New Genres

If I was asked what I thought about computational art in the past, because I knew absolutely nothing about it, I probably would have said that there is no artistic or creative skill involved in it. However, now that I…

My initial worries for this class came on the first day, where I struggled to unzip the Processing folder and almost accidentally factory reset my laptop. I’m not tech savvy, and already the realm of computational art seemed far beyond…

When I first started to find evidence of my art work, my birthday was coming…..So I use my birthday to be my theme.

I currently call the city of San Francisco, California home — although I spent most of my high school years in the Palo Alto/Stanford University area. Being from the more commonly known “Silicon Valley,” coding was and still is a…

When the assignment of creating a collage was assigned, I knew immediately that I wanted to use old photos as the basis of the collage. What resulted was slightly unexpected and I was unfortunately unable to get parts of it…

What initially piqued my interest in a text based conference project was the art that we made in class using scanners. Prior to experimenting with the scanners, I never really had any interest nor connection to text based art. In…

In creating my conference project, I went through so many failed experiments and confusing trials. It wanted my project to both look good and work well as a machine and it was much easier said than done. As someone who…

My conference project was on datamoshing, taking inspiration from the works of Takeshi Murata. I took up my theme as the lockdown situation in India. There are always two sides to the coin and while the efforts and sacrifices made…

The goal for creating the game of The Ship of Theseus is to extend my own ability to manipulate the complex game world, and its simplicity does not yet to be able to express my original idea. Even till now,…

For my conference project, I decided to experiment with pixel manipulation in Processing. I began by scanning in images of dried plants at very high resolutions and cropping in on interesting textures. Once I compiled six images, I began experimenting…

Glitch Art My introduction to machine-guided art involved the process of “glitching” images by manipulating their code to the point of indistinguishability. To work in collaboration with a machine by going directly against its natural inclinations at first struck me…

Before experiencing Sarah Lawrence I had never taken an art class or pursued my interest in creative endeavors. I confined myself to things I knew I was good at such as sports and school work. Refusing to step outside of…

For my found machine project, I chose to use a large drill that I found in my garage. Throughout the course, I have been experimenting with rotational motion and wanted to continue with this trend by focusing on the drill’s…

For this assignment, my machine of choice was a handheld mixer. There was nothing too fancy about my mixer, other than the fact that is plugs into an outlet and has different sets of whisks that you can attach to…

As a scenic designer and student of architecture, I work with many art forms that concern themselves with accurate and realistic depictions of space, but I did not think that the word “cartographer” could apply to me until I discovered…

by Sonia Simon My found machine is the motor of a clock. I’m not sure where the clock went but the motor has lived in my basement for over a decade. On of those items that you’re always afraid to…

The machine I chose for this project was a miniature, corded fan.  In initially examining my object, I could see that harnessing the energy of its centrifugal motion could make for a very powerful artistic tool. “Accessing the main points…

“You begin with the possibilities of the material.” –Robert Rauschenberg Growing up, special occasions were always met with balloons. My grade school birthdays were always some wild combination of colored balloons bouncing around and streamers tearing away from their taped…

My found machine was a coffee urn. I began the process by taking the machine apart. Initial ideas about about what property I wanted to use in the machine was heat, and steam, from the coils that are layered between…

Idea/Design For this LVL design project, I wanted to create an interesting universe inspired by multiple interpretations of the afterlife and the transient state in between. I also happen to be a huge fan of ghosts and the intrigue surrounding…