A Story is Not a Tree

For conference, I was most inspired by Bret Victor’s call to stop drawing “dead fishes” –– a metaphor to suggest that computer art should not...

“Personally, I thought that instead of painting squares, triangles and other geometric forms which still had a realistic feel…it might be interesting to free abstract...

The initial goal of my conference project was to apply Hans Haacke’s methodology to a drawing machine. His institutional critique and social critique seemed rather...

This machine was meant to reflect the artist we researched. However, because I wasn’t researching an artist but a philosopher, I was given a level...

This series encompasses works inspired from a variety of currently active tattoo artists. However, these artists all use traditional methods of creating art. Tattoo artists...

In Ancient Andean tradition, women would invoke the Moon as creator of women. Acllas, or women weavers and food preparers in Inca administrative centers, were...

  I created a series of 3d works, which was inspired by the artist Piet Mondrian. Mondrian is known for being one of the pioneers...

Hertlein’s  heuristic is infatuated with organic objects such as trees in her Womb of Water.  Her work is characterized by her easily distinguishable figures found in...

  Grace Hertlein is known for her ability to impart organicism into what is commonly perceived as “artificial” works, like her works “The Field” or...

Grace Hertlein, as the front-runner of the second wave of programmatic artists, was as impactful as, if not more than the front-running pioneers such as...

Generative art refers to art that has, in some way, has been created with the use of an autonomous system, or in the computer art...

Grace Hertlein was an artist who tried to redefine the relationship between geometric figures and nature through the landscape motif. Hertlein’s works look like that...

Most early computer artist focussed on applied maths and stochastic functions, creating works largely involving formal structures and geometric abstraction.  The second wave of artists,...

Through Hertlein we can truly get a sense of what randomness can really entail. In a way, it branches off from the rigid order of...

When I first conceived my conference project, I thought about the theme of Marinetti’s “Fast Running Car.” Coupled with the topic of gear in our course,...

One of Grace Hertlein’s signature aspects of her work is her tendency to have an organic look, almost as if the work was created with...

This game was originally based on Willow Run, also called Air Force Plant 31, which was a manufacturing complex constructed by Ford Motor Company during...

        I struggled with grasping the essence of Nees. As much as I appreciated his infamous falling squares, I did not intend...

  The first letter: I’m just going to say it, you’re not a great telescope. Your design is functional, but rudimentary. Galileo came up with...

The first simple machine I made was just a circle of popsicle sticks. The circle was mechanically wound by a drill on a nail with...