{"id":24,"date":"2004-12-27T19:50:30","date_gmt":"2004-12-27T17:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.constant.irisnet.be\/%7Econstant\/kris_search\/?p=24"},"modified":"2004-12-27T19:50:30","modified_gmt":"2004-12-27T17:50:30","slug":"the-art-of-open-systems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kris.constantvzw.org\/the-art-of-open-systems\/","title":{"rendered":"The Art of Open Systems"},"content":{"rendered":"

Arjen Mulder on the art of open systems during the DEAF04 <\/a>symposium: “Feelings are always local<\/a>“.
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\nArjen Mulder \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Body and Soul: Ludwig von Bertalanffy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Biological Worldview.<\/b><\/p>\n

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Collective memories are the products of our society, we can find them for example in our museums. The museum too can be seen as a system, to be closed or to be opened up. Today we have entered a new level of networks: networks of cultural products. Starting from Ludwig von Bertalanffy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s biological worldview, Arjen Mulder tries to come to a theory of interactive art: The art of open sytems.<\/p>\n

The worldview:
\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Subsystems determine the functioning of a larger system just as much as the larger system determines how its subsystems function. Thus, when you get a stomach-ache, you should look for the cause, not only in your subsystems (such as the stomach wall releasing too much acid), but also in the systems of which you yourself are a subsystem (for example, your job).\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

Arjen Mulder conceptualizes Art as a system and tries to look at this system through Ludwig Von Bertalanffy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s worldview. According to Mulder the art making process is always an open system. For instance when you are writing a book, then it is an open system, it is evolving. But when you finish it, it is closed. The artwork eventually becomes a closed system. Interactive art on the contrary tries to stay an open system. The work of art is always depending on the input of the audience. It is however a complex phenomenon because it are two systems (the work of art and the audience) that are coming together. Mulder goes even a step further by stating that when a system is placed within a network, the system as such stops being a system, it gets emerging properties. So with Interactive art the system Art and the system Audience are placed within a network of which the characteristics are very difficult to foresee. (to be elaborated in the future\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6K.R.)<\/p>\n

Example of Interactive Art?<\/b><\/p>\n

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Run Motherfucker Run<\/b> – Marnix de Nijs (NL)
\n“Run Motherfucker Run is a trip through nocturnal Rotterdam in installation form. The visitor’s running rhythm determines the speed of the threadmill, and this drives up the speed of the pictures. After every film fragment, one can choose between two more short films by turning left or right. In Run Motherfucker Run one is seized by an oppresive feeling. Running through the deserted nocturnal panoramas, one has the feeling one is being chased. While one thinks one has a certain control over one’s running speed and the selection of the images, one ultimately realizes that one is being controlled by the machine.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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