System Aesthetics: A later system – Reappearance by Chance
To create this system, I was inspired by the reading we had on Chance Imagery by George Brecht. Brecht talks about the word ‘chance’. He...
Drawing Machines: Exploded Nest
I am going to construct a hanging, nest-like installation made of found branches, sticks, ivy, and dried flowers. I will hang vine charcoal from the...
Drawing Machines: A Cherry Tree
My zoetrope, a Cherry Tree, is composed of two pieces of digital drawing on each side of a round cardboard, two bands, two clips, two...
Drawing Machines: Floral Vision Machine
For this vision machine project, I made a floral zoetrope. I drew the process of a flower growing and blooming. I put mirrors on the...
Drawing Machines: 3-D Pinball
I have changed my ideas for several times, at first, I want to do something with a magnet because the magnet is like a magic...
Systems Aesthetics: An Early System: the dog WALKS you
My inspiration for this system comes from the idea of interrupting and intervening in the ways we typically engage with the space around us. From...
Drawing Machines: Vision Machine
My vision machine is a zoetrope that creates an illusion of motion through an interruption of the image that prevents it from simply blurring together....
Drawing Machines: Automatic Easel
Using the most basic possible description, what I will be making is an easel and drawing device that will be controlled by the manipulation of...
Drawing Machines: Vision Machines
My vision machine is modeled after Marcel Duchamp’s rotoreliefs or decorated discs made to spin on a turntable as optical entertainment. These spinning discs observe...
Drawing Machines: Moon Phases
For my vision machine I constructed a zoetrope. A zoetrope is an early animation machine used in the 19th century. This pre cinematic machine was...
Drawing Machines: 3-D Pinball
At first, I wanted to use a magnet to do some “magic” effects. Then I just played a pinball game some time ago. I think...
Drawing Machines: Conference Project
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...
Drawing Machines: Spinning Wheel
For my conference project I will be making a spinning wheel. I was attracted to this idea after doing a bit of research and coming...
Systems Aesthetics: An Early System Color Slit Scan
My system that I have created is a slit scan that takes in a video from the computer web camera and moves the position of...
Systems Aesthetics: An Early System – Circuit Soleil
For this Studio prompt I was most inspired by Wolfram variation of a system: the cellular automata. The aspect I was most interested by or...
Systems Aesthetics: An Early System – Crazy Lines
For my system, I wanted to play around with some of the codes I have learned by reading de Byl chapters as well as some...
Systems Aesthetics: An Early System – Egocentric Egg
This artificial system attempts to depict the ego-centric nature of intelligent life forms. It is worth pointing out that screenshots are fairly limited in capturing...
Systems Aesthetics: An Early System – Magic Star Path Tracker
For my system I wanted to challenge myself and use both code and studio to achieve this prompt. Initially I wanted to focus on origami...
Drawing Machines: Strandbeest
The Strandbeest was created by Theo Jansen to be an evolutionary creation of humans. These self sufficient simple machines are able to go on their...
Drawing Machine: Scratch
My conference work for this semester is a coded drawing machine. The mouse works as an eraser, which makes the black cover transparent and expose...