Nonconnectivity

Nonconnectivity is a reflection on groups, individuals, and transitions- the most evident things in nature that become the most mysterious upon closer examination. It expresses these ideas through a navigable visual and sonic space that emerges from simple laws. Although a large variety of patterns can unfold, only a few remote slivers of the parameter space will lead to interesting results. These are the ones that exhibit a balance between stability and change. The central mechanism of the piece is a large collection of independent points that follow along trajectories based on an underlying non-linear equation. Each point has three internal phases that feed back on one another to create chaotic motion. There are no interactions between points; any coordination is just an illusion. The system is initialized by putting all points at the same location and assigning to each one a specific slice of the phase space. Due to sensitivity of initial conditions, the trajectories of points will become more and more individuated as time progresses. All points start in the same location, but splinter off due to individual differences. Group formations are a reflection of underlying concurrencies and, therefore, can break apart spontaneously for no apparent reason. The dynamics of the system are based on unitary transformations, operations that do not change magnitudes of quantities only orientation. This allows that system to run indefinitely without the possibility of collapsing or exploding. Since energy cannot be created or destroyed, the only possible action is permutation.


Lance J. Putnam (USA)

랜스 푸남은 오디오비쥬얼 음악 작곡가이며 동시에 사운드 합성 소프트웨어, 복잡 시스템 (Complex System), 다중 사용자 상호작용 환경에 대한 연구를 하고 있다. 그는 2008년 뉴욕 IBM 사의 T.J. 왓슨 연구소에서 선정한 멀티미디어 워크숍의 신진 리더 8인 중 하나로 선정되기도 했으며, 전자 음악 퍼포먼스, 멀티미디어 작품 전시와 관련 논문 발표를 ICMC 등 미국과 유럽의 컨퍼런스 등에서 활발히 발표 해오고 있다.

Lance Putnam is a composer and researcher with interests in symmetries of form and process in digital media, design patterns for media signal processing, and visualization and sonification of complex systems for artistic and scientific purposes. He is currently a Ph.D. candidate in the Media Arts and Technology Program at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He holds a B.S. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison and an M.A. in Electronic Music and Sound Design from UCSB. In 2006, he was awarded a prestigious NSF IGERT fellowship in Interactive Digital Multimedia. He was selected as one of eight international students to present his research in media signal processing at the 2007 Emerging Leaders in Multimedia Workshop at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in New York. His most recent work, S Phase, was shown at the 2008 International Computer Music Conference in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

http://mat.ucsb.edu/~l.putnam