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Symposium
Heath
Hanlin
Eso
Presented
Saturday May 11th at 1 pm
The primary goal of Eso is to affect cognition through the
presentation of temporal patterns that have been changed through
image and audio processing techniques and rebuilt through
procedural logic and geometry. Through this distortion, I'm
interested in exposing the skeleton of temporal phenomena.
By removing the familiar aspects of sounds and imagery sampled
from nature, the underlying structures of chaos, and the frameworks
of motion are exposed. New insights can be gained when the
familiarity of an image is removed, leaving only certain substructures.
I am also interested in the nature of repetition. In Eso there
is no more repetition than in a waterfall; three continuous
states exist and slowly change, evolving the zero state into
something radically different. Is a continuous, complex, evolving
state repetitious? Can patterns be perceived in chaotic flows
and movement?
I believe that humans can create internal patterns as a way
of understanding certain kinds of perceptual chaos. In the
perception of complicated visual and aural relationships,
the mind starts to discern patterns. A large group of these
perception patterns starts to form something that is like
a system. It's a cognitive system, rather than a logical system,
as the systematicness comes from the viewer's perceptional
biases. It's a temporary cognitive system that is generated
to allow a pseudo-systematic understanding of something that
is not inherently systematic.
In this sense, Eso acts as a counterpart to scientific research
on the nature of cognition and pattern recognition. Rather
than attempting to achieve a broad understanding of these
concepts for humankind, I am interested in providing opportunities
for the individual viewers of Eso to consider and reevaluate
their own internal structures of cognition.
Heath
Hanlin - Biography
Heath Hanlin is a virtuality artist and composer. He received
an MFA in Art and Technology from The Ohio State University
in 1998. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art Media
Studies at Syracuse University in upstate New York.
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