Unconscious Play

Major Studio 2

Mini-Thesis

Midterm Presentation

Xu Jia

Water Walk, John Cage, 1960

Dadaism and Fluxus

Questions the division between the rarefied artistic sphere and ordinary life.

Black Mountain College, similar origin as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, Cy Twombly.

Active Artist in Fluxus: Joseph Beuys and John Cage

John Cage’s music theory

1937 The Future of Music: Credo

Music: organization of sound

late 1940s: Indian Philosophy and Zen Buddism

chance-controlled music

In a 1957 lecture, Experimental Music, he described music as "a purposeless play"

Chance Operation

Set a number of clear parameters, and then carefully formulate questions, which chance operation would “answer”.

Chance Operation

Introducing chance into art making has a number of important consequences: it diminishes the control over the artistic product, and it mirrors the randomness of everyday life.

A system: A series of instruments as interactive interface.Set hidden rules for the audience to play with randomness Mix physical sound and digital sound

My Chance Operation

New Technology

• Physical computing• Max/Msp• 3D Printing/Laser Cutting• Material: transparent plastics, metal