{"id":12288,"date":"2019-12-08T06:07:24","date_gmt":"2019-12-08T06:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/astoryisnotatree.net\/?p=12288"},"modified":"2019-12-11T18:53:43","modified_gmt":"2019-12-11T18:53:43","slug":"art-from-code-a-response-to-georg-nees-14","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/r6g.ad7.mwp.accessdomain.com\/?p=12288","title":{"rendered":"Art From Code: A Response to Georg Nees"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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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 randomness as a creative tool.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this response, I wanted to set limits to the creative\nprocess. During critiques in this class, one thing that has often come up is\nthe creative potential which emerges when working under a grammar, or rules \u2013\nfinding solutions while under limited conditions, in this case the grid is the\nstarting limitation. I also wanted to challenge myself by generating a sense of\nvolume and depth using only two colors. The colors were sampled from the color\nof the canned food Spaghetti\u2019Os. In addition to this, I thought of the moments\nof diversity within a structure in the works of Nees – aleatoric moments, in\nrelation to the act of spilling or floating freely. When something is spilled,\nit leaves the \u201cgrid\u201d of the structure which previously contained it. When\ncooking pasta, pasta is spilled into water, where they sink\/float to the\nbottom, and as boiling begins, they enter metamorphosis toward a different\nshape and texture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Although the inspiration for the series was in this case the process of cooking pasta, broken down into three physical stages, the final creation is meant to be experienced without the knowledge of this context and the hope is that the physical experiences\/qualities which I had in mind, approached through the different sets of mathematical limitations which were imposed on the images \u2013 will contribute to a haptic sensibility in the image.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I aimed for my first response to emulate the haptics of a spill, the second a sense of sinking and floating and the third a state of metamorphosis. For my first response I created a simple grid where both the placement and rotation of the circles was randomised. The computer\u2019s control can be seen in the condensation of circles to the left of the image and the gradual scattering as the spill extends to the right hand side of the canvas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Attempt 2 at floating version:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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In the second image, including only one grid loop of randomly sized circles was not sufficient to illustrate a sense of depth and motion, to generate a sense of something sinking. I added a second loop of circles with a different set of lower and upper pixel limit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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For creation no. 3 I aimed for a more submersive aesthetic,\nwhere the circles have come closer to the viewer, some floating across as if a\nreaction happened on the left hand side. The rest of the circle shapes are\ntransforming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For this project, I believe I stayed close to the idea of\npursuing a theme through all its possibilities guided by \u2018intuition\u2019 \u2013 \u201cthe\nchoosing of possibilities from a given repertoire\u201d, as Frieder Nake describes\nis part of the process of producing computer graphics. I used the creative\npotential of radnomness to explore how I could make the initial stochastic\npattern, Response 1, inspired by the event of spilling, acquire more depth and\na different sense of movement. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a poem written for the 1968 Cybernetic Serendipity issue,\nStafford Beer spoke of the stochastic process in a way which enabled my\nunderstanding of the term: , \u201cMost economic processes are stochastic. Random\nevents conspire towards particular patterns \u2013 in the long run.\u201d This resonated\nwith the pseudorandomness of the images, how there are consistencies throughout\nthe images, for example the movement toward the right bottom of some set of\nobjects. Thus if the code was run many times and the results posted next to\neach other, you could see a pattern in the randomness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Another concept that stuck with me from Beer\u2019s poem was his\nstipulation that change within order defines design. That design has both its\nart and its science. In relation to this, I believe that the art from code\nwhich I have produced this semester has helped me approach abstract art. I have\nlearned to utilize the computer (science) as a means to developing something\naesthetic \u2013 in the beginning I used Processing only superficially – building\nand placing shapes very meticulously and consciously. I have learned to instead\ntrust the computer to surprise me and upset my initial idea with the use of\ntools like randomness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have understood through practice that the computer can\nhelp generate higher rates of artistic exploration of a theme, and to survey\nthe many opportunities of an image on its way to completion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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