Making Assemblages : Relational Phenomena/Patterning/Camouflage by Russell Moreton
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Art and Aesthetic Patterns An Ecology of Mind We are so accustomed to thinking of aesthetic phenomena as a discursive or representational construct, that we often forget that without arousal of perception, no aesthetic experience is possible. Going beyond what it may represent into the important psychic information it contains Bateson credits art with playing the role of confronting the quantitative limit built into consciousnesses Art assists mind in recognizing that the potentiality of heightened consciousnesses exist and that it resides in you and in me Fittingness/Ecological Approaches to Aesthetic Perception Colour, Light, Time: Quintessentially relational phenomena in which location, background, density will provide different perceptual relations Steven Holl Symmetry appeals because symmetrical patterning provides for the observing mind a maximum of insight with a minimum of intellectual effort, quintessentially relational phenomena ( colour, light, time) and location, provide a background density that will provide for different perceptual relations Relatedness, connected to the place and function of things within a field The rational organization of society has its own aesthetic attraction Redundancy is a synonym for patterning A pattern is a method for coping with the redundancies of messages emanating from the environment Patterning of message material always helps the receiver to differentiate between signal and noise Bateson 1973 Elaborations (Dynamic aesthetic totalities) of such everyday patternings in Art, Music, Ballet, Poetry Camouflage takes away the ability to block out the irrelevant things in the environment, thus camouflage (which is designed to subvert communication) achieves its aims by breaking up the patterns and regularities in the signal, or by introducing similar patterns into the noise. But what unambiguous codes gain in noise reduction, they lose in richness and expressiveness
