31:Tf44,md` ### 1. READINGS:
#### Experimental Animation: Engel pointed out something interesting--movement could also be an important element to art. It reminds me of a sculture by Ju Ming in my house since I was little showing the beauty of movement of Kung Fu that is not easily convey. The movement can provoke emotions. It related to time, rhythem, and structure, similar to music in this aspect. This all reminds me of Steve Reich's songs. You can also play with tempos and rhythms with visuals jus tliek musics. Feeling is the most direct answer to what it is. It is hard to understand with only explinations, just like music. These statements start me thingking that maybe the color changing or blocks of colors and shapes that moves can be just like different tones and loudness, combinations of instruments and melodies in music. However, he also mentioned that he prefer to call his film "Art in Motion" rather than "Visual Music", which I think is very good point that I never thought about before. This sort of gives me a broader view to these moving visuals that feels like it no longer restricted by the concept of relating to music. We do things when we listen to music, it change our mood. cooking, talking, driving, having sex...I never think of it in an opposite way. We stare at things that are moving when we are talking, when we are driving, cooking, etc... It also influence our mood. Although there are limitations but the moving things, could be like some shapes or colors in a scenery, can really influence emotions with their movement.
#### Solo for a Black Stroke: There could be so many variations of movements. Emerge, disappear, silence, pause, intence, slow and fast, etc... It can be also influence by our own state of mind. Molnar's text reminds me of bill Viola work. I saw an exhibition of his recently in Helsinki. His work slow time down and create a rhythm that stirs my emotions intensively. Her text aslo reminds me of some visual poetries by my friend. Her visual poetry is abstract but still. I think some emotions from some of her work can also be enhanced with movement. Maybe I can suggest my friend to make visual poetry with movement.
#### What is Computer Art: I'm not sure if I am convinced by the concept in the article Hiroshi Kawano, or maybe I didn't understand it completely. I feel like the computer not yet has too many decisions on the work it is making. We as artist order or program it to calculate for us. I feel like we still have most of the control, except the newer machine learning artwork which I start to feel more 'human' in it, more artistic decision by computer in it. I do agree with the concept of being rigorous stoicism against beauty is necessary when doing computer art since we are trying to evaluate and understanding what is going on and try to program it to act the way we want. But still, I think this feel like it is still the artist's subjective, sensible decision after we understand what we want and how it can work in a more reasonable and logistic, objective mood or mode of thinking. It is more of the hard quastion of needing to switch between mode of thinking rather than purely separate from the aesthetic thinking in my point of view. So I think I either not totally understand his words or I am not convinced by him.
#### (Software) Structure: It is interesting to see Reas compare the artwork of Lewitt and his draftman to music piece of composer and performer. With detailed analysis, he also discuss the differnece between Lewitt's working process and how software could work because of the different nature of the medium, eventhough the concept may be the similar. I really like how he put it. To me, how computer works to interpretate a commend always feels diffrenct than how a person react to a commend. Can random choice of computer be seen as a decision of computer?

`32:Tb9b,md` ### 2. DESCRIBE: Ein Lichtspiel schwarz weiss grau (LightPlay: black, white, gray) is perhaps Moholy-Nagy's best-known film work. It shows his Light-Space Modulator, also known as a lighting fixture for an electric stage. This 1930 short film by László Moholy-Nagy is based on the shadow patterns created by his Light-Space Modulator (1922–30), an early kinetic sculpture consisting of a variety of curved objects that enact a carefully choreographed cycle of movements. [(reference source)](http://arte-elespejodeoesed.blogspot.com/2009/10/laszlo-moholy-nagy-ein-lichtspiel.html) [video link](https://youtu.be/ymrJLhSeIlk)

light space modulator

As a person whose work mainly focus on real life figure or matericals, abstract work is a challenge for me to make. This piese by Moholy-Nagy, express the beauty of light and shadow using scultures, machines and film as material, is very inspiring to me. He use mirror, metal, reflective material and hard light to create strong contrast. However, in abstract situation, it doesn't look over contrasty like how it could be in a normal photograph or film. Instead, it makes the tonality and transition looks quite comfortable and smooth. The mirror and divition of space also create different blcks of moving objects, causing diverse and interesing frames and images. The dark and bright shadows cast on the materials and space creates beautiful gray scale shapes and beautiful gradients. Another thing that impressed me is that he utilized the strength of the medium of film to create the perfect result. Focusing back and forth, the blurry and clear area caused by object placement in different distance in shallow depth of field create intereing texture and gives a photographic feel to the 2D abstract image. The film was not shot in large format film size, which create some bigger blocks of color, with less details, making it more abstract in my opinion. I am not sure if it is intentional or becasue of limitations, the frame rate is lowers Wich create a more jittery effect, which has a nice texture in my opinion. The film grain, dust and damage also adds additional layer of uniqueness to it. Lens flare and the film glow creates different, less precise shape, lowering the contrast, create tonel differences. They look nice and give a lot of imaginary. Overall it is a very interesting attempt of adstract film making and it executed very perfectly. All the choices are very on point. I don't think I will do it any differently if I have to redo it.

`33:T466,md` ### 3. CREATE:

I was inpired by the various circular shape that appears in Moholy-Nagy's work. I like the movement of different circular shape enter from the border of the frame and than exit the frame border from the other side. The combination of the circles can be infinate. The overlapping edges create abstract shape that draws my attention and stirs my emotion. I was also inspired by the assignment reading that talks about rhythm and time. I tried to play with the shape and framing, combined with the idea of not syncing the phase perfectly. The result was not always perfectly what I want, but sometimes it creates very unexpected bueatiful composition and movement that gives me the same feeling of what I am looking for. I found myself just staring at the frame for ages just waiting to see the good moments... [p5.js code](https://editor.p5js.org/yangren72/full/eOQDatH3U)

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