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PAMM - PolyAesthetic Mapping: the Muses

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Project Title: PAMM- PolyAesthetic Mapping: The Muses  Understanding the mechanics of aesthetics and its interplay within Art, Culture & Science
Team Organizer: Kaz Maslanka – Visual Artist-Aerospace Tooling Design Engineer – Mathematical Poet - Musician
Contact email: kazmandu@aol.com
Team Members:  John Chalmers – Astrobiologist – Microtonal Music Theorist – Theatrical Performer, Jonathan Glasier – Microtonal Musician / Composer / Theorist, Joe Monzo – Microtonal Musician / Composer / Theorist, AntiQuark– Electro band / Marine Biologist, Vicki Leon - artist, Rache lle Ray - Arts Educator/Artist, Anand Bora - software designer, Atharva Johri -  App specialist, Mayur Vaid Mehta  - survey specialist, Antoinette Ransom - fashion designer, events planner, Ted Washington - poet with aid from Jeff Doom  and Brianna DelGuidice

Advisors: Michael Winkler - Installation Language artist / Microtonalist , Arthur Frick – Performance / Installation Artist – Musician / Composer.

Resources and community partners: Space4Art

Looking for:
Musicians, scientists, fashion designers, sculptors

Goal:   To explore the concept that art and science do not live in a particular aesthetic category in and of themselves but that art and science are composed of many aesthetic categories. 
 
The premise of this team is to illuminate the idea that art and science do not live in a particular aesthetic category;  instead art and science are  composed of many aesthetic categories. The team explores what manifests from  this premise as well as what other categories of aesthetics that we might  discover. The PAMM system also explores the relationship of these other  categories to art and science.  Team PAMM has created a mathematical model  that defines multiple aesthetic categories and helps to visualize those  aesthetics differences within this mapping system. An added benefit is that  this mapping system separates the aesthetics of science from the aesthetics  of art to see the power of combining the two.


A software application is being designed as a survey tool to map a variety of  aesthetic expressions. The results will be displayed within a computer generated three dimensional Cartesian coordinate model.  The viewer will be able to  see the difference between how they judge the aesthetic category of a  certain expression and compare that to the group demographics for the same  expression.  By challenging the definitions of aesthetics and how we  normally look at it, this mapping will help assist artists and scientists as  well as non‐artists and scientists to understand the nature of their personal  aesthetic and how it relates to science, art and other aesthetic  expressions. 



  
EXHIBITION  COMPONENT:
Nine Sculptures of the Muses with each one  representing one of the corners of the mapping
cube.  Each muse has three characteristics  of the six designated attributes of aesthetics defined in the polyaesthetic  mapping system.  A 3-D printer will  also be utilized to make a small model of the Cartesian coordinate 
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Interactive:
  A live link is envisioned to offer the ability of the audience to use the  software application to map a
selection and see how it compares to others. A  concert of short compositions of microtonal  music one each inspired by the muses together with a fashion show inspired by those muses. 
 
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PolyAesthetic Mapping: Jonathan Glassier, John Chalmers, Rachelle Ray, Patricia Frischer, Kaz Maslanka Joe Monzo, and Anand Bora (in the computer screen)
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The image above shows a three dimensional grid suspended from the ceiling of the gallery. The image is from Kaz Maslanka’s “Spectrum of Jewels” show in NYC 2010 – The following image is the same system however it is from a computer aided design model created months before the actual installation in NYC.
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