Art from Code

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 nature, like her trees and shells. Having had the exposure to digital artists like Molnar…

  Grace Hertlein is known for her ability to impart organicism into what is commonly perceived as “artificial” works, like her works “The Field” or “Womb of Water.” Taylor often described Hertlein as someone who would deliberately push against the…

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 Nees and Molnar. In a sense, she brought more aliveness into the computer art world….

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 lens, an increment or property of randomness, to create a soft organic effect.The term generative…

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 she has employed traditional drawing mediums such as paper, pens, and inks, which can produce…

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, following in the footsteps of their predecessors used similar ideas, but added elements of randomness,…

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 Nees that needs to be contrasted by moments of stochasticity. For the Hertleinian perspective, however,…

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 traditional art materials. This was my main focus in creating my reflection on her work….

        I struggled with grasping the essence of Nees. As much as I appreciated his infamous falling squares, I did not intend to simply tweak his works. Yet I wasn’t able to conceive an interesting generation that…

Georg Nees is a widely recognised artist for his work in generative art. From Gravel to his Ecke line, these pieces instilled into viewers something they wanted, was it the orderly lines of computer art, or was it the creative,…

In this series, I have produced three coherent works that utilize a stochastic element disrupting structure as a response to Georg Nees. The result established itself in three separate works that resemble vortexes. Taylor writes, “The computer works by Nake,…

Georg Nees began his work as a computer artist during a time of change.  Computer artists were searching to establish themselves as something different.  Computer art was not merely a recreation, or a new imagining of some existing artistic method,…

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 lens, an increment or property of randomness. This was catalyzed by Max Bense in his…

  I started creating this series of works by observing Nees’s works. Nees’s works showed us that he tried to explore the creative potentials of randomness, especially algorithmic randomness. He finally presented the way that randomness could against a formal…

As Taylor writes, “the use of a randomizer in art was not new,” specifically exemplified in the work of Dadaists through chance happenings — yet Taylor goes on to clarify that such mechanisms are different from mechanical chance. The computer…

A heuristic is a method used to increase the process and speed of an already established method.  But with a heuristic, there is no guaranteed correct result or even a result at all. The reason it can not even give…

In order to interpret and mimic what Georg Nees did with his art work we first have to understand his ideas and heuristics to do so. Georg Nees was a mathematician who was a student of Bense in the University if…

These five images are a series of images respond to Vera Molnar’s grid works. I followed the strategy that Vera used when she tried to develop a series of pictures. I first come out my idea of a new picture…

I wanted to start off with a basic that gave me a real sense of symmetry and piece. Very much like how Molnar start off with her designer. The code to make this was really simple, just a a triple…