Tipping Points (Reflection Component)
(2023)
author(s): Tijs Ham
published in: Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design, University of Bergen
The Ph.D. project in Artistic Research, Tipping Points, conducted by Tijs Ham ('81), is situated in the field of live electronics and focuses on the exploration of chaotic processes within instrument design, compositional strategies, and performance. The unpredictable nature of chaos impacts many aspects of musicking. Artistic works emerge from the interferences between processes that are set in motion. Instruments are influenced and in turn influence the performer in return. The reflections turn to the notion of wondering as the performer and audiences alike encounter unforeseen sonic behaviors that are strangely musical despite their volatile and fragile chaotic origins.
Quiet Observations
(last edited: 2019)
author(s): Åse Huus
This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
By looking closer, the normal and ordinary can become something else, something extraordinary, if we pay attention or exercise attention. And, by exercising attention we can get into the ordinary´s simple, but equally complex scope, but then – with a distance – something we no longer stand in the middle of. The artistic research project «Quiet observations» is about reflections related to wonder, relation and proximity. The project has evolved into a research project from a pre-project where the starting point was to research the concept of ambiguity. As I see it, the nature of everyday life and everyday surroundings are elusive and ambiguous, and by its inherent complexity, a source of wonder.
In ambiguity, we can find an indefinite space, a space for speculation and imagination. In this perspective, ambiguity provides a space for creative receptivity, to actively consider multiple interpretations of meaning and reconsider preconceptions.
Dedicated observations can provide proximity to everyday surroundings which make them no longer seem obvious, but rather manifests themselves as source of wonder, abstraction, imagination and daydreaming.
The project has two parallel areas of interest; the field specific perspective is defined as research through editorial design beyond media, and the other perspective is based on educational interest in the design process itself.
Editorial design in this context is understood as the framework and the architecture of how a given content is read and interpreted.