Tag: system

Art From Code: “Groovy” 

An open mouth with keyboard commands for each key begs to be played…. My intent was to create an instrument that could accompany a DJ. But this instrument would be different than the rest of their equipment, as it focuses…

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 class, I am very interested in Samuel Beckett’s work, Quad, which creates an exciting pattern…

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 the video as it goes along and has a delay input so that the video…

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 that I focused on in this studio prompt is the usage of finite states (on…

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 of the artists we have read about in class. My initial inspiration for this system…

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 the patterns of motion that the individual objects take on, which make up the essence…

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 that had multiple states or forms of being, movable flexible origami. In the Edo period…

Systems Aesthetics: An Early System – Ellipses and You

Since the beginning of this semester, we have studied several artists’ different approaches to creating systems. Ron Resch points out that a system is about a process. He creates a system by choosing a material, observing it, imposing rules on…

Art from Code: System — The Eisenberg

I knew going into this project that I wanted to try and create a map of a social network, based on Nicholas Christakis’ Ted Talk entitled “The hidden influence of social networks.” I decided to have a set 12 circles…

Art from Code: Polygons and Colors

For this project, I did something very new—maybe not at this point because it feels like I have been repeating that statement a lot in this course… but at the time it still felt new! I began working on the…

Art from Code: System — Germination

In one of my other classes this semester, I am working on an experiment involving seed germination. In this project, we took fungi found on Andropogon seeds and reintroduced that fungi to a different set of Andropogon seeds. The intention…

Art from Code: System — RosieRose

When I first set out to code a system, I was lacking in inspiration. I knew I wanted to create something that I could have an emotional connection with, but I was uncertain that I would be able to code…

Art from Code: Little Big Lines

Learning to code this semester has been one hell of a journey. I’m not that proud to say I’ve cried about coding, but I have. There are witnesses. But it has been a worthy experience, and an important one.  I…

Art from Code: System —Four Parameters

My conference ecosystem, Four Parameters, is inspired by Frieder Nake’s Matrix Multiplication, a series of mathematical solutions represented as computer art. My conference originally began with thinking about evolutionary art as I attempted to replicate the movements of ants in…

Art from Code: Molnár Lines

For my conference project, I am further exploring the works of Vera Molnar. She was a pioneer in computer based artwork, having first started by using a plotter. A lot of her works represent or came out of gradualism –…

Conference Project & Post-Mortem: SONOSPECTRUM

Proposal: After hearing Steve Reich’s experiments in sound through 12 Instruments and reinterpretations by Philip Glass in the hours and O Superman by Laurre Anderson, I was fascinated by generative music, and looked towards the Beads library in processing. Intended…

Blackspace: A Lot of Noise in a Crowded Space

For my Blackspace I created a room full of water bottles, which I thought would be interesting to navigate in the dark but never expected would be a musical and noise generation experience. The original aim was to place water…

System 3: Infinitesimal

For my final system I built off of our cellular automata code, replacing the squares with text. I also put a transparent black background so new iterations would only compile over old as opposed to completely replacing. Pictured above is the…

Systems Aesthetics: System 2 Branch Unfolding

Moving on system 1, which attempted to recreate the systematic approach that Ron Resch used on paper crumpling, I changed the trajectory of my attempts at manual systems with a digital tool I was very familiar with: Adobe Illustrator. My…

Systems Aesthetics: System 1

After Ron Resch’s Paper and Stick experiments and systems, I attempted to investigate his method and define his system in simple steps that could be recreated: My notes of all his processes were: He aims to solely crumple the paper…