and moire effects. To ensure unity, the computer’s memory regroups recurrent elements, contrasting order and chaos. Computer programs shape my wooden and mixed-media sculptures. The wireframed designs of 3D guide construction while images – multiplied, superimposed, transported – offer illusions of time and
movement. I create programs in Fortran 77 to repeat lines and transform, distort, and manipulate images by scaling, rotating, slanting, and changing perspective. Then I add photographic content using scanners and digital cameras.
All Works by the Artist(s) in This Archive:
- Anna Z. Ursyn
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End of the Street
[SIGGRAPH 1994] -
Hero Horse
[SIGGRAPH 1990] -
Rondo
[SIGGRAPH 2006] -
Two Skies
[SIGGRAPH 1989] -
Monday Morning
[SIGGRAPH 1995] -
Two Moons
[SIGGRAPH 1995] -
Data Deluge
[DAC Online Exhibition 2015] -
Hard Jazz Book
[DAC Online Exhibition 2015] -
No Man No Shadow
[SIGGRAPH 1998] -
Clear Water Act
[SIGGRAPH 2007] -
Wires
[SIGGRAPH 2007] -
Grammar of the City
[SIGGRAPH 2005] -
Yellow Pages
[SIGGRAPH 2005] -
Fragile Balance
[SIGGRAPH 2005] -
Noise Control
[SIGGRAPH 2004] -
Pitch and Volume
[SIGGRAPH 2004] -
Data Mining
[SIGGRAPH 2004] -
City Matters
[SIGGRAPH 2003] -
Commuter's Tunes
[SIGGRAPH 2001] -
Moonlit Manifestation
[SIGGRAPH 2001] -
Discretion Advised
[SIGGRAPH 1999] -
Timetable
[SIGGRAPH 2002] -
Water Planet
[SIGGRAPH 2008] -
Green Architecture
[DAC Online Exhibition 2012] -
Data Mining
[DAC Online Exhibition 2012] -
Rondo
[DAC Online Exhibition 2011] -
Data Mining
[DAC Online Exhibition 2011] -
Warrior
[DAC Online Exhibition 2011] -
Truckers' Muse
[DAC Online Exhibition 2018]