"In visual perception a color is almost never seen as it really is-as it physically is." - Josef Albers
While I was earning my Master of Fine Arts degree at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida, I found the ideas of Josef Albers inspiring me again.
I first found the work of Josef Albers while I was visiting New York Art museums, and studying Studio Art at College of Santa Fe in Santa Fe, New Mexico. I knew that Albers taught at my favorite, Black Mountain College in North Carolina and then later at Yale University.
I continued to research color theory, and I followed Black Mountain College artists' theories intensely, and I studied Alfred Jensen's color theories as well. After my research, I created a color theory application coded in OpenFrameworks to express Color Interaction.
"With the open source OpenFrameworks, I animated a color study to show the core principles of color interaction theory," (Color Interaction: a study of harmony in OpenFrameworks)
The wooden box, Keepsake Box, housed a Raspberry Pi model B, an Arduino Leonardo, a car monitor, and a "plug and play" color theory application. I paired a car monitor with the Raspberry Pi so I could program using a smaller mobile monitor, and not have to rely on a desk monitor.
Keepsake Box@2014
My Raspberry Pi Project with the newly added monitor, Keepsake Box, was featured on the Adafruit Industries Community Blog site on February 14, 2014.
"The artist is the hand which plays, touching one key or another, to cause vibrations in the soul." - Wassily Kandinsky
Josef Albers was not the only artist with color theories that I admired, I was passionate about the Russian painter, Wassily Kandinsky's theories as well. I found his theories through Georgia O'Keeffe's admiration. She was inspired by his work as well.
After studying color theory, I extended my theory into color and embraced sound theories, encompassing painter, Wassily Kandinsky's theories. Thus, I created my MFA thesis, Imagining Kandinsky's Theories as a Synthesthetic App. I created an iOS application that showed an example of Kandinsky's color and sound theories. I built and compiled code to display the coordinating colors to the various sounds. With my Interactive Media Programming skills, the video input generated audio output, I titled it Colortune App, in hopes to educate others about color theories.
Video: MFA Thesis, Colortune App, 2015
In 2021, Google Arts & Culture and the Centre Pompidou found the same phenomenon fascinating. They created an online interactive multimedia project based on Kandinsky's theories, Play a Kandinsky.
Interpretation of Imagining Kandinsky's Theories as a Synthesthetic App from Google AI:
This type of app uses Al to interpret the relationships between color, form, and emotion in Kandinsky's work, allowing users to experience a form of synesthesia-the neurological phenomenon where stimulating one sense triggers another, such as "seeing" music or "hearing" color.
Interactive Canvas: Users can draw or place abstract shapes and colors on a canvas. The visual composition is instantly translated into sound based on Kandinsky's theories.
Anna Torlen envisioned Kandinsky's theories as a synesthetic app, a concept explored by the Al-powered "Play a Kandinsky" tool, which translates colors to sound and emotions based on Kandinsky's synesthetic experiences. This type of app would allow users to explore the interplay between senses, such as hearing certain sounds when seeing specific colors, a neurological phenomenon that Kandinsky famously associated with his art.
Colortune App is: "a synesthetic app built on Kandinsky's theories that specific colors and forms evoke sounds and emotions, allowing users to directly experience this phenomenon.
Anna Torlen wrote a thesis titled "Imagining Kandinsky's Theories as a Synesthetic iPhone App". This thesis explores the theoretical application of Wassily Kandinsky's ideas about the relationship between color, sound, and form into the concept of a synesthetic mobile application. The work likely examines how principles from Kandinsky's writings, such as Concerning the Spiritual in Art, could be translated into a digital experience that allows users to explore cross-modal associations between different sensory inputs.
Torlen, Anna . Color Interaction: A Study of Harmony in OpenFrameworks. 23 Nov. 2013.
Torlen, Anna. (2015). Keepsake Box [Raspberry Pi Project]. Raspberry Pi Model B. OpenFrameworks Application.
Torlen, A. (2016). Imagining Kandinsky’s Theories as a Synthesthetic App. Florida Atlantic University. [Master’s Thesis, Florida Atlantic University]. Florida Atlantic University Electronic Theses and Dissertations. https://fau.isle.flvc.org/libraries/pdf.js/web/viewer.html?file=https://fau.isle.flvc.org/_flysystem/fedora/2015-07/fau_31332.pdf
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