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For my autobiographical version of the space shooter game, I decided to make mine about my anxiety. I find anxiety to be more of an abstract concept than anything tangible, so I chose to make the art of the game…

The Nap Sack project came into fruition when I was attending my lecture about sleep health. I learned that sleep deprivation is easily dismissed as a health concern. It’s as dangerous to get behind a wheel when you’re sleep-deprived as…

My final project of Art From Code is Amusement Park. I chose this as my final project because I was interested in the interactive check-in and I got inspired by the amusement park check-in that we did earlier in the…

This conference project was inspired by another student’s work I saw a couple of years ago at one of the end-of-semester exhibitions. Their project involved, from what I remember, a person wearing a mask and anonymously handing out white note…

For my Art From Code conference project, I wanted to create a looping, cinematic scene. I got the idea from the class skyline assignment, where we were to create a moving skyline, looping hopefully seamlessly from one end of the…

Grace Hertlein has a very different approach when it comes to computer art comparing to the previous two artists: Vera Molnar and George Nees. However, Hertlein is creating her computer art using her organic approach that makes her work looks…

Comparing to Vera Molnar’s mathematical computer art, George Nees has a similar form but a very different idea. He uses noise and randomness to create a pattern that doesn’t look like something straightly coming out of a math textbook. He…

When we were first given the task to create an “autobiographical shooter game”, I was initially at a loss. How could I take something from my relatively peaceful life and adapt it to a shooter? But as I spoke with…

I, like most people in the world, don’t really know what to do about the fact that everyone seems to be sad. Within my everyday social circles (taking into account that I interact mainly with millenials and Gen Z), I…

by Isiah Powell Taylor This project was most likely the hardest to complete for me personally. At first I think I was afraid of the stronger ideas I had concerning the project. However, as time went on I think I…

For my conference project, I wanted to add a personal touch to my work. Hence, I used my instinct and my studio background in painting and coded two portraits in static mode, coding each triangle in a different colour.

Grace Hertlein sought to digitalise nature. For her art work, she took inspiration from her natural surroundings. Eliminating the anatomical element from her computer art, she brought the natural element of art into her work. I experimented and recreated my…

Daly McGrath Several months before the start of the 2019 Fall Semester, I came across an account on Instagram featuring a person named Miquela Sousa, under the username @lilmiquela. Initially, she seemed to be just another Instagram influencer who posted…

In a report, Hertlein compared the computer art on display and creators present at the 1975 International Conference of Computers and the Humanitites (ICCH) and what was displayed on the 1968 exhibition Cybernetic Serendipity. She uses the comparison to note…

Vera Molnár, as one of the pioneers of computer art, was really interested in repetition and changing her work one parameter one at a time. As a practice, I have several elements I wanted to experiment with repetition and randomness,…

Recently, I have been interested in sound performance that use interactive technologies. However, for this project I thought it would be interesting to practice the opposite idea, which is self-generated computer music. In the 80s, this was the common practice…

Vera Molnár approached her work through gradualism. She would change one parameter at a time and evaluate the aesthetic alterations. This way of creating is a smart way to understand the power of a singular artistic choice. I explored this…

Through brainstorming for a space for our Hijack, one of our first ideas was to reinvent the area formerly known as the Atrium Cafe, a Heimbold classic and much-missed coffee and snack source among faculty and students alike. Our next…

Going into this conference project, I really had no idea what I wanted to create. At the beginning of the semester, Angela and I had discussed where my interests laid both inside and outside of the class. In class, I…

This week we were tasked to respond to the thinking of George Nees, a mathematician who became a pioneer in computer arts. He started making drawings with the use of a plotter, employing it as a drawing machine and utilising…