[spectre] Ultimate Synaesthesia: Brian Eno's exhibition 77 Million Paintings.

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Ultimate Synaesthesia: Brian Eno's exhibition 77 Million Paintings.

Review by Ellen Pearlman.

Ellen visits Brian Eno's exhibition 77 Million Paintings and attends his 
talk, both at the Glenbow Museum in Calgary, Alberta, Canada. These 
works consist of constantly evolving sound and image-scapes, in which 
Eno continues his exploration into light as an artist's medium and the 
aesthetic possibilities of "generative software." Both the music and the 
visuals in 77 Million Paintings are "generative" - a technique where the 
artist establishes specific parameters for the artwork to exist within, 
then lets a computer arrange the pieces. As Eno says, "We’re not seeing 
a film. There’s no beginning, there’s no progression, there’s no end, 
there’s no narrative, there’s no drama. In fact everything is missing 
that would normally be called art or entertainment."

http://www.furtherfield.org/reviews/ultimate-synaesthesia

"Ambient pioneer, glam rocker, hit producer, multimedia artist, 
technological innovator, worldbeat proponent, and self-described 
non-musician -- over the course of his long, prolific, and immensely 
influential career, Brian Eno was all of these things and much, much 
more. Determining his creative pathways with the aid of a deck of 
instructional, tarot-like cards called Oblique Strategies, Eno 
championed theory over practice, serendipity over forethought, and 
texture over craft; in the process, he forever altered the ways in which 
music is approached, composed, performed, and perceived, and everything 
from punk to techno to new age bears his unmistakable influence." 
Summery by Jason Ankeny.

Ellen Pearlman is currently a Ph.D student at the University of Calgary, 
Canada in Computational Media and Design with a focus on Telmatics or 
artistic collaborations over the Syneme high speed networks She is 
Artistic Adviser to the Yuanfen Gallery, the very first gallery of new 
media in Beijing, China and part of the Yuanfen Flow (TM), the first 
independent, privately owned new media research institute in China. 
Ellen was on the Art Panel Review Board for SIGGRAPH ASIA in Yokohama, 
Japan and lectured on New Media at the Central Academy of Fine Arts 
(CAFA), and the Communications and Animation University in Beijing, the 
Songzhuang Art Center, and universities in Wuhan and Tianjin as well as 
Columbia University and the MA Program in Digital Design at Parson 
School of Design.

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