BETWEEN DUCHAMP AND TURING:
Strategies for Linkage Between the Visual and the Auditive in Audio-Visual Art
David Sudmalis
School of Visual and Performing Arts, University of Tasmania , Launceston , Australia
Abstract
In Lev Manovich's essay The Death of Computer Art the author concluded that ‘the convergence will not happen' between the seemingly irreconcilable aesthetics of ‘Duchamp-land' and ‘Turing-land' (Manovich 1996). The battle between content and state-of the-art technologies, suggests Manovich, is not resolvable without an appropriate strategy for extrapolating techniques and methodologies of one into the other, thereby creating a new form that transcends technology in the service of a new creative medium.
This paper examines strategies for creative linkage between image and sound within a technologically facilitated environment. This linkage exists within technological and methodological frameworks, circumventing the less satisfactory outcome in which one art form is merely a sympathetic counterpoint to the other. With the very real possibility of abandoning the focus on one type of media and moving towards a more synaesthetic arts experience (Paul 2003), a gestural model of composition (Sudmalis 2001) is employed to create meaningful linkages in the creation of original audio-visual works that employ technologies as mediator and facilitator of these linkages. The result is an audio-visual work that communicates more successfully than either one of the discrete component arts forms would have alone.
The discussion of parametric linkage includes references to examples created by the author which use, as their relative points of departure, aspects of the natural environment and natural world.
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