Podcasts about figure ground

Local artist Sheree Hovsepian discusses her solo exhibit at Uffner & Liu, "Figure Ground," which displays her latest works, including new bronze sculptures, and her new monograph, which will be released May 28th.

This week I welcomed back Jennifer Coates and Elisabeth Condon to the podcast to discuss the recent exhibition "Bonnard: The Experience of Seeing" at Acquavella Gallery, NYC April 12 - May 26, 2023. We each chose a single painting from the show to discuss and so I'm calling us The Bonnardians. It's a Bonnard-a-trois! Come along for a hilarious, smart and nerdy look at this fascinating post-impressionist artist. Paintings: (1) Jennifer Coates Bonnard's "The French Door (Morning at Le Cannet)" "La porte-fenêtre (Matinée au Cannet)" 1932 Oil on canvas 34 7/8 x 44 3/4 inches See the painting: https://tinyurl.com/2v59ntey (2) Elisabeth Condon Bonnard's "Golden Hair" "La Chevelure D'or" 1924 Oil on canvas 26 1/8 x 21 inches See the painting: https://tinyurl.com/yc8ynu8m (3) Amy Talluto Bonnard's "After Lunch/The Lunch" "Apres le Dejeuner"/"Le Dejeuner" 1920 Oil on canvas 29 3/8 x 46 inches See the painting: ⁠https://tinyurl.com/m9bnksf9⁠ Find Jennifer Coates online: http://www.jenniferlcoates.com/ and on IG: @jennifercoates666 Recent and Upcoming shows: "Love Fest" Platform Project Space, "I Spy a May Queen" Contemporary Art Matters: Columbus, OH, Catskill Art Space with David Humphrey Find Elisabeth Condon online: https://www.elisabethcondon.com/ and on IG: @elisabethcondon Recent and Upcoming shows: Emerson Dorsch, Miami, Solo Dec 3, 2023, "Rainbow Roccoco" at Kathryn Markel, NYC, Norte Maar Brooklyn Mural, "⁠⁠Made in Paint⁠⁠" at The Golden Foundation in New Berlin, NY thru Aug 2023 Find Amy Talluto online: https://www.amytalluto.com/ and on IG: @talluts Recent and Upcoming shows: "Cut Me Up" Albany International Airport, "Appearances" Strange Untried Project Space July 22-23, 2023 Artists mentioned: Hokusai, The Nabis, Arthur Dove (at Alexandre Gallery), The Steiglitz Circle, Pablo Picasso, J M W Turner, Claude Monet, Charles Burchfield Books/Writers mentioned: Jed Perl "Complicated Bliss" The New Republic, Dita Amory "Pierre Bonnard: the Late Still Lifes and Interiors," Francoise Gilot "Life With Picasso," Lucy Whelan "Pierre Bonnard Beyond Vision," Mira Schor's essay "Figure Ground" in "M/E/A/N/I/N/G:An Anthology of Artists' Writings, Theory, and Criticism," Mira Schor's "The Osage Tree" Episodes mentioned: Ep 50: Elisabeth Condon Describes a Painting: Sam Francis' "Untitled", Ep 48: Interview w/ Catherine Haggarty ---------------------------- Pep Talks on IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@peptalksforartists⁠⁠⁠⁠ Pep Talks on Art Spiel as written essays: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://tinyurl.com/7k82vd8s⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Amy's website: ⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.amytalluto.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠ Amy on IG: ⁠⁠⁠⁠@talluts⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠BuyMeACoffee⁠⁠⁠⁠ Donations appreciated! --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/peptalksforartistspod/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/peptalksforartistspod/support

This week, Ben sits down with artist and curator Elizabeth Johnson.An artist and exhibition curator, Elizabeth Johnson began writing reviews forartpractical.com in San Francisco, California, and later covered exhibitions in New York City, Philadelphia, and the Lehigh Valley for theartblog.org. She has written for artcritical.com, Artvoices Magazine, Figure/Ground.org, The Brooklyn Rail, and DeliciousLine.org. Currently she interviews artists for Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia, and Philadelphia gallerists for theartblog.org. She curated The Big Painting Show at Workspace Limited in San Francisco's Mission District and has since curated shows that mix local and visiting artists at Lafayette College, Cedar Crest College, Brick + Mortar Gallery and the Soft Machine Gallery, all in the Lehigh Valley. She co-curated Pathological Landscape for Marquee Projects in Bellport, New York, and Residential Tourist for Gross McCleaf Gallery in Philadelphia. Solo shows have been held at Café Museo, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA); Canada College, Redwood City, California; Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture SFMOMA Artists Gallery; and, in 2019, Cedar Crest College. After receiving a BA in Fine Arts from Bard College in 1986, she lived in San Francisco, California for 25 years. She moved to Easton, Pennsylvania, in 2011. She makes oil paintings that suggest dimensional space using curved and warped images. You can follow her on Instagram @elizjohnson2018 or check out her website at https://www.elizabethjohnsonart.com/The show WORRY features twenty-two artists from Philadelphia, the Lehigh Valley, New Jersey, and New York in the hope of soothing shared political and cultural anxieties by revisiting classical drama. Loosely modeled on Penelope, Odysseus, and Athena from Homer's Odyssey, WORRY compares Penelope's suitors to a throng of stubborn anxieties, which might be mitigated through artmaking rather than annihilation. Emphasizing Athena's association with protection, handicraft, and wisdom but not war, WORRY identifies Odysseus not as military hero but in terms of the joy of wandering and distraction. WORRY is a show at Soft Machine Gallery in Allentown, PA.WORRY artists include: Rocío Cabello, Matthew Crain, Eva Di Orio, Morgan Hobbs, William Hudders, Duwenavue Santé Johnson, Elizabeth Johnson, Frederick Wright Jones, Elizabeth Keithline, Tom McGlynn, Renny Molenaar, John Mortensen, Jill Odegaard, Joseph O'Neal, Bethann Parker, Celia Reisman, Paul Rider, Anthony Smith Jr., Emily Steinberg, Charles Stonewall, Bruce Wall, and Tenesh WebberWORRY will be having a closing reception on Saturday, July 1 at 2 pm for a brief Artists Talk and music by Francine Roussel (vocals) and Patrick Paladin (piano) who will present a repertoire of popular songs, in the original French, with a jazz approach.Soft Machine Gallery is a contemporary art space/performance venue in blossoming Allentown featuring local/national artists & performers.It is located at 105 Ridge Ave, Allentown, PA 18101. For more information about them, follow them on Instagram at @soft_machine_gallery.

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2023.05.05.539385v1?rss=1 Authors: Fromm, C., Huxlin, K. R., Diaz, G. J. Abstract: This study tested the role of a cross-modal feature based attention (FBA) cue on perceptual learning and spatial transfer. The trained task was figure-ground segregation in the motion domain. The experiment involved a pre-test, ten days of training, and a post-test. Twelve visually intact participants were immersed in a virtual environment delivered to a Vive Pro Eye. Participants identified the location and motion direction (MD) of a peripheral 10{degrees} aperture of semi-coherently moving dots embedded at randomized locations within whole-field random dot motion. The aperture contained both randomly moving dots and signal dots which had global leftward or rightward motion. To manipulate motion coherence, a 3-up-1-down staircase adjusted the direction range of the signal dots in response to segregation judgments. The dot stimulus was preceded by a 1s white-noise spatialized auditory cue emitted from the fixation point (neutral group), or from an emitter moving in the direction of signal dots at 80{degrees}/s in a horizontal arc centered on the fixation point (FBA cue group). Visual feedback indicated the selected and true aperture locations, and correctness of the MD judgment. Analysis measured MD discrimination within the aperture as well as segregation ability, both measured in terms of direction range threshold (DRT). At trained locations, MD DRT improved similarly in FBA and neutral groups, and learning was retained when the pre-cue was removed ({Delta}DRT from pretest to posttest: 61{+/-}10{degrees} ; (SD) FBA, 74{+/-}10{degrees} neutral), and transferred to untrained locations (41{+/-}10{degrees} FBA, 45{+/-}10{degrees} neutral). DRT for localization also improved in both groups when pre-cues were removed (49{+/-}10{degrees} FBA, 44{+/-}10{degrees} neutral), but only the FBA group showed full transfer of learning to untrained locations in the segregation task (32{+/-}10{degrees} FBA, 23{+/-}10{degrees} neutral). In summary, transfer occurred for both MD and segregation tasks, but the segregation transfer required the presence of the cross-modal FBA cue during training. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Link to bioRxiv paper: http://biorxiv.org/cgi/content/short/2022.12.25.521891v1?rss=1 Authors: Volotsky, S., Segev, R. Abstract: Object detection and recognition is a complex computational task that is thought to rely critically on the ability to segment an object from the background. Mammals exhibit varying figure-ground segmentation capabilities, ranging from primates that can perform well on figure-ground segmentation tasks to rodents that perform poorly. To explore figure-ground segmentation capabilities in teleost fish, we studied how the archerfish, an expert visual hunter, performs figure-ground segmentation. We trained archerfish to discriminate foreground objects from the background, where the figures were defined by motion as well as by discontinuities in intensity and texture. Specifically, the figures were defined by grating, naturalistic texture, and random noise moving in counterphase with the background. The archerfish performed the task well and could distinguish between all three types of figures and grounds. Their performance was comparable to that of primates and outperformed rodents. These findings suggest the existence of a complex visual process in the archerfish visual system that enables the delineation of figures as distinct from backgrounds, and provide insights into object recognition in this animal. Copy rights belong to original authors. Visit the link for more info Podcast created by Paper Player, LLC

Ben Luke talks to Charles Ray about his influences and the cultural experiences that shape his life and work. Ray, born in 1953 and based in Los Angeles, is one of the most singular voices in contemporary sculpture, with a extraordinary grasp of the key elements of the discipline—space, material, surface, scale, weight and mass—and a unique approach to imagery, drawing on a huge range of sources to create absorbing, yet deeply ambiguous works. Carved and cast by hand and using cutting-edge technology, they often take years to come to fruition, and are made and remade in a variety of different patterns and prototypes in a range of materials and scales before being completed. Ray engages deeply with the history of sculpture, and in this conversation reflects on his admiration for everything from Anthony Caro's abstract metal sculpture Early One Morning to the ancient Greek Great Eleusinian Relief. He also reflects on the significance to his work of Mark Twain's Huckleberry Finn and the importance of his daily walks to his practice. Plus, he answers our usual questions, including the ultimate: what is art for?The exhibition Charles Ray is at the Bourse de Commerce and the Centre Pompidou in Paris from the 16 February and continues until 6 June at the Bourse and until 20 June at the Pompidou. Charles's exhibition Figure Ground is at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York until 5 June. Charles is in this year's Whitney Biennial, called Quiet as it's Kept, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, from 6 Apr–5 Sept. And the third special installation of Ray's works at Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland continues until spring 2023. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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How do we identify when a student is experiencing impaired visual figure ground deficts?  Here are some great p[ointers to help you identify!!

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The Art Loeb Trail is one of the premier backpacking and running trails in Western North Carolina. It begins (or ends) at a Boy Scout Camp near Black Balsam Knob, crosses the Blue Ridge Parkway, traverses a prominent ridge in Pisgah National Forest, and terminates near the small town of Brevard. On Spring Equinox, I set out to run the length of the Art Loeb Trail with no goal other than to finish before dark. The next day, while picking up my car from the trailhead, I crossed paths with a friend who was breaking his own record to establish the fastest known time.    Music on this episode by Seeking Madras, Jason Shaw, Wesley Davis, Figure Ground (I could not find contact info for Figure Ground, but many of us loved their tunes as they appeared in skate and snowboard soundtracks back in the day. Please don't sue me, Figure Ground.), and Blue Dot Sessions. Find the new album “One Goes Forward” at http://SeekingMadras.bandcamp.com.

A Dela? Is it working? | Performance [28.08.2020] Die Ausstellung »Is it working?« in Ljubljana präsentiert aktuelle Produktionen des ZKM | Hertz-Labors. Anlässlich dazu zeigt das ZKM die Performances »robotcowboy« und »Figure-ground« im Livestream. Figure-ground beschäftigt sich mit den mentalen und kognitiven Prozessen, die zwischen Reflexion und Dissoziation oszillieren. Als Teil der Performance wird in Echtzeit eine audiovisuelle Collage erstellt. Sowohl die visuelle als auch die klangliche Ebene zielen darauf ab, eine Art Pareidolie-Effekt zu erzeugen. Unter Verwendung eines Echtzeit-Canny-Kantendetektors speisen die Umrisse des fragmentierten Selbstporträts eines Darstellers ein Gray-Scott-Modell der Reaktionsdiffusion. Seine Werte steuern die Parameter einer elektroakustischen Klanglandschaft, die aus der elektronischen Manipulation von natürlichen Klangobjekten, verstärkten kleinen Klängen und Feldaufnahmen abgeleitet wurde. Das audiovisuelle Echtzeit-Performance-System wurde von Yannick Hofmann während des Corona-Lockdown 2020 entwickelt. /// »Is it working?« is an introduction to the eponymous festival, organized by the Ljudmila association between August 24 and 28, 2020 at several locations around Ljubljana, as a part of the European network of educational and art institutions, EASTN-DC. Figure-ground deals with the mental and cognitive processes oscillating between reflection and dissociation. As part of the performance, an audiovisual collage is created in real-time. Both the visual and the sonic layer aim at creating a kind of pareidolia effect. Utilising a real-time Canny edge detector, the outlines of a performer’s fragmented self-portrait feed a Gray Scott Model of Reaction Diffusion. Its values control the parameters of an electro-acoustic soundscape which has been derived from electronic manipulation of natural sound objects, amplified small sounds and field-recordings. The audiovisual real-time performance system was developed by Yannick Hofmann during the 2020 Corona lockdown.

Neil, Carol, and guest Paul Levinson deconstruct the bizarre intersections of social media, popular culture, and politics on Capitol Hill during the week of January 4.

Seated in my studio between "We can't have Heaven Crammed" and "Bring Home the Bacon", both oil on linen. Barbara Friedman is an artist based in New York City and a professor of art at Pace University. She has exhibited widely, with multiple two- and three-person shows in the last few years, at spaces including Five Myles in Brooklyn, NY; (2020), Sara Nightingale Gallery in Sag Harbor, NY (2019); and Amy Simon Fine Art in Westport, CT (2017); as well as 36 solo shows, most recently at CAS in Livingston Manor, NY and Hamilton Square in Jersey City (2017), Buddy Warren Gallery in New York, NY (2016); BCB Art in Hudson, NY (2015); Ober Gallery in Kent, CT (2014); Ethan Petitt Gallery in Brooklyn, NY (2014); the Painting Center (2012); and twice at Michael Steinberg Fine Art in New York, NY (2007, 2009).  Earlier solo exhibitions were at Art Resources Transfer, The Queens Museum, and White Columns (all NYC); Carnegie-Mellon University, Cleveland State University, the Roanoke Museum of Fine Arts, and the Dana Wright Gallery in San Francisco among others. Reviews of Friedman’s work have appeared in the New York Times, the New York Sun, The Irish Times, Newsday, Art in America, ARTS Magazine, the Christian Science Monitor and Artweek. Interviews have appeared in Artspiel.org, Figure/Ground and by Paul D'Agostino. A group of her paintings was selected for the 2007 issue of New American Paintings, and another group for the 2010 issue. She was an Artist in Residence twice at the Marie Walsh Foundation Summer Seminar and has also been awarded residencies at Yaddo, The Virginia Center for the Arts, and the Bogliasco Foundation. The books mentioned in the interview are: Eleanor Heartney, Doomsday Dreams: The Apocalyptic Imagination in Contemporary Art (Silver Hollow Press, 2019) and Richard Powers, The Overstory (W. W. Norton, 2018) Self portrait with Pig Watercolors on Studio Wall

Many thanks to Lukas Stern for his awesome set!For our next addition to the Drone family, we’re truly proud we got this Techno Minded Hero.Why ? Well, He got 60+ Release’s on many respected labels like Shadow Story, Ad Noiseam, Mord Records, Inner Surface Music, Darkfloor Sound, Combat Recordings, Overdraw, Photon Emissions, RDL47 Records, Duality, Violet Poison and more under many different aliases as Ontal with Darko Kolar, Impulse Controls with Blush Response, Figure-Ground with Alexander Church of Dronelock, Boris Noiz, Lost in the Sound.He recently moved to New York to focus on his new project under his own name. With this project, he already got a well-received EP on New York Trax, the leading track titled ÒThe OvenÓ, with its dirty funk and relentless groove it’s a serious candidate for an all-time classic. And as the skillful DJ, he is, he is already racking up some gig’s in New York scene with one upcoming this Friday at The Black Hole in The Gate, New York.Connecting the dots between the past and present, he seems to have a clear vision of what the future of electronic music should be, and we are very happy to have him on the Drone Podcast No.075: Boris BreneckiPlease enjoy!

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Mantis Radio 221 + Not Alive Yet On Mantis Radio this week, a session from Not Alive Yet. We're packing new sound from Ariadne's Labyrinth, ASC, Shifted, Relapso, Sleeper, Broken20, Sync 24, Figure-Ground, and more. Show playlist available at Darkfloor.

Mantis Radio 221 + Not Alive Yet On Mantis Radio this week, a session from Not Alive Yet. We're packing new sound from Ariadne's Labyrinth, ASC, Shifted, Relapso, Sleeper, Broken20, Sync 24, Figure-Ground, and more. playlist → show archives. support the show → become a patron.

Mantis Radio 220 + Figure-Ground Mantis Radio begins its 2017 run with a guest session from UK/Serbian duo Figure-Ground. Hear new music from clipping., Somatic Responses, Snowbeasts, Savier, Scalameriya, RTJ, I Hate Models, Gantz and Mannequin Records. playlist → show archives. support the show → become a patron.

Mantis Radio 220 + Figure-Ground Mantis Radio begins its 2017 run with a guest session from UK/Serbian duo Figure-Ground. Hear new music from clipping., Somatic Responses, Snowbeasts, Savier, Scalameriya, RTJ, I Hate Models, Gantz and Mannequin Records. Show playlist available at Darkfloor.

The Atom And You Fina Rodriguez - Desert Lands [Digital Distortions] He-At - I've Never Been To Bed With An Ugly Girl But I've Woken Up With A Few [Mord] I Hate Models - Don't Be Afraid Of The Light (Ingen Remix) [T/W/B] Dave Tarrida - Fish Bowling [Darknet] Adam X - Antagonistic [Sonic Groove] Makaton - Defiler (Repeat Offender Mix) [RSB] Kamikaze Space Programme - Type 1 [Vanta Series] Radial - Tempname 35 [Arms] Lag - Nemir [Them] CTRLS - Nonuser [Token] Abstract Division - Future Existence [Dynamic Reflection] Scalameriya - Outcast [Genesa] Dave Mono - Room Full Of Dirt [Digital Distortions] Phase - R-Mash (O/V/R Mix) [Token] Denise Rabe - Sunday Blues (Rrose Remix) [Arts] Surgeon - Bland Ambition Pt. 1 [Dynamic Tension] Scalameriya & VSK - Arise [Power Vacuum] Surgeon - Fivo [SRX] Dax J - The 5th Dimension [Arts] C Mantle - Glitch (Closing Credits) (Swarm Intelligence Remix) [Obscuur] Truss - Wonastow [Blueprint] Figure-Ground - Figure-Ground 01 [Figure-Ground] The Plant Worker - Limited 005 A2 [Limited] Lag - Bumer (Paul Birken Remix) [Them] Oliver Kucera - Groen (Linear Straight Remix) [Green Fetish] Samuli Kemppi - No Place For You [Power Of Voltages] NoizyKnobs - Nube [Planet Rhythm] Advanced Human - Boiler (Raiz remix) [Starkstrom Schallplatten] Cadans ft. Kracht - Papercuts [Wolfskuil] Stranger - Thinner [Planet Rhythm] Cadans - Hollow Funk [Wolfskuil] Gareth Wild - Deviance Is Bliss [Planet Rhythm] Ness - Hololoop [EarToGround] JoeFarr - Comp Killer [Leisure System]

The Atom And You Fina Rodriguez - Desert Lands [Digital Distortions] He-At - I've Never Been To Bed With An Ugly Girl But I've Woken Up With A Few [Mord] I Hate Models - Don't Be Afraid Of The Light (Ingen Remix) [T/W/B] Dave Tarrida - Fish Bowling [Darknet] Adam X - Antagonistic [Sonic Groove] Makaton - Defiler (Repeat Offender Mix) [RSB] Kamikaze Space Programme - Type 1 [Vanta Series] Radial - Tempname 35 [Arms] Lag - Nemir [Them] CTRLS - Nonuser [Token] Abstract Division - Future Existence [Dynamic Reflection] Scalameriya - Outcast [Genesa] Dave Mono - Room Full Of Dirt [Digital Distortions] Phase - R-Mash (O/V/R Mix) [Token] Denise Rabe - Sunday Blues (Rrose Remix) [Arts] Surgeon - Bland Ambition Pt. 1 [Dynamic Tension] Scalameriya & VSK - Arise [Power Vacuum] Surgeon - Fivo [SRX] Dax J - The 5th Dimension [Arts] C Mantle - Glitch (Closing Credits) (Swarm Intelligence Remix) [Obscuur] Truss - Wonastow [Blueprint] Figure-Ground - Figure-Ground 01 [Figure-Ground] The Plant Worker - Limited 005 A2 [Limited] Lag - Bumer (Paul Birken Remix) [Them] Oliver Kucera - Groen (Linear Straight Remix) [Green Fetish] Samuli Kemppi - No Place For You [Power Of Voltages] NoizyKnobs - Nube [Planet Rhythm] Advanced Human - Boiler (Raiz remix) [Starkstrom Schallplatten] Cadans ft. Kracht - Papercuts [Wolfskuil] Stranger - Thinner [Planet Rhythm] Cadans - Hollow Funk [Wolfskuil] Gareth Wild - Deviance Is Bliss [Planet Rhythm] Ness - Hololoop [EarToGround] JoeFarr - Comp Killer [Leisure System]

The Atom And You Fina Rodriguez - Desert Lands [Digital Distortions] He-At - I've Never Been To Bed With An Ugly Girl But I've Woken Up With A Few [Mord] I Hate Models - Don't Be Afraid Of The Light (Ingen Remix) [T/W/B] Dave Tarrida - Fish Bowling [Darknet] Adam X - Antagonistic [Sonic Groove] Makaton - Defiler (Repeat Offender Mix) [RSB] Kamikaze Space Programme - Type 1 [Vanta Series] Radial - Tempname 35 [Arms] Lag - Nemir [Them] CTRLS - Nonuser [Token] Abstract Division - Future Existence [Dynamic Reflection] Scalameriya - Outcast [Genesa] Dave Mono - Room Full Of Dirt [Digital Distortions] Phase - R-Mash (O/V/R Mix) [Token] Denise Rabe - Sunday Blues (Rrose Remix) [Arts] Surgeon - Bland Ambition Pt. 1 [Dynamic Tension] Scalameriya & VSK - Arise [Power Vacuum] Surgeon - Fivo [SRX] Dax J - The 5th Dimension [Arts] C Mantle - Glitch (Closing Credits) (Swarm Intelligence Remix) [Obscuur] Truss - Wonastow [Blueprint] Figure-Ground - Figure-Ground 01 [Figure-Ground] The Plant Worker - Limited 005 A2 [Limited] Lag - Bumer (Paul Birken Remix) [Them] Oliver Kucera - Groen (Linear Straight Remix) [Green Fetish] Samuli Kemppi - No Place For You [Power Of Voltages] NoizyKnobs - Nube [Planet Rhythm] Advanced Human - Boiler (Raiz remix) [Starkstrom Schallplatten] Cadans ft. Kracht - Papercuts [Wolfskuil] Stranger - Thinner [Planet Rhythm] Cadans - Hollow Funk [Wolfskuil] Gareth Wild - Deviance Is Bliss [Planet Rhythm] Ness - Hololoop [EarToGround] JoeFarr - Comp Killer [Leisure System]

The Atom And You Fina Rodriguez - Desert Lands [Digital Distortions] He-At - I've Never Been To Bed With An Ugly Girl But I've Woken Up With A Few [Mord] I Hate Models - Don't Be Afraid Of The Light (Ingen Remix) [T/W/B] Dave Tarrida - Fish Bowling [Darknet] Adam X - Antagonistic [Sonic Groove] Makaton - Defiler (Repeat Offender Mix) [RSB] Kamikaze Space Programme - Type 1 [Vanta Series] Radial - Tempname 35 [Arms] Lag - Nemir [Them] CTRLS - Nonuser [Token] Abstract Division - Future Existence [Dynamic Reflection] Scalameriya - Outcast [Genesa] Dave Mono - Room Full Of Dirt [Digital Distortions] Phase - R-Mash (O/V/R Mix) [Token] Denise Rabe - Sunday Blues (Rrose Remix) [Arts] Surgeon - Bland Ambition Pt. 1 [Dynamic Tension] Scalameriya & VSK - Arise [Power Vacuum] Surgeon - Fivo [SRX] Dax J - The 5th Dimension [Arts] C Mantle - Glitch (Closing Credits) (Swarm Intelligence Remix) [Obscuur] Truss - Wonastow [Blueprint] Figure-Ground - Figure-Ground 01 [Figure-Ground] The Plant Worker - Limited 005 A2 [Limited] Lag - Bumer (Paul Birken Remix) [Them] Oliver Kucera - Groen (Linear Straight Remix) [Green Fetish] Samuli Kemppi - No Place For You [Power Of Voltages] NoizyKnobs - Nube [Planet Rhythm] Advanced Human - Boiler (Raiz remix) [Starkstrom Schallplatten] Cadans ft. Kracht - Papercuts [Wolfskuil] Stranger - Thinner [Planet Rhythm] Cadans - Hollow Funk [Wolfskuil] Gareth Wild - Deviance Is Bliss [Planet Rhythm] Ness - Hololoop [EarToGround] JoeFarr - Comp Killer [Leisure System]

eleven8 - Another Mile [Electro Magnetic Fields] Figure-Ground - Figuer-Ground 09 [Figure-Ground] Ezekial Rhodes - Cyslexid Nylad Flow Castle x Slow Graffiti - Do [Too Lush] Lloyd SB - 3X23 [Nervous Horizon] Otik - Witness (Mojora Remix) [Tessier-Ashpool] Skelecta - Touch [877 Records] My Nu Leng - Contact [Black Butter] A. Ashdown - The Heck [Digital Distortions] My Nu Leng - Damp [LNUK] Cassini - Threatless Ace [Tessier-Ashpool] House Of Black Lanterns - Code Of The Streets Denham Audio - No Entry [Exploris] Jungle - Busy Earnin' (Special Request Remix) [XL Recordings] Fallacy - Big & Bashy (DJ Narrow's Resurrection Mix) [Virgin] Nightwave - Hit It (Picatrixx VIP Mix) Mark Pritchard - Ghetto Blast [Warp] Tipper - Peripherals [Tippermusic] My Nu Leng ft. Fox - Masterplan [Black Butter] Hostage - NT1 (2ndSun Remix 2) [Tessier-Ashpool] Tessela - Rub [Blueprint] Randomer - Kid's Play [L.I.E.S.] Truss - Wonastow [Blueprint] J. Tijn - Pick Your Battles V1 [Naked Naked] Jamie XX - Loud Places (Tessela Remix) [Young Turks]

eleven8 - Another Mile [Electro Magnetic Fields] Figure-Ground - Figuer-Ground 09 [Figure-Ground] Ezekial Rhodes - Cyslexid Nylad Flow Castle x Slow Graffiti - Do [Too Lush] Lloyd SB - 3X23 [Nervous Horizon] Otik - Witness (Mojora Remix) [Tessier-Ashpool] Skelecta - Touch [877 Records] My Nu Leng - Contact [Black Butter] A. Ashdown - The Heck [Digital Distortions] My Nu Leng - Damp [LNUK] Cassini - Threatless Ace [Tessier-Ashpool] House Of Black Lanterns - Code Of The Streets Denham Audio - No Entry [Exploris] Jungle - Busy Earnin' (Special Request Remix) [XL Recordings] Fallacy - Big & Bashy (DJ Narrow's Resurrection Mix) [Virgin] Nightwave - Hit It (Picatrixx VIP Mix) Mark Pritchard - Ghetto Blast [Warp] Tipper - Peripherals [Tippermusic] My Nu Leng ft. Fox - Masterplan [Black Butter] Hostage - NT1 (2ndSun Remix 2) [Tessier-Ashpool] Tessela - Rub [Blueprint] Randomer - Kid's Play [L.I.E.S.] Truss - Wonastow [Blueprint] J. Tijn - Pick Your Battles V1 [Naked Naked] Jamie XX - Loud Places (Tessela Remix) [Young Turks]

eleven8 - Another Mile [Electro Magnetic Fields] Figure-Ground - Figuer-Ground 09 [Figure-Ground] Ezekial Rhodes - Cyslexid Nylad Flow Castle x Slow Graffiti - Do [Too Lush] Lloyd SB - 3X23 [Nervous Horizon] Otik - Witness (Mojora Remix) [Tessier-Ashpool] Skelecta - Touch [877 Records] My Nu Leng - Contact [Black Butter] A. Ashdown - The Heck [Digital Distortions] My Nu Leng - Damp [LNUK] Cassini - Threatless Ace [Tessier-Ashpool] House Of Black Lanterns - Code Of The Streets Denham Audio - No Entry [Exploris] Jungle - Busy Earnin' (Special Request Remix) [XL Recordings] Fallacy - Big & Bashy (DJ Narrow's Resurrection Mix) [Virgin] Nightwave - Hit It (Picatrixx VIP Mix) Mark Pritchard - Ghetto Blast [Warp] Tipper - Peripherals [Tippermusic] My Nu Leng ft. Fox - Masterplan [Black Butter] Hostage - NT1 (2ndSun Remix 2) [Tessier-Ashpool] Tessela - Rub [Blueprint] Randomer - Kid's Play [L.I.E.S.] Truss - Wonastow [Blueprint] J. Tijn - Pick Your Battles V1 [Naked Naked] Jamie XX - Loud Places (Tessela Remix) [Young Turks]

eleven8 - Another Mile [Electro Magnetic Fields] Figure-Ground - Figuer-Ground 09 [Figure-Ground] Ezekial Rhodes - Cyslexid Nylad Flow Castle x Slow Graffiti - Do [Too Lush] Lloyd SB - 3X23 [Nervous Horizon] Otik - Witness (Mojora Remix) [Tessier-Ashpool] Skelecta - Touch [877 Records] My Nu Leng - Contact [Black Butter] A. Ashdown - The Heck [Digital Distortions] My Nu Leng - Damp [LNUK] Cassini - Threatless Ace [Tessier-Ashpool] House Of Black Lanterns - Code Of The Streets Denham Audio - No Entry [Exploris] Jungle - Busy Earnin' (Special Request Remix) [XL Recordings] Fallacy - Big & Bashy (DJ Narrow's Resurrection Mix) [Virgin] Nightwave - Hit It (Picatrixx VIP Mix) Mark Pritchard - Ghetto Blast [Warp] Tipper - Peripherals [Tippermusic] My Nu Leng ft. Fox - Masterplan [Black Butter] Hostage - NT1 (2ndSun Remix 2) [Tessier-Ashpool] Tessela - Rub [Blueprint] Randomer - Kid's Play [L.I.E.S.] Truss - Wonastow [Blueprint] J. Tijn - Pick Your Battles V1 [Naked Naked] Jamie XX - Loud Places (Tessela Remix) [Young Turks]

Man Man - "Hurly Burly" Boats - "O Telescope" Old Time Religion - "Daemon Meeting: Old & Weird - "Minstrel" The Sadies - "The Very Ending" The Sadies - "Another Tomorrow Again" SIRR - "Sultans of Suburbia" Cousins - "Die" Nouvelle Vague - "Heart of Glass" Heaven For Real - "You Are The One With The Iron Heart Device" Blonde Redhead - "Misery Is A Butterfly" Brazilian Girls - "Corner Store" Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Gold Lion" Billie Dre and the Poor Boys - "Bye Baby, Bye June" Pale Eyes - "Figure/Ground" The Winter Coats - "A Violent Little Band" The Flaming Lips - "Try To Explain" Deerhunter - "T.H.M." The Motorleague - "Every Man Needs A Cape Breton" Esther Grey - "The Hairy Ballerina" Zeus - "Are You Gonna Waste My Time?"

Man Man - "Hurly Burly" Boats - "O Telescope" Old Time Religion - "Daemon Meeting: Old & Weird - "Minstrel" The Sadies - "The Very Ending" The Sadies - "Another Tomorrow Again" SIRR - "Sultans of Suburbia" Cousins - "Die" Nouvelle Vague - "Heart of Glass" Heaven For Real - "You Are The One With The Iron Heart Device" Blonde Redhead - "Misery Is A Butterfly" Brazilian Girls - "Corner Store" Yeah Yeah Yeahs - "Gold Lion" Billie Dre and the Poor Boys - "Bye Baby, Bye June" Pale Eyes - "Figure/Ground" The Winter Coats - "A Violent Little Band" The Flaming Lips - "Try To Explain" Deerhunter - "T.H.M." The Motorleague - "Every Man Needs A Cape Breton" Esther Grey - "The Hairy Ballerina" Zeus - "Are You Gonna Waste My Time?"

Download Episode 31Design Guy here, welcome to the show. This is the program that explores timeless principles of design and explains them simply.We're talking about Unity, which we've described as the compositional goal of taking many elements and fashioning them into a cohesive whole. In other words, we don't want our audience to be distracted by the parts and pieces of a thing, we want them to see the big picture, and want them to see it in way where everything ties together, everythings feels integral, everything hangs together as one piece, and creates one effect. And as we pointed out, this is essentially the definition of design, itself.So, in keeping with this idea, we're taking a short tour through Gestalt theory, which is about perception as a dynamic process. It's about making meaning out of what we see, and how our minds want to make meaninful patterns out of chaos. And we do this by perceptually organizing what we're looking at. As we look around, as we survey our environment, we begin to infer a sense of structure and relationship among the things we see. And we do this so we can quickly come to terms with it all, to make sense of it all. And in a survival sense, it makes sense that our minds want to know what we're up against, so we can react appropriately.In visual design, we learn how to apply these principles of perception so we can aid that process. Generally speaking, we want to make things as intuitive and as instant as we can. Because the goal is communicate, to transmit meaning rapidly, and make sure people get the message.So, I'd like to give a quick rundown of these Gestalt rules, or tools, starting with what's called figure / ground. Figure/Ground is a way of understanding the visual field before us. If we see a man, for example, standing in the street, we see the man as the figure, and everything else as ground. And depending on how clear that distinction is to us, we'll have a stronger or weaker sense of which is which. The distinction between figure and ground is usually achieved by contrast. The darkness or lightness of a figure, for example, will clarify it as the figure. Or maybe the background is blurry, whereas the figure is in focus. Or maybe the distinction has something to do with the composition, since the placement of the figure can influence our perception of it. As designers, we want to get skillful at controlling the balance of figure and ground, and sometimes even making it purposely uncertain, in order to achieve a certain effect.And I'll ask you to call to mind the famous optical illusion of the faces and the vase. This is the one that usually depicts a white vase against a black field. I remember personally encountering this for the first time as a kid on a cub scout trip to the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, which is basically a science museum. One of the exhibits featured this image. And I remember that as I looked at that vase, an unexpected surprise happened. I sensed a kind of shift, as the foreground and background flipped positions, and suddenly the shape of two faces, two facing profiles emerged. Those black shapes - the faces - were now the foreground and the white vase was pushed back into space. It was all my own perception, but it was powerful nonetheless. Powerful enough for me to recall the experience vividly, some thirty years later.You may also remember the famous Gestalt picture of the old lady and the young woman. At first glance, you see a young woman, head turned away from us. But as you continue looking, you may see the face of an old lady emerge.The reason this kind of switch or flip occurs is due to a perceptual decision that we make. Our minds decide that one thing is the figure, and the rest ground. One thing appears as foreground, the rest is background. So if an image is ambiguous in this respect, this figure-ground flip is likelier to happen, as we seek to wrap our perceptual mind around the subject. So, this is kind of an internal decision making process that we're not necessarily aware of. Our minds do it in order to make sense of what we're looking at.M.C. Escher famously manipulated our sense of figure and ground with his popular sketches, a perrenial favorite in the form of coffee table books and mugs and mouse padsAnd graphic designers continually exploit figure ground. They do this for a lot of reasons. One reason is that it's just a neat optical trick, as we've pointed out. But the best reason is that it's just so efficient. It's elegant. Think about it. Why introduce additional figure, why add another positive element, when you can imply another element from the ground? It's a way of making 1 +1 = 3, of getting more from less, of pulling a rabbit out of hat. And that's why the shining examples in graphic design are those classic corporate logos. Look up Saul Bass' wonderful and enduring Girl Scout logo, for example, and you'll see a cascade of faces constructed out of just a couple of shapes and an activated background. Bass works magic with this mark. He brings the background into the foreground in such a way that the sum is greater than the parts.I'll admit this is a tough one to describe in words alone. So, I'll encourage you to continue this little lesson on your own by searching Google images for stuff like the Girl Scout logo, or the works of M.C. Escher. It's helpful to explain how figure ground works, but you've just got to see it to appreciate it.But I think that'll do for today. Let me remind you that a transcript of today's episode may be found at designguyshow.blogspot.com. Music is by kcentricity.com. I look forward to having you back again.Subscribe in iTunes - it's free!