Roy Ascott

Roy Ascott explains the change over the years in art and particularly the behavioral aspects of it. with an increase and availability of technology the face of art has changed dramatically. Now a days people create art for the soul purpose of making an interaction with its viewer. It could be argued that painters and sculptors do quite the same, except these days one can allow the view not only to enjoy, but to partake in creating or manipulating the piece. The viewer can now make the piece their own in a way. This was made possible through cybernation. The human working through the computer. People have gone so far as to say that computers can have a behavior. A computer can only behave how it is written, but with more options of action and free ability to choose or not choose makes them ever more human like. With technology a two way exchange between the viewer and the artist can be made on a grand scale. Roy Ascott believes that behavioral art and cybernetics can be used to further expand on the concepts and ideas of modern art. Hard to disagree with seeing as behavioral cybernetics has affected the up coming generation already.

Brandon Morse

Walking down in Dupont Circle it was bright. The sun was gracious enough to shine its light that day. Entering the Brandon Morse Exhibit I experienced a different kind of brightness. The walls in the room were completely white and I believe the floor and the ceiling were too. It was generally a quite exhibit with no recognizable sounds. Little did I know until I had checked around a bit, the artist had composed a piece that was playing in the exhibit that to me seemed like ambient sound. Building whispers of airconditioning and pipes. When I did realize it was a composition of sounds I was not impressed by its sound,but more impressed by the fact that it was so convincing that it was not made up noise. The name of the piece, also the name of the exhibit was "Static". This title fits with the work of the artist because Brandon Morse seems to make art that studies the pattern of randomevents, if there is such a pattern.
Black and white was a strong theme. The first piece you saw upon entering was cllled 'Run to Ground'. This piece to me wasn't so exciting. It was static slowly traveling across five screens. Not to engagable in my opinion. Two other pieces really caught my attention. They were Spinnaker and The Big Bang. Spinnaker was shot from a projection. 3D modeled lines mimicing a web would slowly decend and collect at the bottom. This was a program Brandon created to ensure that nothing happened differently but by the computer's choice. There was something eerie but cool about how the model moved. The Big Bang was composed of four screens. It has the same concept as Spinnaker, but everything is coming from the center of all four screens. Again lines alone make up the visual. There are so many that at times it looks perposfully animated to look like it has that many lines and little space. This piece put me in awe.