The Artist / Computer Relationship
Centre Culturel Suédois 1979
interview
for Canal by Diane Guetta
(note for the intervention at the Centre Culturel
Suédois in November 1979 with the presentation of computer animations
"Fugue en Blue for Siloe" and " Mesodrama")

Mesodrama : apple 2 computer animation - Paris, 1979
In the creative process the artist uses the microcomputer in the following
manner:
First stage:
From a basic idea, the artist prepares his concept with designs, rough drafts
and various trial sketches. He defines the constraints of his creation and
what he would like to express (for example, the definition of basic creative
forms)
Second stage:
Develop a digital language of forms, colors and constraints of the envisioned
composition. Perhaps to return to certain defined elements from the first
stage.

Fugue en bleu pour Siloe : apple 2 computer animation - Paris, 1979
Third stage:
After a work schedule has been adapted or chosen by the artist (a program
of forms or of colors) the computer will connect the data with the defined
composition.
This program will handle the data and propose combinations to the artist.
Based on his personal research, the artist will be able to explore a certain
track of research, or another.
In exploring one track of research, the artist will have new ideas that he
will introduce or not into his data.
He will imagine new constraints of composition which will permit him to accelerate
the expression of his ideas. He will at last be able to decide whether or
not he will keep the results of this track of his research.
At the end of the process/dialogue, he will have one or several possibilities
available which will correspond to his own constraints of creation which were
defined at the first stage or modified en route.

Feu d'artifice dans la constellation du Cygne :
apple 2 computer animation - Paris, 1979
Fourth stage:
Synthesis by the artist of the different possibilities emerging from the third
stage, choice to continue, or not, the research.
>>>> Bernard
Demiaux