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Kata Brehm Schommer
Drawings “Between Zero and Computer Program” since 1970
My drawings are not computer drawings.
Occupied with the topic of control in search of artistic implementation. And very important at the art school Saarbrücken the influence of the basic teaching and the teacher Oskar Holweck, Zero, (1957-58 / 59).
Between zero and computer program.
My drawings – since 1970 – are not computer drawings, they are perceived as aesthetic, dramatic, archaic structures. No shape determined from the outside – they grow with day rings, similar to the annual rings of a tree.
Zero was the right school for me, and through my teacher Oskar Holweck, Zero member, I have been part of Zero indirectly since 1957.
Real social, political and private processes, opinion making, manipulation, controlled trends, etc. are the motivation for my artistic work, especially my drawings since 1970. I can’t see the world in any other way than in an infinite number of permanently controlling and controlled contexts – analog extremely reduced the triangle as the smallest element of my drawings, with which, through addition, consistent, necessary design and formation emerge. I start drawing with a program that I could type into a computer. The results would differ because I, the unpredictable human being, am not a determinately functioning machine, but an additionally permanently controlling and controlled, influenceable and responsive system – e.g. my serially and evenly programmed drawing and the unconsciously controlling minimal deviation (see drawings XXII), or a significant deviation due to a resistor installed in the drawing (see drawings X, XI, XII).
The drawing process as a demonstration of regular, context-dependent design and formation. Within the drawing program development, the triangle just drawn is determined by the previous one and it determines the following. Freedom of choice? Brain researchers have discovered that the decision is made seconds in advance in the brain.
Since about 1983 drawings with the same program. The difference can be so great that, for example, the different program development in drawings 9 from 2001 can no longer be understood due to the extremely minimal program start.
Soon in the 80s, automatism, knowledge and trend experience were involved in the drawing process. Consciousness is conditioned and has a conditioning effect. A conscious control option that is limited due to the related context can influence the design in the long term. From 2009 mainly experiments with trend formation and consciously controlled dissolution of the trend (see addiction treatment).
At the beginning of the 1990s – after initial information about the chaos theory – I became aware of the philosophical, zeitgeist context in which my work had been created since 1970. (Strange the cauliflower formation IV from 1974 and the cauliflower as a symbol of chaos theory)
More detailed information under the menu items Vita, INFO I and INFO II