A Story is Not a Tree

Grace Hertlein liked to use repetition and randomness to make patterns that were inspired by nature. In these pieces, I took ideas from the “flower” example we in class worked on together and made expanded on the code in the…

Project by Avery and Daly Our survey was based around the concept of Fall formal being replaced by team building night for future years to promote a stronger community on campus, and to compliment the rebranding of Sarah Lawrence College….

Georg Nees was interested in using stochastic functions to disrupt formal structures. His work is characterized by a visible transformation from order to chaos. This is well demonstrated by Schotter (1968), in which a rotation and transformation disorder a grid….

Vera Molnar is a very talented and unique artist. It might seem contradictory to call her talented when her work was essentially produced by a machine but I think the talent can be seen in the way she made the…

Modern generative graphic designer Georg Nees was a pioneer of computer art. One of Nees’ signature pieces is the Schotter (gravel in german). In this series he uses patterns, randomization, distruption and chaos to create a series of compelling digital…

When I initially started the Georg Nees project, I didn’t expect to find myself quite so emerged in the process. However, that quickly changed as I began experimenting and exploring the different ways to make abstractions. Watching the video from…

Generative Art has its first exhibition on February 4th, 1965. It held by Max Bense, professor at the University of Stuttgart, and Georg Nees, a mathematician who interested in art. As a  pioneer of generative digital art, Nees has his…

When examining Georg Nees’s work, I became perplexed with his ability to seamlessly alter his structures using ‘randomization.’ I love the thought of messing with set, orderly structures, however, I am usually a bit afraid to randomize aspects of my…

For my responses to Georg Nees, I took the ideas behind his work “Gravel” and incorporated them in my responses. The idea behind “Gravel” are the disruption of a formal pattern. Nees also enjoyed the idea of variation within a…

Claire Bronchick and Sarah Morse Our group survey dealt with the concept of having student spaces on campus.  We asked three main questions: How many times a day do you use screaming as an emotional outlet? Times a week? A…

By Isiah Taylor, Peck Trachsel, Allex Valauri When planning for this hijack, our group went over multiple topics concerning academic and residential life at Sarah Lawrence. While coming up with a brief series of questions concerning potential topics, our class…

Georg Nees, credited as a pioneer of computer-generated artwork, is renowned for his generative, stochastic style of using computers to create works of art. Through his method, Nees would first create a formal structure that was very concrete. By gradually…

For the first version of this assignment I began with a single circle which then loop into randomness. It transitions from order to disorder. I did this by creating a number of integers and variables to define columns, rows, cell…

For my response to Georg Nees I did three separate instances of a pattern showing random progression. By doing this I was able to experiment with three different formal patterns but lost some experience by not sticking with one pattern…

Molnar’s work focuses on the breakup of repeating units, mostly expressed as a series of increasingly distruped strokes or shapes. In this project, I have made use of the shape, ellipse. I started with a very simple image with a…

Repetition isn’t inherently meaningful or creative, but I think Molnár’s process is interesting in the way it highlights small decisions. The small decisions an artist makes can reflect their conscious and subconscious thought processes in a way that contains meaning.

My initial thoughts for Catnip Quest were that it would closely emulate Lauren Ferro’s Angel Cakes Game, replacing angels with cats, cakes with catnip, etc. Catnip Quest was inspired by Warriors, a popular children’s book series my youngest cousin had…

The images above are my series inspired by Vera Molnár’s work and the concept of gradualism. Coming into this assignment, I thought that I had a clear vision as to what type of design I wanted to create. As I…

Vera Molnár uses repetition to uncover, play with, and alter the rules of composition in art. She creates her work by destabilizing and then stabilizing a piece until it reaches the image in her head. For my response to Molnár…

For this project, I admit that I may not have completed it correctly. I did not realize that the sequence was supposed to be 1-2-3-4-5 instead of 1-2, 1-3, 1-4, 1-5. This misunderstanding was quickly cleared up and I understand…