PAMM - PolyAesthetic Mapping: the Muses
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.
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
system.
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.
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
system.
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.
PolyAesthetic Mapping: Jonathan Glassier, John Chalmers, Rachelle Ray, Patricia Frischer, Kaz Maslanka Joe Monzo, and Anand Bora (in the computer screen)
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.
