Shapeshifting through interpreted colouring stills of "Scape" the ambient music making application by Brian Eno & Peter Chilvers.www.generativemusic.com/scape.html

Where is the line drawn for the users claim to ownership when the creators impetus is for the user to create?
Does interaction evolve into a form of art practice? What of architecture,cinema,music,the practices understood to be the pinnacle of collaborative action? The screen application offers a collaborative democracy where the artist allows the viewer access to create a version of the work, the option being intrinsic in the work itself.The pre-set application creates these visual/audio platforms,therefore anyone can collaborate in varying degrees with the maker through the medium of applications.

In my approach to making the visual elements interpetative beyond Scape,I recoloured the assemblages,added an embossed effect to give the shapes objecthood,captured sharpening to create screen material,and created tablet like frames with background tones which give the plates a sense of hovering above and receding into the page,sometimes the plate edges appear to curve in shape. In reverse processing I intentionally assembled sculptural objects silently on several occasions.
In the Scape program the shapes interact and change sounds,I like the idea that by changing the colours a mood is suggested,and even though anyone could have Scape and recreate and hear my re-compositions,
there will always be an element of imagining the the mood of my colourings,perhaps inducing a state of synethesia. I liked the idea that my altered pieces had been playing for several years and have robotically evolved from my original placements.some even have program entropy.My reflections of fingers,camera,face,and surrounds are also present here and there to reflect my interaction and residual of still time as the shapes shift and change in the application.

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