Nick Fox-Gieg

York University · Department of Computational Arts

In a nearly lost 1934 manuscript, Joseph Schillinger mathematically described a dance notation that mapped human form into Cartesian space. Although this notation was merely a curiosity when it was first proposed, we can now see that it presaged a time when transcoding information and applying procedural rules to create works of art would become co...

The authors discuss improvisation in music and accompanying real-time graphics, providing historical examples and a discussion of their performance group, In Strange Paradox.